Eyeshield 21

by Riichiro Inagaki

In Tokyo, a weak, unassertive boy named Sena Kobayakawa enters the high school of his choice—Deimon Private Senior High School. 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. Hiruma forces Sena to join the Deimon Devil Bats football team as its running back. 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.

Genres: Manga

1380 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2005

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

[Kalina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another regular go to for me. And for the record i don't really like sport mangas.
The characters are colorful and fun. The story is captivating and a definite page turner - i usually go through it in one sitting.

My favorite part, maybe due to it being an older piece it that "special moves" are not some over the top magical stuff, but actual moves from the sport. And yeah they are sometimes presented as over the top, but then again we are following the story trough the eyes of a scaredy-cat character - they are shown as they feel to him and that is clear (at least for me)