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The story follows [[The Ace|Tsubasa Ozora]], a boy with great sports abilities and a big dream: to win [[The World Cup]]. The story follows him through his school soccer tournament to his first steps in [[The Beautiful Game|club football]] outside of Japan, and of course his big games with the Japan national team while struggling with injuries and other problems.

Other important characters include his teammates: Ryo Ishizaki, sensitive Taro Misaki and goalkeeper Ace Genzo Wakabayashi. Also, there are his rivals: most notably, Kojiro Hyuga (whose playing style is the opposite of Tsubasa, relaying more on power than on technique), Jun Misugi (a talented, [[Ill Boy|ill]] strategist) and Hikaru Matsuyama. Later, foreign players like Karl Heinz Schneider are introduced during the FIFA World Youth cup. Important support characters are Roberto (Tsubasa's mentor and coach) and Sanae Nakazawa (a female friend of Tsubasa, who has also quite the crush on him and later manages to date him).

Currently{{when}} this sports classic is still ongoing, from 1981 to the present days.

* ''Captain Tsubasa'' -- 37—37 Volumes.

* ''Captain Tsubasa: World Youth'' -- 18—18 Volumes.

* ''Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002'' -- 15—15 Volumes.

* ''Captain Tsubasa: Golden 23'' -- 12—12 Volumes.

* ''Captain Tsubasa: Gekitouhen in Calcio'' -- 2—2 Volumes.

* ''Captain Tsubasa: En la Liga'' -- Ongoing—Ongoing, 5 Volumes as of 2012.

In 2002 an [[Spiritual Successor]] was released called ''[[Hungry Heart: Wild Striker|Hungry heart]]''.

No relationship to ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]''.

* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The ''Road to 2002'' animated adaptation, the premise was to cover the first manga series up to the 3rd manga series (the titular Road to 2002), but in practice is merely a rushed retelling of the beginning of the manga series and altering the many sub-plots along the way to catch up with the later manga series; to wit: all romantic subplots from the manga were dropped, even the one involving ''Tsubasa himself'' who would be {{spoiler|married by the 2002 arc}}, some [[Love Interest|Love Interests]]s for the guys were introduced, only to provide support as they never went anywhere, while other girls weren’t lucky enough ''to even exist'' in this adaptation. Removing the romance wouldn’t be so bad if originally it wasn’t one of the main forces keeping and inspiring the guys to continue playing soccer, but is, and by removing it several events had to be altered or to be downright ignored.

* [[Break the Haughty]]: VERY common. Wakabayashi, Hyuga, Shun Nitta, Soda, Espadas, John from the anime, Louis Napoleon, Ryoma Hino and several others get bitchslappedbitch-slapped on the courts for their arrogance.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: The Nankatsu and Shutetsu team members, to start.

* [[Dub Name Change]]: 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). Same thing in LatinamericaLatin America, only that instead of Mark Lenders, is Steve Hyuga. And those are only some examples.

* [[First Girl Wins]]: Subverted in the original anime: Yayoi Aoba was seen in the very first scene and later it seemed she'd be a strong contendorcontender for Tsubasa's affection at first, but she soon was [[Out of Focus]] and Tsubasa hooked up with the Second Girl, Sanae. Played with in the manga: Yayoi still was Tsubasa's oldest friend, but the aforementioned scene doesn't take place so Sanae is the First Girl we meet.

* [[I Know Madden Kombat]]: Inverted with Wakashimazu Ken, the Karate Keeper. He knows his karate ''real'' well ''and'' adapts some karate techniques to soccer. Heck, there was a subplot with him not wanting to be [[Heir to the Dojo]] and being given [[You Have 48 Hours|a year of probatoryapprobatory]] by his father to prove himself. Also, {{spoiler|Nitta also takes up karate to improve his skills in the Road to 2002 series}}.

* [[Ill Boy]]: Jun Misugi is a male example, who's prone to [[Hollywood Heart Attack|Hollywood Heart Attacks]]s, up until the World Youth saga.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: On the Sao Paulo vs Flamengo match, Tsubasa deliberately falls on one of Santana's tackle to get a good kick-off and show him that referees are humans, and that he should stop considering himself a "soccer cyborg", finishing his tirade with "this is one of the fun things in soccer". {{spoiler|A few minutes later, in a counter-attack near Sao Paulo's goals, Santana shoots the ball on Tsubasa's foot so that it counts as a Sao Paulo pass, thus not putting his Flamengo partner offside and putting him in an advantageous position to score the goal : as the goal is scored, Santana says to Tsubasa "this is one of the fun things in soccer" with an evil look and a [[Slasher Smile]]}}.

* [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]]: Narrowly averted with Yoshiko and Matsuyama. {{spoiler|She didn't want to either distract him from the Furano v/s Nankatsu match and cry in front of him, so she left without a word when the match was barely over... but Matsuyama learnt abotabout it and raced against the clock to catch her before her flight took off. He succeeded, so cue the [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].}}

* [[Open-Minded Parent]]: The parental figures, if featured, are portrayed as this. Special mention goes, obviously, to Tsubasa's parents, who support his dream to go to Brazil and play profesionallyprofessionally ever since he was around 10. Also, Hyuga's mother.

* [[Opposing Sports Team]]: Averted: the rivals are fairly sympathetic, sometimes bordering on [[Punch Clock Villain|Punch Clock Villains]]s. If rivals aren't sympathetic, though, they'll lose ''[[Can't Get Away with Nuthin'|badly]]'' [[Break the Haughty|as punishment]].

** Hyuga being dark-skinned is [[Lampshaded]] by Maki the first time they talk together at Okinawa:

* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Yoshiko Fujisawa. Yuzo Morisaki is a male example... and one of the few who are ''not'' [[Butt Monkey|Butt Monkeys]]s.

* [[Street Urchin]]: Ricardo Espadas's [[Freudian Excuse]] is his and his friends's past as one. Doesn't keep him from being a bitter [[Jerkass]] who ends up subjected to a ''major'' [[Break the Haughty]].

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Tamotsu and Takai, the two cheerleaders who were often subjected to Sanae's temper tantrums. {{spoiler|They [[Took a Level Inin Badass|level up with time]] and reappear as assistants in the Golden 23 series}}

* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Pretty much all of Japan's first team players in the Road to 2002 and Golden 23 series.

* [[Training Fromfrom Hell]]: Pretty much every player subjects himself to this.

* [[True Companions]]: The teams, specially the Japanese ones.

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