Captain Tsubasa (Japanese: キャプテン翼, Hepburn: Kyaputen Tsubasa), also known as Flash Kicker, is a popular long-running Japanese manga, animation, and video game series, originally created by Yōichi Takahashi in 1981. The series mainly revolves around the sport of Association football.The story focuses on the adventures of a Japanese youth soccer team and its football/soccer captain Tsubasa Oozora (大空 翼, Ōzora Tsubasa), whose name literally translates to "Big Sky Wings".