Ippo #5

Volume 5 of Ippo — Saison 2 : Destins de Boxeurs puts the series' raw intensity front and center, with a sweat-drenched close-up of a young boxer's face locked in fierce, wide-eyed determination — the kind of expression that tells you everything about the pressure bearing down on him. George Morikawa's art delivers that signature sense of physical and emotional strain in a single frame, making this Kurokawa edition impossible to look away from. A compelling addition to this French run of one of manga's most celebrated boxing sagas.