{"rewrite":{"id":"r_0603a88222c4445ff05edb4a","clusterId":"c_bd474e749c95cc13e4719648","slug":"ashita-no-joe-creator-tetsuya-chiba-dies-at-87","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Ashita no Joe Creator Tetsuya Chiba Dies at 87","summary":"Tetsuya Chiba died in a Tokyo hospital on October 22 of myelodysplastic syndrome, a cancer that affects blood cells in the bone marrow. He was 87. Chiba's Ashita no Joe ran from 1968 to 1973, leading to two television anime and two anime films, and its story was reworked for Megalobox in 2018. His autobiographical manga Hinemosu Notari Nikki went on hiatus on September 25 because of poor health.","whyItMatters":"Ashita no Joe ended in 1973, but the works it produced run through Megalobox 2: Nomad in April 2021 and an official English edition in December 2024, which is where Chiba's influence actually sits.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eTetsuya Chiba was born in Tokyo and spent his early childhood in what is now northern China. He was 17, still in high school, when he debuted as a professional manga creator in 1956.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChiba had surgery to place a stent in a coronary artery in January 2022 and wrote on his blog in 2024 that he had eye surgery. In November 2021 he said he had admitted himself to a Tokyo hospital and was treated for a tumor in his throat. He put Hinemosu Notari Nikki, which began in Big Comic in December 2015, on hiatus on September 25.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJapan named him to the Japan Art Academy in 2022. He received the Order of Culture in 2024 and chaired the Japan Cartoonists Association.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Tetsuya Chiba's Hinemosu Notari Nikki went on hiatus on September 25 for poor health, weeks before his death. The autobiographical work stops where his own account of the illness would have begun.","twitterPost":"Tetsuya Chiba's Hinemosu Notari Nikki went on hiatus September 25 for poor health, weeks before his death. His own life story is left unfinished.","threadsPost":"Tetsuya Chiba's autobiographical manga Hinemosu Notari Nikki went on hiatus on September 25 because of poor health, weeks before he died. The one work where Chiba was the subject stops short of the illness that killed him, leaving Ashita no Joe's creator without his own ending on the page.","newsletterBlurb":"Tetsuya Chiba, creator of Ashita no Joe, died in a Tokyo hospital on October 22 of myelodysplastic syndrome at 87. The boxing manga ran from 1968 to 1973, and its story was reworked for Megalobox in 2018, with Megalobox 2: Nomad following in April 2021. Chiba received the Order of Culture in 2024.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-27/ashita-no-joe-creator-tetsuya-chiba-dies-at-87/.243235\",\"title\":\"Ashita no Joe Creator Tetsuya Chiba Dies at 87\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":5873,"outputTokens":4823,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1793078456,"createdAt":"2026-10-27T05:18:49.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-27T05:19:27.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-27T05:19:27.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_bd474e749c95cc13e4719648","canonicalTitle":"News\nAshita no Joe Creator Tetsuya Chiba Dies at 87","representativeArticleId":"a_7fd84ade18322eed710aa638","sourceCount":2,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":false,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[\"Ashita no Joe\"],\"manga_titles\":[\"Ashita no Joe\"],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Tetsuya Chiba\"],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"manga\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-27T04:02:14.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-27T08:25:09.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-27T08:25:55.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-27/ashita-no-joe-creator-tetsuya-chiba-dies-at-87/.243235","title":"News\nAshita no Joe Creator Tetsuya Chiba Dies at 87"},{"source":"Animehunch","url":"https://animehunch.com/ashita-no-joe-artist-tetsuya-chiba-passes-away-at-87-manga-industry-pays-tribute/","title":"Ashita No Joe Artist Tetsuya Chiba Passes Away At 87; Manga Industry Pays Tribute"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":["Ashita no Joe"],"manga_titles":["Ashita no Joe"],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Tetsuya Chiba"],"type":"news","domain":"manga","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":["Tetsuya Chiba died in a Tokyo hospital on October 22 of myelodysplastic syndrome at age 87.","Chiba's Ashita no Joe ran from 1968 to 1973 and led to two television anime and two anime films.","Megalobox, a reworking of Ashita no Joe with new characters, aired in 2018, and Megalobox 2: Nomad premiered in April 2021.","Chiba received the Order of Culture in 2024 and was named to the Japan Art Academy in 2022.","Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow, the manga's first official English release, arrived in December 2024."],"pageLinks":{"healthSlugs":["ashita-no-joe","tetsuya-chiba"],"storySlugs":[],"entities":[{"slug":"ashita-no-joe","supported":1,"disputed":0,"contradicted":0,"unverified":1,"overall":"green","story_count":1,"has_dossier":false},{"slug":"tetsuya-chiba","supported":1,"disputed":0,"contradicted":0,"unverified":1,"overall":"green","story_count":2,"has_dossier":false}],"stories":[],"entitiesOk":true,"storiesOk":true}}