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Megalobox Anime Previews 1st Episode's 1st 2 Minutes in Video
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official website for Ashita no Joe manga, began streaming the first few minutes of the show's first episode on Friday.
The anime will premiere on BS-TBS on April 14.
The anime stars:
as Junk Dog
Shirō Saitō as Gansaku Nanbu
Yukiko Shirato
Michiyo Murase as Sachio
Hiroyuki Kinoshita as Fujimaki
Hiroki Yasumoto as Yūri
The anime is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the original manga, and it will feature an original story. In the new story, a man called JD (Junk Dog) participates in fixed boxing matches in an underground ring in order to live. Today, he enters the ring again, but he encounters a certain person. JD wants to take on a challenge that risks everything.
Chikara Sakuma launched a manga adaptation of the anime, titled Megalobox - Shukumei no Sōken (Megalobox - The Twin Fists of Fate), in the March issue of Shonen Magazine Edge magazine on February 17.
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 television anime series and anime films, and more recently a live-action film that adaptation ran in Tokyo in 2015.
