Eyeshield 21, Vol. 11: Open Season

アイシールド21 [Eyeshield 21] #11

by Riichiro Inagaki, Yusuke Murata (Illustrator)

With summer coming to an end, the Devil Bats are back at home...and the start of the fall season is staring them in the face! Who will be in the fall lineup? And when Sena gets lost on his way to the first game of the season, can the team survive without the speed and star power of Eyeshield 21?

Genres: Manga, Sports, Shonen, Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Comics Manga

200 pages, Paperback

First published December 3, 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

[Thelma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not gonna lie : that update on Ojo's training got me emotional. But then that amazing game against Amino made me happy again.

[Ben Truong · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eyeshield 21: Open Season continues where the previous tankōbon left off and contains the next nine chapters (89–97) of the on-going manga series.

As the Deimon Devil Bats return to Japan, Suzuna Taki becomes the captain of the cheerleader team, and the team's roster for the Autumn Tournament is announced. Natsuhiko Taki is selected and Manabu Yukimitsu is not chosen as a first-team player because he is too slow, but Sena Kobayakawa and Monta promise they will not lose until they have a complete team.

Meanwhile, the Ojo White Knight’s receiver Haruto Sakuraba is frustrated because he is not as good as Seijuro Shin. However, when he realizes he is important as a partner to the quarterback Ichiro Takami, he resigns his career as model to focus on football.

On the day of the match, Natsuhiko Taki and Sena Kobayakawa take the wrong bus and the game starts without them. The results of the Death March are visible as the Hah Brothers, Komusubi and Kurita defeat Amino's linemen, and Monta is able to overcome their receiver.

However, no one is able to pass through their captain, Atsushi Munakata, and the games is tied 8–8 when Sena Kobayakawa arrives with the help of Zokugaku's Rui Habashira.

This tankōbon is written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Yusuke Murata. For the most part, I really liked the story and the progression of the story. I am rather glad that the Deimon Devil Bats is back in Japan and continue their matches in the Autumn Tournament.

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

[Spudpuppy · Rating 5 out of 5]

2025 reread:

This volume is so fucking good but chapter 90 and 91 in particular has me on suicide watch hellllllp... the way Inagaki will rip your heart out over the heartbreak of relatively minor but recurring characters like Yuki, Sakuraba and later on *** and ****** is insane. Everyone has such clear arcs and is written with so much empathy idk how you can read this and not feel for each and every one of them. (well... there's a few exceptions I guess, we'll get there soon enough lmao... obligatory fuck agon)

Takami's story is so good too and I love it running parallel to Yuki's situation... I love Ojo and I love that they get to be Deimon's big foils and run alongside them through the series... it works so much better for me than the random new enemy of the week things some sports manga do... (yes I'm still annoyed with HQ dumping the great oikawa / kageyama as rivals and foils for each other plotline not even halfway into the series don't @ me)

Rui being fucking cool, Mamori's face when she's called Hiruma's girlfriend, random Kotaro cameos... this might be one of the best volumes tbh

[Oscar Leal · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 Estrellas ☆☆☆
La unión del grupo es mayor, ahora es más compacto y siguen mejorando sus puntos débiles. Han quedado claro varias cosas, que las cosas van en serio y harán hasta lo imposible por llegar a lo más alto, pierdan o no la gran final. Este tomo es basicamente la pelea del hombre contra la maquina. De lo exacto contra la intuición. De la ciencia contra el corazón. La evolución de los personajes me sigue gustando mucho. Me parece innecesario la parte final solo para hacer más complicadas las cosas, pero igualmente sigue siendo una serie disfrutable. Ganas de ver lo que sigue.

[Alex Johnston · Rating 5 out of 5]

This volume is where the manga kicks it into gear - the characters have struggled, they've fought, and now they get to show it to everyone that looks down their noses at them - really the best part of every sports manga. It's time for payoff baby!!!

[Wahyudha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kompetisi impian akhirnya dimulai. Daemon masih dinilai belum selevel. Pertandingan pertama lawannya Amino. Ini biasanya ditemuin di tempat fitnes. Yak kurang lebih anggotanya menggambarkan bentuk tubuh orang fitnes.
Masalahnya sang ace malah kesasar dan belum sampai di tempat pertandingan. Aduh

[Brandon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ojo is more interesting to me than Deimon. This volume has a few moments of various characters emerging from their pre-tournament training arcs and still realizing/thinking they're not strong enough, so what are they going to do now? Which is some good stuff.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wacky and over-the-top.

[Cris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating: 4,5

[James Dunphy · Rating 3 out of 5]

The fall tournament finally begins in this volume after the exhausting death march in volume ten. The opening chapters catch us up with the rival White Knight team, including a freshly shaven and bearded
Sakuraba. The Devil Bats are one of the four teams that must play an additional qualifying round, and their opponents are the science and technology driven Amino highschool and their Cyborg football team. The Cyborgs are an interesting team, relying more on top notch supplements to beef their lineman, and motion-capturing to aid cornerback technique. They contrast with the Devil Bats who lacked even a functional club house last season, and just finished a grueling environmental death march. It's basically like Rocky's training vs Ivan Drago's training from Rocky IV, only in shonen manga football form...fun stuff, and now the series is starting to heat up again.
One of the things I really enjoy about this series in the depth the mangaka tries to give the world in the intersections between chapters. Once the tournament started an interlude page reveals the huge
A and B tournament brackets for the fall tournament. It lets the readers see how grand this thing is outside just who the Devil Bats play, and all the teams are given unique mascots and a stat rating
(pass, run, def, line). It's things like that that make a manga really fun and make me want to fall into the world even more as I read it. I don't expect to see most of the teams played, but just their mascots drawn give you enough character as to what may be behind those teams.
So glad this series is starting to heat up again, even if most of this volume was rather tame. 3 stars. Really looking forward to volume 12.

[Julie Decker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Here we find out some more about our old pals the Ojo White Knights. Why are Sakuraba and Takami such perfect matches for each other in football? What kind of choice will Sakuraba make when his future really comes down to choosing between being a screen star and being a football player? (Well, this is a shounen manga, so you take a guess.) As for the home team, they decide to follow their old coach (Hiruma's doing, again), and they want to get going with some new leadership here (though you can tell Hiruma is still in charge). With the announcement of who's "passed" the Death March, the Devilbats go on to their first match . . . they'll be facing the Cyborgs. But it might be tough to win because Sena decided Taki actually knew what train to get on. ::facepalm::

Again, with this manga I really admire that they give depth to the opponents (especially Ojo) and I'm liking the way Hiruma and Doburoku work together to identify people's strengths and guide them on their perfection of techniques. It's so much more than just a comic book about kids playing a sports game.

[Swankivy · Rating 5 out of 5]

There was some great background info on Sakuraba and Takami's relationship, and I thought it was cool of Sakuraba to make his choice and show his true colors. And then we have the first team practice after the death march, and the announcement of who made it. (It made me sad, though.) Finally, all the hoo-ha leading up to Deimon's first game (against the Amino Cyborgs) and . . . Sena actually trusting Taki to get on the right train . . . OMG, stupid. . . . (EW! Doburoku-sensei thought Mamori was Hiruma's girlfriend! HWARF!)

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 4 out of 5]

#Program BUBU

Pertama kali dibeli dan dibaca pada tanggal 6 Februari 2008.

[Maiko-chan [|] · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5stars

This whole time I've been shipping Shin/Sakuraba. Foolish. main ship Takami/Sakuraba



heartwarming good volume all around