Ring ni Kakero em português

Like mentioned early on, the 2001 re-print of the manga, which is specifically what I'm reviewing, has some changes when compared to the original version & it's first two re-prints, so let me cover what I know of. Most importantly, and unknown to me until the recent English scanlation effort started up, some parts of the original manga have been removed. For example, chapter 2 of the original manga was all about Ryuji & Kiku on their train ride from their home of Niho to Tokyo, with the chapter detailing how "terrifying" Tokyo is, before it ends with the two meeting a girl named Kana Sanjou and some shenanigans ensue. In the RnK1 re-print chapter 2 starts off with the two meeting Kana followed by her involvement in the early story, completely removing the train ride & walking about Tokyo. True, right now this is all I can go off of, but it does explain why chapter 11 ends off with a two-page spread of random manga pages showing off the training Ryuji goes through to gain basic boxing know-how (using a speed bag, sparring, roadwork, etc.). That means a good number of chapters have been removed, making the part where the anime starts happen shortly into volume 4 whereas it starts early into volume 7 of the original version. To be fair, though, these removals seem to be nothing more than "trimming the fat", i.e. they were not essential to the main story. These chapters likely solidified Kurumada's Ashita no Joe influence, specifically the fact that Joe had to learn to become a boxer, but when this 2001 re-print came about Kurumada probably decided that they weren't essential to the story he created, so he decided to excise them & make it so that readers can get to the "main attraction", i.e. the part where the other main characters debut, faster. Kurumada even lists Ring ni Kakero 1 separately from Ring ni Kakero on his website's Works page, showing that, even though they essentially tell the same story, the two are still different enough to the man himself. For all I know later portions of the manga could have been excised as well, but I'm going to guess that the removals were solely from the pre-Carnival portion.

[2/2015 ADDENDUM: I managed to look at the first two volumes of the wideban release of RnK, and I can confirm that what was removed there were training bits & a side-story where Rock-san takes his pro test while Ryuji helps him get a girlfriend. In the end, all Kurumada did was truly trim the fat and keep it focused on Ryuji & Kenzaki. Volume 2 of RnK1 ends at the same exact place as the wideban's Volume 2.]