Following up on last month’s surprise announcement, ICv2 and Kodansha have brought another new update to the english debut of Asao Takamori and Tetsuya Chiba’s iconic boxing story, Ashita no Joe: Fighting For Tomorrow. It will be featuring new covers designed by Graphic Designer, Matt Akuginow.
As mentioned in a previous announcement, the series will be collected into eight oversized, hardcover omnibus editions, scheduled to be released in December 2024. It will also be available in digital editions.
Ashita no Joe: Fighting For Tomorrow was popular amongst working-class people and college students in the New Left movement, who viewed themselves as Joe Yabuki, fighting against the system. A prime example of this took place in 1970 when members of the Japanese Red Army took part in the Yodogo Hijacking and compared themselves to Joe as they saw a revolutionary message in the manga. During the hijack, they shouted, “We are Tomorrow’s Joe!” it also impacted other famous cultural figures such as poet/playwright Shūji Terayama (who planned a real-life funeral for Joe’s rival Rikiishi), author Mitsuyo Kakuta, and marathon runner Yuko Arimori.
Source: ICv2
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