Hajime no Ippo coming to the US

Reader Beedueler received the most recent issue of Nintendo Power. Inside he found about about Hajime no Ippo coming to the US. He doesn’t have a camera or a scanner, but he was nice enough to transcribe the article for us!

Victorius Boxers: Revolutions, a game based on a long running manga,
tapes up its knuckles and enters the ring with American gamers.

Few manga fans in the US are clamoring for a Wii game based on Hajime no Ippo by Jyoji Morikawa, but that’s exactly what they’re going to get come September. Sometimes translated as Fighting Spirit, the comic and anime follow the story of Ippo Makunouchi, a nice guy with an iron jaw and the burning desire to become Japan’s featherweight champion. After a critically well received PS2 title appeared in the US in 2001, the franchise vanished of the radar (a sequel was never released here). Now Xseed Game’s Victorious Boxers: Revolution will come out swingingwith a story based fighting game taht uses an over the shoulder perspective (the boxer you control is semitransparent). The character models sport a cool, hand-drawn look that makes the game seem like the pages of a manga have come to life.