Some time after the Deimon Devil Bats win the Christmas Bowl and they become the best team in the country, Japan begins to gather the best football players to form a team to represent it at the American Football Youth World Championship, where a Most Valuable Player (MVP) will be awarded an NFL contract and $3 million. Other characters slowly join the team, and the series follows the building and growth of the Deimon Devil Bats and its members, and rival teams as they all strive to achieve their goal of playing in the Christmas Bowl. Hiruma, Sena, and Ryokan Kurita regroup and slowly build a real team from misfits and students looking to define themselves, such as Tarō "Monta" Raimon-a baseball player who can only catch-and the bullies collectivelly known as Ha-Ha Brothers. However, the extremely weak team is eliminated early by the Ojo White Knights, one of the best football teams in Japan.Īfter Deimon's defeat, the spring tournament is revealed as secondary in importance to the fall tournament, where the teams compete for the chance to play in the Christmas Bowl-the high school football league championship. The makeshift team initially takes part in the spring football tournament hoping to win through the strength of their new "secret weapon". To protect his identity from other teams who want to recruit him, Sena is forced to publicly assume the role of the team secretary and enter the field under the pseudonym of "Eyeshield 21" wearing a helmet with an eyeshield to hide his features. Hiruma forces Sena to join the Deimon Devil Bats as its running back. Sena's only remarkable physical abilities are his running speed and agility, which are noted by the school's American football team captain Yoichi Hiruma. In Tokyo, a weak, unassertive boy named Sena Kobayakawa enters the Deimon Private Senior High School. See also: List of Eyeshield 21 characters Publications for manga, anime, and others have commented on Eyeshield 21, which received positive comments for its artwork and characters, and negative responses to its non-football scenes. The anime has been watched by a large number of television viewers in Japan, helping to raise American football's popularity in the country. The manga and anime have been featured at various times in weekly top ten lists of best-selling in their respective media. In Japan, the Eyeshield 21 manga has sold over 20 million volumes. The whole series was streamed in English by Crunchyroll, while Sentai Filmworks licensed the series, with distribution from Section23 Films on DVDs. The anime series was later licensed in North America by Toonami Jetstream as a joint effort with Viz Media and aired in December 2007, on its site, but before its completion, the streaming service was shut down. In North America, the manga was released by Viz Media from April 2005 to October 2011. The Eyeshield 21 franchise has spawned two original video animations (OVAs), audio albums, video games, and other merchandise. The television series first aired on Japan's TV Tokyo network from April 2005 to March 2008. An anime adaptation consisting of 145 television episodes was co-produced by TV Tokyo, NAS, and Gallop. The series consists of 333 chapters collected in 37 tankōbon volumes. The manga was originally serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from July 2002 to June 2009. Inagaki chose American football as a central subject of Eyeshield 21 after realizing that it fit perfectly with his idea for the series. The series tells the story of Sena Kobayakawa, an introverted boy who joins an American football club as a secretary, but after being coerced by quarterback Yoichi Hiruma, becomes the team's running back, wearing jersey number 21 and an eyeshield to conceal his identity. Eyeshield 21 ( Japanese: アイシールド21, Hepburn: Aishīrudo Nijūichi ) is a Japanese manga series written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Yusuke Murata.
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