Ashita no Joe

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Synonyms: Rocky Joe, Tomorrow's Joe

Japanese: あしたのジョー

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 20

Chapters: 171

Status: Finished

Published: Jan 1, 1968 to May 13, 1973

Genres: Drama, Slice of Life, Sports

Theme: Combat Sports

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Magazine (Weekly)

Authors: Kajiwara, Ikki (Story), Chiba, Tetsuya (Art)

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Score: 8.95¹ (scored by 17,103 users)

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Ranked: #15²

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Popularity: #307

Members: 52,832

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Hajime no Ippo addpermalink

Both stories center around a male character and his quest to become a better boxer. Ashita no Joe is in my opinion a must read if you love manga (especially if you like sports manga). 

reportRecommended by Darkbow

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Both are sports manga that focus on boxing. Both manga have many great fights, sometimes with unpredictable outcomes, and also a lot of character development. They provide an in-depth look into the world of boxing, and show the struggles that boxers often have to face. 

reportRecommended by BohemianRhapsody

Both of these manga series are sports manga that focus on boxing. They both have incredible fight scenes, that last over a couple of chapters. The MC in both series have a strong passion for boxing, and almost always win, only suffering a few losses in both series. Ashita no Joe is a must-read, if you love sports manga, but I have not read much of Hajime no Ippo, so I cannot say the same. 

reportRecommended by ThatRayGuy_

Hajime No Ippo shows good side of boxing, comedy, too much "fantasy" while fighting. but Ashita No Joe is Dark side of Boxing... Realistic Boxing manga, even fights is so much realistic, brutal that i was so nervous and amazed while reading/watching it. If you love Realistic mangas, storys about "How life works" then you should read it. It is the first manga that is deep inside my heart Forever. 

reportRecommended by BrawlerJoe

Both great boxing manga, while Ashita no Joe is a true classic of the medium, Hajime no Ippo is a long, well built story, with an amazing cast of characters.

- Boxing fans will enjoy both stories, since they are scientifically correct (especially Ippo)
- If you know nothing about boxing, you can still read both titles since they both start from square one
- The art is great, while Ashita no Joe is a very old manga, and the art is certainly different from today's standards for good, it still succeeds in creating an interesting atmosphere. For Ippo, it improves as time passes, first part is pretty lacking, but it quickly changes afterwards.

Main characters are completely different in therms of behavior. When it comes to darkness, Ashita no Joe is much darker, while Ippo is a mostly bright, inspiring journey.

As some final notes, I would like to say that both manga have some great anime adaptations, Ashita no Joe is fully adapted in 2 parts and 2 movies, while Ippo has 3 seasons, 1 movie and 1 OVA (around 130 episodes) and is around 40% adapted.
Also, Joe is a finished manga and Ippo is still coming out.

Hopefully this helped you, I just feel like it would be bad for someone who really liked one of those, to overlook the other.
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reportRecommended by Vaske1234

A boxing manga who inspired generations, this series is the mentor of Hajime no ippo when it comes to boxing and has a lot more drama. A legendary and enjoyable ride for different reasons but surely atleast as good. 

reportRecommended by christophe_kanaa

Hajime no Ippo and Ashita no Joe are the most iconic boxing manga ever made. Although Ippo has a lot more comedy, both of the main characters go through many hardships in life and in the ring. 

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Manga: Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin

Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin addpermalink

well maybe not the best comparison, but it's a little hard because although Rainbow has 20 volumes there is only 3 chapters translated ... while Ashita no Joe it's completed with 20 volumes but only has 55 chapters translated, at the moment (april 11, 2010)
but so far these two are similar because they in a juvenile prison, and they are in prison because they tryed to help someone and/or some petty crimes to survive in the hard times they are living! they also try to escape from prisone in both manga's
and they are come across a boxer, and because of that they begin to train.
while Ashita no Joe has some comedy scenes and so far it's not so serious like Rainbow which is without the elements of comedy and so far it looks like it won't have any!
I will update if more chapter's will translated, maybe i was wrong to compare these two manga's. read more 

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Rikudou addpermalink

Both are sport manga that focus on boxing. Also, in both manga, the main character is an orphan that, apart from boxing, also has to deal with the harshness of life. 

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Saikyou Densetsu Kurosawa addpermalink

Ashita no Joe and Strongest Man Kurosawa have the same feeling of a poor guy struggling to find a reason to live and they both show a lot of poverty and people fighting against society. The two mangas also give the same kind of hope and courage to the reader, they can change a man. Finally, Nobuyuki Fukumoto has been very influenced by Tetsuya Chiba for his narration and paneling. 

