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oh god, don’t watch the anime LOL it doesn’t adapt the manga well at all.

read the manga. it’s drawn by the same guy who’s currently redrawing the One Punch Man series, Yusuke Murata. the art is fantastic.

as for the story, it’s sounds like a run of the mill series, but that’s where the normalcy ends. the Quarterback of the American Football Club (aka Hiruma Youichi) uses things like blackmail, kidnapping, and shooting people with one of his (many) guns in order to get people to join or do things for him, and that’s just the beginning.

Hiruma kidnapping Monta.

please note, Hiruma’s name means “Devil in Plain Sight.”

the series is crazy fun and it’s got a TON of energy, heart, and action. the characters are all unique and fantastic- as mentioned, the quarterback carries a mini artillery around with him at all times, and he has enough blackmail on people that he owns his own island. (it never comes up, but it’s canon). 

HELL, AT ONE POINT, TWO OF THE CHARACTERS CHASE A MOTORCYCLE DOWN, AND WIN.

then there’s Sena, the main character, who’s incredibly cowardly at first and only good at running–which is GREAT for becoming the new running back of the team, which is why Hiruma wants him on the team. and then the catcher is Monta, a short guy who looks more like a monkey than a highschool student, and the only thing he’s good at is catching.

Each team they face has their own theme, some examples being the Deimon Devilbats (main characters), Oujo White Nights, Seibu Wild Gunman, Taiyo Sphinx, Kyoshin Poseidon, Bando Spiders, etc. and when a team has a theme, it goes ALL OUT. with attacks, outfits, and the school even designed to fit into it. 

and each character is completely unique with their own weird quirks and talents and backstories. and all the main characters get their own moment to shine with their own development and growth, even a lot of the characters from opposing teams. in fact, sometimes you can’t help but root for the opposing teams.

trust me when I say that you don’t have to understand football at ALL in order to enjoy the series. It takes you through babysteps so you understand the basic rules and such, and then it goes completely off the rails. 

i’ve never cared about football before reading this manga, and even after i can’t say i have much of an interest. but the series ALWAYS gets me pumped up about it whenever i read it. it’s a series that gets me invested in a sport i don’t even care about.

the series is just fantastic and crazy and full of a lot of fun and heart and emotion. the art is BEAUTIFUL and the characters are all so enjoyable to watch. it’s seriously a great series.

and also, Hiruma is hilariously, insanely chaotic. 

(he’s actually super smart too, but he uses stuff like mind games and crazy plays in order to intimidate his opponents and to catch them off guard. and it’s beautiful.)

anyway, 

THANK YOU

I binge-read Eyeshield 21 thanks to this exchange and I haven’t regretted it, I had a TON of fun and laughed out loud at a lot of parts, while others tugged at my heartstrings like nobody’s business. It was one of the best manga I’ve read in quite a while.

I might or might not have made “nyoom”noises aloud whenever Sena sprinted.

But. But

To those who, like me, have watched the Inazuma Eleven anime:

Eyeshield 21 is x1000 better

The series are less alike than you’d think

Why do I insist on that point? Because I’m not really a fan of sports anime/manga (or sports in general), so Inazuma Eleven was one of my few reference points of comparison. So when I read about “schools that go all out with their theme” my mind immediately went to that anime.

You know, the one with players with actual, honest-to-God delusions of godhood, others that claimed to be aliens and actually fucking destroyed buildings and threatened the Prime Minister of Japan and, in later seasons, Time Travel.

All of which revolved around/was done for the sake of soccer.

So I found myself in the extremely surreal position of reading about Hiruma Youichi’s antics (Training from Hell that only barely pushed human’s limits instead of being completely unsurvivable; outrageous plays that were still legal; hidden techniques attainable by human beings instead of straight-up fucking magic) and thinking “This is tamer than I expected”.

Anyway, this has been a PSA:

Don’t watch the Inazuma Eleven anime before reading Eyeshield 21

Read Eyeshield 21, it’s amazing and a huge lot of fun.

I need a fic where Hall Jordan: Green Lantern is out being a space cop.

