Joe, a teenage orphan in the slums of the Doya streets, meets Danpei, a homeless, alcoholic ex-boxing coach. Danpei, seeing Joe's boxing talent, decides to train him. When Joe is sent to a terrible juvenile home for petty crimes, he meets Rikiishi who becomes his boxing rival. Danpei arrives at the home to help Joe to train in order to defeat Rikiishi. When Joe decides to seriously pursue boxing, Danpei cannot get a coaching license because of his reputation as a drunk. (Source: AnimeNfo)
Japanese study overview
Ashita no Joe is a Japanese anime of 177,831 characters, with 7,556 unique words and 1,391 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 7,556 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.
- 俺I×477
- お前you×402
- 矢吹Yabuki×301
- 力石Chikaraishi×263
- 言うto say×234
- 君Mr×179
- 西west×174
- 待つto wait×168
- 試合match×153
- 青山Aoki×126
- 今now×125
- 思うto think×124
- 段平Danpei×79
- 兄いelder brother×79
- 少年院reformatory×78
- 丹下Akashita×73
- 拳闘boxing×61
- 白木Shiraki×53
- 葉子Kamio×45
- 子守唄lullaby×38