I do not know if the ending is translated since I never actually beat the last team. I made this patch in 2009 after two separate translators abandoned the project, they each worked on different parts of the game and without them we would not have this. In Latin America the Captain Tsubasa anime is known as “Super Campeones” (Super Champions). The Captain Tsubasa series, thanks to the anime and manga popularity, has had multiple videogame adaptations by multiples companies in multiple systems. These are all Captain Tsubasa videogames known so far. Famicom/ NES Captain Tsubasa (FC), Captain Tsubasa II: Super Striker, Tecmo Cup Soccer Game.
This is a list of characters who appear in anime, videogames and manga of Captain Tsubasa. Due to differences between anime, manga, and games of Captain Tsubasa, some characters appear only in one series.
- 1Characters
- 2Foreign players
- 3Tecmo Characters
Characters[edit]
Tsubasa Oozora[edit]
Tsubasa Oozora (大空 翼) is the main protagonist, a Japanese player who is the best football player in the world and wants to improve his football lessons. He plays for the Nankatsu team. Nankatsu team were playing bad but when Tsubasa came to the team, the Nankatsu team changed.Tsubasa's football teacher is Roberto Hongo.
Genzo Wakabayashi[edit]
Genzo Wakabayashi (若林 源三) is the secondary protagonist, and the first rival to Tsubasa in the series and considered Japan's greatest goalkeeper. He first played as Shutetsu's goalkeeper and became a rival to Tsubasa, but after a match between Nankatsu and Shutetsu, they became good friends. An injury forbids him from playing most of the national championships along with his teammates at Nankatsu, but he returns, helping the team in defeating Meiwa. Wakabayashi later leaves for Germany to play for Hamburg SV where he meets Karl-Heinz Schneider and Hermann Kaltz, the former whom becomes a rival to him. He's later recruited by Mikami to play for the U-16 World Cup in France, but only plays in the finals against West Germany since Ken Wakashimazu was injured. He also joins the U-20 Japanese team in the World Youth arc, but injuries on both hands caused by Stefan Levin and Bryan Cruyfford prevent him from playing any matches. Fully recovered after the match with Italy, he gets his revenge on Levin and Cruyfford in the matches against Sweden and Holland and also plays in the finals against Brazil, only to get injured in the second half and to be replaced by Wakashimazu. After a Bundesliga match between Hamburg and Schneider's Bayern Munich, he's suspended from playing any further matches. He joins the U-22 and Olympic Japanese teams in the Golden-23 and Rising Sun arcs after recovering from an injury in his eye.
Taro Misaki[edit]
Taro Misaki is a midfielder for the Japanese national team, who forms the Golden Combi with Tsubasa. He's the son of a landscape painter who travels around the world. Because his father is always travelling, he's unable to make long-term friends. Before meeting Tsubasa and the rest of the Nankatsu players, he played with Meiwa and Furano. During the national championship, he and Tsubasa became close friends aside from forming the Golden Combi. After winning the national championship, he left with his father to France, not wanting to live with his mother who had married another man and gave birth to a daughter. He reunites with Tsubasa in the International Junior Youth Tournament in France and also finds a rival in Pierre. He returns to Japan and plays for the Nankatsu team in high school for three years, only to lose three times for Toho Academy. In the World Youth arc, he's taken off from the team by Coach Gamo, but returns to the team after travelling around the world. Unfortunately before the World Youth, Misaki gets his left leg broken in a car accident while saving his half-sister. Despite his leg not being fully healed, he plays in the finals against Brazil, assisting in Tsubasa's hat-trick. He currently plays for Jubilo Iwata in the J-League and in the Golden-23 and Rising Sun arc, he plays for the U-22 and Olympic Japan teams.
Kojiro Hyuga[edit]
Kojiro Hyuga (日向 小次郎) is a forward and the ace striker for the Japanese national team. Coming from a poor family from Okinawa, Hyuga lost his father at a young age so he had to take part-time jobs to help out his family. Although he can be quite hot-headed and arrogant, he's a very nice person, particularly towards his family and his teammates Takeshi Sawada and Ken Wakashimazu. After losing the elementary school tournament against Nankatsu, Hyuga, along with Sawada and Wakashimazu, joins Toho Academy, but fails to win the middle school tournament two times, only managing to get a win, sharing it with Nankatsu. He's recruited for the U-16 Japanese team and plays in all the matches, scoring the most goals. Later in high school, he wins three consecutive tournaments for Toho. He's taken off from the U-20 Japan team because he lacked post play. Aside from developing post play, he creates the Raiju Shoot, a shoot more powerful than his Tiger Shoot and develops a relationship with Maki Akamine, a softball player. He returns to the team and plays in the subsequent matches of the Asian preliminaries and the World Youth. He then signs a contract with Juventus F.C. but is taken off the team because of his poor balance and is loaned to Reggiana from Serie C.
Hikaru Matsuyama[edit]
Hikaru Matsuyama (松山 光) is either a defender or a midfielder for the Japanese national team. Whenever Tsubasa isn't playing for the Japan, he'll serve as captain. He first appeared in the national tournament as the captain of Furano and faced off against Meiwa in the semi-finals, but lost because his shoot was stopped by Ken Wakashimazu. A few years later, he fought against Tsubasa's Nankatsu in the semi-finals, but lost once again. Matsuyama's then selected for the U-16 Japan team and serves as captain after a disaster match against Hamburg SV, only to give the captain to Tsubasa. He continues to play for Furano in high school and begins to date Yoshiko Fujisawa (who had left for the United States because of her father's work). During the hard times of the Japan U-20 team, he contributes a lot to the team so that they don't fall apart. During the battle of World youth arc, he was the first to find out about RF7 challenge set by Gamo. He's absent for most of the quarter-finals match against Sweden because Yoshiko was involved in a car accident, but returns to replace an injured Akai Tomeya and has a key in helping Japan win. In the Road to 2002 series, he plays for Consadole Sapporo and ties against Misugi, who now plays for FC Tokyo.
