VIZ Media has acquired rights to the Captain Tsubasa: Junior Youth Arc anime, based mostly off the favored sporting manga created by Yoichi Takahashi. The deal struck with Shueisha Inc. contains digital streaming, TV, EST, residence video and merchandise rights for North and Latin American territories. The collection is ready to launch in October 2023.
First serialized in 1981 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Leap journal, the soccer manga Captain Tsubasa facilities on its most important protagonist, Tsubasa Ozora. With a gauntlet of distinctive and distinctive characters, outrageous soccer assaults — just like the well-known Drive Shot and Skylab Hurricane — and intense battles on the turf, Captain Tsubasa has received over manga followers {and professional} athletes the world over. Thus far, the collection has reached gross sales of over 90 million volumes (paper and digital) worldwide.
Synopsis: In Captain Tsubasa: Junior Youth Arc, the Worldwide Junior Youth Match in Paris, France, is about to start, and Tsubasa, Misaki, Wakabayashi, Hyuga and Wakashimazu are prepared. Japan’s staff of elite gamers is to face off in opposition to the very best the soccer world has to supply. Germany’s Schneider, France’s Pierre, Argentina’s Diaz, and Italy’s Hernandez await, together with a bunch of different new rivals. Let the battle start!
Studio KAI (Uma Musume: Fairly Derby, 7 Seeds, The Prince of Tennis II, The New Prince of Tennis) is dealing with the manufacturing. The brand new collection is being directed by Katsumi Ono (Yu-Gi-Oh! and Senki Zesshō Symphogear G franchises), with Captain Tsubasa veterans Hajime Watanabe and Atsuhiro Tomioka returning for character design/government animation route and collection composition, respectively.
Voice Forged (Japanese):
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- Yuko Sanpei as Tsubasa Ozora
- Jun Fukuyama as Karl Heinz Schneider
- Kenichi Suzumura as Genzo Wakabayashi
- Takuya Sato as Kojiro Hyuga
- Ayaka Fukuhara as Taro Misaki
- Yuichiro Umehara as Ken Wakashimazu
- Mutsumi Tamura as Ryo Ishizaki
- Wataru Hatano as Hikaru Matsuyama
- Soma Saito as Jun Misugi
In North America, followers can stream the previous season, Captain Tsubasa (2018) on Amazon Prime Video, Pluto TV and Roku; the present can be out there for buy on Amazon, GooglePlay, iTunes, Microsoft and VUDU.
