Captain Tsubasa (Japanese: キャプテン翼, Hepburn: Kyaputen Tsubasa) is a Japanese manga series written and … See more

Tsubasa Oozora is an 11-year-old elementary school student who is deeply in love with football and dreams of one day winning the FIFA World Cup for Japan. He lives together with his mother in Japan, while his fat… See more

Yoichi Takahashi was delighted by association football after seeing the 1978 FIFA World Cup. The matches, players, and fans' love towards the sport inspired him to write a manga about football. Another relevant asp… See more

Written and illustrated by Yōichi Takahashi, the first Captain Tsubasa started in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump on March 31, 1981, and finished in the May 9, 1988, issue, with its chapters col… See more

The manga series had a circulation of 70 million volumes within Japan by 2008, 82 million copies worldwide by 2018, and had over 90 million copies in circulation worldwide by 2023. In 2001, the anime series was r… See more

• キャプツバ高橋氏「日向は本田と武藤、香川は翼」 – 日本代表 : 日刊スポーツ. nikkansports.com (in Japanese). Retrieved April 24, 2018.
• ２０１４シーズンのプロモーションとして『キャプテン翼』とのコラボレーショ … See more

• TV Tokyo official Captain Tsubasa anime website (in Japanese)
• Enoki Films website – Flash Kicker, also known as Captain Tsubasa, page (in English)
• Captain Tsubasa at Anime Video Games Reviews… See more