A manga from Riichirou Inagaki and Yuusuke Murata Summary Eyeshiel 21 is a sport manga. It is the story of an american football team in Deimon high school. To start there is only the brain Iruma the quatreback and the strenght Kurita the center. At the start of the year iruma force a newbie with great talent to join the team sena the main character. Through senas eyes we will discover american football and many wacky characters. We will follow Deimon in all their wins and loses. The manga follow a very traditionnal sport stroyline with a first win a lose against the main rivals a recrutment arc a training arc two tournaments arcs and finally an internationnal arc. in the end its an action manga with many comedic intrusions especially from the main characters. Why I like it To start i need to say that i read this manga for the first time wen i was still a teenager and i think it mattered in my apreciation of it. It was the first i read a sport manga knowing what it was and even if im still not a fan of the genra i admit that it allows strong character development simple and effective motivations to follow the story and a wonderfull opportunity to draw action scenes. And eyeshield did all of that in a really masterfull way. And while doing all that this manga is a really good piece of comedy. We have Iruma the quarteback and strategist of the team whos always implementing weird strategies into the game. And the way he is doing this is always funny to the reader. Thats without mentionning all the between games moments. in the end i wanted deimons devil bats to win i really longed form them to grow stronger and i laugh and still laugh today each time i reread it. Why i think its great As i already mentionned eyeshield is a sport manga. It started in 2002 and at that time their wasnt that many great sports manga especially considering team sports. In this category their was essentially Captain Tsubada and slam dunk. And eyeshield arrived almost ten years after slam dunk. Moroever this manga adds up with the drawing standards of his time to adds up modern action in a cartoonish manga with all types of body types to implement diversity in thoses action scenes. without forgetting many many light and laughable moments . Why i gave it 100 My notation is mostly subjective and eyeshield being the first modern sport manga that i read and being so new to me at the time i read it it deserve my best subjective notation poissible. And in the objective part i would say that the drawing is a little bit off at the start and improve every time single chapter to peek only at the end. To adds up i loved the comedy aspect but i can see people rejct the manga bvecause of it not being serious. I would say it did what it wanted to do in an almost perfect way but it might be too niche. i would give it a 9395 objectively. But since i adds up my subjectivity i will maintain it a 100 : Have a good day.