In Golden 23, Matsuyama was selected in the Japanese Olympics team as the captain. Coach Kira put a lot of trust in him, Misaki and Misugi, called the '3M' (3 Shooting Stars) of U-22 Japan, allowing them to handle the team's balance. He believed that Matsuyama's leadership would be important during the Asian preliminaries tournament.
Shingo Aoi[edit]
Shingo Aoi (葵 新伍) is a midfielder for the Japanese national team that forms the Golden Trio with Tsubasa and Misaki. He wanted to quit soccer after his team Nakahara FC lost against Nankatsu, but Tsubasa urged him not to. He joins Inter Juniors, but with the exception of goalkeeper Gino Hernandez and the kit manager Calimero, no one likes him and bully him so that he can leave. They finally accept him when he helps them win a match. Coach Minato Gamo of Japan U-20 calls him to help Japan in the first rounds of the Asian Tournament, claiming him to be his trump card. He remains a valuable member throughout the World Youth arc. He forms a rivalry with Salvatore Gentile, who's considered to be Italy's greatest líbero. He's disappointed when Italy's unable to defeat Uruguay because Hernandez and Gentile were injured by Ryoma Hino's Tornado Shoot. In the match against Italy, he plays full force that Hernandez and Gentile decide to play in the last minutes. In the final match against Brazil, he forms a trio with Tsubasa and Misaki. After Japan's win in the World Youth, he's bought by FC Albese from Serie C because he couldn't secure a place in Inter Milan. In the final match of Serie C, he faces off against Hyuga, who's playing for Reggiana, and although he fights with all he has, he loses. He's currently playing for Olympic Japan in the Rising Sun arc.
Ryo Ishizaki[edit]
Ryo Ishizaki (石崎 了) is a Japanese player first introduced as Nankatsu's captain. His position is that of a defense and often tends to block a ball with his face.Voice: Danilo Diniz (in Brazil)
Jun Misugi[edit]
Jun Misugi (三杉 淳, Misugi Jun) is a Japanese player who's first introduced as a prodigy from the Musashi high school soccer team. Despite being one of the most skilled Japanese players of his generation, Misugi is pushed back by a heart disease that makes him only work for few time per matches. It's said that if Misugi wasn't hampered by his heart disease, he would have been the best Japanese player, even better than Tsubasa. He overcomes his heart disease by not playing for three years during high school and becomes a valuable player for the Japanese team in the Asian preliminaries and in the World Youth. At first, he played for Bellmare Hiratsuka, but then joined FC Tokyo. In the J-League, he faces off against Consadole Sapporo, led by Matsuyama, but they tie and both acknowledge each other's skills. He's currently playing for Olympic Japan in the Madrid Olympics soccer tournament and is engaged to his girlfriend Yayoi Aoba.
Ken Wakashimazu[edit]
Ken Wakashimazu (若島津 健) is one of the reserve goalkeepers and a forward for Japan. The son of a dojo owner, he uses his karate skills and speed as a goalkeeper. He helps Meiwa defeat Furano in the semi-finals of the national tournament, but loses to Nankatsu in the finals. Along with Takeshi Sawada, he joins Kojiro Hyuga to the Toho Academy where they lose two championships to Nankatsu, but manage to win the third, sharing the win with the other team. He's recruited to be part of the U-16 Japan team that will participate in the U-16 World Cup in France. During a match against Hamburg SV, he suffers an injury that only gets worse in the semi-finals against France. He later continues to play for Toho and is selected to be part of the U-20 team, but after refusing to be a reserve goalkeeper for Wakabayashi, he leaves the team to play for the Yokohama Fluegels in the J-League but later returns to the team, playing in the matches against Mexico, Uruguay and Italy. He currently plays for the Nagoya Grampus Eight and plays as a forward for the U-22 and Olympic Japan teams (something that Coach Kira always wanted, a two-top with Hyuga).
Takeshi Sawada[edit]
Takeshi Sawada (沢田 タケシ) is a midfielder and one of the youngest members for the Japanese national team. During the national championship, he serves as vice captain for Meiwa FC and later serves a more important role for Toho Academy when Hyuga was forbidden to play. Although he is two years younger than the majority of the others, he joins the U-16, U-20 and Olympic Japanese teams. He plays for Urawa Red Diamonds, along with Hayato Igawa, who's Japan's best libero. Takeshi had captained the U-19 side to win the U-19 Asian youth championship.
Shun Nitta[edit]
Shun Nitta (新田 瞬) is a forward for the Japanese national team known for his Hayabusa Shoot and one of the fastest characters in the series. Originally, he played for Nankatsu in elementary school, but in middle school, he played for Otomo along with Urabe, Kishida, Nakayama and Nishio, who also played for Nankatsu. They face off against Nankatsu in the finals of the regional tournament but lose 1 to 3. Nitta is then chosen for the U-16 Japanese team, playing against Italy, Argentina and West Germany. He returns to play for Nankatsu in high school and is later invited to play for U-20 Japan. He's taken off from the team because of his incapability to shoot with both legs after losing to Real Japan 7, but returns to the team. After the World Youth tournament, he plays for Kashiwa Reysol and is currently playing for Olympic Japan.
