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アイシールド21 [Eyeshield 21] #9
Eyeshield 21, Vol. 9: Hell is for Devil Bats
Fun in the sun! When the Devil Bats and the Seibu Wild Gunmen head to the Texas coast, they merge to form a single team and compete in a beach football tournament! But this game is played without helmets...so will Eyeshield 21's identity be revealed?! And are the Devil Bats dedicated enough to sacrifice their summer vacation for a hellishly intense training camp?
208 pages, Paperback
First published August 4, 2004
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Riichiro Inagaki
139 books200 followersHe 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.
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August 31, 2017
This was a relatively quiet arc, as the Devil Bats fulfill their part of the bargain made during the Aliens match and go to the U.S.A. for their own version of the training camp from hell. There may have been a leave taking, but there was an unexpected reunion as well.
A quiet arc, it started uninteresting enough but gained more steam the more pages you go into it.
A quiet arc, it started uninteresting enough but gained more steam the more pages you go into it.
February 23, 2020
Bah. Eyeshield 21 c'est un peu ma vie, quoi.
June 22, 2024
MI SHIP, MI SHIP JBKHKGKJKJJJVG AHHHHHHHHHH
December 22, 2018
Probably my favorite cover of the serie. I also love the story and how this is the one that really cements them as a team with the decision they take at the end
December 14, 2018
Eyeshield 21: Hell is for Devil Bats continues where the previous tankōbon left off and contains the next nine chapters (71–79) of the on-going manga series.
After the Deimon Devil Bats lost by one point to the NASA Aliens, Yoichi Hiruma shreds the Americans' passports and used their return tickets to fly to America. There, the Devil Bats meet the Seibu Wild Gunmen, and they enter into a beach football contest.
When they win, the coach of the runner-up team is revealed to be Doburoku Sakaki, the man who taught Yoichi Hiruma, Ryokan Kurita and Gen "Musashi" Takekura how to play football. Doburoku takes Deimon Devil Bats and Seibu Wild Gunmen to a ranch where he trains them for the next day.
Before the Devil Bats leave for Japan, they are given a choice to be involved in a Death March, a radical training procedure where in forty days, they travel on foot from Texas to Las Vegas, to which everyone accepts. The linemen are forced to push the pick-up truck there, Sena Kobayakawa is made to kick a stone while running all the way there, and Monta and Manabu Yukimitsu are running there while doing football pass routes and being shot at by Yoichi Hiruma if they lag behind.
Meanwhile in Japan, their first opponent in the Autumn Tournament is decided – the Amino Cyborgs, a school specialized in sports medicine enhancement.
This tankōbon is written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Yusuke Murata. For the most part, I really liked the story and the progression. Yoichi Hiruma is still a somewhat problematic character for me and I quite rather enjoyed the Deimon Devil Bats time in America and rather interesting to see how Inagaki interrupted life in the United States.
All in all, Eyeshield 21: Hell is for Devil Bats is a wonderful continuation to a new series that seems intriguing and I cannot wait to read more.
After the Deimon Devil Bats lost by one point to the NASA Aliens, Yoichi Hiruma shreds the Americans' passports and used their return tickets to fly to America. There, the Devil Bats meet the Seibu Wild Gunmen, and they enter into a beach football contest.
When they win, the coach of the runner-up team is revealed to be Doburoku Sakaki, the man who taught Yoichi Hiruma, Ryokan Kurita and Gen "Musashi" Takekura how to play football. Doburoku takes Deimon Devil Bats and Seibu Wild Gunmen to a ranch where he trains them for the next day.
Before the Devil Bats leave for Japan, they are given a choice to be involved in a Death March, a radical training procedure where in forty days, they travel on foot from Texas to Las Vegas, to which everyone accepts. The linemen are forced to push the pick-up truck there, Sena Kobayakawa is made to kick a stone while running all the way there, and Monta and Manabu Yukimitsu are running there while doing football pass routes and being shot at by Yoichi Hiruma if they lag behind.
Meanwhile in Japan, their first opponent in the Autumn Tournament is decided – the Amino Cyborgs, a school specialized in sports medicine enhancement.
This tankōbon is written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Yusuke Murata. For the most part, I really liked the story and the progression. Yoichi Hiruma is still a somewhat problematic character for me and I quite rather enjoyed the Deimon Devil Bats time in America and rather interesting to see how Inagaki interrupted life in the United States.
All in all, Eyeshield 21: Hell is for Devil Bats is a wonderful continuation to a new series that seems intriguing and I cannot wait to read more.
January 18, 2019
3 Estrellas ☆☆☆
Después de dejar pendiente uno de los mejores tomos, terminó de la mejor manera, de la esperada, pero no por ello menos dramatica. Las rivalidades se abren, todos se hacen más fuertes y el torneo de otoño será todo un coliseo romano.
Como es natural, la intensidad tiene un punto de depresión, es normal que disminuya todo ese cumulo de acciones que te dejan el corazón latiendo a tope. En esta ocasión es un intenso entrenamiento el cual todos aceptan y existe un momento que todos esperabamos. Es entretenido y deja muchas enseñanzas, el humor y dolor de los personajes siempre presentes.
