The official website for Megalobox, a new television anime based on Ikki Kajiwara (pen name Asao Takamori) and Tetsuya Chiba’s Ashita no Joe manga, began streaming a new promotional video for the series on Thursday that reveals that Hiroki Yasumoto will voice the character Yūri.
The manga inspired multiple TV anime series and anime films, and more recently a live-action film that opened in Japan in 2011 starring Tomohisa Yamashita.
The anime is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the original manga, and it will feature an original story.
A crucial twist in the Ashita no Joe television anime’s plot made headlines in Japan as people marked the occasion with public ceremonies.