This year’s 35th issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Monday that Yōichi Takahashi’s Captain Tsubasa manga is getting a complete bilingual edition digitally in Japanese and English as part of the manga’s 40th anniversary.
Captain Tsubasa Magazine, a new spinoff magazine of Shueisha’s Grand Jump magazine that focuses on the franchise, launched in Japan on April 2.
The release will mark the first time the manga is getting an English release.
Takahashi’s original 37-volume Captain Tsubasa manga ran in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1981 to 1988, and it inspired three television anime series, four anime films, several OVAs, and a stage play.