Captain Tsubasa - Boy Scouts of America (Paperback)

Chapters: Boy Scouts of America. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Captain Tsubasa Kyaputen Tsubasa), also known as Flash Kicker, is a popular long running japanese comic book, animation, and video game series, originally created by Yichi Takahashi in 1981. The series mainly revolves around the sport of soccer. The story focuses on the adventures of a Japanese youth soccer team and its football captain Tsubasa Oozora zora Tsubasa), whose name literally translates to "Big Sky Wings." The series is characterized by dynamic football moves, often stylish and implausible. The plot focuses on Tsubasa's relationship with his friends, rivalry with his opponents, training, competition, and the action and outcome of each football match. The Captain Tsubasa comic book series was originally serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shnen Jump comic book magazine between 1981 and 1988, spanning a total of 37-tankbon volumes. It was continued onto a sequel, Captain Tsubasa: "World Youth" Saga, which was serialized between 1994 and 1997 in Shnen Jump, spanning 18 volumes, and another sequel, entitled Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002, which was serialized between 2001 and 2004 in Weekly Young Jump, which spanned 15 volumes. The comic is still running, with the latest sequel entitled Captain Tsubasa: Golden-23, serialized in Weekly Young Jump from 2005 to currently. The original Captain Tsubasa comic series was adapted soon into an TV animation series, produced by Group TAC and Toei Animation, whose first season premiered in Japan on the TV Tokyo network between 10 October 1983 and 27 March 1986. This first series tells only the synopsis of the first 25 volumes. Four animated movies followed soon, between 1985 and 1986, continuing the storyline. In 1989 a new animation series...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=70001