Tsubasa Manga Will End in 2024? This is what Yoichi Takahashi said!

For those of you who are in the 90's generation, you will definitely watch it often anime Tsubasa is popular and present on television.

Tsubasa was born from a manga and then made into an anime. The manga was created by a Mangaka named Yoichi Takahashi.

News circulated that recently the publisher, namely Shuisha Inc announced that the Tsubasa manga will end in 2024.

In this article, we will discuss the reasons for the end of this manga by Yōichi Takahashi. Instead of being curious, keep reading this article!

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Reasons for the End of the Tsubasa Manga

According to animenewsnetwork, The 19th edition of Captain Tsubasa Magazine published Friday, December 30 2023 published by Shueisha announced something surprising.

Shueisha Inc announced that the Mangaka from Captain Tsubasa, Yōichi Takahashi, will retire from the Tsubasa series which he has created for 43 years.

However, Yōichi Takahashi will continue to produce the manga until the final chapter of Captain Tsubasa: Rising Sun The Final and Captain Tsubasa Memories 4: Saikyō! The 20th edition of the Meiwa FC Densetsu manga will be released in April 2024.

The publisher also stated that the 63 year old manga artist decided to retire due to his declining health condition.

"Instead of pushing myself to the limit, it's better to stop serialization so that I can tell the story of Captain Tsubasa until the end," he said as quoted by animenewsnetwork published on Friday (05/01) yesterday.

According to comicbook.com, he also said that he wanted to maintain his physical condition at a young age.

Currently he is still in good health but because of the presbyopia he experiences, he loses his eyes' ability to focus and his vision begins to decline slowly so he finds it difficult to produce his manga.

“I think I am still in good health today. However, as I continued to create manga, the age-related decline in my physical condition became unavoidable. My drawing speed has slowed down a lot… (and) moreover, my eyesight is getting worse. It's hard to focus," he said.

Apart from his health condition which caused him to have to retire, it turns out there was something else too. As the digitization process has increasingly developed since COVID-19, the process of making manga manually will be slowly replaced.

However, as stated, Yōichi Takahashi will continue producing the manga until April 2024.

After retiring, he will create a storyboard for the animated Captain Tsubasa instead of writing the manga.

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"Captain Tsubasa: Rising Sun The Final", So the Final Arc

As we know, it turns out that the Captain Tsubasa anime has been an idol for all children since childhood, you know because its theme is about soccer which is popular with boys.

The main character, Tsubasa Ōzora, is able to channel his positive energy and enthusiasm to the audience, making this anime increasingly popular.

Captain Tsubasa: Rising Sun The Final will be the final arc of the entire manga story.

Overall, this manga tells the story of Tsubasa Ōzora who is 11 years old and really loves soccer and is praised by Roberto, his coach because he saw his skills in soccer. Soon he went to Brazil to compete in the World Cup.

Captain Tsubasa: Rising Sun The Final itself tells about the victory of La Liga and FC Barcelona after beating Real Madrid for the second time.

After the party team championship held in Barcelona, he went to Japan with Sanae and took part in training as a player selection for the Japanese Olympic team which would play New Zealand and Mexico.

This will be the final Arc of the Olympics and the journey to become the best soccer player in the world.

Previously, Yōichi Takahashi published the manga in Grand Jump Magazine from Shueisha Inc in December 2013.

Then, this manga was re-published in Captain Tsubasa Magazine, namely the Grand Jump spin-off magazine focused on the franchise which was released in April 2020.

Of course, "Captain Tsubasa: Rising Sun The Final" is the final arc of this entire soccer-themed manga story.

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Manga Story

For the manga and anime journey, Captain Tsubasa was released in Weekly Shonen Jump, published in 1981, which tells the story of Tsubasa Ōzora who loves football.

He dreams of becoming a professional footballer and joining a football club to play in the World Cup. Not long after, he joined a football club to make his dream come true.

The idea for the story came from Yōichi Takahashi who liked football after watching the 1978 World Cup on TV. Later, he created Tsubasa to help popularize the sport in Japan.

“I didn't expect people all over the world to see it,” he said.

Yōichi Takahashi, at that time still served as managing director of a football club called Nankatsu SC, after Tsubasa's school team in the comic.

This story was serialized into a comic for 15 seasons which was released over 40 years. Apart from that, an anime was made for 5 seasons until 2019.

The comic itself has sold more than 90 million copies worldwide and was published in 100 countries.

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So, that's the story about the manga, which is rumored to be ending in 2024. So, what do you think?

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