Audience reviews
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averbev
Story 2/10
The plot hooks heavily rely on over-dramatization, so the show tends to take itself very seriously. This would actually work quite well, if it deserved to be taken seriously by the viewer. Filled with holes and inconsistencies, it seems the writers don't respect their audience's intelligence. The pacing is criminal, often delaying the inevitable and then suddenly rushing to the finish. Every established plot point and piece of character growth is dropped arbitrarily, save a few. Minor scenes are abundant, and some major scenes are cut.
Characters 6/10
The characters have their own unique motivations and mannerisms, they are each loveable and identifiable in their own right. The actors are stellar, and personify their characters at a surprisingly deep level. Unfortunately, i…
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First of all, I don't speak English, so my English is a crap, so take that into consideration...
Despite this anime already 55 years old, the story of season 1 was incredibly annoying and drawn-out. What Joe experienced was indeed tragic, but why did he insist on being a stubborn-delinquent young man?! I'll be continuing the next season, hopefully, as the story is better, as it was rated better on MAL than season 1.
My rating points are:
Art style: 4/5 Stars
Animation: 4/5 Stars
Effects: 4/5 Stars
Logic: 2.5/5 Stars
Dialogue: 3/5 Stars Voice acting: 3.5/5 Stars
Music: 3/5 Stars
Sounds: 3.5/5 Stars
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Read at the sourceZin713
The producers made a MIRACLE in this anime.
Even though it is a very old anime and has visible period problems, it managed to be a very good audiovisual experience considering the time of production and a great adaptation of the manga's story.
The visual direction is very creative and knows how to use limitations to its advantage, it has a good soundtrack, very good animation at the necessary moments, the story is simply sensational, with an engaging plot, a very well developed narrative, great characters and a phenomenal protagonist.
The biggest success of the adaptation is the greater development of the characters and more humanization of them, due to the fact that the manga is very realistic, these additions were much more than welcome as they deepened the story significantly, with part…
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Ashita no Joe is according to me the greatest animanga of all time. And after finishing both the anime and the manga I feel lika nothing I will read/watch from now on will ever feel this great. In this review I will explain why I think so highly of this anime.
First of all, the story is amazing 10/10. Ashita no Joe has a way of raising the atmosphere for everything before it happens, turning every important moment into perfection. The story is told in a very realistic manner, with everything carefully planned beforehand. You don't just get thrown into a sloppy story like with most anime now days. It's neither rushed nor too slow.
Something that adds to the anime is the way it is directed. I therefore recommend watching this anime, and reading everything that comes afterwards if you want…
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I decided to take a look at this show after seeing the characters and artwork. I've never seen a sports anime before this. So from my limited perspective, I enjoyed the show.
VISUALS-
Since I came for the art, I'll start with that. What's my say on it? I actually love it. There are animation errors galore (mouths flying off of faces), and plenty of wonky movements, but it makes up for them. You may dislike the art, though, if the cheapness or outdated look distracts you.
To begin, there's a ton of beautiful texture throughout all of the drawings in the show. Especially in the more emotionally intense or fast-paced action sequences, you get a lot of wild pencil strokes, rough brush lines, and deep, comic-like shadows that are really refreshing to see when compared to the clean, overly sa…
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This is not a show about boxing. It's about domesticating a delinquent. Joe does not learn from his mistakes nor does his coach seem able to instruct him the most basic techniques. Every bout had this pattern: Joe brawls, Joe is beaten badly, then Joe comes out swinging and lucks out.
As a character, Joe is unappealing. The way he conducts himself I'd say he sustained brain damage as a kid. He is confusing, aggressive, and snobbish. The people who cheer him on possibly relate to his psychological problems. At one point, he was treated with kindness, and attacked her for it.
Danpei, his trainer, is the reason I stuck around. He was a miserable drunk and a doting father to Joe. He nearly gave up on him, but he was set on his mission to make Joe a boxing legend. There were only two episod…
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Ashita no Joe is a anime that aired in the 1970's and is arguably one of the founders of sports anime as a whole. But calling this series just a sports anime would not be doing it justice. While yes the story does mainly focus around Joe's boxing career, intermixed with this is fantastic drama, superb character development, and absolutely gripping suspense.
The biggest selling point for this series has to be its characters and plot. A lot of shows have tried to make the arrogant asshole lead work but to no avail, but Joe is one of those rare exceptions. Joe's massive over confidence, seeming indifference, and his arrogant attitude just seem to work.
