Eyeshield 21
Eyeshield 21 ( Japanese ア イ シ ー ル ド 21 , Aishīrudo Nijūichi ) is a manga series that focuses on American football . It is written by Riichirō Inagaki and drawn by Yūsuke Murata . The manga, which appeared from 2002 to 2009 and has so far comprised around 5300 pages, was originally designed for a young, male readership, so it can be assigned to the Shōnen genre and the sports genre .
action
At the beginning of the new school year at the Deimon Kōtōgakkō high school , the various leisure clubs recruit new members. Sena Kobayakawa ( 小早川 瀬 那 , Kobayakawa Sena ) is new to the school and because of his ability to run faster than average for his age, she is led by Yōichi Hiruma ( 蛭 魔 妖 一 , Hiruma Yōichi ), the quarterback of the Deimon Devil Bats school team ( 泥 門 デ ビ ル バ ッ ツ , Deimon Debiru Battsu ) forced to join the American football club as a running back.
Together with Yōichi and Ryōkan Kurita ( 栗 田 良 寛 , Kurita Ryōkan ) he founds a team to take part in the once a year Christmas Bowl (the national championship for high school students).
Publications
Eyeshield 21 appeared in Japan from July 2002 to June 2009 in individual chapters each week in Shōnen Jump , the best-selling manga magazine with a circulation of over two million . The Shūeisha publishing house publishes these 333 individual chapters, which are referred to as Downs , in anthologies. In Japan the series has been completed with 37 edited volumes. As of July 2005, the first fourteen books in Japan had sold over eight million copies.
The manga appears in North America first in the English language Shonen Jump and then in anthologies by Viz . Elex Media Komputindo publishes the books in Indonesia . Glénat publishes the comic series in French translation .
filming
The Gallop studio animated an anime series for Japanese television based on the manga series . This was directed by Masayoshi Nishida . From April 2005 to March 2008, a new episode was shown every week on TV Tokyo ; a total of 145 episodes were broadcast. The anime has also been available on DVD since July 2005; so far, 22 DVDs with four episodes each have been released.
Web links
- Official website of Shōnen Jump to the Manga (Japanese)
- TV Tokyo Official Website for Anime (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release from Bandai Visual on the appearance of the first DVD of the anime series ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
