MiyaIppo

MiyaIppo is the slash ship between Ichirou Miyata and Ippo Makunouchi from the Hajime no Ippo fandom.

Canon
Makunouchi first met Miyata at Kamogawa boxing gym, where they sparred to evaluate the former's ability. Being super anxious about his first spar ever, Ippo tried to follow his mom's advice of imagining his opponent as a fish, and failed miserably since "there's no fish as handsome as that". The match ended with Miyata being the victor, who deemed boxing just become more interesting because of this newcomer. They had a second rematch spar, where Ippo demonstrated his incredible growth with enhanced techniques, and a strategy to neutralize Ichirou's signature counter on top of that. Motivated to face Ippo in a professional ring, Ichirou left Kamogawa gym since boxers of the same gyms cannot fight each other professionally, and made a promise to face off in the East Japan Rookie King Tournament with his new rival.

Fanon
It is hard to evaluate the fandom's opinion on MiyaIppo since there's not a big and active fandom for the series. However, from what have been observed from the little fancontent available on various social media, people ship this pair because of both characters' passion to fight each other. Their rivalry mirrors some other shonen manga lead pair with the ying and yang dynamic. MiyaIppo is the most popular ship in Hajime no Ippo, as it is the most written ship on AO3 for both characters. There are currently 17 works on AO3.

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