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 Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:57 am
Okay... I'll be sincere about this. When I first watched this one, I was, I think, twelve. So, yeah, it's quite an old show. From the early eighties, I'm sure.
What's it about? Soccer.
Wait, don't run away yet, it gets interesting. If you've seen Shaolin Soccer, think about less bullshitting and more actual soccer, mixed with flashbacks and four-episodes-long-matches (it's like a Dragon Ball Z of soccer. Yep, I know how that sounds, wait until you read my descriptions of some of the shots.)
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Meet Osora Tsubasa. A boy that, for most of his life, has shown an uncanny skill at soccer. And he's have a dream, to win the Soccer World Cup with Japan. Now, at age twelve, he moves with his family to a new city, Nankatsu (his mother, actually, since his father's a ship captain and is almost never home,) and is getting ready to go to the best school of the city. However, upon meeting a boy named Ryo Ishizaki, who invites him to join his team, named after the city.
He soon meets Genzo Wakabayashi, a very skilled goalkeeper, and whom he will face in the city's soccer cup finals. Also, Roberto Hongo, one of the best players in Brazil until he had an accident, will soon become his mentor and friend. And last, but not least, Taro Misaki, a young kid with almost as much skill as Tsubasa, who will soon become his best ally on their way to winning the Japan Cup.
And he'll also meet Sanae a girl who will soon fall in love with him (despite Tsubasa seemingly not noticing.) Truth is, Tsubasa likes her too, but he's too busy chasing his dream to tell her. (Dumb kid, huh?)
Of course, there's also rivals. His main rival will be Kojiro Hyuga, a boy with a muscular body result of having to work part-time to support his family, and who doesn't play soccer for fun, but as a mean to an end. He knows if he becomes a soccer star, he will be able to support his family. He will become Tsubasa's fiercest rival in Japan, but also one of his strongest allies in the Japan team.
Many other players will show up as Tsubasa grows up, both inside and outside Japan, and he will slowly win experience and learn new techniques, becoming one of the best soccer players in the world.
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Next post: Shots, tackles and all things soccer.
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:32 am
Okay, here's a list of characters and their main shots/skills:
Ozora Tsubasa: If you read the post above, you already know who this guy is. He tends to mimic moves of players he meets, but also has a few techniques he's learnt on his own. Let's see if I can remember them all:
- Drive Shot. A shot where the ball will go up and seemingly keep its ascent, but in the last second, it dives down between the goalie and the goal. IRL, this shot is one of the hardest to both master and catch.
- Golden Combi: It's not a technique per se, but when he and Misaki start passing the ball back and forth, few rivals can stop their charge.
- Twin Shot: First called Golden Shot, it was accidentally created as Misaki went for a shot at the same time Tsubasa did, and both hit the ball, creating a spiralling effect that beat a seemingly unbeatable goalie (and the goalie's words were simply "what the f'k?")
- Drive Overhead: This shot is simply impossible. An overhead kick, but with the added effect of the Drive shot (hence the ball goes down, then up in the last second.)
- Drive Tiger Shot: A Twin Shot with Hyuga, has both the effect of the Drive and Twin shots, and the power of a Tiger Shot.
- Cyclone Shot: I think this only showed up in videogames. Tsubasa shoots the ball up high, making it look like he's going for a Drive Shot, but then runs forwards. The ball falls down as he runs, and he kicks it again, creating a strange, wide spiral effect that can actually create a breeze on its wake (hence the name.)
- Skywing Shot: Tsubasa's best shot. Pure power and speed, this shot is almost impossible to stop.
Kojiro Hyuga: Again, if you read above, you know the guy.
- Tiger Shot: His trademark shot, can smash through a goal's net easily, and also, can send any player who tries to stop it flying.
- Neo Tiger Shot: An improved version of the Tiger Shot, at first seemingly impossible to stop.
- Tiger Overhead: Overhead kick with the power of a Tiger shot.
- Tiger Tackle: When Hyuga tackles you, the best you can hope for is keeping your leg in place.
- Drive Tiger Shot: See Tsubasa.
- Raiyuu Shot: When even the Neo Tiger Shot was shrugged off by foreign players, Hyuga started training to create an even stronger shot. The Raiyuu Shot is the result, a shot that would be able to rip someone's head of IRL (but luckily, everyone's an uberplayer in Captain Tsubasa.)
Taro Misaki: His parents divorced when he was a kid, and he's been moving from town to town due to his father's job. Still, he managed to stay in Nankatsu for one soccer season, and became one of Tsubasa's best friends. While skilled, he doesn't have as many flashy shots as the others.
Ryo Ishizaki: He's the comic relief of his team, but he's got a few hidden talents. An excellent defender, he created a brand new way to stop shots: With his face. Don't laugh at him, he was able to stop a Neo Tiger Shot with his face. Then again, that may be why he's so damn ugly.
Genzo Wakabayashi: The best goalkeeper in Japan. He later on goes to Germany to train, but will always defend his home country in the world cup. His skills are sometimes too out of this world to believe (like stopping a Raiyuu Shot with one hand.)
