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As of a stereotypical description of a Japanese delinquent, Takamura dons a curly pompadour while wearing his school uniform in a more laid back style with a few of the top buttons loose. His eyebrows are considerably thick and he has a tough looking face. Even before joining the Kamogawa Boxing Gym, Takamura had a very refined physique. Along with the Kamogawa training regiment, his body is even more refined, having bulging biceps, bulging pecs, and a hardened 6-pack stomach. While at the training camp at Nekota's place, he fought a bear, the encounter resulted in the three scars visible on his chest. Rarely, his hairstyle will change from his usual pompadour-style, to a messy hairstyle with his bangs dropped. Whenever Takamura struggles with his weight training, his appearance drastically changes. His stomach and ribs show through his skin, he gets chapped lips and wrinkles, and his skin begins to peel off.

Takamura with messy hair.

His basic attires consists of plain shirts, t-shirts, buttoned-up shirts, tank-tops of various colours, sometimes under an opened coat, and pants of various colours. His attire when he's doing roadwork consists of a navy blue sweatshirt with a hoodie and a shirt underneath with navy blue sweatpants.
His boxing match attire consists of burgundy and dark azure boxer shorts with his given name Mamoru written on it. It also has tags such as a label that has KB in red print, Takamura's hawk logo, and a flag of Japan. He also wears burgundy boxing shoes.

Takamura has a broadminded, arrogant, outrageous, and incredibly cocky personality. However, other dimensions of his personality have shone throughout the series, the culmination of which is a concerned, insightful, ambitious man. He dislikes people who pick on the weak, however, he hates the people who let it happen to them more. [29]
He is one of the most well-studied characters in the series, having on numerous occasions identified strategies and traits of different boxers in tangent with and sometimes even ahead of; Kamogawa. He has never fallen into an opponent's trap. Despite this, Takamura does not invent his own tactics during matches, which further exemplifies both his straightforward nature and his boxing talent. Because of this, while he's usually brash and devil-may-care both in the ring and outside of it, he is surprisingly pessimistic and level-headed when watching other boxers' matches, usually anticipating the difficulties his partners are going to encounter.
Takamura has deep belief in the supernatural and fear of the unknown. When Nekota snuck up on him underwater as a joke while at the beach, he ran away in fear believing it to be a real ghost. He believed that he was cursed before his match against Hawk after finding a sea slater in his faeces, causing him to check his faeces every time for a while. He also had a very Kazuo Umezu -like face when Tomiko used tarot cards to accurately guess how many times he had masturbated after a fight.
Another less admirable trait of Takamura's personality is his perverted nature. He has a strong belief he is a ladies' man, despite rather obvious evidence to the contrary and despite fancying himself a ladies' man, rarely actually sees any action. This is due to his abrasive, perverted nature as he once made the newspaper by trying to force himself on a woman and her running away. He is not above spying on couples and groping women and getting peeks at women's panties. During his victory speech against Hawk, he says how the women of Japan should come to him so he may donate his sperm to him. In addition, he even often grabs the penises of his fellow boxers and makes inappropriate comments regarding them, particularly towards Ippo. He also is tender towards older women such as Yamaguchi. He dislikes certain types of women who he deems "ugly", making inappropriate remarks about them, and making fun of Aoki's taste of women, including his girlfriend, Tomiko.

Takamura's influence on Aoki, Kimura, and Ippo.

He can be a rather big bully to his fellow boxers and kōhai. He is fairly childish and egotistic, considering himself the best and hates being left out of events or people forgetting to invite him. He can also hold grudges, once attempting to set fireworks against Ippo and the others at the beach because they were shooting fireworks without him and showed a good time and only stopped when they appealed to his ego and said he should come because it wouldn't be fun without him. He can be petty and somewhat a bad sport, as Ippo manages to dodge his punch and right when Ippo is about to land a punch on him during a sparring match, Takamura (in a panic) elbows him (which is illegal in a boxing match). Despite pulling pranks on his gym mates, he is highly-respected, and is a reason Aoki, Kimura, and Ippo started boxing.
Even during important matches he has a tendency to play around, such as by using Aoki's " Look Away " technique, labelling a regular uppercut the Beetle's Uppercut in a fight where he wore a beetle costume, and arguing with the spectators when they mock him. In spite of all of this, he is the one who got Ippo, Aoki, and Kimura into boxing, he is well respected at the Kamogawa gym. Even though he constantly looks down on and ridicules their achievements, his unrivalled strength and rare moments of kindness have earned him respect from his fellow boxing juniors. He has also occasionally shown concern for Miyata and seems to genuinely look forward to Ippo's rematch with him.
Takamura likes boxing and considers it a place where he belongs. He gets agitated when others look down on boxing or makes light of the professional aspect of it.


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He has a pale complexion and long face with a reasonable amount of wrinkles and facial markings to tell of his age. He wears a black coloured wig over his bald head. He has thin eyebrows, dark coloured eyes, and wears a pair of glasses.

Along with the rest of his family, he has quite the notorious personality of cracking some of the worst puns ever heard. He is shown to have a terrible sense of humour, but is a kind, caring father when his comedic acts are overlooked. He often competes with Takamura over who has the better puns and often gets the last laugh.
Whether he cares about his son's boxing career or not is something of a mystery. He shows up for most of his son's matches, but his main concern seems to be centred around the money Itagaki will earn if he wins.
He passes gas whenever he gets excited or sad while saying his son's given name as a pun. At boxing matches, this upsets those sitting around him.


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She is a middle-aged woman who appears taller than her husband. She has long brown hair, thin eyebrows, and dark coloured eyes. She doesn't show any distinct signs of her age and appears younger than she really is.

She is shown to have a very kind personality much like her daughter Nanako. However, like the rest of her family she has a terrible sense of humour and a tendency to make terrible puns. While she may initially appear polite and well-spoken, all composure is lost when she laughs at one of her family members's horrible jokes, which is said to happen very often during their times together. Like husband , she doesn't express much concern for her children aside from wanting to see them succeed; in particular, she wishes for Nanako to marry Imai Kyōsuke , the heir of a wealthy family. She shares in the rest of the family's remarkable fearlessness.


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Itagaki has a very toned and lean build suitable for both his weight class and fighting style. He has brown hair that stretches to the base of his neck, thin eyebrows and matching dark-coloured eyes. He seems to favour wearing headbands to keep his oversized bangs from obscuring his vision.

The newest member of the Kamogawa troupe is a remarkably friendly and cheerful young man. Itagaki's open personality allows him to get along with just about anyone, including and especially the fearsome Mashiba. Beneath his disposition lies a bitterness toward rival Imai (despite the latter viewing him as a friend) and the losses he experienced in the past. As opposed to Ippo, Itagaki has proven himself to be immature and overconfident of his speed and flexibility. He is rarely ever afraid of other characters.

Itagaki without his bandana

Despite Ippo being his senpai , Itagaki often watches after him like an older brother, defending him during discussions about boxing and reassuring him when he loses confidence. He is attracted to Mashiba Kumi , though he tries to keep this a secret from Ippo and has never made a romantic advance on her out of respect for her and Ippo's relationship. He respects Ippo a great deal, but in truth, he is jealous of him and desires much of Ippo's fortune. Itagaki has made beating Ippo's KO times his primary goal. It is his unique way of challenging his idol.
Like the rest of his family, Itagaki possesses a terrible sense of humour and has the tendency to crack some lame puns. He states that this "Itagaki Family Way" is what keeps their family cheery from their poor financial situation.


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Marascas is a muscular man with hair on his chest, short dark coloured hair with a single strand of hair going over the middle of his forehead. He also has prominent lower eyelashes and a moustache.
As a Luchador, he wears tights and a Luchador mask with the Venus symbol on the mouth part and a butterfly near the top, with the top of the butterfly designed to look like male genitalia.


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Rosario has a muscular build, light coloured eyes, a white cross tattoo on the middle of his forehead, no eyebrows, and light coloured hair that is twirled around in multiple spots in a way that resembles tubes. The hairstyle requires Rosario to go to a salon to have it done. Before becoming a professional boxer , Rosario's hair was slicked back. After coming back from jail before his world title defence match against Mashiba , Rosario's hair was down and unkempt before going to a salon to get it twirled back to his usual hairstyle. In his world title match against Juan , his hair was styled into multiple spikes. When his hairstyle comes undone during a match, his hair stays standing up.

Rosario with unkempt hair.

His attire while he was in Puerto Rico before his match against Mashiba consisted of a white cross necklace, an open dark coloured shirt with nothing underneath, and black shorts. Upon arriving to Japan , Rosario wore a light coloured hat, a light coloured coat over a dark coloured shirt and tie, dark coloured dress pants, and light coloured dress shoes. While getting ready in his waiting room before his match against Mashiba, Rosario wore a shirt that had the "Judgement Day" slogan from the match's match poster. His ring entrance attire is a light coloured robe with a symbol of a cross on the back of it and on the front top left. His ring attire consists of light coloured boxing shorts that have a dark coloured belt area, and a coloured cross symbol on the sides, while his shoes are light coloured with dark coloured socks.