The Tachibana Twins[edit]
Kazuo (立花 和夫) and Masao (立花 政夫) Tachibana are twins who play as forwards in their years at Hanawa, but later play as midfielders for the Japanese national team. They're known for their acrobatic skills, particularly the Skylab Hurricane. These acrobatic techniques proved to be an annoyance for Nankatsu in the elementary and middle school championships, but Tsubasa managed to beat the twins two times. They are later recruited for the Japan U-16 team, but get injured after doing the Skylab Twin Shoot with Jito in the match with Argentina although they later play against France. Years later, when Japan loses to Real Japan 7, Coach Minato Gamo takes them off the team under the assumption that the twins can't play without depending on one another. Much like with the other players that lost their position in the team, they regain them. They play for JEF Ichihara and sacrifice themselves in the final match against Australia in the Golden-23 arc.
Makoto Soda[edit]
Makoto Soda (早田 誠) is a defender for the Japanese national team known for his Kamisori Shoot and his violent style of playing, that he injured Tsubasa in the match between his team Azumaichi and Nankatsu. He's chosen to represent Japan in the World Cup in Paris, playing in the matches against Italy and Argentina, but gets expelled in the match against France. He suffers another expulsion when he's taken off from Japan U-20 by Minato Gamo because he only has the Kamisori Shoot. He returns to the team though, having developed the Kamisori Pass. He plays for Gamba Osaka and is now representing Olympic Japan.
Hiroshi Jito[edit]
Hiroshi Jito (次藤 洋) is a player who plays as a defender for the Japanese national team due to his large size and build. He originally fought hand-to-hand combat but grew bored of it and was convinced by Mitsuru Sano to play soccer because of Tsubasa. Although he loses to Tsubasa, he's chosen to play for Japan in the Paris World Junior Cup, playing in all of the matches. Minato Gamo later expels him from the team because he's too slow to be a soccer player. In the matches against China and Saudi Arabia, he marks Fei Xiang and Vulcan, the tallest players of the respective teams. His club team is Avispa Fukuoka and he currently is a member of Olympic Japan.
Mitsuru Sano[edit]
Mitsuru Sano (佐野 滿) is a midfielder for Japan and one of the smallest players in the team alongside Nitta and the Tachibana twins. During his years at Hirado, he formed the Hirado Combi with Jito, and while this combi proved to be excellent, Nankatsu beat Hirado in the quarter-finals of the national middle school tournament. He has played for the U-16, U-20 and U-22 Japanese teams and is currently playing for Olympic Japan in the Madrid Olympics while he plays for Avispa Fukuoka in the J-League alongside Jito.
Kazuki Sorimachi[edit]
Kazuki Sorimachi (反町 一樹) is a forward for the Japanese national team that plays for Vissel Kobe in the J-League. At Toho Academy, he formed a two-top combination with Hyuga, but when the latter is unable to play in any matches of the middle school tournament, Sorimachi served as the ace striker for the team. He's a substitute member for the U-16, U-20, U-22 and the Olympic Japan teams.
Mamoru Izawa[edit]
Mamoru Izawa (井沢 守) is a midfielder for the Japanese national team, Nankatsu, Shutetsu and for Yokohama F. Marinos in the J-League. At Shutetsu and at Nankatsu, he forms a trio with Teppei Kisugi and Hajime Taki, where they passed the ball to one another at fast paces. Although he's primarily a midfielder, he has proven several times to be a good defender.
Teppei Kisugi[edit]
Teppei Kisugi (来生 哲兵) is a substitute member for the Japanese national team and plays as a forward. He forms the Shutetsu Trio with Izawa and Taki and forms the Silver Combi with Taki. Although he's a member for the Japan team, he rarely gets the chance to play, only playing in the matches of the first round of the Asian preliminaries and in the match against Denmark in the Golden-23 arc. He plays for Cerezo Osaka in the J-League.
Hajime Taki[edit]
Hajime Taki (滝 一) is a forward for the Japanese national team. Along with Izawa and Kisugi, he forms the Shutetsu Trio and the Silver Combi with Kisugi, his childhood friend. He only plays for Japan in the matches of the first round of the Asian preliminaries in the World Youth arc and in the match against Denmark in the Golden-23 arc.
Shingo Takasugi[edit]
Shingo Takasugi (高杉 真吾) is a defender for the Japanese national team known for his tall build. He played for Nankatsu in his middle and high school years, but as a senior, he plays for Sanfrecce Hiroshima. He has a good vision since he's the only one that realizes that Tsubasa gets injured in the match against Azumaichi.
Yuzo Morisaki[edit]
Yuzo Morisaki (森崎 有三) is the third goalkeeper for the Japanese national team. When his idol Wakabayashi gets injured, he serves as the starting goalkeeper for Nankatsu SC and becomes the regular goalkeeper for the team after Wakabayashi leaves for West Germany. Although he's not on the level of Wakabayashi and Wakashimazu, he has proven himself to be a good goalkeeper, injuring himself to stop Thailand from scoring a potential fifth goal.
Roberto Hongo[edit]
Roberto Hongo is an Adult Brazil football player friend of Tsubasa's father. His career ended because of an accident who compromised his sight. His confidence shattered he started to drink heavily, but when he saw Tsubasa playing football, he was very surprised and found hi. Roberto became Tsubasa's football teacher, teaching Tsubasa how to do new tricks. Back in Brazil he became the coach of the Brazilian national team at the World Youth, and then was promoted as assistant in the senior Team.
