Mauricio Codocea
07/24/2020 - 20:05
- Clarín.com
- sports
Most football fans will know to recognize the name of Oliver Atom , as he was called by Latin America, or even Tsubasa Ōzora , such his name in Japanese. The protagonist of "Super Champions", the sports anime who landed in these lands back in the 1990s, marked an era and to this day captures fans on screen and in streaming . If this was all the rage, is it possible to imagine what would have happened if the good guy Oliver wore the Boca or River shirt? Well, it is what happens with its equivalent in volleyball: Oikawa Tooru , the crack of the anime "Haikyuu !!" , who gets to play ... La Liga Argentina!
As in "Super Champions", a story in which Atom goes to Brazil to play in Brancos, a club that has the shirt and colors of São Paulo (for a matter of rights a fictitious name is used), Oikawa signs in the I encouraged a contract as a player of "CA San Juan Volleyball". It was enough for the Twitter user @stiirped to connect that club with UPCN, the most iconic team in that province, and draw the character in the royal coat, so that the fandom of the series materialized the same.
oikawa in San Juan uniform 👀 pic.twitter.com/SUKDKCiOUH
- ARGENTOTO SUPREMACY (@stiirped) April 21, 2020The author of the most widely-used drawing, a work that could easily pass for the authorship of Haruichi Furudate, the creator of the anime, and who even chose to use the club account (although they did not quote it) is called Manuela Pianesi , who acknowledges her surprise at read in the story that Oikawa came to play in Argentina. "It seemed tremendous to me," she said.
"A few years ago I started working in an animation studio and they recommended a lot of things to see, most of them I encouraged. That is how I ended up arriving in Haikyuu about three years ago," the young woman from San Isidro tells Clarín , but not before laundering. his dream: "I would like to get to do something that big and recognized."
Manuela Pianesi, the artist who designed the anime character Oikawa, dressed in the UPCN San Juan Volley jersey, with another of her materials.
What was the first; the egg or the chicken? Pianesi admits that his link with volleyball was more because he had played it in high school, but that from the comic he got closer. "Since I started reading and looking at the manga, I went to some games and I keep up with the Argentine teams," he explains.
And he is encouraged to tell an infidelity that divides the waters between the San Juan clubs: "I have mixed feelings, because I bank UPCN but in reality I am from Obras". Of course: his talent was respectful of the original story.
In the club, meanwhile, they didn't let the chance pass, of course. The mentions to the union club's Twitter account were adding up and despite the fact that months had passed since that initial sketch, the immersion in history on the part of the people of San Juan came with everything.
IT'S OFFICIAL! #OIKAWA IS PLAYER OF @UpcnVoley #DaleUPCN #OikawaEsDeUPCN pic.twitter.com/5WqXkm8Pu5
- UPCN Voley (@UpcnVoley) July 22, 2020Once involved in the movement, the material that UPCN began to spread went viral. Quick of reflexes, in the account of the social network of the little bird UPCN the legend "#Oikawa argentinian team" was added to the "biography"; that is to say, "the Argentine team of Oikawa".
The company that supplies the club with clothing, Sonder, has already put together shirts with the name "Oikawa" to raffle on the networks. And the Haikyuu fandom !! He has already left messages asking that they go on sale.
We are preparing a surprise with @UpcnVoley 🏐⭐ pic.twitter.com/qjWq3hOE9o
- Sonder (@SonderArgentina) July 23, 2020The most reproduced tweet this Friday had a whopping 14,600 retweets and 23,600 "likes" and the club directly colonized the matter: they officially "announced" the signing of the Japanese player (who in the manga, before his transfer to Argentina, plays as the owner of the Aoba-Johsai team) as if it were one of the reinforcements for the 2020/21 season and they even welcomed him mixing reality with fiction.
WELCOME #OIKAWA!
Fabián Armoa, coach of UPCN San Juan Vóley for 12 years, could not hide his happiness after remembering the arrival of the Japanese point guard #OikawaTooru. This is the first reinforcement of #LosCondores for the 2020/21 Season. # DaleUPCN #OikawaEsDeUPCN pic.twitter.com/1IE8K5hTuZ
" We are very happy that Oikawa accepted our offer and played in UPCN Volleyball this season. It is the first time that a Japanese player is going to participate in our league and that is a great honor for us," says an unusual video recorded with the the team's coach himself, Fabián Armoa .
"(I am) a little surprised by the incorporation of a player of Japanese nationality. (I am) very anxious for his arrival, for sharing the squad with him and a little worried about the competition that I am going to have this year, which will surely be very hard ", plays Sebastián Brajkovic ," real "point guard of Los Cóndores, in another video.
Even a man passing through the National Team, like Alejandro Toro, welcomed him.
WELCOME #OIKAWA! @ ALETORO4, top multi-champion catcher with UPCN San Juan Volley and with four stages in the club, anxiously awaits the arrival of the Japanese point guard # OikawaTooru. # DaleUPCN #OikawaEsDeUPCN pic.twitter.com/v3gQwwILeG
- UPCN Voley (@UpcnVoley) July 24, 2020The furor went further. Even the symbol rapporteur of Argentine volleyball, José Montesano , caught on with the idea and made it public that he is "very eager to report it." The fans of volleyball, his stories and anime soon asked him to do well in these times and filmed himself narrating some of the Japanese's moves.
#OIKAWA transcends @UpcnVoley and @VoleyACLAV even more globally
Oikawa Tooru, is the owner and captain of the Aoba-Johsai team from the manga and anime series Haikyuu.
According to the series in chapter 372, Oikawa plays for @UpcnVoley the @VoleyACLAV
Very eager to relate it. pic.twitter.com/5dIsWedAtn
In short, in times of pandemic, lack of activity, sports dropper and on television, a nice move was made in local volleyball. All thanks to a character who, of all possible places, went to play San Juan.
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