Rosario is described as "world level evil," as rumours continuously come up that he has done every crime but murder, however, Fujii noted that he may have committed murder as well. Rosario has been involved in crimes almost his whole life, as even in his teens he was scouted into a criminal organisation. He carries a gun everywhere he goes, and when he wasn't allowed to carry a gun on the plane to Japan , he was annoyed about it. [12] He is also not afraid to say that crushing people's lives is his hobby. [13] He is very irritable and violent, willing to shoot a dog with a gun because it was being loud, and even shooting a bullet past Mr. Bin , almost hitting him for being loud as well. Rosario takes a liking of motioning firing a gun while shadowboxing . [14]
Rosario doesn't listen to anyone, even if it is to help him, as he shot a gun despite Mr. Bin telling him that it would cause a huge incident and the police would be involved. [15] Rosario was annoyed when the Japanese did not seem to care about his presence, wanting everyone to pay attention to him when he first arrived to Japan. Rosario dislikes Mashiba, as he shot a picture of him with a gun and hit it with his fists, as well as wanting to wreck his happiness. [16] However, Rosario began to respect Mashiba during the sixth round of their match, where he viewed Mashiba as a pure boxer. [17]
He gets frustrated when he is unable to do what he wants, deeming the whole world as "wrong," and when he is unhappy, he wishes to make everyone around him as unhappy as he is. [18] This twisted mindset originated when he worked for a criminal organisation, when at some point someone provided intel to the authorities, where suspicion fell on him, albeit seemingly with no evidence and he was attacked and apparently left for dead. He believed this unfairness to be unwarranted and directed his anger at the people who didn't suffer the same level of misfortune, believing it unjust that (in his view) only he suffered while others did, which sparked his psychopathic mindset of making others suffer the same way he does. This warped view extends to extremely petty levels, as he was irritated that Mashiba could easily pass the weigh-in, whereas he failed it, blaming him and the world for this "unfairness".
Feeling betrayed by everything in his life, he decided to rely on his fists, the only thing he felt did not betray him by becoming a professional boxer. [19] He believes that his fists and boxing are the only things that hasn't betrayed him. While he thinks many things are unfair, he deems that boxing is fair. [20] When he began to question if boxing betrayed him, he admits that he was the one who betrayed boxing. [21]


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Mari is slim, has long, sleek black hair, and is bespectacled. She usually wears a jacket of some sort, pants (she was only seen once in a skirt), and heels. She has a pearl earring in each ear which seems to vary from hanging from her earlobe to being in her earlobe.

Mari is one of the more sophisticated female characters in the series. When she is first introduced, she comes across as a polite and cheeky woman, which misleads her co-workers into thinking she was not prepared for her duties as a boxing reporter. As Mari has stated, however, she is quite an aficionado of the sport, and has rarely been impressed by Japanese boxing. She has some experience reporting on boxing in other parts of the world, such as America and Mexico, where she claims to have seen some spectacular matches (presumably those of Ricardo Martinez ). In many ways she is even more of a fan of boxing than Fujii.
Like Kamogawa and Takamura Mamoru , Mari possesses a keen eye not only for boxing, but for the character of the boxers themselves, which is where her real passion lies. She is the only character to have figured out Itagaki Manabu 's secret challenge to Ippo and is usually the first to question the motives of other boxers, such as Sendō Takeshi and Kojima Hisato .


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Umezawa has fair skin and black coloured hair and eyes, along with thick eyebrows. During high school, his hair was in a pompadour style. After graduating, his hair was unkempt with bangs going over his forehead. For a short while upon becoming a professional manga artist, his hair grew to his shoulders and he had a stubble and a thin moustache. After Ippo's loss against Alfredo, his hair is short again and unkempt with bangs going over his forehead, along with a thin moustache and stubble.
His attire usually consists of plain t-shirts, shirts, and buttoned-up shirts of various colours. His usual choice of legwear are beige or black pants. Umezawa also often wears a red or white t-shirt that has the kanji "一番" ( Ichiban ), meaning "number one". While at high school, Umezawa wore a black gakuran with yellow buttons over a white shirt and black shoes. [1]

In high school, Umezawa was a delinquent who would bully and beat on Ippo, which made him feel important and like the king of everything. He would bully Ippo in a group with Takemura and Matsuda, who all thought it was funny seeing Ippo afraid. However, after becoming interested in Ippo and his boxing, he began to become more friendly to him and eventually became his friend and cheered him on during his boxing matches after being amazed on how strong he really is. After graduating high school and attempted to apologise to Ippo multiple times for bullying him, he would later repay him by helping him at the Makunouchi Fishing Boat in order for Ippo to not retire and help at the boat since Hiroko was being overworked. He is remorseful for bullying Ippo and apologised to him and Hiroko for it, believing that they have taught him how to see the world properly and feels that he owes them everything.
After reforming from bullying, Umezawa thinks that bullying is unacceptable and shouldn't be inevitable in schools. He realises the effects of bullying on the victim can lead to suicide and thinks that the victim should not be alone. When hearing stories from other people who have been bullied, like Teru, he almost passes out from the guilt.
After watching Ippo fight, Umezawa became a boxing fan, even making a boxing manga about Ippo. When he had time before becoming a professional manga assistant, he would watch and cheer for Ippo and his gym mates' matches, and also design merchandise such as t-shirts for the events.


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Masahiro has short black hair and black coloured eyes. His attire in the ring consists of blue boxing shorts with "SISIDO" on the name tag.


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Aoki has a tanned complexion with a body build that fits an orthodox lightweight in-fighter. He has curly dark brown hair in a short afro hair style with a prominent hairline. During his delinquent days, he had a more noticeable prominent hairline with shorter hair. He has dark brown eyes, large nose and pointed ears. In addition, Aoki has relatively short thick eyebrows and a wrinkle on his forehead. After Aoki's draw against Papaya Dachiu , due to a promise, Takamura cut Aoki's hair into a broccoli-style.

During his youth, Aoki was known for his troubled school life as a delinquent. He, along with long-time friend Kimura, were known to participate in countless fights and brawls with 'rival' schools, with Aoki being the more aggressive and violent of the two. Throughout the series Aoki has shown a rather immature, mischievous and boastful personality, contrary to Kimura who is generally more laid back. Despite his often tough-looking demeanor, his overconfidence and goofy personality in and outside the ring usually earn him the frequent ridicule of other characters, and he is usually the butt of many of Takamura's pranks and attacks. Due to this, many characters, even to an extent Ippo, indirectly look down on and sympathize with Aoki and his embarrassing antics. However, he is mostly easygoing and is able to get along well with others, also usually being the one to help Ippo out with his girl-problems when around Kumi . A long-running gag is that Aoki keeps revealing impressive talents, that sadly have no connection with boxing. His prankster personality extends to his own teammates and is most notably reflected in his attitude towards Ippo and (at times) Takamura. Together with Kimura, he is paired into the Aokimura duo by Itagaki.
Aoki's taste in women is seen as a running joke where, in contrast to the tastes of his gym mates, Aoki places his preferences in women considered 'ugly' by everyone else. Aoki admits that he gets nervous around beautiful women, specifically his ex-girlfriend Miyuki (who was caught cheating on Aoki with another guy), and is unable to make any further advances on them. However, surprisingly, Aoki seems to be very kind towards women and he himself prefers to judge them firsthand not by their looks, but as a person, unlike Kimura and Takamura. Even though he may have a taste for 'ugly' girls, he is able to hold a girlfriend, Tomiko , longer then any other members of the group.


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Matsu has short messy black hair with bangs that go over his forehead mostly to the right. He has sharp dark coloured eyes, visible cheekbones, trimmed eyebrows, and a short stubble.
His attire while having a mahjong match with Yagi, Dragon, and Robo consisted of dark tinted glasses, a dark coloured business suit over a dark coloured dress shirt and tie. [1]


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Matsuda has tanned skin and dark brown coloured hair. He also has short eyebrows and black coloured eyes. During high school, his hair was in a short curly afro style. Many years later, he changed his hair into a more straight and shorter style.
While at high school, Matsuda wore a black gakuran with yellow buttons over a white shirt and black shoes. [1] During Ippo's match against Sendō, Matsuda wore a dark purple jacket with an orange vertical stripe.

Matsuda was boastful and a bully during his delinquent school days. Matsuda would team up with Umezawa and Takemura to bully and beat up the timid Ippo. Matsuda changed his ways when he saw and cheered as Ippo won in a boxing match against Fujiwara , considering him strong and a friend, cheering him on in later matches until his loss against Date. After meeting Ippo again during a reunion party for their high school, Matsuda apologised to Ippo for bullying him.


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He has shaggy black hair and dark skin. Being a boxer and former Muay Thai kickboxer, he has a muscular body. His eye colour is green and he possesses a dark sclera. His ring attire consists of boxing trunks that are red, blue, and black, along with an elephant symbol on the lower left.


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Goat has dark skin, short dark hair, and a goatee with trimmed moustache. He also has long, thick black eyebrows. During a press conference, Goat wore a light coloured suit with black vertical stripes over his black dress shirt and tie, along with light coloured pants with black vertical stripes. During his entrances to the ring, he wears a robe that has a goat head symbol on the back, with goat horns on the hoodie.

He is a well-mannered individual who, in a short visit, loves the people in Japan.


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Miguel's appearance strongly reflects his old age. His hair, a dirty blonde in colour, is styled similarly to a faux hawk and sits upon the centre of his otherwise bald head. Miguel's large bushy eyebrows tend to overshadow his significantly smaller eyes.

Miguel is established as a world famous boxing trainer equipped with a great amount of boxing knowledge. He has the skill to point out strengths and weaknesses of both fighters in the ring and is shown to possess incredible insight and patience for boxing.
While depicted as proud and confident in the abilities of his 'suns', Miguel is also shown to genuinely care about the well-being of his fighters (most prominently shown during Ippo's fight against Wally). However, Miguel also mentions that he harbours a well-hidden fear of his former 'sun' Bryan Hawk, possibly due to the latter's violent bloodthirsty behaviour.


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Mikami has short black hair and dark brown eyes. He usually wears a turquoise coloured shirt.

Mikami is a serious and strict man who is protective over his daughter. He takes his training seriously. When one of his boxers get lazy, he yells at them. Mikami thought of Oda as lazy at first, however when Oda began training seriously and lost the match against Ippo, he began to respect him.


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Elliott is an African American boxer with an athletic build. He has a short haircut and triangular goatee.

Elliott is confident and slightly arrogant. Though he is aware that Volg is handicapped, he expresses no sympathy for him. However, he also possesses great sportsmanship and an appreciation of the technical side of boxing. He holds other cerebral fighters in high regard.