I constantly went between cheering him on as he fought to wanting to reach into the screen and smack some sense into him. Watching Joe grow…
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How can I describe in words the very high qualities of this work of art, a classic of Japanese culture that until today, is a symbol of references and inspirations of its archetypes. The anime, Ashita no Joe, has a great quality in its characters, especially the main one, which starts out as a damn annoying youngster to a young man that you will definitely love for the rest of the play, not only in Joe (main) but in his other main ones too, having their development and charisma only lifted over time. Ashita no Joe also shows her technical side with regard to her sport, boxing, only in a shallow but consistent and fun way all the time, presenting us with lively and masculine fights with different climates and tensions, a different way of showing how destructive and exhausting this area of …
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I really wish I could recommend Ashita no Joe anime cause the manga’s story deserves to get a good adaptation and have more people experience it. Unfortunately, both as an adaptation and on it’s own show, AnJ is just bad.
I initially wanted to approach this from a perspective of someone who hasn’t read the manga and judge the anime on its own strength but I couldn’t make it through beyond about 30 something episodes before dropping it and having a blast reading through the manga.
There’s two very big reasons behind why I strongly dislike this anime. For one, AnJ has terrible pacing. In 79 episodes it adapts merely about 11 and a half volumes of the manga. That’s roughly 7 episodes per volume. Anyone watching the anime will likely notice the many ways in which Dezaki padded things out. A…
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**This review is spoiler free**
Down in the forgotten slums of Tokyo, under the "bridge of tears" by a polluted river, only crossed by those that have fallen to rock bottom - the lost, the broken and hopeless - a small spark leading towards tomorrow is ignited, burning steadily through rain and darkness, a spark filled with endless dreams for the future. Here is the modest Tange boxing gym, filled with second-hand equipment, run by Tange Danpei, an ex-boxer and hopeless alcoholic, along with our protagonist - Joe Yabuki - an aspiring boxer with boundless fighting spirit.
But the story doesn't begin with Joe - the aspiring young boxer.
It starts with Joe - the rebellious and troubled delinquent who has never had a home or known love or family, a boy constantly on the run without any de…
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Ashita no Joe - The First Shonen Anime and the Best!
Ashita no Joe is an anime that I added to my "Plan to Watch" list for some time, maybe two or three years. The story follows the young Joe Yabuki, a troublemaker from the Japanese suburbs. Joe has a natural talent for fighting, but he always gets in confusion, steals, and mind. Things change when Joe meets Danpei Tange, a former boxer who had to end his career after losing sight in one eye. From there, Danpei tries to straighten out Joe's life through boxing training.
Ashita no Joe was released in the early seventies after much other shounen anime in the 50's and 60's. But I would say that Ashita no Joe was the first anime that revolutionized the style, introducing all the features of a modern shounen.
The graphics are certainly not t…
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Script - Joe is that type of show that proves quality as timeless. How could it be for a story from the late 60s about a boxer become so important, poignant and meaningful to me in the long term? I have no idea, but I'm pretty sure Ikki Kajiwara knows that well enough to come up with one of the best sports tales ever known and that in my humble opinion wasn't surpassed ever since, at least not by any anime or manga. But what's Joe all about? It's about Joe, your not average underdog who's searching for meaning and is trained by an old man that's also not your average sage coach but rather a flawed drunk one. He's searching for someone that can fulfill his now late dreams of becoming the world champion and well, that's pretty much the premise. Now let's begin training and increasing stakes…
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Joe is a classic boxing anime that started in spring 1970. It was made by Mushi Productions and directed by Osamu Dezaki. The show follows Yabuki Joe's road from a juvenile delinquent kid, all the way to becoming a pro boxer. Joe is a rude and quick tempered guy who is quick to get into fights. Joe packs a serious punch though, and this catches the eye of ex-boxer Tange Denpei who wants Joe to become a boxer. But because of Joe's troublesome nature he gets sent to juvie. There he meets boxer Rikiishi Tooru, who becomes Joe's rival.
