TOKYO: The smash-hit Japanese football manga sequence “Captain Tsubasa” got here to an finish Thursday after a 43-year run with its creator Yoichi Takahashi saying he would retire as a manga artist however proceed “artistic actions”, Kyodo information company reported.
Takahashi, 63, stated he’ll nonetheless produce tales on Tsubasa, the football prodigy who’s the principle character of the sequence, however swap to a tough storyboard format that he expects to have the ability to produce extra shortly, delivering it to followers on a devoted web site.
“I nonetheless like drawing illustrations and pondering up tales,“ he stated in a submit on the X social media platform Wednesday.
The final chapter within the manga format, “Captain Tsubasa Rising Sun,“ depicts Tsubasa collaborating in an Olympics as captain of the under-23 Japanese football staff.
The story will proceed within the new format on the “Captain Tsubasa World” web site from this summer season, with weekly releases.
As the format doesn’t require inking and including display tones, Takahashi stated, he’ll be capable to “ship future tales at a quicker tempo.”
He additionally expects to have “extra freedom of expression” as he’ll not face the necessity to meet deadlines or necessities for variety of pages or format dimension.
Recalling that his start line as a manga artist was again in elementary college when he started drawing authentic works utilizing pencils on a clean sheet of paper, he stated, “I’m now going to do the identical factor I used to be doing at the moment — a manga sequence by pencil drawings.”
Tokyo publishing home Shueisha Inc. introduced the tip of the manga sequence in its Captain Tsubasa Magazine in January. Takahashi on the time cited a “decline in bodily energy and modifications within the drawing setting attributable to the current wave of digitization” that he stated slowed the tempo at which he may draw manga.
The first episode of “Captain Tsubasa” was printed within the Shukan Shonen Jump weekly in 1981.
The sequence has been tailored for anime and video games in additional than 50 nations and areas and has captivated kids together with some who turned skilled footballers reminiscent of Spanish star Andres Iniesta. In Japan, the sequence’ comics offered over 90 million copies.
