Eyeshield 21, Vol. 7: Musashi

アイシールド21 [Eyeshield 21] #7

by Riichiro Inagaki, Yusuke Murata (Illustrator)

The American team cancels the big game against the Devil Bats for no apparent reason--but with a bit of creative video editing, Hiruma "convinces" them to change their minds. And later, Sena and Monta search for a much-needed kicker to join the team and find him in a most unexpected place.

Genres: Manga, Sports, Shonen, Comics, Humor, Comics Manga, Fiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published March 4, 2004

About the author

He is a mangaka from Tokyo, Japan. He debuted in October 2001 with Nandodemo Roku Gatsu Jū San Hi, and also wrote for the magazine Square Freeze and Love Love Santa, published in November 2001 and in February 2002 respectively. He later moved to Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump, in wich he won the 7th "Story King" section in the same year.

Reviews

[Nicolo · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first year discover who the original third member Musashi really is and it's a bit unexpected. The Devil Bats take on an American team that is apparently coached by Donald Trump.

[SwedishGeekGirl · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series just get me so hype and is so mutch fun to read.
Eyeshield 21 volume 7 by Riichiro Inagaki get a 9.9/10 stars.

[Thelma · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's good that they finally know who Musashi is. But mostly I just want the game against the americans to start ^^

[Ben Truong · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eyeshield 21: Musashi continues where the previous tankōbon left off and contains the next nine chapters (53–61) of the on-going manga series.

Sena Kobayakawa and Monta meet Gen Takekura known as Musashi, a friend of Yoichi Hiruma and Ryokan Kurita, who quit football, but was once dubbed "the legendary 60-yard kicker". Monta demands that once they have gotten really stronger as a team that he returns to reprise his role.

At the same time, the coach of the NASA Aliens, Leonard Apollo, cancels the game against the Devil Bats, regarding them as not worth the effort. However, when Apollo is humiliated worldwide by a Yoichi Hiruma's video, Apollo sets up the game, stating that if his team does not win by more than 10 points, then they would not return to America.

Yoichi Hiruma counters this wager by saying that the Devil Bats would leave Japan if they did not win by 10 points. Meanwhile in America, NASA Aliens' star player, Patrick "Panther" Spencer, is reduced to being a ball boy because of Apollo's racism. Later the two teams meet up at Ryokan Kurita's home and have a party before the match.

This tankōbon is written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Yusuke Murata. For the most part, I really liked the story and the progression. It is the prelude to the match against the American Team – the NASA Aliens from Texas. Once again, there is some string pulling by Yoichi Hiruma to get things going, but it seems the end justifies the means with him.

All in all, Eyeshield 21: Musashi is a wonderful continuation to a new series that seems intriguing and I cannot wait to read more.

[Lissibith · Rating 4 out of 5]

In chapter seven, we get a little deeper into the roster, and answer one of the longest standing mysteries about the Deimon team to this point.

The Devilbats find out the U.S. team has cancelled their match ... but that won't stand when Hiruma is on the case. One troll video later and he's goaded the coach into playing them. So now they need to prepare, and that means different things. We see Yukimitsu practicing to an unhealthy degree, even though he knows he won't be ready to play for the U.S. game. Meanwhile, we get another peek at why Jumanji may have such a big chip on his shoulder. And with kicking being an area they truly lack, Senna and Monta decide to search for the long-lost third member of the previous year's core team, kicker Musashi.

It goes about as well as you might imagine. :)

And while this is all a lot of fun, another great decision here is going to the U.S. and seeing some of the main player of the Nasa team. (Yes, the Nasa team). they have their own stuff going on, and like with many great sports series, one of the best things this series does is let you know what's at stake for the other team as well. Any competition is made more compelling when you know what's on the line for all the participants, at least for me.

All in all, another great volume.

