History Manga / CaptainTsubasa

** Hikaru Matsuyama went to play to the ''Manchester United'' in England,[[note]]Just like Hyuga, the team is named as just "Manchester", but the colors of its kit closely matches those from the real life team.[[/note]] rather than staying in Japan playing in the J-League with the Consadole Sapporo.

In 2021, Takahashi announced he will retire from drawing manga after finishing the current arc (''Rising Sun''). However, he will continue to supervise the story (with the next arc set to be called ''Next Dream''), which will be told through the videogame ''Captain Tsubasa: Dream Team'', in collaboration with Klab Games.

%%* {{Bokukko}}: Sanae.

''Captain Tsubasa'' is ''the most'' influential sport manga(and comicbook)/anime of all times, created by Yoichi Takahashi. It was insanely popular and translated to many languages to the point where it inspired many talented players to take on UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball (soccer) as a career, such as Alessandro del Piero, Zinedine Zidane, Francesco Totti, and Fernando Torres. This led the Japanese soccer association to assist in the development of the manga/anime to promote the sport in Japan, which inspired players like Hidetoshi Nakata and Seigo Narazaki.

** In the same way, Hyuga and Wakashimazu went to play to Mexico for Club America[[note]]In the games, the team is named as "Mexico City", but it's uniform shares the same colors as the traditional official kit of Club America. This is especially bizarre, since the kit of the only other Mexican team that appears in the games, Monterrey, doesn't match with any of the kits used in real life by neither Tigres de Monterrey nor Rayados de Monterrey, the two teams from the Mexican First Division hailing from that city. Also, Hyuga playing for Club America is quite fitting, considering that club is quite notorious in real life for signing foreign players from not-so-traditional soccer hubs, albeit in real life, Club America has never recruited players from Asia, much less Japan.[[/note]] in Mexico City, rather than Turin in Italy (Hyuga) and the J-League (Wakashimazu).
** Hikaru Matsuyama went to play to the ''Manchester United'' in England, rather than staying in Japan playing in the J-League.

** The last two games features ''very odd'' variations to the regular tournament rules normally used in the manga, anime and even RealLife, including Tsubasa and many other foreign characters playing for the ''host countries'' they're playing at the moment in the games (Like Tsubasa playing for ''Brazil'' and Hyuga for ''Mexico'', despise neither both of them are naturalized or even have plans to become non-Japanese in the manga[[note]]Though Tsubasa might have attained dual Japanese-Spanish citizenship by virtue of the time he's been playing at Barça - according to Spanish laws, you gain their citizenship if you hold a steady job there, no matter what it is[[/note]]. The fifth game include a ''World Cup'' (if you can call it like that), when not only the Japanese team have to play against regular national teams, they also have to play against '''club teams''', and the last team they have to face in that game is [[spoiler:an all-star team of the best players from around the world vs Japan]].

In December 2017, a third animated series has been announced. It's slated to start in April 2018, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh8czMsFjX0 and here is a trailer]].

* OffModel: Takahashi is rather infamous for the lack of realistic physical proportions in many of his illustrations (including, but not limited to, the extra long legs). Case in point, the illustration featuring [[spoiler:Sanae and Tsubasa's [[WeddingsInJapan Western-style wedding]]]] becomes unintentionally hilarious because of the lengths he went through to fit ''the whole Japanese team'' in two splash pages.

** The Brazilian dub keeps the Japanese names, but for Tsubasa and Wakabayashi, it uses the Western-version given names, i.e. Oliver Tsubasa and Benji Wakabayashi. Also, Misaki's first name is Carlos instead of Taro, and Roberto is given the nickname "Maravilha" ("Wonder") in lieu of his surname Hongo. A strange case, at least in ''Road to 2002'', is Hyuga: his name is written the same, but [[NoPronunciationGuide the surname is pronounced "Huega" there]]!

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Many people thought that Albese, the minnow team that Aoi plays for in Italy after Internazionale dismisses him, was fictional. Turns out it's real, and is currently playing at the Piedmont division of Eccellenza (the fifth division of Italian football).
** Hyuga debuting on Juventus wearing a number "1+8" (one plus eight) jersey may also seem outlandish, but it is based on Chilean superstar Iván Zamorano, who wore the number 9 shirt at Internazionale before Ronaldo, another wold-famous number 9, joined the team. This was done in order to let both players be the number 9 on the team[[note]]Although Ronaldo played with the number 10 in his first season in Italy (1997-98) while Zamorano remained with the 9[[/note]]. Interestingly enough, the situation in the manga is reversed in which it's the newcomer that takes the amended numbering while the correct number is kept by the team veteran (in this case, Inzars).

** As pointed out in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PPwW3pjF-Q this YouTube video]], Japan's second goal in the match against Mexico in the WYC should have been rendered offside in real life due to Tsubasa's interference. The fact that Tsubasa continued to play despite bleeding heavily is also never addressed

''Captain Tsubasa'' is a highly influential sport manga/anime created by Yoichi Takahashi. It was insanely popular and translated to many languages to the point where it inspired many talented players to take on UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball (soccer) as a career, such as Alessandro del Piero, Zinedine Zidane, Francesco Totti, and Fernando Torres. This led the Japanese soccer association to assist in the development of the manga/anime to promote the sport in Japan, which inspired players like Hidetoshi Nakata and Seigo Narazaki.

** Most European and Latin American dubs gives all the characters English names. Here some examples:

*** Genzo Wakabayashi is known as Benji Price in the Latin America dubs and most European dubs, except the French one, where he's Thomas Price instead.

*** Kojiro Hyuga is known as Mark Landers in the European dubs (spelled [[SpellMyNameWithAnS "Landers"]] only in the French version) and Steve Hyuga in the Latin American dubs.

* DubNameChange: ''Everywhere'', until [[AvertedTrope 2018 that is]].
** If you ask anyone in Europe who Tsubasa Ozora, Kojiro Hyuga or Genzo Wakabayashi are, most of them will look at you with puzzled looks. However, if you mention Oliver Atton, Mark Landers and Thomas Price... they will probably hug you with tears of joy while they sing the anime Opening (whichever version they saw in their country).
** Same thing in Latin America, only that instead of Mark Lenders, is Steve Hyuga. And those are only some examples.

** The 2018 series [[AvertedTrope finally]] averts this and ''all'' foreign language dubs of it retain both the original title and the Japanese names, the same can be said for the ''Dream Team'' mobile game from 2017 which ''also'' retains the Japanese title and names even in the international releases.

** If you ask anyone in Europe who Tsubasa Ozora, Kojiro Hyuga or Genzo Wakabayashi are, most of them will look at you with puzzled looks. However, if you mention Oliver Atton, Mark Lenders and Benji Price... they will probably hug you with tears of joy while they sing the anime Opening (whichever version they saw in their country).