Is Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger (Fighting Spirit: New Challenger) is a TV series from Winter 2009 by Madhouse Inc.: 26 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 8.64/10 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 10 hours for the run, 13 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
- 26
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Winter 2009
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Madhouse Inc.
- Score
- 8.64/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, drama, nudity, 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: Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting! New Challenger; Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting. New Challenger; Hajime no Ippo New Series; Hajime no Ippo Season II.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger?
- About 10 hours for all 26 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger have?
- 26 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger finished?
- Yes, Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger is finished (26 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger good for a group?
- Yes. Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger is tagged action, comedy, sports, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger listed?
- Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger is on AniList (id 5258) and MyAnimeList (id 5258); 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