Kodansha USA will publish the manga in English with the name Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow.
Kodansha USA Publishing revealed on Wednesday that TMS Entertainment will stream the anime of Ikki Kajiwara (pen name Asao Takamori) and Tetsuya Chiba’s Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow’s Joe) boxing manga for the first time in the U.S. on its YouTube channel starting on Friday.
The manga has inspired two television anime in 1970 and 1980, as well as two anime films in 1980 and 1981.
Ashita no Joe revolves around an orphan named Joe Yabuki who rises from the Tokyo slums under the tutelage of a former boxer.