Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow #1

A young man in a worn coat and orange cap gazes upward against a sprawling industrial cityscape of factories and smokestacks — it's a striking opening image for this English-language edition of Asao Takamori and Tetsuya Chiba's celebrated boxing manga. Volume 1 of *Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow* brings the story of Joe and his gritty, working-class world to a new generation of readers in 2024. If you've been waiting for an accessible entry point into one of manga's most enduring boxing stories, this handsome Kodansha USA release is a very satisfying place to start.