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Milo is a muscular man with hair on his chest, short dark coloured hair with a single strand of hair going over the middle of his forehead that is curled. He also has prominent lower eyelashes and a moustache.
As a Luchador, he wears tights and a Luchador mask with the Mars symbol on the mouth part and a butterfly near the top, with the top of the butterfly designed to look like male genitalia.


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Fujii has black eyes, spiky dark brown hair, a thin moustache that later grows into a fuller moustache, and a stubble. His attire is usually a black or brown business suit.

Fujii is one of the most knowledgeable and intuitive; been able to predict events or figure out techniques before most. He also has many connections within most local gyms, as he frequently visits the members in order to gather and share information. In addition to Ippo, he also seems to be friends with Mamoru Takamura and Eiji Date .


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Yoshida is a man with a well-built tanned body. He has black hair with several bangs over his forehead. Yoshida has forehead wrinkles and visible cheekbones.
His boxing attire in the ring consists of purple and light purple boxing shorts. His boxing shorts have "Yoshida" in English on the bottom front and, in the anime, "Mitsuo" in English as his name tag.

Yoshida has shown irritation when he was unable to hit Kobashi in the East Japan Rookie King Tournament and grief when he lost by decision.


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Miyata has fair skin, and, when he was a young adult, he had a muscular body. He had brown short hair with a tuft of hair hanging at the middle of his forehead, visible cheekbones, and small black coloured eyes. As he got older, he loss his muscle mass, his hair turned grey, and lost his tuft of hair at the middle of his forehead.
Miyata usually wears dress shirts, business suits, and pants of various colours when he is away from the gym. When he used to be a trainer at the Kamogawa gym, he wore the white Kamogawa gym shirt and black pants. When he is at the Kawahara gym, he wears the Kawahara shirt that is usually purple.

Miyata is a serious and straightforward man. He describes himself as a small-minded person. [10] After not being able to handle the shock of being defeated so close to getting to the world and retiring, Miyata relied on alcohol, and drank even more alcohol in frustration when the the person who defeated him lost at the world level, which made the people close to him leave him in isolation. When he was drunk, he was irritable, grumbling at people who passed by him.


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Miyazaki is a middle-aged man with black hair slicked back and has a short beard. While fishing, he wears a fishing vest over his dress shirt along with pants, fishing hat, and sunglasses.

Miyazaki has been a long time customer of the Makunouchi Fishing Boat and friend to Kazuo Makunouchi . He is a professor of physical education at a university, but he enjoys fishing as well. He also has a judo and karate background. He has always supported Ippo's boxing career and was saddened by his retirement.


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Mizutani had black hair and wore eyeglasses and berets. He received a new beret from Mashiba after the latter's first match.

Mizutani was a kind and caring man. He cared a lot for Mashiba, as he stuck with his ever since he was his probation officer and up to his death. He was shown to be selfless, as he ran to Mashiba outside of the jail despite being ill, having a coughing fit after catching up to him. [3]


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He has grey hair due to his old age, and usually wears a white shirt.


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West has a dark skin tone and muscular body of average height. He has black coloured eyes, thick eyebrows, and short messy black coloured hair. West's face appears to be quite rugged, and his cheekbones are quite prominent through his dark skin. He also has an amount of visible wrinkles and skin creases. In the ring, his attire consists of blue boxing trunks with a red name label, having " WEST " in yellow writing.

West has an attitude of a champion, and easily underestimated Takamura due to the latter's failed weight control prior to their match. Overconfident, he thanked Takamura silently from his own corner for giving him an "easy world ranking", but is subsequently shown to be shocked at Takamura's powerful comeback and his own loss.


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Mr. Bin is a man with black slicked back hair, moustache, and visible forehead wrinkles. He is always wearing eye glasses. His attire is usually a business suit and tie with dress pants. For Rosario's match against Mashiba, Mr. Bin wore a shirt that had the "Judgement Day" slogan from the match's match poster.


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Mr. Sakaguchi is a short elderly man with dark skin. He typically has a white moustache and white bushy hair and eye brows. He is typically seen wearing a business suit.

Mr. Sakaguchi tends to be arrogant, and looks down on people. When he first came to Japan, he tends to be over confident in his boxer's ability, and looked down on Japanese boxers and people. Mr. Sakaguchi tends to be petty, and he will carry a grudge if he is wrong, as his feud with Miyata has shown. He is willing to use his money or influence to get his way.
He is strongly interested in money. It was mentioned he could have took Randy Boy Junior to Mexico to spar with other boxer,s but in order to save money, he took him to Japan instead. He tried to get Ippo to sign a contract with him, but Ippo refused.


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She has long wavy black hair. Her facial looks tend to be average or below average. She wears a employee outfit for Márquez . She wears earrings that resemble male genitalia.


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Nakadai is an elderly man with grey (black in his youth) short hair and brown eyes. He has wrinkles on his forehead and near his eyes.

Nakadai usually looks soft, but when it comes to training, he becomes serious. He doesn't look down on his fighter's contenders and he loves to coach those who can resist hard training.


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He is a fairly young male with short cut black hair, and big ears. He is shown wearing a dark t-shirt that has "Monkey" on the back.


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When she first appeared in the story, she is pretty young, and Ippo comments on her beauty.

A 16 year-old high school student at introduction, Nanako is one of Ippo Makunouchi 's biggest fans. Because of this, she views Kumi Mashiba as a rival and competes with her at almost everything. She takes any chance to be around Ippo, and even tried to steal a kiss from him once when he was sleeping after a rough match, but she was interrupted by Kumi. It's shown that she has a perverted side, as when she jumped into pool where Ippo was, she rudely grabbed his penis while stating an innuendo.
Like her older brother Manabu she is very attractive, but she also has the same love for puns as the rest of her family. Kyōsuke Imai is in love with her, but she tends to ignore his feelings as she has no interest in dating her brother's rival.


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He appears to be an elderly man with dark grey hair and large eyebrows. His forehead also has wrinkles. His attire consists of a brown business suit and a plaid (green in the anime) hat. While at the gym, he sometimes wears his gym's shirt that is red in colour.


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Yamada has pale skin, muscular body, long black messy hair, long moderately thick eyebrows and a large prominent nose. His eyes are large with dark coloured pupils. He has a rather meek facial expression.
When Yamada went by the ring name "Hammer Nao", he modified his appearance to that of a rugged, ugly and fearsome boxer. His head and eyebrows were shaved, his face was twisted to show a considerable amount of dimples to appear more menacing. A shadow rested over his dark eyes, and his left ear had pieces missing. Subsequent to his first loss against Ippo, Yamada began growing back his hair and eyebrows.

When he joined the Kamogawa gym , he was an extremely shy, meek and incompetent trainee at the gym, Yamada has had a lengthy history of being bullied and shunned by others for his appearance and demeanour. Nevertheless he is shown to be kind and encouraging to others and views Ippo with utmost admiration due to the latter's kind treatment towards him and their similar pasts. During his professional license certification, he bore a striking resemblance to Ippo during his own certification, albeit more stressed.
Returning with the ring name "Hammer Nao" however, Yamada's personality is viewed to have changed drastically. He is shown to be guiltless and menacing, often glaring at others and provoking them (evident in his encounter with Aoki and Kimura). He now dislikes being thought of and referred to as a kouhai and apprentice of Kamogawa gym . Yamada seems to have matured as well, and shows a good amount of seriousness towards boxing. However, he silently continues to admire and respect the strength of his former senpai Ippo.
Subsequent to his first loss against Ippo, Yamada has been shown to recover some of his former attitude and meekness, gradually reverting back to his old self.


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She is a middle age women with long brown hair. She has a weary and tired look.


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Naoya has fair skin and, being a boxer, has a muscular build. He has light brown unkempt hair and dark grey coloured eyes. His attire in the ring depicted in the first two variants consists of white boxing shorts with black and gold coloured vertical stripe at the sides, along with boxing gloves that are black and gold. In the third "THE MONSTER" variant he is depicted wearing blue boxing shorts with black stripes at the sides with gold edges and "Monster" written on the name plate, along with blue boxing gloves that are gold at the thumbs.


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Ogawa has black, spiky hair and dark coloured eyes. He has a well-built muscular toned body. During his pro test, his attire was a light blue t-shirt, navy pants and blue and white boxer shoes.

Ogawa is a confident, arrogant, prideful person. He shows his arrogance when he assumes Ippo is an easy opponent when he sees Ippo mumbling to himself.


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Nefuma has black hair that is wavy at the top, with bangs over his forehead. He also has black coloured eyes. In the ring, his attire consists of black boxing shorts with "NEFUMA" in red letters on the front.


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He has an appearance of an older man with black hair that is slicked back at the front. His face has wrinkles due to his old age. He is seen wearing a patterned button-up shirt and, at the ring a light coloured Dynamite Glove shirt.

He is portrayed as someone with confidence and trust in his plans. When Shigeta developed Punch Eye as a result of fighting Sendō, he felt remorse and took full responsibility for not throwing the towel and ending the match sooner.


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Oguchi is a somewhat large man with short light coloured hair that is combed back. He has a trimmed short beard and wears a strict facial expression a lot of the time. At Daisuke's match against a JBC ranker, Oguchi wore a light coloured shirt that has "DYNAMITE GLOVE" at the front and back, along with black pants and white shoes.

Oguchi is serious individual with a short-temper. He is protective of his boxers, stopping Ippo from talking to Daisuke because he assumed that he was trying to get information from him to put in use if Ippo's boxers had to fight him. He shows how proud he is whenever his boxers win, going into the ring and lifting his boxer in the air when he wins.


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He is a man of average height and tanned=complexion. His eye colour is grey and he has dark coloured short hair in the manga and light brown in the anime. He also has a thick moustache that is thinner in the anime.
His attire consists usually of a black shirt and a coat with his gym's name on the back. In the ring as a cornerman, he wears a teal "DYNAMITE GLOVE" shirt.

He is a planner and he can do anything to draw attention to his gym and his fighter.


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He has black hair, and he tends to always wear sunglasses.

