Funny / Tomorrow's Joe

• When Danpei wants to bring the Doya Kids to visit Joe at the juvenile prison he tells them to get changed. The Doya Kids come back wearing hilarious outifts.
• At the juvie the guards don't want to let Danpei and the kids in, to visit Joe, so, seeing that the guards let Yoko and her theatre company in, they say they're actors-and the guards tell them to prove it. Danpei sings a song off key, Kinoko does striptease, Tonkichi playing a doggerel with farts. Annoyed, the guards let Danpei and the kids in.
• Yoko's Trolling antics.
• During the tournament, all the inmates talks who's more likely to win in the matches, and they do that everywhere. During work, in the mess hall, in the bathroom... The latter completely ignoring the Potty Emergencies of those outside.
• The day after coming back from juvie, Joe is awakened at 4.30 AM by the Tange Boxing Club shaking. An earthquake? No, Nishi jumping on a rope.
• Joe's first day of work at the Hayashi's shop. The poor boy even gets groped by Hayashi, a boxing fan that wanted to check his conditions.
• After the beginners' tournament:
  • The "what the hell is Joe doing this time?!" look Yoko and her grandfather exchange when they hear someone is bugging Wolf for autograph, as they know Joe is around-but not why.
  • When Yoko arrives to Wolf's locker room and sees that it is Joe, plus his attitude, she can be seen with a strained smile hinting at having trouble holding back the laughter. It has to be seen.
  • The way Joe trolls Wolf until he tries to punch him out, even calling him stingy when the pro refuses to sign the autograph due Joe tripping him earlier (and before deciding who to punch out).
  • Otaka's slowly growing horror when he realizes Joe and Wolf punching each other out is making it look like he's keeping Danpei from getting his licence because he's scared of Joe. Especially as he had no idea who Joe even was until the Shirakis and Rikiishi identified him-and he has no idea why Mikinosuke Shiraki explained things so the journalists would take that exact guess.
• From the boxing license test :
  • Joe's cockiness turning into horror when he learns the exam starts with a written test.
  • After calming down, Joe tells Nishi to let him cheat on the written test. Cue the examiner announcing that anyone caught at cheating would be barred from taking the exam, ever.
  • After the exam, Joe is calm until Nishi asks him what did he answer to various questions, and Joe proceeds to prove (and learn) he failed the exam. Hard:
    • First question was to list three illegal attacks. Joe didn't list fouls as the questions intended, but answered "biting, kicking shins, and slapping" (tickling in the Italian dub).
    • Second question, list three defensive tactics. Joe answered that the best defense is knocking out the opponent fast.
    • Third question, how many knock downs in a round before a technical KO. Joe had been told about this by Danpei once, but it was in juvenile prison and forgot until after he proudly announced his answer at the written test because, for a variety of reason, it never came up in all the matches he fought since. This is when Joe realizes he bombed the written test and needs to ace the practical part to pass.
• Taro and the others faking that one of them had been ran over by a car to extort the driver with the threat of calling the police... Except the guy is so honest he wants the police to be there. Nishi catches them in the act and, after sending away the would-be victim, scolds them and asks what Joe would think. Taro replies they learned it from him.
• After Joe decides to leave the traveling boxing circus, the public protests-then their best boxer Inaba grabs a chair and threatens everyone into cheering for him.
• For his sparring match with Carlos, Joe is given 16oz gloves and immediately starts shouting and demanding 10oz gloves. Then he shuts up and apologizes-because Yoko gives him a look. Not a Death Glare, not an annoyed look, she just looked him in the eye-and Joe suddenly apologized.
• When the people of the slums realize that the guy who just gave them lots of gifts is Carlos, Joe's next opponent, they decide to give them back. They consider taking them again when Joe explains they're good friends outside of the ring, but don't act... Then Danpei says he's going to take them all. Cue the horde charging at the presents.
• Danpei's incredibly tacky clothes at the TV party, and his attempt at talking to Jose Mendoza using boxing terms.
• While it mostly brings back the memory of Rikiishi's own, Joe's diet offers a couple moments:
  • Joe goes in the attic of the old Tange Boxing Club and takes up the ladder... Because he fears Danpei will try and feed him in his sleep.
  • Danpei doesn't go for that, even after procuring a new ladder. No, he starts cooking right under the attic's open trapdoor, and continues for days.
• After coming back from Hawaii Joe gives gifts to the people of the slums... While they're still in the airport lounge. And there's about a hundred people from the slums. You can imagine what happens next.
• The anime has a fight between Mendoza and the anime-only WBA champion Harold Gomez to unify the bantamweight championships, plus one between Joe and the #1 contender Leon Smiley to decide the first Mandatory Challenger. They meet at the Korakuen... And, much to both trainers' dismay, it turns out they have dangerously similar personalities. The fact Joe expects Jose to win and Smiley expects Gomez' victory doesn't help.
• What is the counter for Harimau's somersault punch? Superman's signature flying punch.
• At the party for Nishi and Noriko's wedding, Noriko's father asks Joe to make a speech. He immediately starts from where he first met Nishi, in jail. The fact that, somehow, Noriko's father had missed all this time the fact Nishi is an ex-convict.
• One from the live action movie: at the exhibition match in juvie, after Danpei got the referee to agree to let the match go on until a knock-out Joe states it's because he'll knock Rikiishi down that many times, Danpei replies it will be Joe to get knocked down, Joe doesn't listen and cockily walks off-screen to fight Rikiishi... And, a punch noise later, flies back on-screen and gets knocked down.

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