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Ashita no Joe (manga)

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Alternative title:
Ashita no Joe - Em Busca do Amanhã (Portuguese)
Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow
Joe del mañana (Spanish)
Rocky Joe (Italian)
Tomorrow's Joe
あしたのジョー (Japanese)
내일의 죠 (Korean)
Themes: boxing, sports
Objectionable content: Mild 
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: 26 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 10 votes (Eng:4, raw:2, sub:1, raw:1, others:2
2 Italian
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 Excellent: 8 votes (Eng:7, sub:1)
 Very good: 5 votes (dub:2, Eng:1, raw:1, ?:1)
 Good: 2 votes (Eng:2)
 Decent: -
 So-so: 1 vote (Eng:1)
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Seen in part or in whole by 59 users, rank: #1315 (of 6923)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.885 (Excellent), std. dev.: 1.2193, rank: #262 (of 7778)
Weighted mean: 8.684 (Excellent−), rank: #362 (of 7778) (seen all: 9.39 / seen some: 7.65 / won't finish: 9.00)
Bayesian estimate: 8.551 (Excellent−), rank: #48 (of 3527)
Number of tankoubon: 20
Vintage: 1968-01-01 to 1973-05-13 (Shonen Magazine 1968 No.1 to 1973 No.25)
Release dates: We have 98
Trivia: We have 2
Review:
Ashita no Joe: Fighting For Tomorrow Volume 1 Manga Review (Dec 27, 2024)
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Ashita no Joe Film to Screen in France, Southeast Asia (Feb 19, 2011)
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Writers, Lawyers Oppose Revised Youth Ordinance Bill (Nov 27, 2010)
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Hikaru Utada Song Listed as Ashita no Joe Film Theme (Nov 15, 2010)
Tomohisa Yamashita's Ashita no Joe Film Teaser Posted (Aug 16, 2010)
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Report: Ashita no Joe Boxing Manga Goes Live-Action (Feb 16, 2010)
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Interest:
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Press Release:
Ashita no Joe: Fighting For Tomorrow Sees English-Language Debut from Kodansha in Spring 2024 (Feb 23, 2024)
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Graphic novel
    Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow [Hardcover] (GN 1) 2024-12-24 (from $35.86)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Story: Tetsuya Chiba
Original creator: Asao Takamori
Art: Tetsuya Chiba
(none)
Japanese companies
Publisher: Kodansha
English staff
English cast
Translation: Asa Yoneda

Editing: Daniel Joseph
Lettering: Evan Hayden
Production:
Pei Ann Yeap
Risa Cho
Proofreading: Kevin Luo
Publisher: Toshihiro Tsuchiya
(none)
English companies
Licensed by: Kodansha Comics
French cast
French staff
(none)
French companies
Publisher: Glenat
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Publisher: Arechi Manga (Spain)
Spanish cast
(none)
Italian cast
Italian staff
Adaptation: Vanna Vinci
(none)
Italian companies
Portuguese staff
Portuguese cast
Translation: William Tanaka

Cover Design: Diógenes Diogo
(none)
Portuguese companies
Publisher: NewPOP (Brazil)

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