The manga series, Hajime no Ippo (はじめの一歩?, lit. "The First Step") is written and illustrated by George Morikawa and serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine. The series premièred on 17 February 1990 and is currently ongoing; numbering over 900 chapters making it the 12th longest manga series. The manga was adapted into two animé featured films in 2003 and a TV animé series in 2009 which concluded in the same year.
The manga currently has ninety-six tankōbon volumes published in Japan by Kodansha. The First manga volume released on February 17, 1990 and the ninety-sixth on June 17, 2011.
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