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Kokou no Hito addpermalink

While it may not seems like it at first, Ashita no Joe and Kokou no Hito have the same essence and try to convey the same things...through very different approaches. While Kokou no Hito tries to convey feelings in a very graphical and lyrical way, using (or abusing, depending of your view) a lot of visual metaphors, Ashita no Joe does it with dense storyteling, in a more "classical" way. 
In the end, they both can be summarized as this: "the travel through life of a young man, discovering a sport and dedicating his life to it, no matter the obstacles, no matter the meanness of human minds, no matter the pains... until the end." read more 

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Shamo addpermalink

-Both is dark

-Both is about Fighting, but focused on Characters

-Both main characters was on juvenile prison

-Both is tragic

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Ganbare Genki addpermalink

Both series are underrated boxing legends. Ashita No Joe revolves around an orphan wanderer named Joe whose sent to juvy & learns to box for the sake of defeating his rival Toru Rikiishi. Ganbare Genki is about a father & his son Genki who wish to become world champions. The story for Genki is just as tragic as Ashita No Joe as Genki trains since the age of 5 to fulfill his father's wish of becoming a champion. Not many chapters are available for Genki but the manga will hook you by 8 chapters. 

reportRecommended by THEAnimeHERO

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Ore wa Teppei addpermalink

Both are drawn by Tetsuya Chiba. We can see that the characters gradually grow as time goes by. I have never seen such a beautiful artwork in other mangas.

Both main characters are a boy who grew without a mother figure (just mother for Ore wa Teppei, both parents are unknown for Ashita no Joe) and also lack of education, which makes main character a bit uncivilized, but still true to themselves and have strong willpower.

The life journeys of the main character finding themselves are somewhat romantic, aside to the sports. 

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Boys on the Run addpermalink

Boxing manga with a really depressive main character. 

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1 Pound no Fukuin addpermalink

Both are old boxing manga, with Ashita no Joe being an older legend. One Pound Gospel is more lighthearted; Ashita no Joe is more serious.

Nevertheless, they both contain a lot of drama featuring very strong boxers who love the sport struggle with things that affect their careers. In addition, the main female leads, originally very distant from the world of boxing, found themselves gradually attracted... 

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Manga: JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 7: Steel Ball Run

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 7: Steel Ball Run addpermalink

The main characters (Johnny Joestar and Joe Yabuki) journey to become better people and coming to value friends and other humans in general, though sports   

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Black-Box addpermalink

Moody, young troublemakers - both of which curiously have a connection to prison life - determinedly become pro boxers. Be prepared for neither manga to romanticize the sport, instead opting for grungy realism.

Edit after having finished Black-Box:
Black-Box is something between a love letter to and a deconstruction of Ashita no Joe, and it becomes more obvious the further you read. There are references to Joe on a full spectrum of explicitness from plot points and specific panels all the way to the title of the final chapter. In fact, the ending of Black-Box is probably less satisfying if you HAVEN'T read Ashita no Joe. As a fan of both, I believe the two series complement each other quite well. So, if you're either a fan of Ashita no Joe, who is wondering if Black-Box will have something new to say, or if you're a fan of Black-Box, but don't know about the parallels to Ashita no Joe, you have another manga to read. read more 

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Happy! addpermalink

In the later matches in Happy!, you could see Joe's fighting spirit, especially the final battle... 

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Ai to Makoto addpermalink

Stories written by the same author. The MCs both had very tough upbringings, while both female leads are from rich families. A lot of drama comes from the tension between disparity of their backgrounds (although in Ai to Makoto, the girl was in love from the beginning). As the story progresses they grew to understand the MCs' fighting spirits.

In Ashita no Joe there's only a hint of romance; if you few unsatisfied, you should probably read Ai to Makoto. 

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Ping Pong addpermalink

Both are sports manga, which do not focus on the sport, but on the character development. Both feature energetic characters, who gain new experiences and meet new people while practicing their sport, leading to a better understanding of themselves, their talents, and their surroundings.  

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Bakudan addpermalink

The young orphaned delinquent meets a retired boxer who recognizes his raw, unpolished talent and takes him in under his wings to train him. 

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Tiger Mask addpermalink

Classic sports manga about orphans striving to become the best at boxing/wrestling 

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Ring ni Kakero addpermalink

Ashita no Joe is one of the manga that inspired Masami Kurumada into being a mangaka,Ring ni Kakero is like a homenage to Tetsuya.The draft is similar between them.Joe and Ryuji looks alikes,and sometimes act the same way,both was created with a bunch of orphan kids,and trained by an old guy.The major diference is that in Ring ni Kakero we have special attacks,not really many but there are people that say that RnK is a boxing Saint Seiya(also made by Kurumada)the fact that Ryuji have the same desing that Seiya and most of Kurumada's main characters just reforces this argunment,even if RnK was made before Saint Seiya.It's not many special attacks many have just one,it's more to give something more and new to it.If you don't the special attacks don't read Ring ni Kakero and go read a more real boxing manga,even if this means losing a great series. read more 

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Tetsuwan Girl addpermalink

In both manga the protagonist represents the post-war Japan that wants back their dignity and show their value. Tetsuwan Girl is more direct and Ashita no Joe is more metaphorical and Sport has more importance. 

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Zero addpermalink

Both are sports manga that use boxing as a tool to show the main character's growth and development. Both focus on a strong main character, who is constantly looking for strong opponents to fight against. They create an overall similar mood. 

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Buraiden Gai addpermalink

Ashita no Joe and Buraiden Gai focus on troubled young men who are orphans and are trying to live independently. Joe and Gai are both tough and have similar outlooks on life, which also leads to them getting arrested and ending up in juvenile prisons. So overall, Buraiden Gai shares similar themes and vibe with the early part of Ashita no Joe. 

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RRR addpermalink

Both are sport manga about boxing, but they also focus a lot on the plot. They both have characters development, as well as dramatic moments. 

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