"Soccer Player" (Japanese: キャプテン翼, English: Captain Tsubasa), or translated as "Soccer Boy Wing", "Soccer Kid", literally translated as "Captain Wing" or "Captain Tsubasa ", and the video game version is translated as "Angel Wings" in Taiwan, which is a manga created by Yoichi Takahashi.
Debuted in 1983, the work depicts the growth of a group of young and promising soccer players centered on Wing Okong and their eventual rise to prominence on the world stage. The story tells the story of Tsubasa Oku, Kojiro Hinata, Genzo Wakabayashi and others who grew up in football, and how they broke out of Japan and went out into the world. In order to strengthen the integrity of the story, the first part of the story has been rearranged and condensed for primary and secondary schools. Of course, the most exciting thing is the frustration and struggle that each of them encountered after joining the world-class football team. Its influence has not only led to the development of Japanese football, but has also made many people love football because of it. It deeply affects most of the people born in the 80s and 90s.
On January 4, 2024, Shueisha, a Japanese publishing house, announced that the manga "Soccer Player", which has been serialized for 43 years, will officially end in early April. On April 4, Japanese cartoonist Yoichi Takahashi announced that he had finished drawing the last episode of "Soccer Player".
Derivative Works
キャプテン翼 World Youth Chapter (1994~1997 serialized in the weekly boy JUMP,All 64 chapters,All 18 volumes of the single book,All 12 volumes of the library version [income special edition],All 64 chapters)
Content: First tells the story of Aoi Shingo learning art in Italy, and then tells the story of Tsubasa leading Sao Paulo FC to win the Brazilian league championship, followed by the first training camp and RJ7 battle, and then Tsubasa returned to Japan to lead the lack of major generals to play the first round of the World Youth Cup (ワールドユース/World Youth) qualifiers, and finally with the help of Genzo who injured his hands and returned to Japan, he defeated Thailand with difficulty and entered the second round of the game. Then the second RJ7 battle was eliminated from the team, and finally the Japanese team faced the second round with the best lineup, won the Asian championship and successfully entered the final week of the World Youth Cup. The final victory speech appealed to the world to put peace first and stay away from war.
Captain Wing ROAD TO 2002(2001~2004年,连载于周刊YOUNG JUMP,共144话,单行本全15卷,文库版全10卷)
Contents: The story of the warriors of the Golden Age who join the real-life world of football to embark on a new challenge, in which the story is mainly centered on Tsubasa, and other players of the Golden Age have also performed well. The World Youth Cup wing joined La Liga giants Barcelona, met Livol in Barcelona, and then was relegated to Group B for various reasons, scored 12 goals and 11 assists in 3 games, and was promoted to Group A before the fifth game of the league against Real Madrid, replacing the injured Liwal as an attacking midfielder, scoring 3 goals and 3 assists in the game against Real Madrid to create a miracle again to defeat Naduni's Real Madrid 6-5, and established his own position as an attacking midfielder in Barcelona, and also created 2 miracles.
キャプテン翼GOLDEN-23 (2005~2008, serialized in the weekly YOUNG JUMP, a total of 113 chapters, all 12 volumes of the single book, all 8 volumes of the library edition)
Contents: The prologue is the warm-up match of Tsubasa, Capeaki, Hinata, Wakabayashi and the national team to participate in the German team, and finally drew 2:2 in the first book of several highlights, Tsubasa led Barcelona in the sixth game of the league away against Hualadolie, Tsubasa dribbled the ball from the back penalty area and twisted all 11 players of the opposing team to shoot into the net, creating his third miracle in Barcelona. On the Japanese side, players from the golden age and former RJ7 players, plus newcomers (Shinnosuke Kazami and Kotaro Furukawa, the all-around genius Taketo Ikawa) of Japanese football, started a battle for a place in the Japanese 23-man squad... Japan, which did not have an overseas team in the Asian qualifiers, finally eliminated the Australian team by a narrow margin under various unfavorable circumstances and successfully entered the Madrid Olympics.
Captain Tsubasa Overseas Gekito
1. IN CALCIO Contestants of the Land of the Rising Sun (2009, serialized in the weekly YOUNG JUMP, a total of 24 episodes; Italian calcio means football)
On May 7, 09, serialization began in the weekly YOUNG JUMP extra-large issue No.23.
The story takes Hyuga as the protagonist, the stage is changed from the Olympics to Italy, Hyuga has been in Italy for 9 months, and the Reggiana team led by him is in first place in the final round of the Italian Football League C and the Alpine team led by Aoi is in second place, both teams have a chance to be promoted to Serie B, and in the last round, the two teams began a face-to-face duel, and finally Reggiana defeated Alps 3:2 and won the championship, and Hinata won the top scorer, The defeated Alps were also lucky to qualify for the Italian second division with Reggiana due to the defeat of their rivals.
2. EN LA LIGA (serialized in the weekly YOUNG JUMP since February 11, 2010, the first part has 54 chapters, the second part has 4 chapters; La Liga)
In the early summer, the Japanese team went to the Toluca Plateau in Mexico for the final training camp, Hinata, Aoi and Okoto joined the team to train harder for the Olympic Games. In the end, the two sides drew 2:2, but the duel between the big air wing and Naduni was won by Naduni. Michael, who watched the game again, was also determined to return to football by joining Numancia and coming on in the penultimate round to help the team beat Real Madrid!
3. Captain Tsubasa Rising Mr./Ms.
The manga "Soccer Rising Sun (キャプテン翼 ライジングサン)" was serialized in Shueisha's magazine "GRAND JUMP" on Issue 3, 2014 (released on December 28, 2013). The work will revolve around the protagonist Tsubasa Oku, telling the story of the Japanese Olympic football team under the age of 23 led by him to the Madrid Olympics held in Spain.
