The Paper reporter Hu Jie
The youth of several generations is coming to an end.
On January 4, Shueisha, a Japanese general publishing house, announced that the manga "Soccer Player", which has been serialized for 43 years, will officially end in early April.
"Soccer Player" has influenced generations.
Author Yoichi Takahashi said, "It has been 43 years since I started serializing 'Soccer Player' in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1981. In recent years, I've been thinking about how far the story of the future can go. In the end, I felt that instead of drawing all the way to the limit of my physical strength, it would be better to finish the story of "Soccer Player" directly. ”
"I already have the idea of the ending of Soccer Kid in my head, and the Olympic chapter "Rising Sun" that is currently being serialized in Soccer Kid Magazine and the series that follows will be included, but it is calculated that it will take more than 40 years to comic all of these ideas. ”
Yoichi Takahashi.
"I don't think it's realistic, but I think it's possible to focus on leaving a 'story' in the form of a synopsis or so on. ”
"I haven't had any serious illnesses in the past, and I'm still in good health. But now that I'm over 60 years old, I'm still in a bad condition with presbyopia and dizziness compared to when I was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump and Weekly Young Jump. ”
"Soccer Player" began to be serialized in 1981, telling the story of the teenager Tsubasa Okuchi from the sixth grade of elementary school to the beginning of professional football. Including the sequel, the cumulative circulation of the entire series of manga has exceeded 80 million copies.
"Soccer Player" not only led to the development of Japanese football, but also made many people around the world fall in love with football because of it, and deeply influenced the post-80s and post-90s.
This issue is edited by Xing Tan