another word for important or crucial
Ippo helping Aoki get over his trauma. At his house, Ippo got a
call from Takamura about bad news. Ippo arrived to Takamura to find out what happened and was shown a video which Takamura claimed to be a fatal flaw of Aoki's. Watching the video and heating Takamura's explanation, Ippo learned
that Aoki's fatal flaw was that he closes his eyes as a punch is coming toward him. Since Takamura did not want to go to the gym to hear Kamogawa's lecture about his match against Rabbitson, Takamura persuaded Ippo tell Aoki, or Aoki would lose and it would be Ippo's fault. After not being able to tell him the next day, Ippo reviewed Aoki's match videos and discovered that his trauma of closing his eyes happened before his debut match and it was a right straight. Ippo went to the gym and, after stopping Takamura, Kimura, and Itagaki from picking on Aoki, he got Tomiko to perform
hypnosis on Aoki to reveal who caused the trauma. When it turned out to be Takamura, the gym members came up with a plan for Aoki to overcome his fear of Takamura to cure his trauma that affected his boxing. Ippo, Itagaki, and Kimura held Aoki while Takamura threw rights at Aoki's face until Aoki was able to keep his eyes open and describe the type of punch Takamura threw, curing his trauma. On the day of the Class A Tournament finals, Ippo arrived to the Kōrakuen Hall to watch Itagaki, Kimura, and Aoki's matches with Takamura. Ippo watched Itagaki's match against Saeki, which ended in Itagaki's win.
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If the events had been better written, development could have actually taken place.
Also backstories were completely thrown out the window for a lot of characters
that deserved their interesting pasts and ideologies explained. The only backstory that was explained in depth was the Elric brothers', and they conveniently took a painfully slow, nine-episode-long flashback to do so. I did like how they gave Nina's story ample time, but she didn't really provide any material as far as character development later on. Also, they didn't need to (try to) bring her back. They really didn't.
Enjoyment: 7/10
The first time I finished the show I liked it, but the more I watched it, the more problems I noticed with it. That being said, every time I've seen the show, I've finished it fairly quickly, and without skipping episodes (except sometimes the very boring fillers. But the latest time I rewatched it, it was with a friend who hadn't seen it yet, so we didn't skip episodes even though I'd tell her which episodes were boring and pointless).
Some of the episodes were downright painful to get through, and the anime only really picked up its pacing at the very end. However, some episodes (13 and 37) were really funny and I always enjoy watching them when I rewatch the show.
