Katsutaka Imae (今江 克孝, Imae Katsutaka) is a professional boxer and a former JBC lightweight champion. During high school, Imae saw fellow classmates bullying . When he tried to defend her, he was beaten up. In order to protect her, he started to learn and enjoy boxing.

Kyōsuke Imai (今井 京介, Imai Kyōsuke) is a featherweight professional boxer and the JBC featherweight champion affiliated with the Otowa gym. He is proclaimed the eternal rival of Manabu Itagaki, and is known for being a very talented hard puncher capable of holding his own against Ippo Makunouchi...

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Pound for pound Imai wrecks this chump. He’s a legit Japanese champ and above a lot of the Class A and title defense guys Ippo has fought. Aoki couldn’t even make it to Japanese champion when he fought a super weak champ in Imae. 74 votes, …

Dec 23, 2021 · Ippo vs Sendo 2 is right there bro. I loved the fight but the ending was such bullshit. The story would have been way more interesting if Aoki had won. You could have …

The Comic Show Arc is the twenty-third story arc in the series and the second in the Rising Saga. Aoki Masaru partakes in the Champion Carnival by fighting the JBC lightweight champion, Katsutaka Imae, who shows his dislike of Aoki's way of …

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Voiced most times by Shuhei Sakaguchi. Images of the Katsutaka Imae voice actors from the Hajime no Ippo franchise.

Hajime no Ippo (はじめの一歩, lit. 'The First Step') is a Japanese boxing -themed manga series written and illustrated by George Morikawa. It has been serialized by Kodansha in the shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine since October 1989, with its chapters collected in 142 tankōbon volumes as of December 2024.

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