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is a popular manga, anime, and video game series originally created in Japan by Yoichi Takahashi in 1981. Captain Tsubasa is based on the sport of football (soccer). Because of its potential to help promote the sport, Japan Football Association assisted with the development of the Captain Tsubasa series.
The story focuses on the adventures of a Japanese youth soccer team and its soccer captain , whose name literally translates to "Big Sky Wings". The series is characterized by dynamic soccer moves, often stylish and implausible. The plot focuses on Tsubasa's relationship with his friends, rivalry with his opponents, training, competition, and the action and outcome of each soccer match.

Captain Tsubasa was later exported to other countries and became popular in South America, Europe and the Middle East.

The success of the series spurred several Nintendo Super Famicom (the Japanese equivalent of Super NES) video games. Upon release, the soccer-based RPG topped the sales charts in both Japan and South America, even though an official Spanish language version was not published.

Enoki Films USA holds the United States license to Captain Tsubasa under the title Flash Kicker.[link]

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Outside Japan, Captain Tsubasa is known under the following titles:

Characters

Players

Non-players

History

[Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Captain Tsubasa

Tsubasa Ozora is a Japanese boy who dreams of winning the FIFA World Cup. He plays on four youth national championships-winning sides and wins the U-16 World Championships for Japan, before leaving the country to play in Brazil. This move is inspired by Japanese soccer star Kazuyoshi Miura, who similarly left Japan as a teenager to play professionally in Brazil.

Captain Tsubasa World Youth

Tsubasa plays for São Paulo in Campeonato Brasileiro, winning the final against Flamengo 4-3. In Italy, Shingo Aoi plays with Inter primavera (the youth team), who lose to Juventus primavera 3-2.

The Japan's youth side plays the first phase of AFC Youth Championship without Taro Misaki, Makoto Soda, Jito, Nitta, the Tachibana brothers and Kojiro Hyuga. After Tsubasa, Wakabayashi and Shingo join the team, it defeats Thailand 5-4 after being 4-1 down at one stage. In the second phase Japan beats Uzbekistan 8-1, UAE 6-0, Saudi Arabia 4-1 and China 6-3. In the semifinals Japan beats Iraq 3-0. The Japanese win the Asia Youth title beating South Korea 2-0 and qualifying for the FIFA World Youth Championship.

In the first phase Japan defeats Mexico 2-1, Uruguay 6-5 and Italy 4-0. In the quarterfinals, they beat Sweden 1-0 and Netherlands 1-0 in the semifinal. The Japanese win in the "Great Final" the World Youth Championship, defeating Brazil 3-2 after extra time with Tsubasa scoring a hat-trick and the golden goal.

Tsubasa moves from Sao Paulo to FC Barcelona in the Spanish La Liga after the of the FIFA World Youth Championship final, taking his childhood friend and now wife, Sanae. He asked her out before moving to Brazil, and the couple maintained a long-distance relationship before he proposed to her after the World Youth Championship.

Captain Tsubasa Road to 2002

While Tsubasa moves from Sao Paulo to FC Barcelona, Kojiro Hyuga is bought by Juventus. Tsubasa plays very well in training, displaying all his skills, but the coach Van Saal (inspired by Louis van Gaal) demotes him to Barcelona B, the reserve team that plays in the second division, because Tsubasa and Rivaul (inspired by Rivaldo) cannot play together.

Meanwhile, Kojiro Hyuga plays for Juventus against Parma in the Italian Serie A, but does not score because of his physical imbalance. Juventus coach Carlo Monetti (inspired by Carlo Ancelotti) replaces him with David Tresaga (inspired by David Trezeguet), who scores the winning goal as Juventus beats Parma 1-0.

In Germany, Genzo Wakabayashi and his Bundesliga team, Hamburg play against Bayern Munich, led by Karl Heinz Schneider (inspired by Karlheinz Riedle), Stephan Levin and Shunko Sho. Wakabayashi makes several saves but he makes two mistakes, allowing Bayern to win 2-1.

In the 2nd stage of the Japanese J.League, Jubilo Iwata, led by Misaki, Gon Nakayama (inspired to real player Masashi Nakayama), Ishizaki and Urabe, defeats the Urawa Red Diamonds led by Igawa and Sawada 2-1. In others J.League matches, FC Tokyo led by Misugi draws 1-1 with Consadole Sapporo led by Matsuyama.