[Viri Shin · Rating 5 out of 5]

⭐4.5/5

Kayaknya ini pertama kali aku baca volume ini, makanya aku bener-bener gak ada memori apapun sama tiap scenenya.
Aku baru tau ada adegan kocak Hiruma bikin video untuk pelatih tim Amerika, aku baru tau ada adegan begitu rasis dari di pelatih, dan aku tiba-tiba keinget dulu pernah bingung kapan Panther ketemu Sena? Karena aku belum pernah baca! 🤧

Volume ini agak triggering buat aku yang sensitif sama rasisme. Terlalu mencolok untuk menempatkan posisi antagonis sebagai penjahat sejati. Yah, aku coba maklum karena ini kan cerita jadul banget. Makanya aku gak bisa membela kalo orang-orang ada yg beranggapan cerita ini too good to be true atau terlalu OP banget main castsnya.


Tapi tetep aja bagus hehe (sangat subjektif) :D ✌️

[Greta K · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yea I was under the impression that the racist stuff in this manga wasn’t going to show up until the very end so needless to say it’s disappointing at best it’s coming up so early. Even just the idea that an American football coach would be so comically racist as to not let a black player on the team is a crazy plot line and that’s before the fact the black character is like one step off from being a racial caricature. Really really hoping this plot line is relatively short so I can get back to enjoying everything that’s great about this manga because this shit is so ass. I get why this hasn’t been republished recently in the US now LOL

On a slightly better note I enjoyed that Musashi plotline in this volume a lot.

[Oscar Leal · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 ESTRELLAS ☆☆☆
Eyeshield 21 sigue manteniendo un gran nivel. Su tipo de humor es bastante bueno y sigue vigente, nunca es cansino y la sobre exageración, aunque suene contradictorio, es bastante natural. Saca muchas risas , a la vez que lo mezcla con momentos duros. Sin duda este es un tomo de transición a lo que viene en el siguiente tomo. Ya tenemos más caminos que se abordarán más adelante. La introducción de "nuevos personajes" y de antagonistas con problemas de racismo, me ha parecido acertado. Sin duda llama la atención. Esta serie comienza a tomar tintes más dramaticos y conmovedores conforme avanza. Espero lo mejor.

[Spudpuppy · Rating 5 out of 5]

2025 reread:

Kotaro made his entrance and I was like “oh he’s one of my favorites!!” But I think I’ve said that about like 75% of the new characters that have showed up lmao I love this cast so dearly. I love that he appears out of nowhere, puts the devil bats family back together, and then leaves. Icon.

I absolutely adore Panther but I can’t say what I truly think about Apollo without using those silly little shounen jump logo censor bars they used while he and hiruma were talking. Fuckkkkk that guy lmao

[Alex Johnston · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mostly comedy this time around - a lot of good anti-american stuff in here, the top American high school football team is coming to Japan to play an exhibition game, and that high school team is from "NASA High School" which is hysterical - the coach is a big racist asshole and some good comedy is milked out of that. Eyeshield 21, staying as entertaining as I remember (or I'm reverting to a 15 year old as I read, who can say)!

[Apollo Graye · Rating 5 out of 5]

At the first 3 volumes, i didn't think the manga could top the humor or the entertainment, but by the 7th volume, I was very, very wrong. This may be making it's way into my top 10 manga. We may just have to wait and see ;)

[Brandon · Rating 2 out of 5]

The Americans are here! They're here to do American things, like be racist and want money and all that. The players themselves aren't all bad but I'm not a fan of how they treat the one Black character.

[Hana Eka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Awal dari perseteruan Devil Bat dan Alien Nasa!
Ah. Hiruma sungguh konyol.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't think I'd like this series as much as I do, but I like it okay.

[Nureesh Vhalega · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kotaro munculll wkwk

[Wahyudha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pertunjukan si canon 60 yard Mushasi yang mukanya mirip om padahal masih 17 taun.

