She was the only one seeing Tsubasa when he was about to leave for Brazil (in the Road to 2002 anime, she gave Tsubasa a new set of pikes so that he could use them in Brazil in his début). After a quarrel with their schoolmate Koshi Kanda (who was willing to be Sanae's boyfriend by force), he confessed his love to Sanae. Youth tournament ended, Tsubasa really came into terms with his own growing feelings for Sanae, especially after Kumi Sugimoto gave him her own confession and, when he politely turned her down, asked him to confess to her.
Moreover, she had her other close friend and kouhai Kumi Sugimoto as her rival for Tsubasa's love.Īfter the International Jr. Since Tsubasa's plans was to finally go to Brazil as soon as he graduated from Middle School, Sanae always wanted to confess her feelings to Tsubasa, but she couldn't bring herself to do so (despite many of the team knowing of and openly supporting her feelings). Still, in love with Tsubasa, she wanted to be by his side. There was a time Sanae admitted that she might wish for Tsubasa's defeat, as it would allow him to stay in Japan but she still supported him to the very end.Īlongside her best friend Yukari Nishimoto, Sanae became a manager for the Nankatsu middle school football club. This makes her take the lead of the cheerleaders club in order to support Tsubasa and the Nankatsu gang.
In elementary school, she fell in love with Tsubasa because of his passion and joy of football while still shining in doing so. The Nakazawa family (parents, sibling, and grandmother) has a small ice cream parlor as their family business: in the 2001 anime, she lives in a two-store building whose first floor hosts the parlor and has the family's living quarters in the second one. She is Tsubasa's main love interest and later wife and mother of his two unborn twins. She first appeared in Captain Tsubasa manga.