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Tomorrow's Joe 2

Ashita no Joe 2あしたのジョー２Rocky Joe 2Champion Joe 2

1980 · TV · 47 eps Finished

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What is Tomorrow's Joe 2 about?

Tomorrow's Joe 2 is a TV anime series of 47 episodes animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, adapted from a manga. It aired from October 13, 1980 to August 31, 1981. AniList classifies it as action, drama, slice of life and sports. It continues from Tomorrow's Joe, which is worth watching first.

Yabuki Joe is left downhearted and hopeless after a certain tragic event. In attempt to put the past behind him, Joe leaves the gym behind and begins wandering. On his travels he comes across the likes of Wolf Kanagushi and Goromaki Gondo, men who unintentionally fan the dying embers inside him, leading him to putting his wanderings to an end. His return home puts Joe back on the path to boxing, but unknown to himself and his trainer, he now suffers deep-set issues holding him back from fighting. In attempt to quell those issues, Carlos Rivera, a world renowned boxer is invited from Venezuela to help Joe recover.

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Themes AniList users associate with it: Boxing, Coming of Age, Male Protagonist, Philosophy, Shounen, Primarily Adult Cast, Primarily Male Cast, Urban.

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Main characters

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  • Joe Yabuki 矢吹丈

    Main character

    The protagonist of the story. He is known for his long bangs and for always wearing a worn out beige coat and a red flat cap. Not long after birth he found himself in many orphanages and facilities.

    Japanese voice: Teruhiko Aoi

  • Danpei Tange 丹下段平

    Main character

    Danpei is Joe's serious, cautious and responsible mentor who gets him started in his boxing career. He is fond of sake, being overly cheerful when drunk which contrasts with his strict everyday self.

    Japanese voice: Juukei Fujioka

  • Youko Shiraki 白木葉子

    Main character

    Yoko Shiraki is a young woman born to the Shirakis, a very wealthy family who is known for their activities in the boxing field. She is the main female protagonist in Ashita no Joe.

    Japanese voice: Emi Tanaka

Supporting characters

  • Tooru Rikiishi 力石徹

    Supporting character

    Rikiishi and Joe first meet in the juvenile detention center, where Rikiishi was introduced as a boxer who was sentenced to the juvenile detention center because he had punched an member of the audience half to death after they had claimed that the match was rigged in Rikiishi's favor, enraging him.

    Japanese voice: Shuusei Nakamura

  • Kanichi Nishi 西寛一

    Supporting character

    Nishi is Joe's best friend, sparring partner and later he also becomes Joe's trainer. He is a juvenile delinquent. He first meets Joe in a juvenile jail, where they fight each other and Joe defeats him. Nishi later meets Joe at the correction house where they become friends.

    Japanese voice: Jirou Daruma

  • Carlos Rivera カーロス・リベラ

    Supporting character

    Carlos Rivera is a Venezuelan bantamweight boxer who ranked #6 in the world. The reason he is called a "A King Without A Crown" is because there is a rumor that the world champion is too afraid to fight him. Yoko Shiraki brings Rivera over to Japan to help Joe recover.

    Japanese voice: Ryuusei Nakao

  • Wolf Kanagushi ウルフ金串

    Supporting character

    He was an up-and-coming bantamweight boxer. In order to get recognition quickly, Joe targeted the bantamweight rookie champion. Wolf was a confident and brash fighter who was easily provoked by Joe into a fist fight, ending in a double knockout.

    Japanese voice: Rokuro Naya

  • José Mendoza ホセ・メンドーサ

    Supporting character

    He is the perfect champion who had never lost, fought beautifully and was admired by all. He takes great care of his health and family, and is constantly calm and confident, giving an aura of being truly unbeatable.

    Japanese voice: Miyamura Yoshito

  • Noriko Hayashi 林紀子

    Supporting character

    She is the teenage daughter of the owners of the local grocery store. She has a schoolgirl crush on Joe, which develops into romantic feelings as she matures but Joe initially does not notice her feelings and is even at times implied to be ignoring them.

    Japanese voice: Megumi Moriwaki

  • Robert Harry ハリー・ロバート

    Supporting character

    Carlos Rivera's manager & childhood bestfriend

    Japanese voice: Michihiro Ikemizu

  • Sachi サチ

    Supporting character

    A young girl from a depressed Japanese neighborhood. She idolizes Yabuki Joe and joins him, along with a band of other kids, in committing petty crimes. She continues to believe in and support Joe throughout the story.

    Japanese voice: Fuyumi Shiraishi

  • Tiger Ozaki タイガー尾崎

    Supporting character

    Tiger Ozaki is the Bantamweight Japanese National Boxing Champion. The Japanese Boxing Commision's heads covertly organized a match between Joe and Tiger without the knowledge of Danpei as a way to crush the up and coming Japanese boxer, believing that giving Joe the title shot early in his career would be too much…

    Japanese voice: Hiroya Ishimaru

  • Harimao ハリマオ

    Supporting character

    The wild man from Malaysia, Harimao, is a force to be wrecking with in the ring, his unorthodox boxing mixed with his strength and agility make a hard opponent to fight, he is also known to be quite the cheater, usually biting and headbutting his opponent when frustrated.

    Japanese voice: Takashi Taguchi

  • Yong-Bi Kim 김용비

    Supporting character

    Kim was born on August 2nd, 1945 in Kaesong City. In July 1950, Kim was orphaned from the Korean war and taken in and adopted by his eventual boxing manager and trainer, Colonel Jodal Hyun. Under Hyun's guidance, Kim started boxing in high school.

    Japanese voice: Norio Wakamoto

  • Leon Smiley

    Supporting character

    Leon Smiley is a 23 year old African-American from Brooklyn, New York. He is 170 cm tall and has a reach of 71.5 inches. His boxing style is that of a boxer-puncher and packs a devastating straight right hand, this is very reminiscent to real life boxer Tommy "Hitman" Hearns who, like Smiley, was a tall and rangy…

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