I had high hopes going into this show. I had heard a lot of good things about it, so I was hoping for an enjoyable ride, and boy did I get that. Ashita no Joe is one of the very best sports anime I've ever watched. It might not look the best, but it still mana…
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Ashita no Joe is simple the best ''sports" series
but i think for a microsecond and this IS NOT ABOUT SPORTS is a story of his characters
STORY-
as i said the story of ashita no joe is about there characters growing don't confuse that is a slice of life because also has boxing story is a decoration (a good one) the boxing only supports the story
CHARACTERS
the main character Joe is simple amazing is no special or have great ability he is a jerk but finish in a recognized boxer the experience of the development with Joe is great.Know talking about develop the pacing of the series is perfect the time that takes is be needed. also Joe has relation with some others that are very good most important the rival (is so manly ) the begin of Joe is so identify we are growing with them in a form t…
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My Ashita no Joe Review on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1JtotcBAwy8
First of all I would like to say that I am very glad to make my first Review about my favorite Anime of all time and it could be my last Review too xD. I hope you can find it helpful.
Before watching Ashita no Joe, I was aware of the fact that it is very old and it must have really Old Classic Art so if you care about the Art more than the Story you probably could find it disturbing. However if you are like me and you mainly care about Story then I guarantee that you would not regret wasting your time in it.
Ashita no Joe Mainly focus on Yabuki Joe an Orphan who refuse to spend his life in Orphanages so decided to escape in search for his reason to live. One day he found his way to Doya Town which was a poor…
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Note 1: I am not english speaker
Note 2: This Review will refer to both seasons (Ashita no joe and Ashita no joe 2)
One thing that i dont like of Sports Anime is that there´s nothing to lose in those series, there's no tragedy in losing a game, you can always try again and all the characters mistakes dont have great consequences, that´s why i dont like things like hajime no ippo or capitain tsubasa, yes, both series are entertaining, but both feel dry and because of the plot armor i dont care of the characters, because they arent in real danger.
Even those sports anime that are over the average (For example. Ping Pong: The animation), have that plot armor issues.
With This in mind, let me start the review of ashita no joe...
Ashita no joe is a very old anime, and because of that the an…
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While there are some earlier anime that are well-regarded, Ashita no Joe is often considered to be the anime medium's first true work of greatness. In many ways, it does hold up as the benchmark that it is regarded as being - but in many other ways, it requires a "good for its time" disclaimer, as do many of its contemporaries.
From a production standpoint, Ashita no Joe has actually held up exceptionally well compared to many other 70s anime. While it does have animation errors all over the place, the rough, sketchy way in which it is drawn makes it look highly stylized for its time, and due to the rough nature of its art style, the animation errors are far less glaring than they would have been in something cleaner-looking. This style also translates to some very well-animated fight sce…
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After completely binge watching 79 episodes of this boxing anime, I can say that it is a heart wrenching sports story. Never have I watched an anime where I started out hating the main character (Joe Yabuki) as much as I did and then find myself rooting for him. The development of Joe from when he first shows up in the Tokyo slums up until the very last moment of the show is a rare progression of a character if I have ever seen one.
With that being said, the show has an extremely slow pace to it. The story is quite morbid in a lot of ways, but really gets you into how the main character thinks and why he acts the way he does.
I did find myself spacing out a bit during the show to it's repetitive dialog, but when it came to finally fighting (a few characters in particular) in the square…
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Welcome to what I call one of the most epic animes ever. Try to imagine a Japanese version of Rocky, and this is what you get. But I say Rocky is the American version of Ashita no Joe since Rocky came out in 1976, and the original manga of Ashita no Joe started in 1968 and ended in 1975. But anyway, they share the same charms and are both iconic to their respective nations in their owns rights. The story is reasonably paced and easy to follow, and tells a life story about a young man’s career and his struggles in and out of the ring. Initially, Joe was just a bum who had nothing but the clothes on his back. He created controversy that makes Mike Tyson look like Disneyland but yet he was down to earth and had this aura to him in his neighborhood in the slums of Tokyo as if he were Man…
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Stretching towards 40 years since its original broadcast on 1 April 1970, "Ashita no Joe" is one of the very first few sports anime and almost certainly the first to revolve around boxing. Based on the manga by Takamori Asao and Chiba Tetsuya, both the manga and anime are noted for being pioneers of the genre as a whole, and are considered classics.
Story: Joe is a deadbeat. He is a troubled orphan who chooses to abandon his orphanage in an attempt to find his own way of life. Walking through the slums of Tokyo, he encounters a drunkard as he is hurled from a bar. Joe disregards the drunk, and ends up in a scuff with members of the local gang. After quickly disposing of the gang members, the drunk is impressed by Joe's instincts and fighting ability. It is revealed that the drunk is Dampe…
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