Ashita no Joe

A manga that follows a young teenager, Joe Yabuki, who gets sent to juvenile prison where he begins his journey training to become a boxer.

Easily considered one of the greatest manga ever made. I remember my first time reading through the series and being genuinely surprised how good it was. Asaki Takamori and Tetsuya Chiba masterfully take Joe through his naive teenage years into bitter adulthood and even eventually into an almost self destructive anti-hero. I think it’s a damn shame there hasn’t been a Western release of this masterpiece yet.

~dakazu