Is Tsubasa an anime/cultural icon

Only in soccer countries.

sorry sorry i mentioned only the ones who were popular because of popular sports like football basketball wrestling and so on

Ashita no Joe and Aim for the Ace! yeah this one too
don't know much about Attack No. 1

Crazy that anime made japs go into sports.

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Extremely popular in Italy

it's not about the shows being "good", but popular, especially with children

as I recall, 3 sports anime made tens of thousands of children in Japan start playing those sports that were "unknown" by most people

Captain Tsubasa - football
Slam Dunk - basketball
Eyeshield 21 - american football

baseball? it was always famous enough, it never needed a "push" for the kids to play

Captain Tsubasa, as a series, easily is one, of if not, the most influential sports manga to be ever made in a sports landscape context. It somehow made soccer, an obscure sport in Japan played by very few at the time, become a sport would break the monopoly that baseball had on Japan. The success of Captain Tsubasa in Japan lead to soccer being the most played sport for kids in the 80's in Japan and even resulted in a professional league, the J-league, being introduced in the early 90's, only one decade after the sport was introduced to mainstream audience. As a national team, the team is literally filled with players who mimic Tsubasa's skills like his dribbling ability and his general technical abillty on the ball hence why all the most famous players to come out of Japan like Shinji Kagawa, Hidetoshi Nakata Shunsuke Nakamura play the position they play or have such abilities as they want to mimic Tsubasa. Japan even has become the powerhouse of Asia who only South Korea can rival nowadays and even on the world stage, they only got out of the world Cup by a last second goal to one of the favourites of the tornament, Belgium, after giving them a run for their money by being ahead 2-0 by 70th minute. The national team would be considered as the most followed team Japan has with their matches being sold out everytime at home with Captain Tsubasa's fingerprint on that would be the banner that they put up when they play as the one seen in the post above.
tl;dr Captain Tsubasa made soccer in Japan from an obscure activity into a sport just below baseball in popularity, breaking baseball's monopoply.

>As a national team, the team is literally filled with players who mimic Tsubasa's skills
>Someone out there in japan is mimicking Jun Misugi heart attack

Jokes aside: youtube.com/watch?v=B2-rOkodSYg

>be me
>good goalkeeper
>other kids nicknamed me Benji
>tfw my a fat neet now
yeah i think it was a cultural icon

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Too soon

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>Not reproducing youtube.com/watch?v=6Gz2n55MNlQ
Japan are you even trying?

The 80's anime is still the best. Out of this world anime.

they already have a countermeasure, just wait for them over the goalposts

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or "Pile Driver" the opposing player

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It's insanely ingrained in Japan's pop culture and still popular too. Not necessarily popular as in a majority of kids would still love it or have watched it, but it's still beloved and visible.
Also basically every single strong football player in Japan's team used to say he started playing because of it.

it must be cool to be rich and wear your weeb wardrobe unironically

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