So you're still lying to yourself, Ippo?

Kumi is a toxic person. Honestly better drop her

When you're in a relationship, you should do your best to encourage your partner to be HAPPY. And Ippo is obviously not happy. Really, he's anything but.
I can understand being worried for his health. But such a blatant disregard of his feelings is shitty really.

Yeah.....🙃🙃🙃

Can't wait until Aoki dies....again.

He needs to wake the fuck up, this is almost like him at the beginning, he's getting "bullied" -in a way- by the girl.

The main problem I see with her AND him is that they don't actually have a romantic relationship that's official.
Like fuck your crushing on each other for 6+ years just go ask them to go on a date then get together or just ask while fishing.
They should have just got married already or engaged so the drama would be actually interesting maybe have a kid on the way or planning for one so if he does get potatofied in a fight it's a even bigger risk to abandon his family.

@sling that's wife material

that cunt is abusive as fuck, push her in the water and leave her

Ippo seems like a man completely content with his life as it is. I am also very stupid.

So we're just ignoring the fact that Ippo made leather and foam cause a clean cut through bronze?

Ippo, get in the fucking ring!

@Kayriel
my problem with Kumi isn't that she doesn't want Ippo to fight 'cause she's worried about him, I get that and I can agree with that. My problem is that she completely disregard what Ippo wants and that's not good in a relationship (and they didn't even have a real relationship right now), she ONLY thinks about herself and doesn't care about what he wants or if he's happy ('cause you can see it in the end, despite what he says he's NOT happy). She has decided on him possibly being punch drunk and made him make that promise and she doesn't really care anymore, all the while not even making real progress on their relationship.

It's only a matter of time until he comes back, my guess is after Sendo loses.

@sling She's definitely a Mashiba.

@Kayriel People are more pissed about the combination of her being ultra-possessive while not taking the relationship anywhere. Ippo is also a dumbass because of it, but at least he doesn't have a yandere act to go with his neutron-star density.

Her not wanting him to box anymore would be fine and dandy on it's own, but in combination with the above attitude it just comes off as manipulative to the point that she has his trainees report to her. Her feelings may come from a place of love, but it doesn't make them good per sè.

Nobody thinks she's a bad person because she feels some way or another. Ippo's mom never got flak for feeling things about Ippo boxing or never seeing his fights. Kumi actively interferes with something everyone in the audience wants to see, and everyone knows she will fail, so it's just a constant annoyance that occupies pages that could be used to move the actual plot without her making threatening faces.

Folks hating on Kumi. What woman isn't going to see another chick going after her man and want her to fuck off? What guy wouldn't get mad seeing another dude trying to pick up his girl?

People keep forgetting Kumi's only trying to keep Ippo out of the ring because the boy was practically killing himself, and she hates that the only two people she's really got left in her life are in a meat-grinder profession where the point is that you keep going until you're too injured to function properly anymore. It comes from a place of love and care and fear-of-loss.

Just because y'all want to see him box forever doesn't mean the people around him do, and it doesn't make them bad for feeling that way.

Get back in the ring you fuck!

We’re getting there boys. I kinda like the slowly-but-surely pace, but I do hope it doesn’t take long after Sendo’s fight.

Mad Lad
Ippo's last panel though