This is the international debut of the young champions and also marks the beginning of the process of entering the professional world. manga, narrating the story of the Japanese under sixteen national team at the Parisian youth championship.
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The attention towards Holly and Benji does not end and a new animated series is produced, entitled Holly and Benji: challenge to the world: this thirteen-episode OAV is in perfect continuity with the previous series and covers the third narrative arc of the first. The phoenix has flown Takahashi then concludes his work and decides to devote himself to new ideas, churning out other sports-themed manga. The temporal overlap between the production of the cartoon and the comic led to the use of different expedients to "slow down" the cartoon, from the creation of filler episodes (which then also created problems of continuity, introducing inconsistencies with subsequent narratives) and deliberately "slowed down" actions that gave birth to the famous endless races on kilometer fields and the famous endless dialogues that we all know well. Made up of 128 episodes, it transposes the story of the first twenty-five volumes of the manga into animation, that is those are the narrative arcs of the elementary school tournament and the middle school tournament, concluded with the final between Mark Lenders' Toho and Holly's New Team. The success of the manga is enormous and the serialization in anime is started only a year after the release of the first issue : thus was born the historic series Holly and Benji - Two champions, aired in Japan between 19 and landed in Italy in 1986. The series, published from 1981 to 1988 (but arrived in Italy much later, only in 2000) consisted of thirty-seven volumes this year Edizioni Star Comics has released a new edition in prestigious volumes of 350 pages.
The last part of this first series chronicles the first meeting of the Japanese U-16 national team and their trip to a youth tournament in France.
The second narrative arc is set three years later, during the third middle school championship: also in this case the original project underwent a modification in the race and the epilogue that saw Holly / Tsubasa win over the historic opponent Mark Lenders / Kojiro Hyuga was replaced with a more moderate ex aequo. Originally it was expected that the conclusion of this first part would coincide with the departure of Holly / Tsubasa for Brazil, but the confirmation of the setting created by the author and the fans of the Japanese opponents convinced the author to continue the events in the country of rising sun. The story unfolds over three narrative arcs: the first tells of the meeting between the protagonists, the formation of the first teams and the vicissitudes of the elementary school tournament. The success of that story is immediate and the following year starts the serialization of a wide-ranging manga, entitled Captain Tsubasa. The plot concerns the challenge between two middle school kids who play in rival soccer teams: Tsubasa (who would become Oliver Hutton in Italy) is a striker, Genzo (Benjamin Price) a goalkeeper. Take to the skies It all begins in 1980 when Yōichi Takahashi, a 20-year-old manga author, sees a self-contained story published in Weekly Shōnen Jump, a historic Japanese comic magazine. However, the impact of this animated series is not limited to the memory of these children, now adults, as some might think: the saga of the two young champions has been resumed over and over again, giving life to an ecosystem of animation, comics, video games. Those who grew up in the 80s on bread and cartoons certainly remember with great joy the afternoons spent watching the episodes of a then brand new cartoon, entitled Holly and Benji - Two champions, and then rush into the courtyard, the park or the pitches to impersonate the two protagonists, while laughing at the absurdities of that cartoon, so exciting but at the same time so little credible. It was Octowhen the first episode of Captain Tsubasa was broadcast in Japan (in Italy Holly and Benji - Two champions), the anime based on the manga of the same name by Yoichi Takahashi: it was the beginning of a global success that still today, almost forty years later, fascinates millions of fans all over the world.