Foreign players[edit]
Gino Hernandez[edit]
Gino Hernandez is the captain and goalkeeper for the Italian national team. His team faces off against Japan in the first match in the World Cup in Paris, where he shows his incredible goalkeeper skills. However, Japan manages to score two goals at him, defeating Italy. Having suffered an injury from Hyuga's Tiger Shoot, he's unable to play against Argentina, who eliminates Italy from the tournament. He meets Shingo Aoi and they become close friends. In the World Youth arc, he's injured along with líbero Salvatore Gentile by Ryoma Hino's Tornado Shoot in the match against Uruguay. Despite his injuries, he plays in the final group match against Japan in the last minutes of the second half, but loses by 4-0. He currently plays for Inter Milan.
Juan Díaz[edit]
Juan Díaz is the captain and a midfielder for the Argentinian national team. He's best friends with Alan Pascal, who's he known since childhood and form a combo together. His team easily beats Italy in the World Cup in France due to their goalkeeper Gino Hernandez being injured, but loses to Japan in the next round. He later takes part in the Argentinian team in the World Youth, beating Ghana and South Korea in the group stages, but loses to Netherlands in the final group stage and to Germany in the quarter-finals. It's later revealed that he wasn't in the best condition in the World Youth due to injuries that he got in the Argentinian league. After recovering from his injuries, he wins the Copa Libertadores for Boca Juniors and will join SSC Napoli. In the Rising Sun arc, he's the captain for the Olympic Argentina team. His team defeats Nigeria and Netherlands, but loses to Japan, but still manages to qualify for the quarter-finals.
Elle Sid Pierre[edit]
Elle Sid Pierre (エル・シド・ピエール) is the captain and a midfielder for the French national team, known for his elegant playstyle. A child of a rich family, Pierre never felt comfortable about his sheltered lifestyle, and decided to take up football following his belief that everyone is on equal standing in the pitch. His country serves as the host for the U-16 World Cup. Along with forward Louis Napoleon, he forms the Eiffel Offensive. France beats England and Malaysia, but lose to Japan in the semi-finals in an intense match that ends with Japan winning a penalty kick shootout. He returns in the World Youth arc as the captain of the U-20 team, beating Cameroon and Saudi Arabia, but losing to Brazil and Netherlands. Recently, he's the captain for the Olympic France team.
Louis Napoleon[edit]
Louis Napoleon is the ace striker and a forward for the French national team that is quite violent and hot-headed. Despite his behavior, he's an excellent striker that forms the Eiffel Offensive along with Elle Sid Pierre, the captain of the French team. In the matches against England and Malaysia, he scores hat-tricks. In the semi-finals against Japan, he fails to score during the penalty kick shootout. He also played for the French team in the World Youth and is currently playing for Olympic France.
Ramón Victorino[edit]
Ramón Victorino is the forward and captain for the Uruguaian national team, known as the Black Panther of South America because of his ability to run 100 meters in 11 seconds, making him one of the fastest characters in the series. His team defeats Belgium and Spain in the group stages of the world tournament in France, but loses to West Germany in the semi-finals because of Deuter Muller. He's the only player from the U-16 Uruguay team to stay in the U-20 team, where he forms a combo with Ryoma Hino. In the group stages of the World Youth, Uruguay beats Italy and Mexico, but loses to Japan in the second round. They are disqualified from the tournament after losing to Brazil in the quarter-finals. He joins SV Werder Bremen and plays in the Bundesliga opening match against Hamburg SV, but fails to score a goal.
Karl-Heinz Schneider[edit]
The captain and ace striker for the German national team and one of Genzo Wakabayashi's greatest rivals, being able to score a goal at him outside the penalty area. He's the captain of the West Germany team in the Paris World Cup, defeating Canada, Portugal and Uruguay, scoring a hat-trick in all three matches. He faces off against Wakabayashi in the finals against Japan, but despite scoring two goals, Japan wins the tournament. His parents, who were separate, reconcile with one another. Originally from Hamburg SV, he joins Bayern Munich. In the World Youth arc, Germany (who had been reunified) beats Cameroon and the United States in Group B, but loses to Sweden in the final group stage by 3-5. In that match, Sweden captain Stefan Levin injures Schneider and goalkeeper Deuter Muller with his deadly Levin Shoot. Nevertheless, Germany manages to pass the group stages and defeats Argentina in the quarter-finals, but loses to Brazil in the semi-finals. In the Road to 2002 arc, he gets another showdown against Wakabayashi where he wins by scoring a goal while Hamburg SV's goal area was unprotected. He currently plays for the Olympic Germany team.
