Malfunctioning Machine is Round 778 of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga series.
Details
- Title Page Character(s): Ippo Makunouchi, Malcolm Gedo
Summary
As Ippo keeps missing his punches, him and Kamogawa believe that they were naive about taking on Gedo. Ippo feels like the whole ring is distorted. Mari wonders what is happening. Fukui] reveals to her that it is his depth perception, which has been became distorted for Ippo at some point and it has caused him to have the disadvantage the whole time. Mari is worried that Ippo will slowly lose after Tsukahara explains that Ippo is like a high performance machine that lost it's crucial sense of depth perception. Ippo's swollen face gets hit repeatedly by Gedo's jab. When Takamura mentions that Aoki and Kimura will be thieves if Ippo loses due to them taking money from their jobs to give to Ippo for his bet, the four Kamogawa gym members tries to find a hint to tell Kamogawa to help Ippo as they believe the trick has to do with something other than boxing. Ippo continues getting hit by Gedo when he gets close to him.