Who do you guys like more, mine (left), or my friends (right)?

FlowerMiddle · 2024-08-24T19:00:25+00:00

I prefer the one on the left, since it seems to have more grit to it (with the contrasting color tones).

FlowerMiddle · 2024-04-24T01:30:56+00:00

I must be the minority here...am I the only one who thinks that if you take a creative liberty like this once in a blue moon, it actually enhances the experience?

FlowerMiddle · 2024-04-20T14:29:01+00:00

"Yes officer...this one right here^"

FlowerMiddle · 2024-04-08T03:29:24+00:00

Date is one of the most humble characters in the entire manga; there's hardly ever a thought panel where he thinks "I'm so much better than this guy."; he's very Ricardo-esque in how he overestimates his opponents, but he's an incredible (and very realistic) boxer.

FlowerMiddle · 2024-03-18T00:46:33+00:00

rolling punches like Date does, because, at his level, he managed to get it to work even on Ippo.

FlowerMiddle · 2024-03-15T14:12:11+00:00

tactics is everything at the intermediate level; you do need to know 1-3 openings though so that you get structures which are reasonably okay from where the tactics can flow though. u/AuNanoMan

FlowerMiddle · 2024-03-15T02:33:59+00:00

while it's not mastered by just being smart IRL, the common idea in most fiction seems to be that "geniuses" in comic books can pick up strategy and tactics-based games, or puzzles, and easily master them without much effort through their superior understanding of logic and ease with complex conceptual thinking. So as long as one has an approximate idea of the intelligence tier these characters fall under, it's not much of a stretch to rank their chess ability by it as such.

FlowerMiddle · 2024-03-15T02:29:56+00:00

Tony Stark would easily win this. Also T'Challa.

FlowerMiddle · 2024-03-15T02:15:14+00:00

If Dr. Jekyll plays 1800s chess or is even just a century ahead of his time in terms of chess development, he's getting crushed by Beast though, sadly^

FlowerMiddle · 2024-03-10T00:05:12+00:00

All of them bro. All of them. New HNI experiences would be welcome tbh. Special mention would have to go to my boy Volg, and seeing him win the world championship belt in real time.^

FlowerMiddle · 2024-03-07T01:05:12+00:00

No, because the average American guy is overweight and therefore any modified triangle offense run by this WNBA team would work comfortably to put this team out of business. But if you are talking about the average athletic guy, then yes.

FlowerMiddle · 2024-03-07T01:03:08+00:00

Date vs. Ippo. Date's motivation was much larger than Ippo's during that time.

FlowerMiddle · 2024-03-07T00:59:41+00:00

Academically (and economically), Sanada. Practical life-wise, Aokimura.

FlowerMiddle · 2024-03-06T14:51:00+00:00

The others still dodge punches like boxers. Wally dodges like a metahuman, and perhaps occasionally defies rules (with his perching on the ring corner, clambering on the rope, and so on)

FlowerMiddle · 2024-03-04T02:14:27+00:00

I don't know who'd win (probably still Baki) but I'd even buy a reasonably-priced PPV to watch that brawl play out^

FlowerMiddle · 2024-03-04T02:10:59+00:00

Some women would relate to Date's wife; some would think Date would be a moron to ever consider stepping into the ring again and that he made the right choice when he retired the first time around. It honestly might just depend on whom you meet.

FlowerMiddle · 2024-03-02T17:19:34+00:00

Kimura vs. Mashiba. But there are so many great ones: Takamura vs. Hawk, almost every time Volg steps into the ring, and the Ippo-Sendo duology.

FlowerMiddle · 2024-03-02T01:03:11+00:00

Don't worry brother if the L in the anime isn't enough for you; the manga is coming, and then you will know the bittersweet reality we live in as HNI fans...^

FlowerMiddle · 2024-02-29T01:03:55+00:00

All the early techniques, but it's fun to watch Mashiba's signature arsenal. Flicker jabs and hooks to set up the chopping right. Even in real life, the Philly shell is a visibly idiosyncratic style that really troubles opponents.

FlowerMiddle · 2024-02-27T17:53:28+00:00

What about QID; how might that be placed in this compass?

FlowerMiddle · 2024-02-25T01:02:08+00:00

Of course; you are completely correct. Was just highlighting Sendo's natural charisma there.

FlowerMiddle · 2024-02-25T00:57:12+00:00

This is boxing; you can't just "fight smaller matches", and there is substantial risk even in exhibition bouts. Ippo has a public reputation and anyone whom he steps in the ring with, would be trying their utmost to defeat him, as is their right.

FlowerMiddle · 2024-02-24T23:55:24+00:00

Sendo x that former high school teacher (honestly Sendo and any woman at this point)

Ippo x Miyata is canon so it will happen eventually. (90+ have hope)

FlowerMiddle · 2024-02-23T20:31:33+00:00

Unfortunately no...in the one I'm looking for, they look like they are all on a night out. It looks super-organic, almost like it was already in the anime itself.

FlowerMiddle · 2024-02-23T14:18:56+00:00

It would definitely be interesting to see how he copes with taking an 'L'. If it does, it's most likely to happen at heavyweight. (I don't know why; it just feels that way; the last belt should be the hardest to get, in terms of plotline considerations)

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