54 years after its release, one of the best anime shows is finally making its streaming debut

Nov. 20, 2024



Sports-anime series Tomorrow’s Joe is coming to Crunchyroll

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Good news anime fans, a decades-old classic sports anime series is coming to streaming for the first time ever.

Legendary shonen anime Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow’s Joe) is finally making its streaming debut, 54 years after it was first released. The entire 126-episode-long boxing-themed series will soon be available to stream onCrunchyrollfor the first time in US history.

Based on Asao Takaamori and Tetsuya Chiba’s 1968 manga of the same name, the series follows a troubled youth named Joe Yabuki from the wrong side of town, whose only solution to his problems is to fight them. But his self-taught fighting skills come in handy when he trains under mentor Danpei Tange to become a professional boxer. The show explores the trials and tribulations of the boxing world and Yabuki’s own personal growth.

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