Apart from the little title changement (someone said that 'rough dream' in singular carry the message better).
While reading 'Ashita no Joe', even if the story is different, the two protagonists (Joe and Dampei) remember me Brian and Olav. What they live, the emotions they fell, their relationship, some experiences are a bit similar to what my character live. The story itself has some element that make me think they have some similarities.
Now, characters live in different timeline and different environment. While Joe is an orphan and lives in the downtown in '60s Japan, Brian is a spoiled dyslexic kid that live in the early XXI century U.S.A. They both are immature, loud, hot-headed and stubborn. Brian is more sociable. During their journey they both experience mourning and loneliness but they face their problem in a different way. Is a bit stupid to compare a street kid from XX century Japan with a spoiled kid from XXI century America, but I think Brian suffered too, having divorced parents, a learning disability(having a disability, especially as bad as Brian, is not that great) and an overprotective dad that is unable to understand him fully.
Dampei and Olav are more different, but I think they may be a bit similar, probably because they both have problem with alchohol and they are basically pessimistic. The difference is still the enviroment, Dampei is an old, unsuccessful boxer that live in the middle of the XX century in the downtown, in Tokyo. Olav is a man in his late 30's that grew up in the nice Tromsø town and is a successfull wrestler but he went through hardship. From what I understood, Dampei is rather outspoken. Olav is often quiet (unless he is in the ring) and shy with extraneous.
Ashita no Joe is a great comic. Is stupid to compare what I'm writing with something great, I just recognized some things that I think they're similar. Of course the story is different.
I hope my story will be at least good. I can't talk about other details, it vould be spoiler.
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