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He has short black hair, black eye colour, visible side and high cheek bones, and a single forehead wrinkle. He later grows a short moustache and chin stubble. While at the Otowa gym, he wears a white Otowa gym shirt and black pants. As a second, he wears the Dynamite Glove shirt of various colours and black pants.


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Paddy is a dark-skinned man with short black hair. His attire in the ring consists of blue-grey coloured boxing shorts and shoes.


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Papaya has a odd looking hair style similar to a muffin, complimented with an equally oddly shaped face. He has a dark skin-tone and a muscular fit body. He has the word "PARA" and "DISE" on his boxing trunks, spelling out the word "Paradise".


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Payao has dark skin, short messy black hair and black eyes. His attire consists of muscle shirts, t-shirts, tank tops, buttoned-up dress shirts, or a baseball pattern shirt tucked under work pants or dress pants. While sparring with Miyata, he wears a black tank top and shorts. In the anime, it is a muscle shirt and pants.

Payao is a kind person who believed in Miyata's abilities despite the majority of his country betting on Jimmy, so much so that he took all his life and his brother's life savings and bet them on Miyata. [1] He is able to speak Thai and Japanese, being able to translate Thai into Japanese for Miyata. He scolds his brother for his shy personality, stating that it is why he is not strong. Payao is also able to drive. [2]


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Ponchai has dark coloured skin, messy short black hair and black coloured eyes. During the weigh-in, Ippo expressed his amazement about Ponchai's muscles.


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Pone is dark-skinned with short black hair and black coloured eyes. In the ring, his attire was black and yellow boxing shorts.


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Anderson is a tall man with fair complexion and a muscular body. He has blue eyes and blond hair with bangs that hang over his forehead.

Anderson was a largely boastful, selfish and callous boxer. He was also characterised by his patriotism towards his own country and his openly supercilious and racist nature towards the Japanese. Anderson did not hold the country of Japan to much esteem, especially following America's recent victory against the country in the Second World War, and he sought solely to fight with its men and sleep with its women. He was also a crooked fighter who was not above using career-ending fouls among other malefic techniques if the odds were not in his favour during a fight.
After his fight against Nekota however, in spite of his selfish personality, Anderson regained the "pure blood of a boxer" and trained earnestly for his then upcoming fight against Kamogawa. He mentally notes during his fight with the latter that strong Japanese men do exist, and decides not to foul against Kamogawa, redeeming himself as an honest boxer. Though he comes to respect Kamogawa for his willpower, he still saw Americans as racially superior and even considered killing Kamogawa after the latter continued getting up after being knocked down.


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Randy is a tall man with tan coloured skin, a short neatly trimmed moustache on his upper lips and spiky, long black hair. He is well built with a strong and muscular body. He has intimidating, sharp eyes and thick eyebrows. Usually, his eyes are very narrow, appearing to be almost closed. However, when he was forced to fight seriously in the match against Miyata, his eyes were wide open, giving him an almost demonic look.

Randy is an arrogant boxer who considers himself much better than his opponents. He is also shown to be quite level-headed, not holding a grudge over Miyata's father killing his own. But when he is losing in a fight, he can become extremely furious in contrast to his normal demeanour. He becomes even more dangerous, with his normal aloof face changing into one of pure rage. He is also analytical, seeing Ippo as an abnormal fighter just from seeing his jab.


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Reiko is a young woman who wears eyeglasses. She has dark eyes and long brown hair. She is usually seen wearing a shirt and a skirt.

Reiko is a kind and caring woman who cares for and believes in Oda. She became worried that if Oda hung around with her, it would mess with his weight control. Reiko was angry at Oda when she heard Ippo's friends making fun of Oda and threatened to leave him if he loses the net match. However, despite him losing, she still stayed with him and wanted to cheer for him again.


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Ricardo has a tan skin tone, short jet black hair, and a neatly trimmed moustache, which he grew late in his life as he did not have one when he fought Date for the first time. He has a very muscular and toned build. Ricardo's eyebrows are of moderate thickness and has a dark grey eye colour. In the ring, he wears black boxing trunks with a white and gold vertical stripe on the side. He has the name "Ricardo" on his gold coloured name plate on his trunks.

Ricardo is a calm and taciturn individual, choosing not to speak unless directly spoken to. When the media wants to speak with him, Ricardo speaks with his trainer, Bill Stewart , before speaking to the press and is shown to be a confident, but analytical man. Despite the assumption that a champion looks down on those with a lower ranking compared to him, Ricardo has shown immense respect to those who have earned it by pushing him to his limits (the only known people to achieve this are Date and Wally). Because of this, Ricardo will not consider a challenge unless said challenger is either the highest ranked contender, or their skills would impress him enough to pique his interest
After not showing any interest when first meeting him, he slowly became more interested in Ippo Makunouchi after hearing his name come up multiple times even after he retired, and learning that he fought multiple boxers in Alfredo González , Eiji Date , Takeshi Sendō , and Wally that he also fought. Ricardo believes that the wheel of fate itself revolves around Ippo even after he went outside of it. [26]

Ricardo holding back his laughter.

Ricardo also has an easy-going personality that he occasionally shows. When Ricardo went down for the first time in his long career by Sendō, [27] Ricardo did not seem to care despite many others making a big deal about the event, even claiming that he hasn't had that much fun in a long time. Ricardo laughed at the thought that "undefeated" does not equal "invincible", finding Sendō amusing for his beliefs.
It is eventually revealed that Ricardo is secretly quite dejected about nobody being able to challenge him. This is because he still has the same motivations as other boxers, especially Ippo, such as to find out the meaning of strength and to test himself. However, because all his fights are easily won, he is unable to feel anything from them. Furthermore, the public has come to view him as nothing more than an invincible entity that always wins, rather than a hard-working man who puts everything into his training. His matches are considered boring and predictable, which Ricardo feels bad about.


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At the Press Conference, he wore a white suit, where he appears professional. He has short hair, and a trimmed beard and moustache.

Bison is a strong and powerful boxer. He uses the Detroit Style , another name for the Hitman Style, an offensive fighting style that involves using Flicker Jabs . He is known to have an "Old School Hitman Style".
Bison uses his Flicker Jabs to keep both himself and opponents at middle range. He is able to dodge incoming punches thrown with sways and can effectively out-box with his Flicker Jabs. Bison's Flicker Jabs are strong, evident by the fact that he managed to push back and keep Takamura at bay with them. Due to his usage and knowledge of the Detroit Style, Bison can analyse the angles as well as parry them and even counter them when another opponent uses Flicker Jabs against him.
In addition, Bison can in-fight effectively, using feints alongside good technical skill ranging from precise offensive combinations (left hook, left uppercut, right hook, left body blow into a right straight) to his defensive skills such as sways, ducking, and using Neck Spins when the situation calls for it. Furthermore, Bison is good at adjusting to his opponent's patterns and habits. An example of this occurs in his match with Takamura. Bison notices that Takamura ducks to the right and punches each time he feints with his left. He also sets up a Chopping Right, baiting Takamura into swaying by leaning back to hit him with a right straight. He also figures out that when he feints a right, he can hit Takamura with a long left hook since he's focused on the right, which almost cost Takamura the match.


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Fox has dark skin with a muscular build. He also has dark coloured hair in an afro hairstyle, a moustache, and a beard.

Not a lot is known how he fights since the match didn't last long. According to Ippo's comment prior to the match, Richard Fox is suppose to be strong, and the fact that Takamura's "Fox Hunting" comment made him angry too.


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He has dark skin and a muscular build, as well as dark hair that is styled with two hair bulges at the top (similar to mouse ears like his name sake).

Rickey has good dodging skills and speed, since he was able to repeatably dodge Takamura's Beetle's Uppercut . However, it seems like Rickey is weak to damage, since he got KO by Takamura's opposite hand.


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Rie is a young woman with straight dark coloured hair that is shoulder length. She also has blush marks on her cheeks. While being a member of the "Hell Society" cheering for Mashiba, she wears a white headband with "地獄会, Jigoku-kai " (Hell Society) written on it and a ceremonial robe, which has the same kanji on the back. [1] While watching Mashiba's match against Iga, along with her "Hell Society" outfit, she wears a light coloured sweater. [2] During Mashiba's encouragement party before fighting Juan, she wears an open jacket over a light coloured sweater, along with a skirt that is knee-length and light coloured heels. [3]

Rie is a caring person who has taken an interest in Mashiba, going to his matches to cheer him on.


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Robo has short black hair with bangs that go over his forehead, along with a short ahoge. Fitting to his name, he has lifeless-looking light coloured eyes, and two lines that go down to his chin on both ends of his mouth, resembling how a robot would open it's mouth. His attire while having a mahjong match with Yagi, Dragon, and Matsu consisted of a dark coloured business suit. [1]


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His skin tone is dark like most Filipino characters, with a round-long straight nose and upwards short hair. He has a fierce look.


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Rusak has dark skin and muscular body with black short messy hair.


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Ramuda is an elderly man with grey hair and black eyes. He has wrinkles under his eyes and on his upper lip as well as age spots.

Ramuda is a determined trainer and believed that the main reason for Japanese boxers short career is the trainers who uses words like willpower instead of skills and they pressure their boxers to push themselves to the limit. However, after his boxer, Volg fought and lost to Ippo, he saw that willpower is important too.


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Mashiba had short black hair before growing it into shoulder length hair that is tousled at the top and bangs hanging close to his eyes, a pair of thick bushy eyebrows, and visible cheekbones. His appearance is intimidating to Ippo Makunouchi , and is called the "reaper" due to his appearance, notably his long arms that, when swinging, has the resemblance of a scythe. Also, Mashiba is said to have the best physique in lightweight division by Ippo Makunouchi himself.