Es un tomo de transición para cosas más grandes. Se podría esperar más, pero no puedo negar que esto es toda una adicción, no puedo dejar de leer. Espero lo mejor.
Después de dejar pendiente uno de los mejores tomos, terminó de la mejor manera, de la esperada, pero no por ello menos dramatica. Las rivalidades se abren, todos se hacen más fuertes y el torneo de otoño será todo un coliseo romano.
Como es natural, la intensidad tiene un punto de depresión, es normal que disminuya todo ese cumulo de acciones que te dejan el corazón latiendo a tope. En esta ocasión es un intenso entrenamiento el cual todos aceptan y existe un momento que todos esperabamos. Es entretenido y deja muchas enseñanzas, el humor y dolor de los personajes siempre presentes.
Es un tomo de transición para cosas más grandes. Se podría esperar más, pero no puedo negar que esto es toda una adicción, no puedo dejar de leer. Espero lo mejor.
July 14, 2024
Training arc in America! Kind of boring start with the beach football, and a really weird method of training for the back half of the volume, but there were some cool moments where each member had to decide between returning home for a fun summer break or committing themselves to training hard. Eyeshield 21 really takes a big slapstick over-the-top approach to everything and I'm not exactly a fan, training being 'train REALLY hard while you get shot with guns and do superhuman feats' does not excite me.
May 10, 2025
2025 reread:
“But why is a cow at the beach?”
“Because it’s Texas?”
This is my favorite arc in the whole series tbh I looooove the adventure in America I love the Kid showing up, I love the cow, etc etc
I did laugh when jumonji told everyone that Sena is eyeshield 21 and they were all just 🤔 but then a minute later when sena said it himself they were like 🤯🫨😵💫 please listen and learn when my emotional support juvenile delinquent is talking next time, thanks
“But why is a cow at the beach?”
“Because it’s Texas?”
This is my favorite arc in the whole series tbh I looooove the adventure in America I love the Kid showing up, I love the cow, etc etc
I did laugh when jumonji told everyone that Sena is eyeshield 21 and they were all just 🤔 but then a minute later when sena said it himself they were like 🤯🫨😵💫 please listen and learn when my emotional support juvenile delinquent is talking next time, thanks
January 31, 2021
Kind of a goofy volume but it had the super fun beach football game, and we got the first hints of a tender moment between Mamori and Hiruma which I won't go into my thoughts on here for uh, various reasons. Look, it's tasty tasty garbage, alright??
February 17, 2022
Bagian penting dalam perjalanan DEVIL BEATS yaitu Death march latihan 40 hari (konversi latihan 3 taun). Semuan demi memenangkan Christmas Bowl. Latihannya gmn ya? Baca nih dan ini baru permulaan.
Lalu yang menarik di chapter ini saat tim dadakan dibuat bernama Devil Gunman.
Lalu yang menarik di chapter ini saat tim dadakan dibuat bernama Devil Gunman.
May 6, 2019
This was also a good one.
September 25, 2020
Mulai Death March!
March 28, 2025
Ich mochte das Quarterback-Tag-Team sehr <3
August 24, 2014
Now that the Devilbats team has to leave Japan, they end up in Texas, and of course . . . training is on the schedule. But who else is in Texas? The Seibu Wild Gunmen of course. Their quarterback, Kid, has an extremely quick pass, and his wide receiver Tetsuma has a reason for being known as a locomotive--lay those tracks and he powers through in a single-minded straight line (well, unless the tracks are curved). They team up with the Devilbats to play beach football and find fantastic success. And then they find out some more training is on the agenda under Hiruma's neverending desire for bettering his team, and who knows, it just might kill them. . . .
The stereotypical cowboy team has always been hilarious to me, but they're also great characters, and it's fun when they're able to team up. But my favorite part is at the end when they are to begin the Death Match and Sena reveals his identity to the rest of the team (and maybe around half of them had already figured it out).
The stereotypical cowboy team has always been hilarious to me, but they're also great characters, and it's fun when they're able to team up. But my favorite part is at the end when they are to begin the Death Match and Sena reveals his identity to the rest of the team (and maybe around half of them had already figured it out).
August 6, 2014
The team goes to Texas to train (naturally). A bit of a slow volume with a focus on training on the road to Las Vegas. There's a beach football tournament with a very, very overtly stereotypical homosexual bodybuilders. It normally wouldn't be so weird, but coming off the extremely race driven game that made up the last two volumes, it's sort of funny to see the awkward racial and sexual insensitivities of the author. Nothing to hate, just something to notice and note.
August 27, 2008
Ooh, the end of the Aliens game and the beginning of the training in America. With a beach football game involving the Wild Gunman team (hahah, the Devil Gunmans). Um, running from Houston to Las Vegas in forty days? Sounds like a Death March to me. . . . (And I love everyone's reaction to Sena's secret identity, hee hee HEE!)
November 10, 2013
#Program BUBU
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