In Italy Kojiro Hyuga (Juventus) and Shingo Aoi (Inter) are bought respectively by AC Reggiana and Albese.

In Spain, Tsubasa plays three matches with Barcelona B and he records 12 goals and 11 assists in three matches. Tsubasa is inserted in the Barcelona lineup because of an injury to his rival Rivaul, and plays in the Super Clasico against Real Madrid. Tsubasa ends the match with three goals and three assists and Barcelona wins 6-5.

Captain Tsubasa Road to 2002 - Go for 2006

This is the epilogue of Captain Tsubasa Road to 2002. It is composed by 5 chapters. This manga follows Kojiro Hyuga and Shingo Aoi in Italy. In this manga Kojiro Hyuga plays in AC Reggiana (a football team that plays in Italian Serie C1 in the story; currently, this team is in Serie C2/B) while Shingo Aoi plays in Albese (a fictional team that also plays in Serie C1). Kojiro Hyuga makes a hard training and he makes his debut scoring an hat-trick.

Captain Tsubasa Golden 23

(Sequel to Captain Tsubasa, Road to 2002 - Go to 2006)

While Tsubasa plays for Barcelona against Real Valladolid, recording a goal and an assist in a 2-0 win, the 23 players of Japan's U-22 national team ("The Golden 23") play two friendly matches against Denmark and Nigeria.

Two futsal players, Kazami and Furukawa, join the national team and display great skills, scoring two goals in a training match. Meanwhile, the Japan U-20 side led by Takeshi Sawada win the AFC Youth Championship, defeating South Korea 6-5 on penalty kicks in the final. In Brazil, Minato Gamo, the former coach of the U-20 national team, tries unsuccessfully to convince Soga, a Japanese player who plays in Vasco da Gama, to join the national team.

Tsubasa's wife Sanae informs him that she is pregnant. In Japan, the match with Denmark begins. At the end of the match Japan-Denmark Japan defeats Denmark 4-2 (scorers:Misaki (J), Haas (D), Nitta (J), Nitta (J), Matsuyama (J), Haas (D)).

In Germany Hamburger SV plays a Bundesliga match and Genzo Wakabayashi isn't in the line up because of the bad relationship with the coach Zeeman. In January probably Hamburger will sell him to another team. A lot of teams want buy Wakabayashi such us A.C.F. Fiorentina, A.S. Roma, Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen. Minato Gamo meanwhile want counvince Igawa, a player who can play in all the roles (Goalkeeper, Defender, Midfielder, Forward), to join the national team. In spain FC Barcelona plays a liga match and Tsubasa scores a goal and makes a assist for Rikaar. In Japan Genzo Wakabayashi joins the national team. The manga continues running up to date.

Influences

Captain Tsubasa has inspired the likes of prominent footballers such as Hidetoshi Nakata [‘I don’t understand why people are football fans. I don’t like to watch any kind of sport’] - by Jonathan Northcroft, The Sunday Times, January 1, 2006., Alessandro Del Piero, Francesco Coco, Zinedine Zidane and Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi [Comic strip hero who inspired Nakata and Del Piero] - by AFP, May 10, 2002 to play football and choosing it as a career.

Manga history

Anime history

Video game history

Captain Tsubasa can be considered either a "Sports RPG" or "Soccer simulation". Characters run down the field in real time, but when a player comes into contact with an opposing player, a turn based battle is initiated. The player can select moves such as "slide tackle" or "head butt" depending on the situation, and success is based on individual teammate stats, which improves with each win. Animations are impressive for the original Famicom (Nintendo Entertainment System), demonstrating smooth and dynamic moves, large and fast moving sprites, and physics-defying moves.

Captain Tsubasa was distributed in the US as Tecmo World Cup Soccer, as part of the Tecmo sports franchise. It was heavily Americanized, featuring a different main character, a different introduction, different music, and more American looking characters (no spiky black hair, for example). Tecmo World Cup, Tecmo World Cup '92, and Tecmo World Cup '93 for the Sega Genesis are unrelated to the Captain Tsubasa series.

Each subsequent release in the series improved on graphics and gameplay. Captain Tsubasa J, the final Captain Tsubasa game for the Super Famicom (Super NES), abandons the RPG formula and plays as a traditional soccer action title. Captain Tsubasa J was later ported to Sony PlayStation.

Blitzball, a fictional sports game featured in Final Fantasy X, has a very similar gameplay design to that of Captain Tsubasa.

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