Aoyagi Masayuki, Publishing Director of Kadokawa JSC, gives an interview to Vietnam News Agency. (Photo: VNA)
Tokyo (VNA) – “Son, Goal!“, the first manga series aboutVietnamese football produced by a Japanese publisher, made debut in Vietnam onJuly 28.
The series is produced and published by Kadokawa JSC of Japanin coordination with the Kim Dong Publishing House of Vietnam.
Nguyen Vo Huyen Duong, a representative of the VietnamFootball Federation in Japan and also the one connecting Kadokawa with Kim Dong,said the Vietnamese version of this manga will be released on July 29 while theJapanese version is expected to be available in early 2023.
“Son, Goal!”, illustrated by Baba Tamio, isabout the journey of a boy named Son whose father is a Brazilian and mother, a Vietnamese. His family moved to Vietnam when his father took up a job in thecountry. Here, Son met and made friends with a group of teenagers, and helpedtheir football team become stronger.
The cover of the first volume of "Son, Goal!" (Photo: VNA)
Aoyagi Masayuki, Publishing Director of Kadokawa, toldVietnam News Agency that his company took part in a festival of Japanese mangapublishers in Asia in 2018. Coming to Vietnam, they realised that Japanesemanga is popular among local children. At that time, though Vietnam did not winan Asian youth football tournament (the AFC U23 Asian Cup), people still streameddown the streets to congratulate the team.
Seeing that happiness and enthusiasm, the company came to theidea of creating this manga series with the hope of inspiring the football loveamong the Vietnamese youth, he noted, expressing his hope that the manga willbe welcomed by not only children but also adults as its content suits readers ofall ages.
Kadokawa plans to produce more manga series for theVietnamese market in the future and also wants to try the novel and animation areas,he added./.
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Aoyagi Masayuki, Publishing Director of Kadokawa JSC, gives an interview to Vietnam News Agency. (Photo: VNA) 
The cover of the first volume of "Son, Goal!" (Photo: VNA) 
