Ashita no Joe
Alt Names: | あしたのジョー 小拳王 Boy Action II Rocky Joe Thiết Quyền Lãng Tử Tomorrow's Joe Yarının Joe'su 明日的丈 |
Author: | Takamori Asao |
Artist: | Chiba Tetsuya |
Genres: | Action Drama Shounen Slice of Life Sports Tragedy |
Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
Status: | Complete |
Description: | Joe Yabuki is a young man living in the slums of Tokyo. But, one day he meets Danpei Tange, a former boxer, who discovers his potential in boxing and tries to make him into a champion. Due to petty crimes, Joe is sent to a juvenile prison. There Joe mets Toru Rikiishi, a promising boxer, who knocked him out with one blow when he attempted to escape prison. Slowly but surely, Joe realizes his own potential. Joe begins his boxing life, step by step, with only one goal in mind... To Defeat Toru Rikiishi !! |
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52 Comments
What is there to hate about the art? The faces maybe? Even still it has more details and shadows than most popular recent manga
Still such a good read,
and it's really great to see that the author isn't avoiding the hard subject of neurological damage in boxing, and that very hard fights can have long term consequences.
Thank you, based Hox.
Been a while since Ive read a manga continuously without any stop. Brilliant manga. Was a bit hard to get over the artwork at first but sooner or later you tend to start to love it. Seems to suit a boxing manga perfectly.
I like this series. It's old, the art style is behind the detail of most manga today, many characters including Joe are hard to sympathize with, few people legitimately care about him, but this series is great overall.
The author portrays Joe's unstable mind believably, and he made this hard-to-sympathize world, which like Death Note, has few truly good people influencing the story. We get to see this world and experience it. The action is intense, especially the fights including and after Joe's professional fight with Rikiishi.
Even though this series is old, it's world is dark and we can see possible effects of boxing, like a more serious Hajime no Ippo.
agreed i love both as well i cant wait for the next chapter
Oh! It diverge a little from the anime and the movies! I loved them like hell. Even if some episode were not translated, I watched them anyway which is very rare for me. I'm more than happy to be able to read the manga now.
Hox & HappyScans, I can't thank you enough for your good work!
The art reminds me of those newspaper comics and a dash of doraemon.
And If you actually look at the background drawings rather than just the characters, you can see the art is actually really good.
The fight between Joe and Rikkishi was completely awesome and you really felt it being the turnpoint of the whole story, the conclusion is really what will define Joe out of his earlier gimmicks.
i think the art is decent, it is clean (in part thanks to scans), each character you can see expressions clearly on their face, backgrounds are drawn well.
it might not be top notch but its definetly not fugly, it has flavor and you can clearly tell what is happening in each panel and character proportions are consistent from image to image.
So i wouldnt say the art is bad, for technology at the time this art is good and even by todays standards it is decent, though clearly not the best art today.
plus i would say art is becoming too streamlined in many manga. take The Breaker for example (manhwa) the art in the beggining is gritty and nicely done, but as series goes on the art loses its edge and it starts to look like a main stream manga. it really seems like its lost its character.
This is definitely a classic manga, but historical significance doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be enjoyable for everybody today. It's worth a look just to see what it's about, although the art really is pretty bad by today's standards. In a mixed text/art medium like manga, art matters; complaining about bad art in a manga isn't the same as judging a book by its cover because the art itself is important content; a book's cover is not.
and im really happy some ones continuing scanning it