Aliases

Hajime no Ippo Season II, Hajime no Ippo 2, Fighting Spirit: New Challenger, Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger, Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting! New Challenger, はじめの一歩 New Challenger, Default, Synonym, Hajime no Ippo New Series, Japanese, はじめの一歩新シリーズ, English, Spanish, Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting. New Challenger, Hajime no Ippo: A Luta! - Um Novo Desafiante

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Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting! New Challenger

Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger

Ippo Makunouchi continues his boxing career and his goal on knowing the meaning of being strong, and the desire on fighting his idol Ichiro Miyata once again. Along him are pro boxers Takamura, Aoki and Kimura that each one of them aspire to their own dreams.

(Source: Anime News Network)

Last updated

Mar 3, 2026, 01:47 AM

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64.8

CourScore is the probability of an official sequel announcement within 18 months.

Signal coverage: 100% • Signal freshness: High • Updated 4 hours ago

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Cross-platform audience rating — Weighted audience rating 84.6
Cross-platform popularity index — Aggregate reach of ~28,426 followers
Favourite base strength — 1,369 cross-platform favourites

Runway

Source runway looks healthy for a continuation.

Financial & Commercial79

Production Feasibility45

Audience Reception85

Strategic Priors76

Fandom Engagement0

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Source	Metric	Geo	Value	Collected
anilist	average score	GLOBAL	85	Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 AM
anilist	favorites	GLOBAL	1,369	Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 AM
anilist	popularity	GLOBAL	55,552	Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 AM
anilist	trending	GLOBAL	1	Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 AM
kitsu	favorites	GLOBAL	167	Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 AM
kitsu	member count	GLOBAL	22,100	Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 AM
kitsu	rating rank	GLOBAL	310	Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 AM
kitsu	score mean	GLOBAL	82	Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 AM
mal	completed	GLOBAL	246,183	Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 AM
mal	plan to watch	GLOBAL	55,185	Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 AM
mal	watching	GLOBAL	14,546	Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 AM
shikimori	score mean	GLOBAL	86.7	Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 AM
tmdb	popularity	GLOBAL	33.87	Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 AM
tmdb	vote count	GLOBAL	1,161	Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 AM
wikipedia	pageviews daily	EN.WIKIPEDIA	0	Jan 16, 2026, 12:00 AM