Hikaru Matsuyama: This is, possibly, the best defender in the world. And he has a shot that can reach the goal from his usual position, which has surprised more than one goalie through the years.
Makoto Souda: Another great defender, but a quite dirty one. He knows how to injure a rival while making it look unintentional. His passes and shots have an effect similar to the Drive Shot, but horizontal.
Jun Mizugi: He's one of Japan's strongest players, argueably better than even Tsubasa, but due to a heart disease, he can't play for long periods. A great strategist, he can read a team's formation and tactics even from the bench, and once he enters the field, he can quickly turn the tide on a losing match.
Shun Nitta: Though young and unexperienced, Nitta is also the fastest player in all Japan. Once he gets the ball, he doesn't need to worry about dribbling, as not many players will be able to chase after him.
Ken Wakashimazu: Second-best goalie of Japan (and some say, of the whole world,) he uses his karate training combined with his goalie skills to stop shots that would seem impossible for other goalies.
But don't think everyone's from Japan. Here's the main foreign stars:
Karl-Heinz Schneider (Germany) - Also known as "The Kaiser," his skill at first are superior to Tsubasa, and he stays one of the toughest rivals Japan has to face through the years. His Fire Shot and his tactical abilities make him an excellent player that would be able to win matches on his own... But the rest of his team is good enough to be a real challenge.
Carlos Santana (Brazil) - The "Soccer Cyborg" or "God of Soccer," he was a kid trained for soccer and soccer alone. He lost family and friends on his way to stardom, and become a cold, almost robotic player who makes no mistakes and forgives no rivals. Once Tsubasa beats him with his own "soccer is fun" views, Santana reconsiders his point of view and realizes if someone like Tsubasa can have fun and play, so can he.
Okay, I guess that's it. Another "short" review from me.
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:34 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:45 am
If you think that's too long, check my fanfics. razz
Or heck... The Captain Tsubasa manga. For all I know, it's still running (started back in the 80's...)
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:14 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:53 pm
You've never watched Captain Tsubasa? I remember my cousins and me loved the show when we were little (no....I'm not that old, but it was on TV!) Random fact: Did you know that for the Spanish dubs they changed Tsubasa's name to Oliver?
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:30 pm
I'm from Latin America. I only heard Tsubasa's real name when I first played the Captain Tsubasa games for NES.
Oliver Atom, Benji Price, Tom Misaki, Bruce Harper... Most names were slaughtered like that.
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Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:07 am
Um...no I've never heard of this anime...except when Gaia was like telling people about it.(I think)
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 10:02 pm
i have never read it or watched it but i want to watch it cuz it seem cool
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:31 am
NO FREAKING WAY.... i thought noone knew about this anime its awesome. I was so disinterested in sports but this one so got me hooked on soccer and its really funny
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:42 am
It hit big in South America. Then again, down here we have the real football as our favorite sport.
I liked both versions, the old one, and the new one (Road To 2002,) but the older version had more details thrown in, and a far better characterization. The new one, well, most shots looked better, and had better OPs/EDs.
I still have all the RPGs released for this game, too. Even the GBA card battling game (which was s**t,) and the GB version, that looked like a watered down Kick Off. So, in short, Captain Tsubasa 1 and 2 for NES, and Captain Tsubasa 5 for SNES, are the best games for that show (and CT 2 takes the cake for being the first game I saw of that series. And the hardest.)
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:17 pm
RazorZKnight It hit big in South America. Then again, down here we have the real football as our favorite sport. I liked both versions, the old one, and the new one (Road To 2002,) but the older version had more details thrown in, and a far better characterization. The new one, well, most shots looked better, and had better OPs/EDs. I still have all the RPGs released for this game, too. Even the GBA card battling game (which was s**t,) and the GB version, that looked like a watered down Kick Off. So, in short, Captain Tsubasa 1 and 2 for NES, and Captain Tsubasa 5 for SNES, are the best games for that show (and CT 2 takes the cake for being the first game I saw of that series. And the hardest.) I think it was a big hit in all of Latin America. At least a few years ago, they were giving reruns in national TV and kids were still going crazy about it. My little cousin wanted to be like "Oliver" It reminded me of when I was a kid xd
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:02 pm
I still can pull off a pretty good Drive Shot. (aka "Tiro con chanfle/Tiro Sudamericano")
But the Razor Shot isn't any easy to do, sadly ("Tiro Navaja," or Kamisori Shot in Japanese.)
They're often re-running CT and CT:2002 in Cartoon Network in this area. I'm hoping once they're done with Zach "we're never gonna show you the ending" Bell, they'll re-run CT:2002 again.
Too bad the episodes with Coimbra never made it to South America... That Coimbra b*****d was quite a show in the game/manga (a guy that could sprint from one side of the field to the other in ten seconds, and had a shot that made it look like the ball vanished for a few seconds. I've always believed he was simply on crack.)
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:41 pm
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