The

manga Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...

Captain Tsubasa is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yōichi Takahashi. The series mainly revolves around the sport of association football focusing on Tsubasa Oozora and his relationship with his friends, rivalries with h ...

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Yōichi Takahashi is a Japanese cartoonist and manga artist, best known for his work ''Captain Tsubasa''. Takahashi has published art books, manga, novels, and guides, most of which are about ''Captain Tsubasa''. He is also known for his soccer series, '' Hungr ...

. The series focuses on the development of a young Japanese

football soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...

player named Tsubasa Oozora who joins the Nankatsu elementary school's football team. The series was serialized in Shueisha's magazine '' Weekly Shōnen Jump'' between 1981 and 1988. It was collected in a total of 37 '' tankōbon'' volumes that were published between January 1982 and March 1989. In 1997, Shueisha started rereleasing the series in '' bunkoban'' volumes. They were rereleased from December 8, 1997 to February 18, 1999. Takahashi also wrote multiple sequels in the following years that followed Tsubasa's career.

Volume list

References

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