Rokudenashi Blues (1992)

Original title

ろくでなしBLUES

Directed by

Takao Yoshisawa

Genre

drama television series, comedy anime and manga, coming-of-age anime and manga

Country

Japan

Rating

3.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1992 anime follows a delinquent high school student who boxes. He deals with rival gangs and his own struggles while trying to become a professional fighter.

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What happens

Rokudenashi Blues (Japanese: ろくでなし BLUES, Hepburn: Rokudenashi Burūsu; lit. 'Good-for-Nothing Blues') is a Japanese boxing-themed yankī manga series written and illustrated by Masanori Morita. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from May 1988 to February 1997, with its chapters collected in 42 tankōbon volumes. Rokudenashi Blues had over 60 million copies in circulation by August 2013, making it one of the best-selling manga series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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