How a Japanese Manga and Anime ‘Blue Lock’ and ‘Captain Tsubasa’ mirror Japan’s great win over Germany at the World Cup

Even as Takumi Asano crunched himself into a corner with barely any space visible between the champion German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and the goalpost, especially with the six-feet-two inches tall Nico Schlotterbec about to shoulder-barge him again, he would conjure a dreamy right-footer that would blast the ball past the startled Neuer. Asano doesn’t bail … Read more