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Ashita no Joe Manga's 50th Anniversary Project Announced in Video
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Ashita no Joe manga. The video shows iconic scenes from both the manga and the anime, and also reveals that the manga's 50th anniversary project is "underway."
The 50th anniversary project already includes a previously announced new spinoff television Megalobox. The anime will have an original story, and will premiere this spring.
Ashita no Joe revolves around an orphan named Joe Yabuki who rises from the Tokyo slums under the tutelage of a former boxer. Takamori and Chiba's original 1968-1973 manga is among the most critically acclaimed stories in Japanese popular culture, and Fighting Spirit). A crucial twist in the Ashita no Joe television anime's plot made headlines in Japan as people marked the occasion with public ceremonies.
The manga inspired multiple TV anime series and anime films, and more recently a live-action film that adaptation ran in Tokyo in 2015.
[Via Ota-Suke]
