Captain Tsubasa

About Captain Tsubasa

The passionate story of an elementary school student whose thoughts and dreams revolve almost entirely around the love of soccer. 11-year-old Tsubasa Oozora started playing football at a very young age, and while it was mostly just a recreational sport for his friends, for him, it developed into something of an obsession.

Captain Tsubasa is an animation and comedy series made for TV Tokyo and TV Aichi. Yuko Sanpei leads the cast as Tsubasa Oozora (voice), Kenichi Suzumura as Genzou Wakabayashi (voice), Ayaka Fukuhara as Taro Misaki (voice), and Mutsumi Tamura as Ryo Ishizaki (voice).

Its 2 seasons and 91 episodes were broadcast from April 2018 to June 2024. That is around 46 episodes a season. The series began as a manga.

Shelv files it under football (soccer), tournament, prodigy, and child prodigy. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Crunchyroll in the United States. It scores 8.2 out of 10 from 752 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-G rating.

March Comes In Like a Lion, Medalist, and Haikyu!! make useful companions to Captain Tsubasa, all filed under coming of age and based on manga.