Joe Yabuki is a troubled young man who runs away from an orphanage. Wandering through the Tokyo slums, he meets former boxing trainer Danpei. Joe is later arrested and goes to a temporary jail where he fights Nishi, his future best friend, and leader of a group of hooligans. He and Nishi then go to a juvenile prison miles away from Tokyo. There Joe meets Rikiishi, a former boxing prodigy, and a rivalry develops between them. They face each other in a match in which Rikiishi dominates Joe until the latter hits him with a cross-counter, resulting in both being knocked out. This inspires the other prison inmates to take up boxing. Joe and Rikiishi vow to fight again. (Source: Wikipedia)
Japanese study overview
Ashita no Joe is a Japanese manga of 522,163 characters, with 16,714 unique words and 1,682 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 16,714 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 矢吹Yabuki×1,006
- 試合match×567
- 力石Chikaraishi×451
- 打つto hit×301
- 会長president (of a society)×297
- 西west×295
- 思うto think×273
- 世界the world×269
- 相手companion×264
- 男man×263
- 選手player (of a sport)×260
- 出るto leave×237
- 丹下Akashita×210
- 拳闘boxing×161
- 白木Shiraki×146
- 高森Takamori×132
- 葉子Kamio×129
- 少年院reformatory×111
- 兄いelder brother×92
- バンタム級bantam-weight (boxer)×85