Tetsuya Chiba Dies at 87: What Readers and Later Manga Artists Took From "Ashita no Joe" and Its "Pure White Ash" Ending, With Japanese Reactions

Tetsuya Chiba Dies at 87: What Readers and Later Manga Artists Took From “Ashita no Joe” and Its “Pure White Ash” Ending, With Japanese Reactions

Tetsuya Chiba, the artist of Ashita no Joe, died on October 22 at 87. What readers and later manga artists inherited from his “pure white ash” ending, with Japanese Reactions on X.