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Gotō Kyōji plays as Ippo in this stage play adaption. Creation and Concept Ippo's design in an early draft. When the series was in the early phases where the story took place in a high school boxing club setting, Jōji Morikawa had a hard time drawing a cool and muddy protagonist. 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.
I also felt bad for Futoshi as well since the show made it clear that he didn’t stand a chance. Kokoro and Mitsuru’s relationship is perhaps one of the more tragic ones in the series. And Ikuno. , it almost feels like the show put the character in a love triangle with Goro and Ichigo to make her more relevant.
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