Is Hajime no Ippo good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Hajime no Ippo (Fighting Spirit) is a TV series from Fall 2000 by Madhouse Inc.: 75 episodes, about 29 hours in total, finished, 8.73/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Slice-of-life: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 29 hours for the run, 38 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 75
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 29 hours — a season of evenings
- First aired
- Fall 2000
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Madhouse Inc.
- Score
- 8.73/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, drama, school, martial arts, nudity, romance, shounen, slice of life, sports, tournament, tragedy, violence
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: The First Step.
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More like this: action · manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · drama · school · martial arts · romance · shounen · slice of life · sports · tournament · tragedy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Hajime no Ippo?
- About 29 hours for all 75 episodes at 23 min each — a season of evenings; at two episodes a night that is 38 evenings.
- How many episodes does Hajime no Ippo have?
- 75 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Hajime no Ippo finished?
- Yes, Hajime no Ippo is finished (75 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Hajime no Ippo good for a group?
- Yes. Hajime no Ippo is tagged action, comedy, sports, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Hajime no Ippo listed?
- Hajime no Ippo is on AniList (id 263) and MyAnimeList (id 263); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists