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2017.08.22 Captain Tsubasa Review!

I FINALLY got to see something with Seiya in it! I was super duper excited regardless of it being a football stage - football really isn’t my thing but I’ve been open about all the other sports anime and stages so why not football too?!

Official Website here Official Twitter here Press Coverage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Video Coverage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

CAST and CHARACTERS

Motoki Seiya as Tsubasa Nakamura Ryuusuke as Wakabayashi Matsui Kouho as Hyuuga Kanegae Ikou as Misaki Tarou Washio Shuuto as Mizuki Jun Sorihashi Uichiro as Matsuyama Hikaru Doi Kazumi as Souda Makoto Kato Mao as Nitta Shun Koki as Jitou Hiroshi Watanabe Kazuki as Wakashimazu Ken Kiyama Ryuu as Ishizaki Ryou Oosone Keita as Tachibana Masao Hirono Ryuuta as Tachibana Kazuo Tanaka Toshihiko as Robert Hongou Segawa Ryou as Mikami Tatsuo Izaka Tatsuya as Dyuuta Myuura Kitamura Yuu as Karl Hunts Schnaider Iruma Rui as El Sid Pierre AKI as Carlos Santana Matsunaga Kazuya as Abe Leon Saito Shunichirou as Noel Poporo Abe George as Yamamori General Manager

NON-SPOILER REVIEW Overall: This was so much fun, visually great, and so entertaining! It makes me so sad how empty the place once because they had a damn good play to perform. I was nervous beforehand because football really isn’t my thing but what with the projection mapping, and most of the boys knowing acrobatics, they produced this: football, but with high beat music, acrobatics, amazing dance moves and comedy! It was so well done! I was so impressed. From start to finish I was interested. I super duper love how they incorporated the football moves into dances and added acrobatics and such into the training sequences and the matches etc. It really was great! Also, the music was out of this world; I need a CD of the music NOW. I am still hoping there’s going to be a surprise DVD announcement because I really want this on DVD. Rating: 8/10

SPOILER REVIEW

PreShow

Row 12 and 13 seemed to have some Sony VR tech to put on – no fair! I want this special tech too! xD apparently you could feel stuff as the boys played football and it made it an even better experience - I already had the time of my life so how it improved it, I have no idea.

The Show

Like I mentioned about in the non-spoiler: this is actually a LOT of fun! They’ve incorporated the football movements INTO dances so it’s much more visually pleasing and entertaining! Also, there is so much running around the room by the boys. Especially during the scene when they first land in (I think) Italy, and Tsubasa just wants to play football so he runs off and the boys have to run after him and stop him from causing havoc, but it’s Tsubasa so naturally he outruns them and everything. This scene is very, very entertaining; first they started with moving the sections of panels about the stage and the different members of the group interchanged between them as they searched for Tsubasa. They moved the panels so flawlessly! Then Tsubasa ended up running into the seating area and everyone followed and there was just madness about the room xD the music to it added to the hilarity and the craziness. I know Seiya ran past my side during this scene, and I think Matsui and Katou did too.

The projection mapping is so well done and creative! There’s one scene where there’s a helicopter (created by the projection mapping) but it runs all along the side of the theatre before going ‘on stage’ which I thought was super cool. I also like how they did, similar to Tenimyu, had a light on the floor to show where the football was as it was being passed around.

And how could I forget the music! Holy damn the music is sooooo good! It really gets you in the mood to dance! They had techno-like twists on classic football songs too! I wish you all could hear the music! Holy moly...The music was so good that I asked them on the questionnaire if we could get a CD release because the music helped the stage be so much more entertaining and really got you into the beat and into the dancing and just in the right mood to watch some crazy high school boys run about the room xD

What was even more impressive (could I be any more impressed at this point?) was that pretty much all of them could do some sort of acrobatics or dance. I thought that maybe some actors might be too old for this but… it worked. It really worked. They were all really good at something related to dance or acrobatics. Of course we had the beautiful Seiya showing off AF and jumping off the top of goal posts and doing high back flips to score goals and such. We also had Koki who we all know is really good at dancing and did this cool jagged dancing (part robot-like). Nakamura too! He had all those dance, hip-hop moves going on and he even did a Michael Jackson lean -- of course he was strapped in but still!! They all excelled in something which was great to see!

There’s a lot of funny moments too! I already mentioned the one with Tsubasa running around the room and everyone chasing him. We also had one person who fell asleep on the plane and didn’t wake up until everyone had already gotten off xD there’s this sweet but funny moment where the boys bond and end up jumping in a lake and splashing water about - it was super cute and it was a ‘lets patch up and be friends again’ type of scene. I also wrote; Doi’s character is funny. But I don’t remember anything specifically, sorry >.<

I was of course happy to see Seiya and he was so adorable as Tsubasa <3

Also, I cried quite a bit in the second half of this play. I think I just got so overwhelmed; It ended up being such a great show yet so many tickets didn’t sell but it deserved so much more love than what it got, and everyone did an amazing job and the final match where they did all these acrobatics and really entertained us and really succeeded in making football (and a football manga) so much fun on stage; I just enjoyed myself so much that I cried during the climax scene and when it finished. I really wish I’d gone a second and third time like I said I was going to... I wish I could remember this stage much more clearly. It was so freaking good. And I’m so sad there’s no DVD announcement either.

I was that impressed, I went in with the intention of only buying two photosets, and I came out with an extra one xD

Matsui’s arm muscles were so pretty to look at o_O they’re really nice arms xD

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There’s a Captain Tsubasa Stage Event at the end of the month that I’m going t. Apparently they’ll be showing some of the backstage and some of the final show and hopefully, fingers crossed, they’ll announce the dvd!