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If you liked Ashita no Joe add

...then you might like Ping Pong the Animation add

The anime that I consider closest to Ping Pong is definitely Ashita no Joe, same goes the other way around where I consider Ping Pong the modern equivalent to Ashita no Joe. While the themes of Ping Pong are Dreams and Talent, the themes of Tomorrows Joe (As you can partly guess from the english title) are Dreams and Passion. The two are also very similar stylistically both in visual direction (Namely Ashita no Joe 2's visual direction being similar to Ping Pong) and in that they're both not about the sport they cover but rather they are about the character's lives and how the sport transforms them. Another thing that connects them is that they're very harsh in how they treat their characters, simply not everyone can achieve their dreams, and some dreams have to be crushed for anothers to succeed. Ashita no Joe and Ping Pong both make their characters come to grips with the reality of that fact. If you like one you're nearly guaranteed to like the other so long as you give them a chance despite what make them unappealing at first glance (In Ping Pong's case it's the art style, and in Joe's case it's the episode length and age) I even can stand testament to this since both of these are in my top 3 anime of all time.