Mashiba is one of the most intimidating characters in the series, appearing markedly more hostile and unsociable than most other characters. His intimidating demeanour is usually used for comical effect, as other characters, notably Ippo, are terrified of him. All of this is in complete contrast in character to his sister, Kumi, who is portrayed as light-hearted and sweet. Despite still being very stoic, brash and rude, he seems to have mellowed out later in the series, appearing more often in social gatherings with fellow boxers (though he usually ends up provoking/arguing with them). He can be deceitful at times, as shown in his promise with Ippo Makunouchi about his world title match, thinking of him as "Makunou-stupid" (チョロの内, Choro nouchi (pun of ちょろい Choroi (meaning easy, simple)) and laughing about it. [31]
One of few characters, aside from his sister, that Mashiba can notably get along well with is Itagaki , who's carefree and naive personality even seems to be able to hold some influence on the former. Additionally, he, despite never outwardly admitting to it, has somewhat come to respect Kimura after almost losing a very close match against him, with Mashiba constantly getting angered whenever witnessing him lose/draw a match (mainly out of embarrassment to almost losing to him) and even internally wishing for Kimura to win in one of his matches. After a long period of time knowing Ippo, he began respecting him as he finally learns how he feels when fighting against all odds, as well taking his advice, asking himself why is he follow his advice with irritation. However he is still protective towards Kumi, intimidating Ippo whenever he thinks he is trying to get close to her. [32] [33] [34]
Because of what happened to his parents, Mashiba chooses to be distant and cynical, rarely associating with anyone but his sister, which has often resulted in him being fired from jobs. He does seem to be resentful of the world at large, but he is legitimately drawn to boxing, believing it to be fair.
Mashiba is usually seen to be one of the meddlers in Ippo's relationship with Kumi, being protective to the point of overbearing. He has slackened somewhat but does still keep an eye on them if the mood strikes him. In cases revolving her love life and with Ippo present, they usually have rather comical quarrels (making him one of the few characters to actually anger Kumi to a degree). He also does not tell Kumi when his matches are, perhaps knowing that she dislikes boxing anyway and even warned her not to come to the match with Sawamura as he knew that it would most likely turn into a bloodbath.
He is a rather deadly boxer, having earned his nickname, "Shinigami" (God of Death), because many of his opponents retired after facing him.
Surprisingly, Mashiba fears and respects Takamura. This is seen in the bar fight when Mashiba outwardly sweats when confronted with an enraged Takamura (even though it was a five-on-one fight alongside Sendō, Date, Okita and Saeki). His fear proves to be well-founded when the outcome shows the five of them utterly defeated.


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Sawamura carries a menacing appearance. He is tall for a featherweight, with a lean but toned build and spiky, unkempt black hair. His eyebrows are thin and slanted upward at the outsides, with eyes almost always half-closed in a look that can be interpreted as boredom or distaste. His eye colour is sometimes light brown, sometimes reddish. His nose points straight down rather than curving outward. During his bouts, he dons boxing shorts with blue accents and the name of his gym emblazoned on them. During his bout with Mashiba, he wore a boxing robe resembling a Changshan with a large dragon emblazoned around his collar.

Sawamura's scars after the motorcycle accident.

After Sawamura's match against Ryō Mashiba , he has visible scars on each side of his face from his motorcycle accident.

Much like Ryō Mashiba , Sawamura was a dark, brooding boxer with a devastating fighting style and a tendency to foul. However, unlike Mashiba's openly aggressive personality, Sawamura possessed the attitude of a cold, calculating and oftentimes unstable killer. Also unlike Mashiba, who usually fouled in desperation, Sawamura would often commit illegal moves simply out of pure malice, even when he has the upper hand in a fight.
He was shown to be highly cruel and antagonistic, had openly expressed his bloodlust and desire to kill numerous times, and had a fixation on meat and the 'taste' of his opponents, all of these traits stemming from a harsh childhood. Before and during his match with Makunouchi Ippo , he even went into somewhat cannibalistic rants, desiring to tenderise Ippo so he could relive a childhood memory with his mother, and fantasising about his taste. However, his obsession with meat and tendency to liken boxing to cannibalism seemed to fade after this match.
Following the revelation from Sendō that Kawabe was bought up in similar harsh environments, he became somewhat humble, and his more sociopathic tendencies began to lessen, developing a liking for hard work and a drive to be on the same level as Ippo. However, his cruelty had not completely faded away, and was shown again in his match against Mashiba, which turned out to be a match full of fouls and illegality. Post-retirement, however, he seems to have mellowed out. Though he remains cold and cynical, his more aggressive and vicious behaviour seems to have faded away.


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Hayami is a young man who, due to his likeable appearance, has earned him a lot of female fans. His skin is lightly tanned and he has a muscular body. He has black coloured eyes, and short, curly brown hair with a few bangs going over his forehead.
His attire outside the ring usually consists of regular shirts and muscle shirts. After his 22nd match, he was seen wearing a black opened jacket over a white buttoned shirt. [14] During his ring entrances, he wears a shiny purple long coat that is a bright red colour inside with "RYUICHI" on the back. Inside the ring, he wears pink and purple boxing shorts with "RYUICHI" on the name slot. He later changes his boxing shorts to cheetah print boxing shorts and shoes.

Flamboyant and overconfident, Hayami displays little sense of sportsmanship inside the ring when he is first introduced. He tends to think of some of his opponents as being worthless. He is adored by many female fans, and likewise, he is something of a pretty boy himself. Despite his attitude, he is hard-working and talented.
Hayami genuinely loves boxing, as he explained during his interview with Fujii. He was planning to be the charismatic hero like Muhammad Ali so that all of Japan would love boxing.


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Nagumo has a slim build, short dark hair, with pale skin. His forward bangs are short. He has a long straight nose and sharp eyes, whose brows are always slightly furrowed.


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He has short black hair, and a shortly trimmed moustache on his face. He is usually seen in a headset and microphone when he is providing commentary on TV. He tends to be wearing a sports coat with a tie for his TV appearance.


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She is a fair-skinned woman of average height. She has long black hair that reaches her lower back with bangs going over her forehead. She also has black coloured eyes with well-defined eyelashes at the top and bottom of her eyes. She has pink lipstick. Her appearance has caused her to be picked on in at school. Kimura Tatsuya viewed her appearance as ugly. [2]

Sachiko is kind and cares a lot about Katsutaka Imae . She looks after Imae by cooking him meals during is training.


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He has short black hair and a short moustache. In the anime, he was depicted without a moustache. He is seen wearing a (brown) overall suit.

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Sakura is a muscular, pale man with short, curly black hair and black long eyebrows. He has dark, small eyes and prominent cheekbones. In the ring, his attire consists of boxing trunks that are black on the left and yellow on the right.


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Sarate is a small kitten with black fur. After being in Miyata's care, Sarate wears a bell and ribbon.


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He is a man of fair complexion and average height. He has short black hair and black coloured eyes. He has pronounced cheekbones, a single forehead wrinkle, and a broad nose.
At his gym, he wears a beige shirt. While acting as a second, he wears a beige long sleeved Dynamite Glove shirt, black pants, and purple shoes.

He is a cautious individual, wanting to remove his boxer from his gym to prevent injuries due to repeated losses.


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Iwakawa has a well-built tanned body. His hair is short and dark grey in colour. Iwakawa has dark grey large eyebrows and a large nose.

Iwakawa has shown to be irritated when he saw Hayami being confident and hearing the crowd cheer for Hayami.


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Shimakawa is a man with short black hair with bangs going close to his eyes and black coloured eyes.
While refereeing, he wears a blue referee shirt with a black bow tie.


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Shin'ya has black coloured eyes and short black hair with multiple bangs going over his forehead.


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Shinji has olive skin, with a muscular body. He has short messy black hair and dark coloured eyes. In the ring, he wears light and dark purple boxing shorts.


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Shinji has fair skin and a muscular build. He has dark brown unkempt hair and black coloured eyes. His attire in the ring depicted in the Fighting Soul portrait consists of boxing trunks that are coloured gold on the right side and black on the left side, with his name "S, Takehara" on the name plate that is coloured black on the black belt area. His appearance as a coach has him looking older in age.


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Iga is a lean, well-built man of average height. He has black eyes, long and thin black eyebrows, and black hair with bangs that partially covers his forehead, which he later grows out. He has a prominent rectangular nose and narrow eyes that give him a perpetual look of boredom regardless of the situation.

Iga is shown to be stoic and near void of emotion, rarely speaking or even displaying a change in demeanour. He is characterised by his bored and lazy expression as well as an eerie amount of calmness (or airheadedness) solidified by the fact that he rarely bothers replying to his trainer during his class-A tournament match against Aoki.
It is implied both indirectly and through Mamoru Takamura that Iga is unbelievably loyal to Kurita. As seen in chapter 976, Iga protected Kurita by stopping a prepared punch from Takamura that would've landed should Iga not be there to restrain it. This loyalty is most likely conditioned from Kurita's brutal training regimes, which, as stated by Kurita, changed Iga from his 'soft' self to the immensely strong KO puncher.
After his loss to Mashiba, it's implied that Iga carries a grudge as he went to Mashiba's match to see his ability then scoffed at his win. He claimed that Mashiba's win was chance and implied his skills were nothing special showing resentment and a clear desire to avenge his loss at Mashiba's hands.


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Shinoda is a man with a tanned, average body structure. He has short dark brown hair and long eyebrows and one forehead wrinkle. His black coloured eyes [4] are squinted. He has also grown a short moustache. At some point, his hair began to fall out, starting from the top of his head, wearing a hat to cover the bald spot until it grew back.


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He has dark skin, unkempt black hair, as well as a moustache.  He tends to wear a sweat shirt.

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Thomas is dark-skinned with short black hair and black coloured eyes. He has a tattoo of a snake on his chest. In the ring, his attire was blue and turquoise boxing shorts.


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Bearing a resemblance to his brother, Takamura, Suguru has tanned skin, thick eyebrows, short black messy hair, and dark eyes.
His attire usually consists of a dark business suit and pants.
When he was in rugby, his attire was a green and black striped polo shirt with a white collar and black and white rugby shorts.

