Eyeshield 21 (アイシールド21 Aishīrudo Nijūichi) is a manga about American football written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Yusuke Murata. It has been adapted into an anime movie in 2004 (shown at Jump Festa), an anime television series in 2005, several video games and a trading card game from Konami. The manga is serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump. The manga is published in English by Viz Media.
The anime version, produced by NAS and animated by Studio Gallop, premiered across Japan on TV Tokyo from April 6, 2005, and ended March 19, 2008 with episode 145. The anime is sponsored by NFL Japan. The English dub aired on the free on-demand Toonami Jetstream as a joint effort with NFL Rush on December 17, 2007, but no more episodes will be dubbed, as the deal with NFL Rush fell through in 2008.[citation needed] It has subsequently been picked up for broadcast on Crunchyroll in a subtitled format. It is also aired in Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines and South Korea
plot of Eyeshield 21 revolves around a weak and non-assertive boy named Sena Kobayakawa who enters the high school of his choice, Deimon Private Senior High School, where his childhood friend Mamori Anezaki
attended school the year before. His only remarkable physical abilities
are his running speed and intense agility, the result of a school life
spent complying with the demands of bullies. It was revealed later that a
friend, Riku, taught him how to run fast to help him against bullies.
His abilities quickly catch the eye of the high school's American
football team captain Yoichi Hiruma, who forces Sena to join the Deimon Devil Bats 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 team manager and enter the
field wearing a helmet equipped with a green-tinted eyeshield
in order to hide his features under the pseudonym of "Eyeshield 21."
The makeshift team initially takes part in the spring football
tournament hoping to win with through the strength of their new "secret
weapon." However, the extremely weak team is eliminated early on by the
Ojo White Knights, a powerhouse football team that focuses on defense.
After 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. Hiruma, Kurita, and Sena
regroup and slowly build a real team from other misfits and students
looking to define themselves, such as Tarō "Monta" Raimon, a baseball player who can only catch, and the Ha-Ha Brothers.
Other characters slowly join the team, and the series follows the
building and growth of the Deimon Devil Bats and its members as well as
various rival teams as they all strive to achieve their goal of playing
in the Christmas Bowl.
Following the Christmas Bowl, Japan begins to gather the best
football players to form a team that will represent Japan at the
American Football Youth World Championship, where an MVP will be
rewarded an NFL contract and $3 million. Team Japan manages to make it
to the final against Team America. The result is that a final touchdown
by Sena at the buzzer ties the score, and both teams are declared
winners, since no one expected anyone to win against America; however,
the two teams are unsatisfied with this and tear straight back onto the
field for their own improvised "overtime," causing chaos with officials.
It is unclear which teams won the unofficial extra period but Panther
of Team America won the MVP trophy aloft, winning the pro contract with
the San Antonio Armadillos.
The series concludes with Sena becoming the captain of the Devil Bats
when Hiruma and Kurita go off to college. In his final year of high
school, Sena is invited to Notre Dame High School by Clifford, therefore
fulfilling Hiruma's proclamation at the beginning of the series: the
famous Eyeshield 21 of Notre Dame High has been born. All of the main
characters are shown in the final chapter to be in college or playing
amateur-league football while maintaining a job.
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