Tsukasa Ooshima
Description
Tsukasa Ooshima is a Japanese manga artist best known as the creator of the long-running soccer manga series Shoot!. Born on January 30, 1970, in Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, Ooshima began her professional career as a manga author in the early 1990s.
Ooshima's most significant and enduring work is the manga Shoot!, which was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1990 to 2003. The series, which follows a group of high school soccer players striving for the national championship, became a major success, accumulating over 50 million copies in circulation and winning the 1994 Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category. The original manga was published in 66 collected volumes. Following the initial series, Ooshima continued the story with multiple sequel installments throughout the 1990s and 2000s, including Shoot! Aoki Meguriai, Shoot! Atsuki Chōsen, and Shoot! Aratanaru Densetsu. In addition to the main series, Ooshima authored a side story focused on the character Yoshiharu Kubo in 1994.
The success of the original manga led to several media adaptations. The first anime adaptation, titled Aoki Densetsu Shoot!, was produced by Toei Animation and broadcast on Fuji Television for 58 episodes from November 1993 to December 1994. A theatrical anime film was released in December 1994, and a live-action film adaptation also premiered that same year.
After a 28-year hiatus, a new anime series titled Shoot! Goal to the Future premiered in July 2022. For this production, Ooshima is credited with the original plan rather than as the author of a direct manga adaptation, indicating the new series utilized the original work as a basis for a new story. This series was produced by the animation studios EMT Squared and Magic Bus and aired for 13 episodes.
Beyond the Shoot! franchise, Ooshima created the manga series STAY GOLD, which was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2004. Another work, Atakku!!, followed in 2006. The artist's body of work is consistently centered on the sports genre, with soccer serving as the primary thematic focus across most of her publications. Ooshima's artistic identity is firmly established by the Shoot! series, which remains a notable entry in the sports manga genre from the 1990s and continues to be referenced in new anime productions decades after its original publication.
Ooshima's most significant and enduring work is the manga Shoot!, which was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1990 to 2003. The series, which follows a group of high school soccer players striving for the national championship, became a major success, accumulating over 50 million copies in circulation and winning the 1994 Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category. The original manga was published in 66 collected volumes. Following the initial series, Ooshima continued the story with multiple sequel installments throughout the 1990s and 2000s, including Shoot! Aoki Meguriai, Shoot! Atsuki Chōsen, and Shoot! Aratanaru Densetsu. In addition to the main series, Ooshima authored a side story focused on the character Yoshiharu Kubo in 1994.
The success of the original manga led to several media adaptations. The first anime adaptation, titled Aoki Densetsu Shoot!, was produced by Toei Animation and broadcast on Fuji Television for 58 episodes from November 1993 to December 1994. A theatrical anime film was released in December 1994, and a live-action film adaptation also premiered that same year.
After a 28-year hiatus, a new anime series titled Shoot! Goal to the Future premiered in July 2022. For this production, Ooshima is credited with the original plan rather than as the author of a direct manga adaptation, indicating the new series utilized the original work as a basis for a new story. This series was produced by the animation studios EMT Squared and Magic Bus and aired for 13 episodes.
Beyond the Shoot! franchise, Ooshima created the manga series STAY GOLD, which was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2004. Another work, Atakku!!, followed in 2006. The artist's body of work is consistently centered on the sports genre, with soccer serving as the primary thematic focus across most of her publications. Ooshima's artistic identity is firmly established by the Shoot! series, which remains a notable entry in the sports manga genre from the 1990s and continues to be referenced in new anime productions decades after its original publication.
Works
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