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He drew a prototype of Ippo, which had a handsome normal face with thick eyebrows. Nouchi, who was the editor-in-charge at the time had a policy that was consistent with the idea that he wanted to draw a story about how
rough looking guys would do their best. At the time, "Meimon! The Third Baseball Club” (名門!第三野球部) was a work on the magazine, and Nouchi
suggested for
Morikawa to draw his characters with a similar muddy look. Morikawa disliked the thought of a "bad protagonist", viewing it as unbalanced to an artist. Morikawa wanted some special features on the protagonist's face, and Nouchi suggested to give him big ears like Suguru Egawa (江川卓). Morikawa's decision of giving Ippo thick eyebrows was his own, and at this point this Ippo was close to the current Ippo. Just like in "Hajime no Ippo", Ippo was still a passive child. [149] As the Hajime no Ippo storyboard was being made, the setting of Ippo being the son of a fishing boat shop was taken from a boxer named Suhara Ryūichi (須原隆一), who also won and became the Japanese light flyweight champion. Morikawa thought "A child who is weak and had not played sports, suddenly starting boxing and standing out" means it needs to be repaired. He believed that if he wanted to have a senior high school student have a good match worthy of being ones rival, he has to be some sort of genius or give him background. "Because I'm always on the swinging fishing boat, I can always put my hand out even when I'm hit and lose my balance.
[66] The second OVA series, Hunter × Hunter: Greed Island, was directed by Yukihiro Matsushita and ran for eight episodes in four released volumes from February 19 to May 21, 2003. [67] The third OVA series, Hunter × Hunter: G. I. Final, was directed by Makoto Sato and ran for 14 episodes in seven released volumes from March 3 to August 18, 2004. [68] After the original anime's initial run on Animax, the OVAs were aired successively. [52][69] Viz has shown no intention of releasing English
versions of the OVAs. [70] Second Series (2011) Main article: List of Episodes (2011 series) A new Hunter × Hunter anime adaptation was announced in July 2011. Instead of
continuing the story from the OVA series, it restarts the story from the beginning of the manga in an attempt to adapt it more accurately. The series is directed by Hiroshi Kōjina, produced by Madhouse, scripted by Atsushi Maekawa, and character designs were created by Takahiro Yoshimatsu. The series began airing Sunday mornings on Nippon Television starting October 2, 2011. [71] It switched to airing at 1:29 am on Tuesday nights from October 8, 2013 onwards due to darker elements of the later arcs.
[18] Characters[edit] See also: List of Cowboy Bebop characters Main cast from left to right: Jet Black, Spike Spiegel, Faye Valentine, Edward, and Ein The characters were created by Watanabe and character designed by Toshihiro Kawamoto. Watanabe envisioned each character as an extension of his own personality, or as an opposite person to himself. [30] Each character, from the main cast to supporting characters, were designed to be outlaws unable to fit into society. [31] Kawamoto designed the characters so they were easily distinguished from one another. [17] All the main cast are characterized by a deep sense of loneliness or resignation to their fate and past. [17] From the perspective of Brian Camp and Julie Davis, the main characters resemble the main characters of the anime
series Lupin III, if only superficially, given their more troubled pasts and more complex personalities. [29] The show focuses on the character of Spike Spiegel (voiced by Kōichi Yamadera), an iconic space cowboy with
green hair and often seen wearing a blue suit, with the overall theme of the series being Spike's past and its karmic effect on him. [32] Spike was portrayed as someone who had lost his expectations for the future, having lost the woman he loved, and so was in a near-constant lethargy. [17] Spike's artificial eye was included as Watanabe wanted his characters to have flaws. He was originally going to be given an eyepatch, but this decision was vetoed by producers. [31][33] Jet (voiced by Unshō Ishizuka) is shown as someone who lost confidence in his former life and has become cynical about the state of society.
