Captain Beijing (Manga)

The Captain Beijing Manga series, known in Japan as 伝説のキャプテン北京と彼の友人の冒険: ニップルのようなキッコーマン代表が戦う広島長崎 or "The Adventures of the Legendary Captain Beijing and his friends: The Kikkoman Squad Tag Team a dream", Is a manga which began in 1986 and is still running today. When the manga started it was based on the plot of the anime, and it continued the story after the anime's cancellation. Later there was video games based on the plot of a Captain Beijing Spin off manga. Currently the revived anime is based on the plot of the video games.

Inspirations
When continuing on the story, the artist/author Shigeru Miyamoto said in a 1989 interview that he had to draw inspirations from several other series to get ideas for how to go forward with the manga. These included the manga adaptions of James Cameron's Titanic, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Godfather, and Upset Ulysess: Furry Rodent. He also said he is a huge fan of the four best anime ever: Ghost in the Shell, Teen Titans, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Malcom in the Middle.

Manga/Anime Differences
Captain Beijing's backstory is one of the major differences in the anime and manga. In the anime version, his village is attacked by kikkomen after the Jieshu takes place, with the Jieshu causing the Blended Kikkoman Emerald of Heart to appear in front of him and turns him into Captain Beijing. In the manga, the Kikkoman invasion had already started before the Jieshu occurs in China, with Jing-Bei being a Captain of a resistance group. Once the Jieshu occurs, the emerald necklace that Jing-Bei received from his grandfather transformed in the Kikkuman Emerald that then transforms him into the powerful Captain Beijing. Ideas such as Blended vs. Brewed emeralds and the different powers of emeralds were not thought of until volume 4 of the manga, but the anime was able to introduce them immediately.