Suguru is a laid-back individual and a smoker. He has pride for his family and doesn't like that Takamura puts his family down when he resorts to violence. Though, he doesn't agree with his brother, Takamura, path of life, he still cares for him and respects him in his own way, wanting him to come back home and even giving him a few businesses.


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Ōshima is a man with dark coloured eyes, dark coloured wavy hair with bangs that go to both sides of his face. His face earned him the nickname, Prince (王子, Ōji ) by his fans who says his face is pretty.
His attire for his entrance as a champion is a dark coloured long coat with the Kanji, " 王 , meaning "King" over a heart at the back of the coat. His dark coloured boxing shorts also have the same symbol on the front along with dark coloured boxing shoes that have a light string material on them.

Ōshima appears to be a bit arrogant, calling himself a King and saying he is the strongest.


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Taihei has the eyebrows like his brother but his hair is blonde and shaped into a pompadour, although he has since shaved his head so he had previously undergone a bald phase, before regrowing his hair (due to coloring issues, it may appear that his hair is black, but it should be a dark maroon like his brother Masaru). He has a slightly muscular build but has grown slightly more due to Ippo's training.

His personality is very boldly shown, as very ruthless and wild. Eyes of murderous intentions, itching to be involved in a fight. Despite his fierce personality, he also has a rather good side hidden inside him. He has shown signs of blushing or being extremely happy, even acknowledging Ippo as his training master, happily accepting being his disciple. Taihei is very similar to his brother as he loves to fight but while Masaru was content on simply causing some chaos with Kimura, he was in it to destroy everything. This changed after getting hit by Ippo as now he learns to fight for his own reasons other than destruction.
As the result of Masaru Aoki being a laughingstock, he became resentful towards his older brother, becoming a rebel, thinking that he himself is struggling and fighting for his life with the family, while his brother is free, until he learned that his brother is giving the school fees towards the family, which make his opinion grew a bit higher than his usual scorn towards his brother. Just like the rest of the gym members, he has high sense of humour, as he laughed with the others at Kimura's kappa hair. He also fears Mamoru Takamura , Kumi Mashiba , and Genji Kamogawa when they are in a bad mood. However, he admires Takamura for being a champion, as he carried one of his champion belts and watched his matches.


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He is bald with a pale skin tone (darker in the anime), rigid facial features, and notably pronounced cheekbones. In the ring, his attire consists of light blue boxing shorts.

Itō looked up to Takamura and took the bout against him seriously until he thought Takamura was using the match as a circus due to him wearing a bear costume. He did not believe the story about Takamura defeating a bear, however, he was shocked when he saw a bear claw mark on Takamura's chest.


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Ōi is a slim individual with black shaggy hair, with bangs hanging over his forehead. He has dark coloured eyes and has dark circles under his eyes, giving him a tired look. He also has visible high cheek bones. While in a mahjong match, he sports his button-up dark coloured professional mahjong jersey that has a logo on the shoulder, " Takachan neru " (たかちゃんねる) on the top right front, his team logo " SHIBUYA ABEMYAS " on the middle front, and his given name, " TAKACHAN " on the back, along with dark coloured pants. [1]

Ōi is a laid-back, but competitive individual. He is kind towards his opponents in his hobby, mahjong. If he is losing in mahjong, him not being confident is easily revealed to others due to the expression he shows.
Being a pupil of Yagi , Ōi looks up to him, and calls him "Yami" (Darkness). However, he still wants to get pay back for when Yagi beat him badly at mahjong. When he was called to the Otakugon by Yagi to have Dragon lose in a mahjong match, Ōi only wanted to beat Yagi, not caring about Dragon. Despite wanting to defeat Yagi, he will still look forward to seeing him win against someone else in their mahjong match.


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Takanori has fair skin and a muscular build. He has brown hair with short bangs hanging over both sides of his forehead and brown coloured eyes. His attire in the ring depicted in the Fighting Soul portrait consists of blue boxing trunks with a vertical white stripe on both sides, his family name "HATAKEYAMA" written in grey in the middle of the front side and blue boxing gloves. His appearance as a coach has him looking older in age with black hair.


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Takemura has tanned skin and dark brown coloured hair. He also has short eyebrows, a somewhat large nose, and black coloured eyes. During high school, his hair was in a short pompadour style. Many years later, he changed his hair into a more combed and shorter style.
While at high school, Takemura wore a black gakuran with yellow buttons over a white shirt and black shoes. [1] During Ippo's match against Sendō, Takemura wore a green jacket.

Takemura was boastful and a bully during his delinquent school days. Takemura would team up with Umezawa and Matsuda to bully and beat up the timid Ippo. Takemura changed his ways when he saw and cheered as Ippo won in a boxing match against Fujiwara Yoshio , considering him strong and a friend, cheering him on in later matches until his loss against Date. After meeting Ippo again during a reunion party for their high school, Takemura apologised to Ippo for bullying him.


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Ryūzaki has a short black afro, dark coloured eyes and a moustache. Has also has a minimal amount of chest hair. It is mentioned that his appearance looks similar to Yōkō Gushiken . In the ring, he wears a yellow, black, and dark green boxing shorts.


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Sendō is a man of rugged appearance, reflecting his brash personality and career as a boxer. He sports an extremely muscular build, a tanned complexion, and is of average height. His hair is dark brown, long, and unkempt, styled in a swept-forward manner with countless tufts jutting out in all possible directions. Sendō also has thin eyebrows and large eyes with black pupils. He has a large penis, noted by Takamura .

A brash, actions-before-thoughts boxer, Sendō is shown to be incredibly energetic and competitive when it comes down to boxing. As an average lower-class Osaka resident he speaks in the Kansai dialect and, despite being rude and temperamental, Sendō possesses an extremely kind heart. His personality also incorporates a certain stinginess, having sent Ippo an invitation to one of his own fights while expecting Ippo to pay him for the expense of the ticket.
He is also knowledgeable about Ippo Makunouchi , knowing his personality, skills, and his hardcore otaku traits for Ichirō Miyata , calling him a "Miyata fanboy." While he respects Mamoru Takamura for being a champion with his strength, he displays sheer irritation, along with disgust towards Takamura's attitude, as he was jeering and talking trash about him both inside and outside of the ring.
In a conversation with Ippo, it is revealed that Sendō respects and looks up to real-life boxer Rocky Marciano . He specifically points out that the 'Rocky' in his nickname does not come from the popular Rocky film series, but from Marciano.


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She is rather old and short, with white/grey hair. She tends to have her eyes closed, like she is sleeping. She uses a cane. She sometimes seen with her pet cat, Tora.

She cares a lot about Sendo, but can be rather strict with him. She doesn't like him getting into fights, but she is okay with it if it is for the right reasons.


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Takeshi's teacher is slender and young-looking, though her age is not elaborated upon. Her hair is shoulder length with bangs hanging around the sides of her face, and is a light color, probably brown. Her eyes are also a light color. Her wardrobe consists of a conservative shirt of some sort (a sweater or jacket), a skirt, and heels on one occasion and heeled boots on another.

Takeshi's teacher has a genial personality, as she is shown smiling and encouraging Sendou frequently throughout her appearance. Her attitude toward Sendou is also recurrently flirtatious, though there is negligible evidence that she was sexually attracted to him; Sendou was, at the time, only thirteen or fourteen years old. It is implied that she is the only person who sticks out for him during his middle school years, much like how Sawamura's teacher stuck out for Sawamura during his early days. She encourages him to go to high school, regardless of what he wanted to do in life, but also admits that he is good at fighting.


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Saeki has a muscular complexion, as with most boxers and a relatively darkened skin tone. He grows his dark brown hair long and shoulder length, choosing to tie it up in a pony tail during boxing matches and training. His eyebrows are thin and his eyes are slanted with dark brown/black pupils.

Based on his dialogue to his Former Boxing Club Captain, Saeki is a thrill seeker, where he likes being put in a life or death situation that a Professional Boxing ring has.
Saeki is essentially a hard worker with a passion for boxing. He has utmost confidence in his legs and his speed in the ring, a confidence he fortifies through a sparring match with Eiji Date where the latter failed to catch him even once in multiple rounds. Despite hearing that Date disliked his style of fighting, Saeki took the statement as a compliment. Unlike any other character in the series, Saeki seems to share a personal bond with his legs and feet, frequently mentally conversing with them to keep himself standing in fights. He calls his legs guys , as shown in his fight against Itagaki when they were failing him.
He is on good terms with previous gymmates as well as opponents in the ring, and displays excellent sportsmanship regardless of the outcome of the match.


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Karasawa is of average height and build for a featherweight boxer with a long reach to support his regular out boxing style. He has black unkempt hair grown at neck-length, eyebrows of average thickness and black eyes. It is mentioned by his coach that Karasawa has a very aptly built midsection capable of withstanding extremely powerful attacks.

A very determined and kindhearted boxer with pride for his boxing gym, Karasawa trained ceaselessly for the sake of bringing glory back to his gym after the retirement of Sanada Kazuki and has shown to possess an extreme amount of strong-will, determination and spirit, refusing to fall after being hit by one of Ippo's powerful body blows. He has a keen amount of boxing sense and confidence in pre-made tactics.
Like Sanada, he realises after his match against Ippo that unfairness is abundant in the boxing world. Regardless, he decides to continue with boxing, but is shown in later chapters to be considering retirement and joining the workforce.


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Tanaka is a middle aged man with short dark hair and a thin moustache. At his job, his attire consists of a button up shirt under his light brown jacket. While cheering for Mashiba, he wears a white wrap over his forehead with the kanji for "Hell Society" (地獄会, Jigoku-kai , along with a kimono with a button up shirt under it.

As mentioned by Kumi, Tanaka is a kind person who offered to help the Mashiba siblings when they needed him the most. He is shown to be a very calm and comprehensive man, who sees beyond appearances and notices the good inside Ryō.


