News - Youichi Takahashi, creator of the iconic soccer manga Captain Tsubasa, announced that he will be retiring from serialized manga. From the article above:
Takahashi explained that he had been thinking over the past few years about whether he would continue or finish drawing the manga. He calculated that it may take over 40 years to finish the story. As such, instead of pushing his body to the limit, he concluded that it would be better to stop serialization. Takahashi is over 60 years old, and he considers himself to be in good health. However, due to presbyopia, the gradual loss of the eyes' ability to focus on nearby objects, he is experiencing poorer eyesight and dizziness. The combination of his condition, COVID-19 affecting staff structure, the switch to digital methods for drawing manga, and the death of Dokaben baseball manga creator Shinji Mizushima in January 2022 all factored into his decision. Takahashi is considering drafting storyboards that continue the story past the manga's final chapters.
While the original Captain Tsubasa manga ended in 1988, Takahashi has been making sequela, one-shots, and spin-off manga for it consistently since it's "ending". The series is popular all over the world (especially where soccer/foot ball is the reining sport), and has been released in multiple languages. Sadly, the original series was never released in the US (though we have gotten some of the spin-off anime and video games).
Captain Tsubasa is a titan of sports manga and anime, so thank you Takahashi-sensei for your years of hard work and inspiring manga!
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