Eyeshield 21

Eyeshield 21 (Japaneseアイ シールド21, Aishīrudo Nijūichi ) is a manga series, which focuses on American Football. Written it is of Riichiro Inagaki and Yusuke Murata drawn by. The manga, which was published from 2002 to 2009 and currently comprises about 5300 pages, was originally designed for a young, male readership, so the Shōnen- genus can be assigned.

Action

At the start of the new school year at the high school Deimon Kōtōgakkō advertise the various recreational clubs for new members. Sena Kobayakawa (小早川 瀬 那, Kobayakawa Sena ) is new to the school and is due to the ability to run faster than the average for his age, of Yōichi Hiruma (蛭 魔 妖 一, Hiruma Yōichi ), the quarterback of the school team Deimon Devil Bats (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 Ryokan Kurita (栗 田 良 寛, Kurita Ryokan ), he founded a team to participate in takes place once a year Christmas Bowl ( the national championship for high school students ) can.

Publications

Eyeshield 21 was released in Japan from July 2002 to June 2009 a week in individual chapters in Shonen Jump, the best-selling, with a circulation of over two million manga magazine. The Shueisha Publishing brings these 333 individual chapters, which are called Downs, out in anthologies. In Japan, the series is complete with 37 anthologies. By July 2005, the first fourteen books in Japan have more than eight million copies.

The manga is published in North America, first in the English Shonen Jump and then in anthologies in Viz. In Indonesia Elex Media Komputindo brings out the books. In French translation Glénat publishes the comic book series.

Filming

The Studio Gallop animated based on the manga series, an anime series for Japanese television. This was directed by Masayoshi Nishida. On the television station TV Tokyo each week a new episode ran from April 2005 to March 2008; a total of 145 episodes have been aired. The anime is also available on DVD since July 2005; so far 22 DVDs have been released, each with four episodes.