Forum - View topicAshita no Joe (TV).
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MaxSouth
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Ashita no Joe (TV) Source: Manga (completed @ 20 volumes, written by Asao Takamori, illustrated by Tetsuya Chiba) Demographic: Shounen Animation Studio: Mushi Production Genres: drama, tournament Themes: boxing, sports Plot Summary: Ashita no Joe tells the tale of a wandering orphan named Joe Yabuki. He falls into one of Tokyo's slums and gets into a fight with a local gang and his street fighting skills gets him the attention of a washed up alcoholic boxing trainer. Until he sticks up for Joe when the gang comes back to finish Joe, Joe decides to live with the trainer. Despite the trainer's generosity, Joe is still committing money making scams and lands him in prison. While serving time, he meets another boxer named Rikiishi Tooru who gets Joe interested in boxing. Upon release, Joe then pursues a boxing career. Air Date & Platform: Season 01: April 01, 1970 (Wednesday) Available on: Crunchyroll Season 02: October 13, 1980 (Monday) Available on: Amazon Prime, Crunchyroll Episode Count / Runtime: Season 01: 79 episodes Season 02: 47 episodes Total: 126 episodes [EDIT: Fancy opener stuff added. -TK] |
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MaxSouth
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In terms of boxing per se (or regular fights, for that matter), this show is almost entirely complete fantasy. There are better shows for more technicalities and realism, I guess.
But as a drama, it is pretty strong. Of course, it has a bit of naivety in some events of the story, but its key elements present social realism genre. The project also has some long-developing character arcs spoiler[: the main lad starts as a cynical and violent criminal sociopath, and he only shows bits of humanity after 30-something episodes. Otherwise, the only good side of him is often saying “heh-heh”, which is cute.]. Some other characters are not quite believable, though. spoiler[For example, Nishi, a huge sadist, commanding the whole detention centre of suspect criminals, all of a sudden turns out to be meek and weak helpless coward. Then he slowly develops a backbone.] This is one of the oldest anime series with a continuous story, unlike e.g. Astroboy. I wonder what other old anime series are watchable in this aspect. I can not survive “monster of the week” shows. |
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