Hajime No Ippo

if your looking for a great manga that is a joy to read and will kill ALOT of time "Hajime No Ippo" will do that and then some. it is almost a thousand chapters and almost a hundred volumes long. it is about a boxer named Ippo and his rise to fame in the Japanese Boxing world, and about his hardships getting there. along the way he will fight many people and make many friends. (though i wish the mangaka would focus on the love relationship with the main love interest of the manga, but we can't have everything) what i love about this series instead of going from one fight to another you actually see him training for like ten or so chapters, and a lot of other things that lead up to the fight. unlike most other battle manga where its fight fight fight this manga tends to have a more laid back feel to it during the everyday scenes and an adrenaline rush fun to read fight scenes when he is in the ring. all in all this manga is really good although very long. i know i wrote this kinda like a review and not like my thoughts on it, but i felt like writing like this.