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Kodansha to Publish 1st Official English Release of Ashita no Joe Manga

posted on by Alex Mateo
Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow to get 8 oversized hardcover volumes, starting in December

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© Asao Takamori, Tetsuya Chiba, Kodansha
Media news website ICv2 reported on Thursday that Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow. The company will release the manga physically in eight oversized hardcover volumes as well as digitally, starting in December. The release marks the manga's first official English translation.

The manga ran in Kodansha's adaptation ran in Tokyo in 2015.

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 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.

Most recently, the manga's story was re-imagined in a new sci-fi setting with new characters in 2018's Megalobox 2: Nomad, premiered in April 2021.

Source: ICv2 (Brigid Alverson)

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