Carlos Santana[edit]
Carlos Santana is a forward for the Brazilian national team. As a baby, he was abandoned by his mother in a basket and was adopted by an old couple that were later killed in a car accident. With no relatives, Barsole Bara, the owner of Bara FC, decided to adopt him and train him 24 hours. There, Santana met Leo, who became best friends with him. He reclaims his freedom from Bara and joins CR Flamengo along with Leo, but retains Bara's soccer, an emotionless type of soccer. In a match that will determine who will be champion of the Brazilian National Championship, Santana faces off against Tsubasa. Despite his skills, he loses to Tsubasa, but he regains his old soccer back, a soccer where he trusts everyone else and realizes that he's not alone anymore. He, Leo and Tsubasa's partner Pepe join the Brazilian national team coached by Roberto Hongo, who refuses to give him the number 10 shirt because he has already found his number 10. In the World Youth, Brazil easily beats Cameroon, Saudi Arabia, France, Argentina and Germany, with Santana scoring hat-tricks in every match, but loses to Japan in the finals. Nevertheless, Santana is reunited with his biological mother and wins the title of best scorer in the tournament. He currently plays for Valencia CF and for the Olympic Brazil team where he forms a trio with Natureza and Rivaul. His first appearance was in the videogame Captain Tsubasa Vol. II: Super Striker
Natureza[edit]
Natureza is a former villager from Brazil who was found by Roberto Hongo. Convinced by the former player to join Brazil Youth display his gifted football skills in civilization, Natureza became team's secret most valuable player. However, he does not appear in the manga until World Youth's finale where Japan Youth is about to defeat Brazil. Roberto puts him on the field, allowing him to tie the game. In the last minutes, Tsubasa Oozora manages to make Japan win, giving Natureza the desire to beat his new found rival in Spain. In Road to 2002, Natureza has become a member of Real Madrid. Natureza is considered to be an adaption of the Tecmo character Coimbra, who gets the same role in Captain Tsubasa 2.
Rivaul [edit]
Rivaul is a Brazilian player, known as the most best one from Barcelona FC. He is introduced in Road to 2002 guiding the rookie Tsubasa. During a match, Rivaul is injured, making Tsubasa taking his place for the classic against Real Madrid. As Madrid takes the upper hand, Riavul returns to the match to assist Tsubasa and the team to win the match. In following series, Rivaul befriends the Real Madrid player Naturezza who is aiming to form a combination team with him for the Brazilian team.
Singprasert Bunnaak[edit]
Bunnaak is the captain and a defender for the Thailand national team. Originally a Muay Thai fighter, he became a soccer player because the stadium is larger than the ring. Although Thailand proves to be a powerful team due to the combined effort of Bunnark and the Konsawatt Brothers, Japan beats them by 5-4. He later joins Atlético de Madrid and serves as captain for the U-22 Thailand team, but fails to get past the third round of the Asian preliminaries for the Madrid Olympics.
Mark Owairan[edit]
Owairan is the captain and a defender for the Saudi Arabian national team. He's the descendant of the royal family, but he feels uncomfortable with his life, resorting to play soccer. His team is considered to have the best defense in Asia due to the Antlion Larva Pit Defense tactic. In the Asian 2nd round preliminaries, Saudi Arabia defeats Uzbekistan, United Arab Emirates and China, but loses to Japan and South Korea. Saudi Arabia still manages to get a spot in the World Youth, but loses to Brazil and France and manages a tie with Cameroon.
Xiao Junguang[edit]
Xiao Junguang is a midfielder for the Chinese national team and their secret weapon. While he manages to score a goal at Wakabayashi outside the penalty area, China still loses to Japan in a match of the Asian preliminaries. Because of his injury, he's unable to play in the match against Saudi Arabia, who eliminates China from the preliminaries. He then signs a contract with FC Bayern Munich where he plays alongside Schneider and Levin.
Ricardo Espadas[edit]
Ricardo Espadas is the goalkeeper and captain of the Mexico national team. As a kid, he lived in the slums of Mexico City along with García, Saragosa, Alvez, Suárez and López. Since they had no ball, they had to play with a ball made of clothes. After overcoming his poverty, he became captain of the Mexican team. The first team they face in the World Youth is Japan and while they prove to be a fierce opponent, they lose to Japan by 1-2. They are eliminated from the tournament since they had a draw against Italy and two losses against Japan and Uruguay. Espadas currently plays for Everton and in the Rising Sun, played for Olympic Mexico, who was eliminated from the tournament by Olympic Spain.
Stefan Levin[edit]
Stefan Levin is the captain and a midfielder for the Swedish national team. One year before the events of the World Youth tournament, his fianceé Katarina Karen died from a car crash. This made him become a cold and heartless person and fulfill his wish of becoming the best soccer player in the world. He signs for 1FC Koln and in a match against Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga, he injures Genzo Wakabayashi with his deadly Levin Shoot. In the World Youth, Sweden ties against Colombia and the United States in order to avoid playing against Brazil in the knockout matches. Levin finally plays in the match against Germany and injures Karl Heinz Schneider and Deuter Muller with his Levin Shoot, winning against Germany by 5-3. In the quarter-finals against Japan, Levin finds himself unable to shake free from Akai Tomeya, who's replacing Hikaru Matsuyama because the latter's girlfriend was injured in a car accident. Akai blocks many of Levin's powerful shoots but this causes him grave injuries. Levin eventually realizes the error of his ways once Tsubasa tells him that he would never use the ball to hurt his opponents and that Karen wouldn't have liked the kind of soccer he plays now. While Sweden plays with all its might, Japan beats Sweden by 1 goal during extra time. Despite losing, Levin decides to keep on playing soccer and signs a contract with Bayern Munich.
Brian Kluivoort[edit]
Brian Kluivoort is the captain and midfielder for the Dutch national team. He had an older brother who died in a tragic car accident. He's picked for the Netherlands national team by scoutman Denis Kramer, who later passes away. Cruyfford injures Genzo Wakabayashi in a match with Germany and wins by 3-1. Netherlands then easily beats Japan in two friendly matches. After Japan beats Netherlands by 10-1 with the help of Tsubasa Ozora, Cruyfford swears to make them pay in the World Youth. Netherlands defeats Argentina, South Korea and Ghana in the group stages of Group C and beats France in the quarter-finals. In the semi-finals against Japan, Cruyfford meets Wakabayashi once again but this time fails to score a goal, losing to Japan by 1 goal during extra-time. In the Rising Sun arc, he was the captain for Olympic Netherlands, but lost to Olympic Japan and Olympic Argentina and was disqualified. He'll play for Manchester United after winning Eredvisie two times with Ajax.
