The great football stars

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Anime television series
title The great football stars
Original title キ ャ プ テ ン 翼
transcription Kyaput Tsubasa
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 1983-1986
Studio Tōei animation
length 25 minutes
Episodes 128 in 5 seasons ( list )
genre Shonen , sports
idea Yōichi Takahashi
production Hiromichi Shigegaki, Masao Kodaira
music Hiromoto Tobisawa
First broadcast October 10, 1983 - March 27, 1986 on TV Tokyo
German-language
first broadcast		 October 9, 1995 on RTL II
synchronization

The great football stars ( Japanese キ ャ プ テ ン 翼 , Kyaputen Tsubasa ) is an anime series produced by Tōei Animation from 1983 with 128 episodes. It is a film adaptation of the manga series Captain Tsubasa by Yōichi Takahashi and has been very successful both in Japan and internationally.

action

Japanese elementary school student Tsubasa Ohzora, 12, is an avid soccer player who dreams of winning the World Cup for Japan. With his motto “The ball is my friend” and a lot of training, he becomes a successful soccer player over the following years and wins many friends in the process.

Production and publication

The series was produced from 1983 to 1986 by the Toei Animation studio , directed by Isamu Imakake. The scripts were written by Naoko Miyake, Yoshiyuki Suga, Yasushi Hirano and Ken Hibari. The character design was created by Nobuhiro Okasako. Ichiro Nakano was responsible for the artistic direction. The series was broadcast by the Japanese broadcaster TV Tokyo from October 1983 to March 1986.

The anime has been exported worldwide and is known by a variety of titles. The series was broadcast in South Asia, Spain, Italy, Latin America, France and in Arab countries, among others.

In Germany, the original series was first broadcast by RTL II , then also by Tele 5 and ATVplus , under the name of “The Great Football Stars ”. In 2007 and 2008 a total of four DVD boxes were released in Germany, all of which contain 128 episodes.

synchronization

The German dubbing for the series was created at Planet Wave Studios under the dialogue direction of Thomas Karallus .

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Tsubasa Ohzora Akari Hibino Christian Rudolf
Kodai Ohzora /
Tsubasa's father /
narrator		 Thomas Karallus
Natsuko Ohzora /
Tsubasa's mother		 Ilya Welter
Genzo Wakabayashi Kōichi Hashimoto Sascha Draeger
Ryo Ishizaki Hiroko Maruyama Brigitte Böttrich (young)
Jens Wawrczeck (older)
Masaru Areshima Tanja Schumann
Tatsuo Mikami Eberhard Haar
Roberto Hongo Hideyuki Tanaka Kai-Hendrik Möller
Kojiro Hyuga Hirotaka Suzuoki David C. Bunners
Ken Wakashimazu Nobuo Tobita Lutz Schnell
Hikaru Matsuyama Suzuki Mie Marek Harloff
Jun Misugi Nicolas King
Karl-Heinz Schneider Marek Harloff
Yayoi Aoba Tomiko Suzuki Tina Eschmann
Mamoru Izawa Shigeru Nakahara Marek Erhardt

music

The music in the series was composed by Hiromoto Tobisawa . The Japanese opening title is Moete Hero , which was sung by Hiroyuki Okita and Takayuki Takemoto in two different versions. For the credits , Fuyu no Lion ( 冬 の ラ イ von ン ) by Hiroyuki Okita, Tsubasa yo Hashire! used by Chika Sakamoto and Asu ni Mukatte Shoot by Akari Hibino.

reception

Captain Tsubasa was not the first anime with a football theme, this was Akakichi no Eleven from 1970, but he is still the best known and most successful today. Although the sport was of little importance in Japan until the early 1980s, first the manga and then the anime became one of the most successful series of its time. According to the Anime Encyclopedia , part of the recipe for success was that the protagonist's achievements were repeatedly "reset to zero" after a change to a new school or similar circumstances and that he had to work them out anew.

The series was a great success when it was first broadcast in Germany and won many fans, according to AnimaniA . The MangasZene writes, despite the weaknesses - "unrealistic moves, many games drag on too much, not very varied character design, Tsubasa's team loses too seldom" - the series was able to captivate many viewers. Due to the many different characters, it offers every viewer an identification figure and shows the rise and development of the protagonists and their team. In addition, unlike other soccer anime, the series accompanies the characters over many years and also shows their development and the change in different teams more strongly, so that opponents become teammates and vice versa.

Episode list

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition. Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 1-933330-10-4 , p. 88.
  2. ↑ AnimaniA . 01–02 / 2010, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Manga scene . No. 9, p. 10.
  4. ↑ Manga scene. No. 33, p. 14.

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