Eyeshield 21 14
June 26, 2007
I was a little put off by this volume because it was JUST a football game. The Poseidon game takes up the entire volume, with none of the cute inbetween stuff I like so much. It was annoying too, because the volume ends without you knowing the outcome. Argh.
On the other hand, it still does a fair job of spotlighting the characters while they play. Of course Fatty Jr. gets the most spotlight, and much of the first half of the volume is spent on his struggle to break through the Poseidon techniques and height advantage et al. We also get to see a lot of technique evolution from Monta and Sena, more Sena than Monta, but these three were spotlighted in particular to show that “size doesn’t matter,” since they are all three pretty short. The Hah Brothers get a brief moment where we see them using the delinquent murder method in the background, but the thing that shocked me was that Hiruma was praised. Hiruma NEVER gets praised, even though he more than anyone else deserves it. It was kind of a weird moment. Kurita never gets praised either though he probably deserves it, and we see almost none of him this time around. We also only get one scene with Natsuhiko, who’s one of my new favorites. I missed him.
The best scene in the volume was when Mamori tried to signal to the field about how to deal with one of the Poseidon’s strategies, and everyone thought she was just cheering for them. Plus, we get another covert Mamori/Hiruma moment, which are still really weird and welcome.
Even with a somewhat boring volume, I STILL can’t wait for the next one. What a great series.
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