Yo Takahashi watched the 1978 World Cup in Argentina for the first time. Since then, he has fallen in love with soccer and hopes to promote the spread of soccer in Japan by drawing a soccer manga.
At that time, the Japanese were not interested in soccer at all. The Japanese national team lost to China in the 1982 World Cup qualifying match and their record was in shambles. China had neither decent soccer fields nor qualified soccer coaches. Japan's naturalized international footballer Ramos Zhu Wei once said, "If the Japanese people's soccer level is that of an elementary school student, then I am a doctor."
High school students the same age as Yo Takahashi are interested in soccer because Japan has a good foundation for school sports. But few high school students wanted to become professional players after the World Cup for one simple reason: no professional teams wanted them. Yang Takahashi realized that it was important for people to know what soccer should be like.
At that time, some Japanese soccer clubs and youth teams began to try to popularize soccer. In Shizuoka Prefecture, soccer was loved by both adults and children, which inspired Yo Takahashi. He then made up the name of the place in Shizuoka Prefecture, Minami-Katsushika City, in combination with Shizuoka Prefecture and his hometown, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, and used it as the location for the story.
Until Jiji Press (a Japanese publisher) agreed to publish Soccer Boys, Yo Takahashi was hitting a wall. Many Japanese publishers were not interested in the story content of Soccer Boys because baseball was too popular. Jiji Press had a poll asking the public which of Jiji Press's works was their favorite. As a result, Baseball Heroes by Shogakukan (another Japanese publisher) received the most votes, which made Tiburon determined to publish Soccer Boys.
However, Yoichi Takahashi did not follow the creative concepts given by Jiji Press when creating the manga. Jibinsha originally wanted Yoichi Takahashi's manga to reflect youth and fervor, but Yoichi Takahashi wanted the story of the main character, Okaeki, to begin with his attachment to soccer at the age of one. He wanted Okaeki to grow up a bit and use Okaeki's experience to help Japanese soccer grow. Years later, Yoichi Takahashi laments that the growth process of Oko Wing is also the growth process of Japanese soccer.
When Yoichi Takahashi created his early works, Jiji Press did not have a dedicated editor for him, and Yoichi Takahashi could not afford an assistant to help with the drawings, which made the soccer boy's drawings often criticized. For example, the characters' proportions are unbalanced, their expressions are one-dimensional, their hairstyles are simply designed, and the characters clash in such a way that you can't tell the difference between male and female. However, due to its excellent storytelling, it quickly became a staple of Jiji Press and was all the rage. After the anime, it also set a record for TV Tokyo's highest ratings of 21.2%.
Another reason for the popularity of Soccer Boys is that many of its characters are based on topical players of the time, which gives readers a strong sense of replacement. For example, Roberto Hongo, the retired Japanese-Brazilian footballer in the book, is based on Saikio Echigo and George, two Japanese-Brazilians who contributed greatly to the professionalization of Japanese soccer.
Over the course of the book, while Okaeki keeps moving towards his goal of becoming Japan's No. 1 (めざせ! Japan 1) this goal continues, he is never antagonistic with his opponents and develops deep friendships as he plays against different players. Yo Takahashi describes each character's experience in the most detailed way possible. For example, Cape Taro's story was later made into a collection of short stories.
As for the players of rival teams such as Kojiro Hyuga, Kin Ken Wakashima and Jun Mitsurugi, they also impress the readers, with Jun Mitsurugi once being more popular than Tsubasa Okuraya. In this way, the reader understands that soccer is a team sport and unity and cooperation is its soul.
Jun Misugi
In the 2019 streak, he was almost kicked to death by Germany's Schneider in order to steal the show
In the mid-1980s, Yo Takahashi began to shift the stage of the story from Japan to foreign countries, and the goals of Omakase and others shifted from being number one in Japan to being number one in the world. As a result, many foreign characters could advance to soccer players, and they had their own corresponding archetypes.
In addition to the aforementioned Schneider, France's Louis Napoleon was modeled after Platini, Sweden's Levon was modeled after Brolin (who was also featured in the Swedish manga, but there was no equivalent), and China's Xiao Junkuang was said to be modeled after Jia Xiuquan (since Jia was playing in Japan at the time). Yang Takahashi spends a lot of time giving Japanese readers an idea of what international soccer really looks like and the real gap between Japan and the top level of soccer.
With the wind of the World Cup in Korea and Japan, Soccer Boys-2001 animated a 2002 chapter, which became the last impression of Chinese fans because Soccer Boys' comic books were not synchronized in time in China. For the next decade, Chinese readers knew almost nothing about the updated progress of soccer players.
From today's aesthetic point of view, the plot of Soccer Boys does have a lot of problems. For example, in recent years, some characters have been added to the story based on active players. Since old characters cannot be removed, a player modeled after Rummenigge and a player modeled after Carlos may be in the same game. This Kwanzaa battlefield inevitably gives a sense of incongruity.
Then there's the soccer teenager storyline that always falls behind the team and then turns around to win thanks to the efforts of Wings Okaeki, which is a bit clichéd.
As a matter of fact, soccer juniors did bring victory to Japanese soccer.
Back in the late 1980s, after the soccer boys became popular, many kids dreamed of becoming the next big wing. To this day, there are still children who have such dreams. Saburo Kawabuchi, the godfather of Japanese soccer and former president of the Japan Football Association (JFA), also said during the development of the JFA program, "Soccer Boys also reflect the real expectations of the Japanese people for the level of Japanese soccer. What do we need to do to fulfill their expectations? How can we really make Big Sky emerge?"
You said yes ...... manual dog head + slanted eyes
Soccer boys portray a bright future for all Japanese. For decades, generations of Japanese soccer players have worked hard for this future. Everyone holds it in their hearts that "Success is not always in me, but success is always in me" and only in this way can Japanese soccer continue to grow and progress.
A few years ago, Yoichi Takahashi built a team named "Team Nango" in Tokyo based on the setting in the manga. At that time, many people said that Yoichi Takahashi broke the dimensional wall. Today, Japan's victory over Germany is no longer just an anime scene, but a reality. The world line in Soccer Boys (the serialization in recent years has been deliberately blurring the era of the book, after all, it was originally set in 71 years of birth of Okaeki, its life progress can not keep up with the times) and the current world line is ending at an alarming rate, even to catch up with the speed of progress of the Japanese men's soccer team.
The Centennial program has been implemented every step of the way, and Rostov's 14 seconds made the Japanese suffer for four years. With work ethic, humility, world class business development, everything the average person thinks should be there and not necessary, shouldn't a Japanese team like this, win Germany?