Michael[edit]
Michael is a midfielder who plays for the Spanish national team. As a young boy, he was raised at the Monteserrat Church and there was taught soccer by Juanito, the bishop from the church. The bishop died ten years later, but before he passed away, he told Michael he could do whatever he likes. After seeing two matches between Barcelona and Real Madrid (the teams in which Tsubasa and Natureza play), he decides to sign a contract with CF Numancia. With him, Numancia defeats Real Madrid and Valencia. He's currently playing for Olympic Spain in the Madrid Olympics. He is considered a genius as he was the second player hold Naturezza, who is supposedly a prodigy, after Tsubasa.
Tecmo Characters[edit]
The characters listed here are non-canon to the manga. The Tecmo game series is takes place in an alternate reality to the manga.
Characters drawn by Takahashi[edit]
This is a list of characters that were created and drawn by Yoichi Takahashi himself.
Babington[edit]
Babington is Tsubasa's teammate from Captain Tsubasa 2 to Captain Tsubasa 3, and is the only Argentinian player of Sao Paulo FC . In Captain Tsubasa 4 he doesn't play for Sao Paulo, but is still seen playing for Argentina. However, he doesn't appear in Captain Tsubasa 5.
Doutor[edit]
Doutor (mistranslated as Dottil in the English rom of Captain Tsubasa Vol.II: Super Striker), is a Brazilian player who plays for Sao Paulo from Captain Tsubasa 2 to 3. In Captain Tsubasa 4 he leaves Sao Paulo alongside Amaral another Brazilian player he combines with. Like Babington, he's not seen in the fifth game.
Macher[edit]
Macher is a player who appears in the first game and its sequel. He's not seen again till the Mega CD game
Stratto[edit]
Stratto is the secondary protagonist of Captain Tsubasa 4, he is introduced as Tsubasa's rival and teammate, later on in the game, they become friends. He develops a super shot called the 'Megaton Shot' in the early point of the game. In Captain Tsubasa 5 he's given a subdued role, but still has some importance in the story, he's seen in the first match of the 1994 Serie A of the main story, and is seen in the second part of Hyuga's chapter. After testing Hyuga, he cited that if he could use 100% of his strength, than he could become the strongest ace striker in the world.
Other notable characters[edit]
Leo
Pepe
Salinas
Herman Kaltz
Manfred Margus
Deuter Muller
Gentile
Ryoma Hino
Taichi Nakanishi
Pepe
Salinas
Herman Kaltz
Manfred Margus
Deuter Muller
Gentile
Ryoma Hino
Taichi Nakanishi
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The first video game adaptaion of Captain Tsubasa was made by Tecmo for Nintendo Famicom in 1988. The game adapts the second part of the original Manga, as the titular Tsubasa Ozora leads his Nankatsu Middle School's soccer club through a National Tournament against Hyuga Kojiro's Toho FC, toward the finale of U-16 World Cup division in France against West Germany Youth Jr. The American adaptation of the game is made in 1992 under the name Tecmo Cup: Soccer Game, which was heavily altered and censored because of an Americanization policy.
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The game is known for its innovation of 'Soccer RPG' or 'Soccer Simulation' genre where a match is played in cinematic nature, as you input commands via menus for the players to do several actions then watch the outcomes. Winning a match levels up your team and lets you proceed to another match. Losing results in either rewinding into playing with the previous team or replay the same match with your team slightly leveled up. The game was positively reviewed, though in 1990, the sequel Captain Tsubasa Vol.II: Super Striker was released only in Japan, and was considered a huge improvement in the previous game, with heavily improved gameplay and pace as well as its own Alternate Universe story line that depicts its own version of the World Youth arc of the manga back when the manga only existed in loose concepts of characters and plot. Captain Tsubasa 2 was a huge Cult Classic among fans, and Tecmo spanned six more games toward the end of 1994.
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In 1995, Bandai was given the rights to make two games based on Captain Tsubasa J, but ended up with horrible quality. On the other hand, Konami established several of its own games based on the manga with better quality, albeit with mixed opinions among each game. Throughout the 2000s, several games were created to cover the original manga, Road to 2002, and the Golden 23 arc. The most recent Captain Tsubsasa game was a Japanese web social game called Captain Tsubasa - Tsukurou Dream Team in 2011, using the basic concept of Tecmo's system with the ability to customize your team to compete with other users online, or participate in a single player campaign mode.
