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Ashita no Joe (manga)

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[ serialized in [Weekly Shonen Magazine] ]

Related anime:
    Ashita no Joe (TV) (adaptation)
      Ashita no Joe (movie) (remake)
      Ashita no Joe 2 (TV) (sequel)
        Ashita no Joe 2 (movie) (remake)
    Joe vs. Joe (OAV)

Alternative title:
Rocky Joe (Italian)
Tomorrow's Joe
あしたのジョー (Japanese)
Themes: boxing, sports
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: 15 year old Joe Yabuki is a wondering orphan who stumbles across the worst slumps of Tokyo. There, he encounters a washed up boxer who wants to train Joe after he easily beats up some yakuza. However, Joe does not take the trainer, Tange, very seriously until they end up in jail for fighting the yakuza in the park. Joe then decides to live with Tange but does not show any appreciation to him at all. He then uses the neighborhood children to fake an orphanage fund and get money. Joe is then exposed and is forced 13 months of juvie. While in juvie, he meets a boxer impronsed for assault, Rikiishi Tooru, while making an escape. Rikiishi stops Joe's plan and it starts a rivalry that inspires Joe to take boxing not as a means to get revenge against Rikiishi, but to reform his life and pursue as a career.
User Ratings: 9 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 3 votes (raw:1, raw:1, sub:1)
 Excellent: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Very good: 3 votes (dub:2, ?:1)
 Good: 1 vote (English:1)
 Decent: -
 So-so: 1 vote (English:1)
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Seen in part or in whole by 29 users, rank: #1302
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.333 (Very good+.33), std. dev.: 1.5635, rank: #458
Weighted mean: 8.301 (Very good+.30), rank: #425 (seen all: 10.00 / seen some: 7.65)
Bayesian estimate: 8.150 (Very good+.15), rank: #235
Number of tankoubon: 20
Vintage: 1968-01-01 to 1973-05-13 (Shonen Magazine 1968 No.1 to 1973 No.25)
Releases: We have 20
Trivia: We have 2
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Story: Tetsuya Chiba

Original creator: Ikki Kajiwara (Under pen-name Asao Takamori)

Art: Tetsuya Chiba

 (none)
Japanese companies 

Publisher: Kodansha

Italian staff 
Italian companies 
(none)
 

Publisher: Star Comics

Italian cast 
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