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Kimura has fair skin with a muscular build. He has black hair in a flat top hairstyle and bangs going over his forehead, along with black coloured eyes and long, thin eyebrows. It is noted by Itagaki that Kimura is moderately handsome.
When Kimura was preparing to fight Junpei Yoshimoto , the hair on his head and elsewhere on his body was shaved cleaned by Ippo , to help him shave off some of his weight. [29]
His training outfit is either a green jumpsuit or a blue t-shirt with pants. During his delinquent days, he had a pompadour hairstyle and wore gold shades with green lens.

Kimura is a smart boxer with a good eye. He lives with his parents and helps them run their flower shop, but makes most of his living from his fights. He has been known to come up with his own original training methods, such as shadow boxing to music. He also tends to speak more politely and can often narrowly avoid Takamura's pranks through guile, and shifting the brunt of the blame on to Aoki.
In terms of romantic relationships, Kimura's pathetic love life and constant lack of a girlfriend is a recurring joke in the series, and he even named his pet fish Reiko after a girl who broke his heart.
Concerning his friendships, Aoki and him are best friends and are sometimes referred to as Aokimura (青木村). He tends to be less hard on Ippo than the others and more willing to assist in his training, although he does still tease him occasionally. While Takamura and Aoki often show concern for Ippo, Kimura is the closest of the three of them to being an ideal "senpai". He is not above being petty or jealous and gloating. An example would be when he refused to stop celebrating Mashiba's suspension and Sawamura's retirement (as it meant he had less obstacles for the belt), despite Ippo's protests.
Similar to his best friend Masaru Aoki , he is also highly skilled at baseball, particularly as batter, but as the two of them became delinquents, they lost interest in the sport and abandoned it.
He originally wrote his given name in kanji as 達也, but switched to katakana as タツヤ after returning from a brief retirement.


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Takada has a tanned, muscular body. His eye colour is dark, thick and long eyebrows, short messy black hair, visible cheekbones and a large nose. His attire in the ring is dark blue boxing shorts with light blue stripes. His name tag on the boxing shorts has "Takada" in English. On the back it has, in large print, " 高田 " (Takada). His boxing shoes are dark blue with a white stripe.

Takada has a serious and aggressive personality. When he fought with Miyata, he became angry when Miyata decided to not use footwork, thinking he's being underestimated.


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Tetsuya has short black hair with some bangs going over his forehead.


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Yamaguchi is known by most of the characters to be extremely physically attractive. She has a voluptuous figure and large breasts. Takamura usually tries to sneak peeks at her body. This happened once at Ippo's celebration dinner for his winning the All Rookie Tournament, where Takamura tried to look at Yamaguchi's thong through her panty line when she was drunk and bending over.

Yamaguchi tends to treat boxers and their injuries with as much respect as can be expected from a seasoned professional. She maintains her composure in the face of smitten boxers trying to either court or grope her, by dismissing their advances off as humor, calling their bluffs, or responding with direct violence in retaliation.


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Suzuki has short dark brown hair and black coloured eyes.
His attire is the ring consists of blue and white boxing trunks.


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He is an elderly man with bushy grey or white hair, eyebrows, and moustache.


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He tends to wear glasses, and have headset on for his announcing duties for various boxing matches. He tends to wear a business suit for his appearance on TV.

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He is an older man with black short hair and wrinkles. He is always seen with silver coloured round eyeglasses. His attire is usually his gym's shirt with the gym's name on it.


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He is a man with black unkempt hair. His attire while at the Tōhō gym is usually his gym's shirt with the gym's name "TOHO" on the front and black pants.


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Just like in his series, Tōru has fair skin and, being a boxer, has a muscular build. He has a broad chin, black unkempt hair, and black coloured eyes. His attire in the ring consists of boxing shorts that are purple with white stripes and a white coloured "R" for his initial for his surname on the left side.


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Bull has a muscular build and short black hair. He wears yellow and green boxing trunks in the ring.


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The village chief is an elderly man of short stature with a skinny build and dark skin. He has shoulder length white hair, bushy eyebrows, and a full beard. He is shirtless and wears a white cloth wrapped around his waist similar to a skirt. He also wears a large wooden bead necklace around his neck and carries a wooden cane with him.


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She was a woman with long reddish-brown hair and dark eyes.

She was a caring mother to Volg and thought of her son as a kind boy. When Volg began boxing, she thought that Volg would not be the kind to hurt others.


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Wally has dark skin and a muscular, but nimble build. He has black eyes and long upper-back-length shaggy black hair with bangs going over his forehead, as well as chin-length framing strands.
His attire during his match against Ippo consisted of boxing trunks with a downward spike-like design from the top to the middle that are black with red edges, and yellow loose feather-shaped edges at the bottom, giving it a skirt-like look. He had his name " WALLY " on the nameplate, and he wore black boxing shoes.
His attire for his ring entrance in his match against Ricardo consisted of a jacket that matches his unique boxing trunks: it is a slick dark coloured jacket that is light coloured with spots at the arms, collar, and sides. It has a monkey's head on the back, with " WARLEE " written above. His boxing trunks that are open at the sides, letting the back and front wave around while moving, are dark coloured in the middle, light coloured with spots at the edges. He wears black shorts underneath the trunks, as well as a brown monkey tail. Also, his boxing shoes have a dark color (with an unknown color hue) and he wears black socks.

Having grown up on an island with little formal education, Wally is naive and simple-minded. He views training as if it were a game but also dreams of becoming a world-renowned boxer in order to protect the environment of his homeland. Regardless, Wally is said to have an amazing amount of boxing sense. After his loss against Japanese boxer Makunouchi, Wally describes his great developing love for boxing and expresses his wishes to continue on despite having been beaten.


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After growing into adulthood, he has come to greatly resemble his father , a large white dog. Wanpo also wears a blue dog collar. Wanpo's dog breed is a hybrid of Akita dog and Alaskan Malamute.

He tends to be excitable toward certain people when he sees them. He is friendly toward most people unless hostile toward Ippo, growling at anyone who upsets him. Wanpo likes running and following Ippo as he does roadwork . According to Ippo, Wanpo likes snow. [1]


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Wataru has neatly combed short brown hair with bangs that go over his forehead. He wears eyeglasses and wears a blue business suit. While Wataru and Kyōka do resemble each other to an extent, neither of them look even remotely like Mamoru or Suguru.

Wataru is a kind boy who has high respect for his older brother Mamoru even though most of his family rejected Mamoru. He didn't like that the Takamura family had so many traditions and believes that a life where one goes down their own path with their own power is the best kind of life. He also studies a lot according to Takamura.


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Yasuda is an elderly man with short grey hair, short grey eyebrows and squinted eyes of an unknown colour. He also has wrinkles near his eyes and mouth. His attire in the gym and the ring as a second usually consists of a purple shirt with "OTAKI GIM" on the back and beige dress pants. His outing attire is an opened light brown suit over a polo shirt.

Yasuda is a calm and collected individual who supported Kobashi during his boxing days and did not want other's negative comments affect Kobashi.


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Yi is man of average height and a muscular tanned body. He has brown hair in a bowl-cut style. He also has a broad nose and black coloured eyes.

He doesn't really express himself much but before the match started, he looked confident and cocky just by looking at his smile.


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Fujiwara has a well-built body with a rough Yakuza -like face. He has short dark brown hair with a prominent hairline, no eyebrows, a moustache, and a large nose.
His attire in the ring consists of indigo and a lighter blue coloured boxing shorts with " YOSHIO " on his name tag.

Fujiwara cheats freely during his match with Ippo, suggesting he has no respect for the sport of boxing and wants only to win. Despite his fouls and overall unlikable demeanour, Ippo still seems to respect him just like all of his other opponents.


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He has short black hair, black eyes, and thick eyebrows. He also has a thin moustache. His attire during Fujiwara's match against Ippo was a grey shirt with his gym's name on the back.


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Yuki was a small, slender woman with long black hair. She wore a plain dress and heels. Occasionally she donned a straw hat with a ribbon around it. She was compared to that of a sunflower.

On the surface, Yuki was a jovial young woman without a care in the world, who smiled frequently and bowed more often than other Japanese women her age. Her personality suggested a good upbringing. However, under the facade is a deep sadness. She was sick, weak, and fragile (much like the delicate flowers she adores; a possible allegory), and knew she was not long for the afterlife. Yuki was helpless at defending herself, and though she tried to comfort Kamogawa and Nekota during her tenure, she was also helpless at aiding them with their various physical and mental ailments.
Simultaneously, Yuki had a resilient spirit. While her fellow Japanese countrymen groveled for food thrown at them on the ground, she stood tall and dignified, refusing to give up her Japanese pride.


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Just like in her series, Yōko has fair skin and a slim build. She has long black straight hair with a widow's peak and brown coloured eyes. Her attire in the game consists of a white shirt under a brown opened coat, two silver necklaces with small and big beads, and brown dot ear rings.


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Yūji is a young male with black hair that was parted before later changing it into a more straight hairstyle. Yūji grew taller from his appearance during Eiji's rematch against Ricardo, and after becoming a student of his father's gym , he has begun growing a more fit body type.
During Eiji's rematch against Ricardo, Yūji wore a blue blazer over a white dress shirt and he also had a bow tie.


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Before retiring, Oda had a well-built body, after retiring, he gained weight and is now overweight. Oda has dark brown hair that is slicked back, slightly large eyebrows, his nose is medium-sized and pointed, and his eye colour is dark grey.

Before retiring, Oda was a brash, somewhat lazy individual who hated to train and enjoyed going on dates. When his love interest told him that she was embarrassed by his lazy attitude, he soon started to work much harder. However, Oda soon realised that boxing was not for him and subsequently gained a large amount of weight after quitting the sport. Despite this, he was visibly far happier than previously seen, the weight of boxing being lifted from his shoulders.


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Ōno has black hair in a sleek pompadour style and black eyes. In the ring, he wears turquoise boxing shorts and shoes.


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Hachi is a large white dog with a red dog collar.


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Despite being a medium-sized species, this particular bear was clearly taller than Takamura (185 cm).


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He is a small kid, that is wearing a Hanshin Tigers baseball cap and a jacket.

