Is Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura (Fighting Spirit: Mashiba vs Kimura) is a OVA (home-video release) from Summer 2003 by Madhouse Inc.: 1 episodes, about 1 hour in total, finished, 8.16/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 1 hour for the run, 1 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
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 1
- Episode length
- 61 min
- Total time
- about 1 hour — one evening
- First aired
- Summer 2003
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Madhouse Inc.
- Score
- 8.16/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, comedy, drama, martial arts, shounen, sports, tournament, 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: Fighting Spirit: Mashiba vs. Kimura.
Do you and a friend both want to watch Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura?
Queue Up reads two public AniList lists and shows every anime you both have on Planning — with Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura flagged if it is one of them — then picks tonight's with a weighted roll or a bracket.
Or open it on AniList or MyAnimeList.
Related anime
More like this: action · manga adaptation · comedy · drama · martial arts · shounen · sports · tournament.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura?
- About 1 hour for all 1 episodes at 61 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 1 evening.
- How many episodes does Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura have?
- 1 episode of 61 min.
- Is Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura finished?
- Yes, Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura is finished (1 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura good for a group?
- Yes. Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura is tagged action, comedy, sports, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura listed?
- Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura is on AniList (id 265) and MyAnimeList (id 265); 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