Viz Media has picked up a wide collection of rights in North America and Latin America to animated Japanese sports series “Captain Tsubasa: Junior Youth Arc.” The series is adapted from…
The series is adapted from a popular manga by Yoichi Takahashi and is licensed by Shueisha Inc. The deal includes digital streaming, TV, electronic sell-thru, home video and merchandise rights for North and Latin American territories.
The new series is currently being produced by Studio KAI, with the official main staff including: director Ono Katsumi; character design and executive animation director, Watanabe Hajime; and series composition, Tomioka Atsuhiro. The voice cast includes Sanpei Yuko as Tsubasa Ozora, Gukuyama Jun as Karl Heinz Schneider and Suzumura Kenichi as Wakabayashi Genzo and Hyuga Kojiro as Sato Takuya. It is set to launch October 2023.
The narratives center on main protagonist, Tsubasa Ozora. He is joined by a team of distinctive players who grow as characters through their intense rivalries and on-field battles. The manga series is credited with having helped make soccer more popular in Japan and to have inspired many players to take up the sport. As it expanded, the manga also started depicting many thinly-disguised players and teams from the real world.
In “Captain Tsubasa: Junior Youth Arc” the International Junior Youth Tournament in Paris, is about to begin and Tsubasa, Misaki, Wakabayashi, Hyuga, and Wakashimazu are ready. Japan’s team of elite players is to face off against the best the soccer world has to offer. Germany’s Schneider, France’s Pierre, Argentina’s Diaz, and Italy’s Hernandez await, along with a host of other new rivals.series ran by Tsuchida Production ran 1983-1986 on TV Tokyo.
“Captain Tsubasa” was the first manga creation by Takahashi, who achieved his breakthrough by winning the 10th Fresh Jump award in Weekly Shonen Jump. Some 40 years later, Takahashi also serves as club president of the soccer team Nankatsu SC in his hometown of Katsushika City.
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