The list of Tecmo's Captain Tsuabasa video games including:
- Captain Tsubasa (1988 - Famicom) / Tecmo Cup: Soccer Game (1992 - NES)
- Captain Tsubasa Vol.II: Super Striker (1990 - Famicom)
- Captain Tsubasa III: Koutei no Chousen (1992 - Super Famicom)
- Captain Tsubasa VS (1992- Game Boy)
- Captain Tsubasa IV: Pro no Rival Tachi (1993 - Super Famicom)
- Tecmo Cup: Football Game (1993 - Sega Genesis)
- Captain Tsubasa (1994 - Mega CD)
- Captain Tsubasa V: Hasha no Shōgō Campione (1994 - Super Famicom)
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The list of Bandai's Captain Tsuabasa video games including:
- Captain Tsubasa J: The Way to World Youth (1995 - Super Famicom)
- Captain Tsubasa J: Zenkoku Seiha Heno Chōsen (1995 - GameBoy)
- Captain Tsubasa (2006 - PlayStation 2)
The list of Konami's Captain Tsuabasa video games including:
- Captain Tsubasa J: Get In The Tomorrow (1995 - PlayStation)
- Captain Tsubasa: Ōgon Sedai no Chōsen (2002 - Nintendo GameCube)
- Captain Tsubasa: Aratanaru Densetsu Josho (2002 - PlayStation)
- Captain Tsubasa: Eikō no Kiseki (2002 - Game Boy Advance)
- Captain Tsubasa: New Kick Off (2010 - Nintendo DS)
The list of other Captain Tsuabasa video games including:
- Captain Tsubasa: Jikkyo Typing (2003 - PC)
- Captain Tsubasa Mini-game (Mobile)
- Captain Tsubasa: Golden-23-Asia Gekito Hen (Mobile)
- Captain Tsubasa: Nankatsu vs. Toho (Mobile)
- Captain Tsubasa - Tsukurou Dream Team (2011)
- Captain Tsubasa - Dream Team (Android and iOS) (2017)
Touhou fandom also made an Affectionate Parody video game based on Captain Tsubasa 2, entitled: Touhou Soccer Moushuuden on PC.
Tecmo's Captain Tsubasa video game series contains examples of the following tropes:
- The Ace: Team captains have a lot better stats than regular players.
- Achilles' Heel: Meon is weak against air balls, leading Tsubasa into developing Drive Overhead Shoot.
- Artificial Stupidity: Easier opponent teams will refuse to shoot even when it's the best chance to score; instead, they will play around by passing and throughing. Allowing your players to try to intercept the ball.
- Alternate Universe: Subverted on the first game which was according to the manga. However played straight from CT 2 onwards.
- However in the Sega version, the Konami version, the Bandai ones and Dream Team this goes according to the manga.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Cyclone costs 400 Guts, and heavily injures Tsubasa's leg in 3.
- Subverted initially, but later played straight with Wakashimazu's Abiseregui. In the 3rd and 4th game is a very powerful technique that can save a lot of ocassions, however on the 5th game this technique es dangerous.
- Some Punches techniques in Captain Tsubasa Dream Team. Despite they are cheaper and more effective, the chance to end to the opponent is very high.
- Badass Boast: Schneider in 3 boasts of his team members being top ranked at the kickoff against Germany Youth... then he blasts you with his Neo-Fire Shoot.
- In Dream Team this is used when is about to start the Full Power Mode.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Ishizaki and Yoko Katagiri
- 'Blind Idiot' Translation: An incompleted Captain Tsubasa V's patch 'Boy's Soccer Team 5' has an incredibly amount of Engrish, mistakes Misugi for Misaki, and calls Shun Nitta 'Shinta'.
- Boring, but Practical, one-two passes combinations, particularly Tsubasa-Misaki's Golden Combi and Tachibana Bros' Gemini Attack. They can be exectute from anwhere (in opposed to normal 1-2s that require two players close to each other) and cost low guts, allowing you sip pass the opponent's lines easily.
- Passes are on the same boat too. They are not good looking, but they are effective. The only exceptions are the Drive Pass on Captain Tsubasa 3 and 4 and the Tiger Pass on 5 since both can send to fly the opponents.
- Butt-Monkey: Morisaki is this to the memetic level, because his stat is so poor he can hardly catch anything.
- Averted sightly on Captain Tsubasa from Sega CD where he actually can stop regular shots and some weak special shots, however he can't stop any special shots from the main characters.
- Doleman suffers from this in Dream Team,he is often listed as one of the worst keepers in the game and he is helpless without his duth partners.
- Can't Catch Up: While regular players do have chances against the opponents, those chances wear thinner and thinner as Difficulty Spike starts telling you only a few key players can score effectively.
- Wakashimazu suffers from this on Captain Tsubasa V.
- It get worse on Captain Tsubasa Dream Team.
- Chilly Reception: Pro leagues don't accept Japanese players so easily. The same applies to the rest of the asians.
- Combat Commentator: Or in this case, a Soccer Commentator, Who is totally biased against your team.
- Critical Hit Class: Wakabayashi, since he doesn't have a special save, he has high critical rate instead.
- Actually before Captain Tsubasa V there is a chance (which seems 5%) where any player can do an critical move like: dribble, pass, shot, head shot, volley shot, tackle or block and is being notified. In Captain Tsubasa V it got lowered even more (seems to be only 3%), but shows impressive animations and even better stats boost (while previously a critical shot can be as strong as a Banana Shot, in Captain Tsubasa V is as strong as a Drive Shot).
- In Captain Tsubasa Dream Team it might be classified into 3 kind of Critical hits: silver, gold and rainbow which gives different boosts.
- The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: AI has infinite Guts
- Computer gets a lot of luck when attacking and easily get the ball you punched away quickly. Sometimes, CPU will keep spamming attacks until it eventually score.
- The CPU is also willing to abuse the 'no offside' rule. If your team is far up, it may pass the ball toward the striker in the position no one in your team can catch up with.
- However this is inverted in Captain Tsubasa V: the CPU team does consume guts, but at 50% of the real cost. Also the player can now use the offside trap against the CPU team, so you can tire them and score them easier. However that doesn't work well with some character like Scheneider, Alexion or Arantes since their stats are high enough to screw the team way more than the others.
