The historical work Captain Tsubasa, known as Holly and Benji for the first voice-over of the last century, is still in progress. At the moment, manga artist Yoichi Takahashi is busy working on the sequel to Captain Tsubasa: Rising Sun, one of the many in the universe dedicated to the very strong Japanese midfielder.

In fact, there are many comics by Captain Tsubasa, but there was one in particular that caused quite a few problems for Yoichi Takahashi and his Japanese publisher Shueisha. On the occasion of the release of Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002, which was distributed on Weekly Young Jump in Japan between 2001 and 2004, the Mangaka thought of using official names and jerseys from private clubs around the worldespecially Europeans.

FIFA didn’t notice it until the games were over and ordered the mangaka and shueisha never to publish the manga outside of JapanOtherwise, they would have been forced to pay the high license costs for stadiums, jerseys, clubs and player names and allow these names to be used on Japanese territory. The The same applies to the sequels Captain Tsubasa: Golden 23 and Captain Tsubasa: Rising Sun.never published outside the Far Eastern Archipelago and stopping Tsubasa’s international story at World Youth.

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