<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > the prototype of Shaolin Soccer and the Chinese Dragon Xiao Jinguang of Soccer Junior</h1>
In 2001, Stephen Chow's "Shaolin Soccer" was released, the protagonist of the martial arts obsession "Xing" formed a Shaolin football team, led by the "golden right foot" who was plotted 20 years ago, and finally defeated the devil team, the actions of Shaolin masters on the football field were dazzling, but Xingye admitted that the idea of this movie was actually inspired by a Japanese football comic "Football Boy".
"Soccer Boy" is a football-themed manga created by manga artist Yoichi Takahashi 40 years ago (1980), the protagonists are Ōku wing, Hyuga Kojiro and others, and the japanese team's talented goalkeeper Wakabayashi Genzo guarded the gate, by the Chinese team Xiao Jinguang from outside the box a kick, Xiao Jinguang's right foot has supernatural power, the football kicked out turned into a dragon.
After the birth of the manga "Soccer Boy", it has influenced many people, including many big stars such as Piero, Messi, Zidane, etc. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the men's soccer game even used the big empty wing theme of the "Soccer Boy" soccer ball.
Who is Yoichi Takahashi? How did this "Football Boy" come about?
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Nankatsu City, where the big empty wing is located, is the Tokyo Metropolitan Minami Katsukashika High School where Yoichi Takahashi studied in Tokyo, abbreviated as Minaka, Takahashi Yoichi and the late footballer Maradona, born in 1960, he was very fond of drawing when he was in elementary school, and won an award after submitting an article to the "Mainichi Elementary School News", which made Takahashi doubly confident, so he imitated kajihara and Kawasaki's baseball manga "Giant Star" in the class, as well as Eiji Marutani M78 Nebula hero "Ultraman".
Because Yoichi Takahashi's copying was so wonderful that his classmates would even urge him to change it, so in the third year of junior high school, Yoichi Takahashi submitted his first contribution to shueisha's JUMP manga newcomer award, but he failed, and that time he also drew a sports manga, imitating Mizushima Shinji's baseball manga "Dokaben".
Takahashi has always been grumpy about this failed experience, because of the junm newcomer award, the manuscript will not be returned if the submission is not successful, and he also wants to see where he can't draw it well, for reference in the future.
Takahashi is very fond of sports, junior high school was a table tennis club, high school into the Japanese baseball club, Japanese baseball with the ball is softer than international baseball, also known as soft baseball, so, before his debut, Takahashi Yoichi was basically drawing baseball comics, he also liked the popular baseball manga such as Shinji Mizushima's "Big Rice Bucket".
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In 1979, in the summer of his final year of high school at Tokyo Metropolitan Minakashika High School, known as "Minakaku", when everyone was struggling with what university to go to and the direction of his future career, Yoichi Takahashi made his own choice to continue drawing manga, with the goal of becoming a professional manga artist!
In the third year of high school, when everyone was working hard for the university entrance examination, this teenager named Takahashi shut himself in the room to draw manga, and this summer, Takahashi Yoichi gambled on his future, drew two short manga endings, weighed it up, and submitted it to shueisha's JUMP editorial department, because Takahashi believed that there was more environment for cultivating new people.
Shueisha JUMP Editorial Department, received this submission from this newcomer named Yoko Takahashi, who is also a newcomer editor - his name is Haruhiko Suzuki. After seeing Yoichi Takahashi's football manga, Suzuki was very excited, because the 80s was the highlight of football, Zico, Platini, Keegan, Rummenigge, Maradona, a shining football star touched the hearts of fans.
What prompted Yoichi Takahashi's transition from baseball to football was the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, this time the World Cup, although the Netherlands did not have Cruyff, but with the hat-trick of Rendsonblinck, still advanced to the final to play against Argentina, and Argentina, under the leadership of Kempes, won the championship, this time more than 100 teams participated, attracting the attention of the world, so that the charm of football rose to an unprecedented height.
Yoichi Takahashi, who watched the World Cup at home, believes that baseball is very popular in Japan, however, football is more popular in Europe, the Americas and other parts of the world, baseball comics are so popular, if football as a manga theme, is it more popular?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="34" > fateful short story! "Friendship 11 People"</h1>
He submitted a short comic "Friendship 11 People", which resonated with newcomer editor Haruhiko Suzuki, Suzuki decided to tie himself and Yoko Takahashi together as a newcomer group, working together, there is a game called two people three feet, that is, one foot of the two people is tied together, when walking must be synchronized, in order to move forward, Takahashi Yoko recalled the scene at that time, and Suzuki is like starting "two people three feet".
However, after referring to the "Baseball Heroes" published by Anda Chong in the same period, Yoichi Takahashi felt that future juvenile manga would definitely add love elements, so he depicted the love at first sight between Daikon Wing and Sanae Nakazawa. Due to the influence of long-term baseball comics, the duel between the bowler and the receiver has also become a duel between the shooting striker and the goalkeeper.
In 1980, with the assistance of Haruhiko Suzuki, "Soccer Boy" was confirmed to be serialized for the first time as a new work, but during the months of the ideation meeting, two versions were produced, one version was what everyone sees now, one was the big empty wing who liked football, and did not drag mud and water, and the other version that was later cut off was the origin of the big empty wing, a wild child who grew up in the mountains, only knew that playing football did not like urban life.
After several months of painful and unstable meetings, 20-year-old shy teenager Yoichi Takahashi was a little discouraged, and even said to the editor Suzuki, or I can try other types of manga, Suzuki editor thought about it, and then replied to Takahashi, in a professional baseball game, isn't there a player who was selected into the starting lineup, and then because of constant mistakes, he was finally kicked out of the starting lineup.
You are in this state now, if you don't insist, concentrate, and express yourself, you can only be a shadow of others for the rest of your life! You cheer me up a little!
Haruhiko Suzuki, who watched the short story "11 People of Friendship", gave a stick to Yoshio Takahashi, who had lost patience due to the length of the meeting, and made him regain his spirit a hundred times.
Yoichi Takahashi's love affair in Soccer Boy is also very successful, not only Ōku wing and Sanae Nakazawa, but also the love affair between Hikaru Matsuyama and Miko Fujisawa, Hyuga Kojiro and Makoto Akazuma becomes more romantic, and the plot of Hyuga Kojiro and Akazu Masaki drinking Coke indirectly makes young readers enjoy it.
"Soccer Boy" after the serial, it is not all smooth sailing, "Shonen JUMP" has 15 manga serials at the same time, the lowest reader vote will be ended serial, commonly known as "waist chop", "Soccer Boy" after the publication of the 1st episode is the 7th, the 3rd episode of the reader vote has almost fallen to the 12th place, Takahashi Yoichi decided to change the plot story.
At the beginning of episode 4, the big air wing defeats Wakabayashi, then goes to the street to start dribbling and playing handsome, and meets other players, and at the beginning of this episode, Yoichi Takahashi adds elements of street football seen on TV, football is not only a game competition, but also an entertaining side.
Just like when Haruhiko Suzuki encouraged Yoichi Takahashi, if you have a hard time, hold on a little, and then hold on, maybe you can see the dawn of victory.
After 40 years of "Soccer Boy" serialization, the dawn created by Yoichi Takahashi still shines on us, and more and more readers like football because of the manga.