Rikiishi Toru was the first man whom Joe couldn’t defeat. He made Joe a boxer, a heartbroken wanderer, and the Oriental-pacific champion. Rikiishi fascinated not only Joe but also many readers. At the time of serialization, comics weren’t thought of as being for adults. So, ‘Ashita no Joe’ was Read more…
The sequel to ‘MegaloBox’, ‘NOMADO’ is scheduled to come in April 2021. ‘Megalo Box’ is an anime series commemorating the 50th anniversary of ‘Ashita no Joe’ in 2018. The two stories were different, but ‘Megalo Box’ tried to inherit the spirits of ‘Ashita no Joe.’ Youth who didn’t read ‘Ashita Read more…
The last page of “Ashita no Joe” is well known. Japanese people sometimes use this posture to express “burnt-out” even today, and the discussion about Joe’s fate hasn’t stopped. However, in fact, there is a different original ending, which the readers at the time of publication did not know about. Read more…