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Tetsuya Chiba, the creator of Tomorrow’s Joe (Ashita no Joe in the original Japanese) has had a health scare but appears to be doing better. Late last year he took himself to the hospital because he wasn’t feeling right. He was having issues in his …Read more »
Tetsuya Chiba—the 82-year-old manga author known for creating the beloved Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow’s Joe) boxing manga, among other works—is currently in the hospital. According to a blog post, the author started to feel unwell as summer came to a close, so he admitted himself …Read more »
Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the highly influential boxing manga Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow’s Joe), which was written by Ikki Kajiwara (as Asao Takamori) and illustrated by Tetsuya Chiba between 1968 and 1973. Naturally, there are anniversary projects planned, including a new TV …Read more »
If you've been wondering how they're going to pull off the live-action Fullmetal Alchemist film, you've got your first answer, because the official website went up with the first footage. Based on the Hagane no Renkinjutsushi manga by Hiromu Arakawa, the movie is currently planned …Read more »
Artist Shichiro Kobayashi, who passed away earlier this year at age 89, always wanted to have a solo art exhibition in New York. He will be receiving that posthumous honor with the upcoming SHICHIRO KOBAYASHI: DRAMA OF LIGHT AND SHADOW exhibit, located at The Nippon …Read more »
Rei Abe is the mangaka behind Magnum Lily, a boxing series published by DMP’s yuri imprint Lilyka. Five volumes are currently available, and they follow a young woman named Yuri who gets interested in women’s boxing. Otaku USA spoke to Abe about getting started as …Read more »
In case it slipped your mind since the initial announcement, the Megalobox anime is about to make its English broadcast debut on Adult Swim’s Toonami block. The premiere of the series—which reboots the classic Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow’s Joe) manga—is set for this Saturday, so …Read more »
One of the projects celebrating 50 years of Ikki Kajiwara and Tetsuya Chiba’s boxing manga Ashita no Joe—AKA Tomorrow’s Joe—is the futuristic spinoff anime Megalo Box. In this world, man and machine become one to box with the assistance of robotics, and you can see …Read more »
As seen on TV! Poster art for the first Gundam movie. In the last breathtaking installment of “2011 is 1981”, I dipped back into the dusty mists of history to investigate the anime titles that debuted on the airwaves a mere three decades ago. This …Read more »
The cover of Animation 1980 featuring Osamu Tezuka's should-have-been-massive Phoenix 2772. This is it. The final revelation of the sweeping saga known as “2010 is 1980”… The last glance back at what the heck the anime and manga scene looked like an incredible thirty years …Read more »
I like to describe certain events as "crimes" of fandom; developments such as "we never got a US release of Macross: Do You Remember Love? " which make me say "there is no justice in this world!" So it is that one of the biggest …Read more »
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