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He tends to be pushing in always demanding Sendō to buy them the Super Famicon. He acts like the leader of the group, where he gets into fights with other, or pushing.

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They usually wear a tuxedo with bow tie, and carry a mic.

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The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil

Lily has a short, petite body with red eyes and long blonde hair. At school, she wears a white uniform with a dark blue jacket and a blue bow tie along with a gray skirt that reaches just above her knees and a pair of black pantyhose.

Lily is known to be a smart, kind and generous among her fellow classmates. She is also called, ''short and cute with a great personality,' by Kensuke. She has also rejected Kensuke five times and has made it clear she has no romantic interest in him. She also seemed to show great concern when Masatora was hit by a car and asked if he needed to go to the hospital.
She is revealed to be a cruel and heinous undercover angel that works for Heaven. She is also rather strong and agile as well as having magical capabilities that most angels have.


The Fruit of Evolution: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made

She is an attractive young woman with a dark complexion, wavy shoulder-length white hair, and golden eyes. She has a well-endowed and athletic figure with large breasts. She was referred to as a dark beauty when Seiichi first saw her. Her signature outfit is a White short-crop t-shirt with a purple patch on the left exposing her midriff, blue denim shorts, small breastplate armor covering her left breast, and a pair of boots. Her manga incarnation has a muscular physique, the most notable aspect being her well-developed six-pack abs.


Bell is a large man humanoid demon with large chin, mouth and nostrils. He has two small horns on his forehead.


Boscow is a dark skinned humanoid demon with dreadlocks. He has a single horn in the middle of his forehead and wears glasses.


Claude is an young adult man with medium long light hair. He is usually in his knight armor.


Clay is a young man with medium long light hair. He dresses like an aristocrat and wears a long coat.


She is a very beautiful woman; she has blonde hair tied in two braided ponytails side by side with blue eyes. She usually wears receptionist clothes while doing guild-related work, and while showing her sadistic side, she has a black whip and mask while wearing a blank skin-tight jumpsuit.


Gustle is a well-built, muscular man with tan skin and green hair who is usually in boomerang pants.


Seiichi is initially a normal overweight Japanese youth with black eyes and black hair, but after his first evolution he gained a more slender yet still muscular appearance. He wears a white shirt and blue pants. He wears a black motorcycle helmet that later transforms in a black robe with golden details, this is used to help disguise his stat screen so he does not appear monstrous.

Tsukkomis very much. But the protagonist. Evolved by the fruit of evolution. A person who has returned to human life once from a human being.
His parents passed away a little later after he entered high school. He managed to make his living through the heritage of insurance money that his aunt managed. He was on good terms with his parents; he had difficulty accepting the death of his parents; he had no more energy to go out; He had been eating his meals without energy by way of delivery, he became fat.
When he feels stress, he’s the type that eats a lot. It is an advantage to think positively about anything, but there are many times when he can’t think positively. He was blessed with friends, but he consciously avoided them from his own judgment and small pride. There is a bad habit that would be self-contained alone. Because of his appearance and body odor, he was subjected to collective abuse. In the school, he is the only being who has not been summoned as a hero. He has to affirm his past self to Saria, he was finally able to admit himself.


She is one of the prettiest girls in the school, with medium purple hair falling down to her waist and black eyes with a perfectly well-endowed figure. She usually wears a school uniform; she used to look like a boy when she was still a kid.

She is basically a really cool and calm person like Seiichi and has developed that personality due to him but is awfully possessive for Seiichi and acts as a yandere towards him. She developed her feelings and personality due a kidnapping incident that had occurred when she was young and Seiichi had come to rescue her.


Leia is a young looking female humanoid demon with a long dark hair and pointy ears.

Leia is very devoted to the Demon Lord, so much so that when his daughter says about alliance with the human kingdom of Wimberg she stays silent even though not so long before a human from that kingdom (Seiichi) killed the Black Dragon God.


As a Donkey, she has a ponytail that's tied back by a green ribbon.
In her human form, she takes the form of a beautiful tomboyish seventeen-year-old Caucasian female with an athletic body with green eyes and light brown hair tied up in a ponytail that looks similar to her tail.

Initially Lulune was pompous and rowdy until Seiichi defeated her. She's more of a glutton now as she seems to think with her stomach and can get motivated by her stomach.


Orfeu is a young looking man with a medium long hair. He is usually seen in his knight armor.


Origa is a young girl with short black hair and cat ears.


Originally she was a large red ape with blue eyes and big teeth.
After reaching the 10th evolution, she gains a human appearance and becomes a human woman with long red hair.
In both forms, she wears a pink flower in her hair, and after gaining her human appearance, she wears a white dress that can adapt to her size.


Scheld is an aging man with medium long hair. He wears a crown and is usually in his emperor's robe.


Sherry is a young girl with medium long hair. She has dog ears and wears a collar.


Terry is a bit short and chubby humanoid demon. He has a single horn in the middle of his forehead and a hair bun.


Zakhia is a middle aged man with a short hair. He doesn't have sight in his right eye and have a large scar going through it.


He has short curly blue hair, turquoise eyes, pointy ears and wings on his back.

Zorrua is seen to be hot-headed, rude, and stubborn he also doesn't take orders from anyone.


The Fruit of Grisaia

Yuuji is a good-looking and somewhat intimidating young man with short black hair and sharp black eyes. Due to a lifetime of physical training, Yuuji is athletic, although his body is covered with scars from his career as an operative.

Yuuji is a cold and reserved guy who is inured to a lifetime of violence. He usually doesn't care about people's opinion and is known for his sardonic humor. Yuuji admits that he isn't a brave person, and often prepares contingencies prior to engaging the enemy. He likes to read books, a habit that was ingrained into him by Kazuki Kazami and Asako Kusakabe .
Due to the PTSD which stems from his childhood, Yuuji has trouble with killing any living things. This is also partially to do with the "safety pin" Asako placed on him to keep him from killing. While this "safety pin" remains intact throughout the majority of the series, it is shown that the command can still be overridden to some degree. During his time deployed by the Marines, Justin Mikemayer was able to temporary override the command, allowing him to kill as a mean of protecting his comrades. Also, during Amane Suou and Makina Irisu 's bad ending, it is shown that if the "safety pin" is being "fiddling around" too much, it may "come loose and fall off" as a result.
Yuuji employs violence sparingly and rarely inflicts excessive harm on his opponents. He desires a civilian life and is weary of all the violence in his life.
Yuuji admired his elder sister Kazuki, although he was also a bit envious of her. Kazuki loved Yuuji immensely because it pained her to see him denied of parental affection. Yuuji's life was shattered after Kazuki's accident. Afterwards, Yuuji developed feelings for his master, Asako. She helped him overcome his trauma and developed an intimate bond with him. Asako was fond of Yuuji but she declined him because of her deteriorating health. Asako's death was too much for Yuuji.


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She has a pitch-black body with two red, pupilless eyes. When she smiles, she also has black teeth.

She is at least 2,000 years old and was formerly a god but got degraded to a demon king and a demon god. [3] Her body split into hers and Beelzebub 's in the process. [1]


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So far, he has only appeared once and his body was all black, so it's not known how he actually looks like. [2]

He seems to have a cheerful personality, he acknowledges and likes Jihan . [3]


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Chiyou has strong traits, wearing a black beard and a horned golden helmet.

Thousands years ago, Emperor Chiyou fought against the Emperor Gongson Heonwon, the head of The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors .


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He has tall fit physique with yellow hair and yellow eyes. He wears a dark T-shirt and long blue jeans. He carries two katanas.

Yeonghwan is an orphan from Yu-il orphanage. During his life in the orphanage, he was an ordinary human without any relation with the Abyss, which he later joined at the age of sixteen, meeting a Japanese native Buddhist monk during his high school field trip. After this incident, he became a mercenary. He is highly skilled and works all around China, Japan, and Korea. When he first got involved in the incident with the abyss, he survived as he obtained the Ring of Luck . Later thanks to his high luck, he learned martial arts, spells, and incantations of all kinds as well as obtained items that increase his stats to this day.


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Kihyun Do is a middle-aged man in his early fourties with short brown hair and brown eyes. He is seen wearing a red plaid suit, olive jacket and dark grey trousers.

He is a strict and magnanimous man who gets angry and beats his students with a stick for failing to come to his class on time. Thanks to that, gangs in Jihan's class just live quietly. He's not afraid of cops, and just hits the students if they are going the wrong way. He's actually good at fighting. Those having a grudge attacked him before, but their legs and arms got broken.
He is level 21, which, compared to the average student who is level 3-6, would mean he is 7 times stronger.


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She is seen wearing a yellow dress and hat and on her chest seems to be pieces of rock

She has a very joyful personality. Although her age is unknown, she seems young not only in body but in mind as well. She was unable to create complex sentences during her invocation which suggests that she shared not only her power and soul and memories with Han Ji-Han but that he also shared his with her making her visibly more intelligent.She also enjoys being praised.


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He has long black hair and thick eyebrows. His eye color is red.
He wears a khaki green hanbok.


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Gong Jinseok has an extremely burly body, unruly short hair and tanned skin due to his 15 years as a martial artist mercenary and a previous occupation as a national Taekwondo player. Jinseok wears dark long combat pants and military combat boots. Due to his close-combat style, Jinseok usually replaces his shirt between battles and wears a loose faded cloak.

Gong Jinseok originally had a jovial side similar to Han Jihan when he first entered the Abyss, however, due to encountering a traumatic tragedy in the first few days, Jinseok developed a cynical stubborn persona to deal with his vengeful desire and anger while living in the Abyss.


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She is always dressed in regular clothes, often with an apron. She is slender with long dark blue hair that is always tied down. She has the appearance of a woman in her mid-twenties even though she's about forty years old.

Many things about her are a mystery and her personality is that of a normal mother. She gets angry if Jihan does not attend school or thinks he will not do his homework. She is also very understanding since she allowed Jihan to go see Shin Seonil after he was injured, even if that meant skipping classes.