[Cris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating: 4,5

ESO MIERDA, DENME ANGST

[Angel Havilliard · Rating 3 out of 5]

*Apollo is straight-up racist in the manga omg 🤐 But I love the NASA team and their support for Panther 🥺

*Eyeshield 21 really takes a problematic turn when it comes to its portrayal/representation of non-Japanese characters 😶 All this hype on black people and just the Americans' "muscles" in general is cringey as hell 🤦‍♀

[Julie Decker · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Deimon Devilbats are about to play the Aliens team from America, but what's peculiar is Deimon doesn't have a kicker. They've never had a kicker. Hiruma forbids it. Because he wants Musashi to do it. We learn here that Musashi is a guy he and Kurita played with in middle school and they've been holding the position sacred until he returns to them. Monta and Sena find Musashi and learn more, but can't convince him to come back on the team. Meanwhile, the coach of the American team decides the game he's set up with Deimon is pointless because they're just a nothing team, and so he cancels, but the game's back on once Hiruma humiliates him on the Internet and makes him crave revenge, and Hiruma and Coach Apollo both swear that if they don't win by at least 10 points, they each will never go back to their country. Here we meet Panther, who is part of the Aliens team but because of Apollo's prejudice against black players he is only allowed to be a ball boy. Panther craves a challenge and wants to play against Shin because he's seen him on TV, but Eyeshield 21 gets his attention too. As the Japanese team trains to be able to fight the Aliens' famous Shuttle Pass, the US team arrives, and they have a party together with Deimon.

The Musashi plotline was awesome because it showed an idealistic and stubborn side of Hiruma; it's almost romantic, the way he waits for his kicker to return even though it's not reasonable. (He plays kicker himself in Musashi's absence, and he's terrible at it.) And then the Aliens plotline was great because we get to see how the Japanese creators envision Americans (and in some cases it's not too far off; they even have one Japanophile guy who thinks kanji tattoos would be awesome, and recommends that teammates get certain kanji without realizing that they're getting offensive tattoos). Panther is fantastic, and it's interesting how the racism plot is taking place with characters from the US. In football it'd be pretty odd to have a team of all white guys, but I guess that's the point. (Apollo, the coach, resents black people because his rival as a younger player was a gifted black man whose talent seemed natural, while he had to work very hard and still didn't surpass him.) The "we have to leave our country if we lose" bet seems ludicrous though. Oh and of course Hiruma figuring out what would push Apollo's buttons is classic.

[James Dunphy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit of a lull volume. Sena tries to recruit an ex-Devilbat kicker to the team, and the American coach cancels their game with the Bats leading to Hiruma producing one of the funniest things I've encountered in the manga so far. The Devilbats also begin practicing defensive blitz techniques to counter the Alien's unstoppable shuttle pass.
This volume introduces the American ex-NFL coach Apollo who may be the biggest actual villain in the series so far. Apollo is a racist jerkhole who's cocky and demeaning to even his own players – particularly the African American player Panther. The ethnic/racial undertones are a weird development in this manga. By far the most serious game yet is about to be played in the next volume with big implications for the Devilbats.
Not much in terms of action, but the web parody of the Aliens is worth the extra star I'm giving this. This volume ends with the kickoff of the Alien/Bats game so it's guaranteed to be more of what this one isn't. A good volume for storytelling but definitely not the best in the series. Three stars.

[Tina Damayanti]

perjuangan untuk menyusun sebuah tim, eyeshield 21 merupakan nama salah satu pemain yang memiliki kecepatan lari luar biasa dan itu menjadi salah satu keunggulan dari tim. Meskipun begitu, dalam keseharian si "Eyeshield 21" bukanlah orang yang dibayangkan oleh kebanyakan penggemar, dia hanya seorang pelajar biasa yang lemah dan tidak terkesan sebagai seorang "bintang olahragawan"
baru sampai seri 7

[Swankivy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Um, Musashi who? :) I like Panther, he's neat. That's one of the things I like about this series: The people who are the main characters' rivals generally aren't evil or conniving bastards or whatever. They are worthy rivals and you kinda want both to win (even if you like the home team better). :)

[Natasha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here we get introduced to the racist American coach! It's pretty standard fare, though it makes it all the sweeter to be justified in hating this guy. Panther is an interesting rival, as well. This volume tackles some oddly strong issues for a manga about football, though...

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 4 out of 5]

#Program BUBU

Pertama kali dibeli dan dibaca pada tanggal 9 Juni 2007.

[Blackransel · Rating 3 out of 5]

LOL. tak disangka si Musashi itu ternyata orang itu XDD

[Ariel Murray · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it! ^ _ ^