- Cultural Translation: The two Tecmo Cup games.
- Cute Sports Club Manager: Katagiri's younger sister Youko.
- 11th-Hour Superpower: Musashi FC's Misugi plays only in the second half, though he's powerful enough to makes things even worse for you.
- Same goes with Brazil Youth's Coimbra.
- Inverted to the hell with Ramcane from Belgium in Captain Tsubasa III. He becames so weak that even Morisaki has better stats than him!
- In Captain Tsubasa Dream Team there are some excellent players like Cha Incheon from South Korea which have excellent techniques, but consumes so much that they are only recommended to use by 2nd time or the suplementary time.
- Expy: Tecmo Cup games have cast which reflects the original cast.
- Evil Costume Switch: Like in the manga, Roberto wears black eyeglasses when he manages the Brazilian Youth team.
- Face–Heel Turn: Nitta in 5
- Fast Ball Special: Aside from the Tachibana Bros, China Youth have the Li Brothers that can do powerful air shot in a similar acrobatic fashion.
- The Mexican team from the Captain Tsubasa Dream Team has similar techniques.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Captain Tsubasa VS takes place during the childhood arc, but somehow you get to play the World Cup, and even against the international all star team at the end of the game.
- Glass Cannon: While Misugi's one of the better players, his gut consumes is also higher, and it simply drops to 0 after awhile.
- It applies to some players like Cha Incheon on Captain Tsubasa Dream Team.
- Harder Than Hard: By the 2's midgame, Sao Paolo FC is pit against All Japan Youth. Sao Paolo has only Tsubasa, while Japan are made of every best player of Japan except Wakabayashi.
- Taken to a literal extreme in the match between Sao Paulo vs Milan in Captain Tsubasa IV, scenario 2. Only 2 players can beat the GK (Tsubasa and Ishizaki), while the rest of the team, including the defense can beat your GK!
- This is averted on the scenario 3 since you have Strattos too and since his shot is strong enough to defeat the GK, this is easier to win. Still, both are considered the hardest matches from Captain Tsubasa history.
- And this just get worse in the Bonus Match against Canarias Stars from CT 5.
- In Captain Tsubasa Dream Team there is the Extreme difficulty that makes the rest like a child play. The Hidden Abilities and the EX stages are even harder.
- Taken to a literal extreme in the match between Sao Paulo vs Milan in Captain Tsubasa IV, scenario 2. Only 2 players can beat the GK (Tsubasa and Ishizaki), while the rest of the team, including the defense can beat your GK!
- Hopeless Boss Fight: Dream FC vs Hamburg in Tecmo Cup: Football Game. You can't really do much because you're underleveled.
- Married to the Job: The main angst involving Sanae is that, unlike in Road to 2002 manga, Tsubasa leaves her behind in Japan while he continues playing soccer in Brazil and Italy. (Though this is taken from the original manga, when Tsubasa left after graduating from junior high.)
- Nintendo Hard: Nearly ALL the games from the series are really infamous for this. The difficulty spike is so big that most of the matches after the 1st one will be harder than expected.
- Overrated And Under Leveled: Wakabayashi. While his stats are indeed better than Wakashimazu, the difficulty and his gameplay style which relies on critical catches make him somewhat less reliable during the middle of the game, when Wakashimazu's Sankoku Tobi is still an effective method to catch things.
- By the time he is the preferred keeper in the last portion of the game, Wakabayashi tends to get overwheimed by powerful shots to the point a player have to rely more on punching, and even then an unlucky shoot made by a Mook may get pass him. So much for the SGGK.
- However this is inverted in Captain Tsubasa V where Wakashimazu is really weaker than Wakabayashi in most of the ocassions and even Wakabayashi can stop the Star Boost from Alexion. And to make it better he can stop ALL THE SHOTS outside the Penalty area!!!
- By the time he is the preferred keeper in the last portion of the game, Wakabayashi tends to get overwheimed by powerful shots to the point a player have to rely more on punching, and even then an unlucky shoot made by a Mook may get pass him. So much for the SGGK.
- Recurring Character: Gill and Renato stay with Sao Paolo in every game the team present.
- Even more, Gill is the best attacker on their team (and one of the best overall) in Captain Tsubasa V if we don't consider the special techniques, beating even Nitta!!!. However Renato... is more like Morisaki by that moment.
- Those Two Guys: Doutor and Amaral, the featureless defenders in your team who actually become the members of the Final Boss squad.
- Sadly they didn't managed to appear in Captain Tsubasa V.
- SNK Boss: Milan Team from Captain Tsubasa IV Scenario II. The WHOLE Team is extremely strong, they have 2 players with unstopable special shots (Stratto and Pipin) and the rest of the team, including the defense are extremely strong and can defeat your GK. On the other side, you have only Tsubasa and Ishizaki who can beat their GK.
- And Captain Tsubasa V took this to a literal extreme with Canarias Stars, the Bonus Boss from this game. They seems to be normal players... but just check their stats... there are 3 players who can defeat ANY GK (including Muller and Savievic) without any effort: No.2 Leonidas with his Overhead Kick, No.15 Garrincha with just dribbling your GK and the most dangerous, No.10 Arantes with just doing a normal shot inside the PK area... outside the area, only Wakabayashi can resist this, but as for the rest... good luck. Oh and I forgot someone extremely important: their GK Gylmar can catch most of the shots even specials ones!!!