But like, with really bad people. Gimme the angst, the action, adventure- give me Hal Jordan: Green Lantern who’s been awake for four day tracking down this trafficking ring that’s been jumping between 50 different planets randomly and hiding in asteroids and such

Give me tired Hal who knows there a connection between eight different cases and he’s gotta find out what before the victim disappears into the void of space- maybe literally.

Hal Jordan, whose street smarts and bar fights help him solve cases involving entirely alien languages, culture, people and customs. I want him to laugh over the similarity of motive throughout the galaxies.

I want him to cry over the universal cruelty of people looking to make money and power and I want him to hate it.

I want Hal Jordan to prove himself as much as a detective as Batman- not in the same way, not with the same methods, but I want him to be able to hold his own in some areas, exceed in others and fall flat in the rest.

Hal Jordan who barely remembers how Earth Laws, Earth Judicial Courts and Earth Prisons operates, but will easily and effortlessly rattled off self defense laws from a planet three sectors over, imprisonments terms for three levels of crime from a small planet in the farther corner of his own sector and the entire legal process for arresting a slaver on Lithargos. 

Including the different forms of paperwork between one slaver, multiple slavers and a single and/or multiple slavers operating out of a larger group.

Someone asks Hal Jordan a question about copyright infringement and he will absent mindedly go into great detail on how such a thing is blasphemy and the courts will give you a death sentence for that. Not just any death, of course, but one that uses what you stole as a method of death.

Sleep? Optional.

Food? Can survive off caffeine.

Nah, it’s fine, I’m good.

Hal Jordan becomes the first human Green Lantern, succeeding Abin Sur and oh boy, the learning curb on his side is mocked, ignored and sneered at, while the actual information on the care and feeding of humans is outright ignored if not gently glossed over.

And Hal? Hal’s just been told if you are stubborn enough, the magic green light will do it.

Hal is forced to return to Earth on medical leave when he physically can’t fight anyone. When he’s nonresponsive for several hours rather then several minutes.

I mean, yeah, in a couple years, it’s acknowledged that Hal Jordan is a worthy inheritor of Abin Sur’s will, but the damage has been done.

What? No, it's totally not, you just take all the sad stuff, right? And then you take your blurbo and you violate several things, you know like, the Geneva Convention, human rights, laws, ect- it's called angst darling, try it sometime.

Trust me, alright?

Have I ever steered you wrong?

Yellow and black twin size quilt with gold quilting. Backed with a thick black cuddletex and finished with a yellow binding.

The pattern is Luminous by Robert Kaufmann.

Danny: Ae-pp-le

Jason: Yes good! Now put the sounds together

Danny: Appeallele!

Jason: No, honey, it's an apple.

Danny: Apple

Jason: Yes! Okay let's try this one. *switches flash card* What sounds do these letters make?

Danny: K-ae-t

Jason: Yes. So put those sound together and you get-?

Danny: Katana!

Jason: No! How did you get a sword from a cat?

Dick: Danny still struggling with reading?

Jason: I just don't understand how. He can recognize the letters and their sounds. Even identify the pictures! But he can't read a word. Is it me? Am I not teaching right?

Dick: Little kids have different struggles and needs, Jay. It just takes some time and besides Danny is only 5.

Jason: I guess your right.

Danny: Next card!

Jason: Okay this one- wait is this one of Tim's spelling bee cards? How did it get mixed up with-

Danny: onomatopoeia!

Jason: What? How can you read this word but not cat!?

Danny: *shrugs*

Dick: Danny, honey, what does this say? *shows phone screen*

Danny: pseudonym!

Jason: What about this word? *shows flash card*

Danny: Traaashere

Jason crying: Its tree.

Dick: We have a real genius on our hands. Able to do advance material but lacks basic skills.

Danny: You're a waffle

Dick: *Dramatic gasp* Where did you hear such language!?

Danny: From Uncle Damian when he reads bedtime stories to me.

Jason: Wait wait wait. I just connected the dots

Danny: Can I code with Auntie Babs after my reading homework? I want to hack the government.

Jason: ...Maybe I should limit your interactions with my family for a little while.

Dick offended: Hey!

Danny: Aw. Can I at least shake my rump like Uncle Dick at the club if I do my math homework? I can do a handstand now! A handstand rump shake can pay for my dinner, right Uncle Dick?

“Yes good”

“AND EAT THE BAD ONES”

“Wait no”

“EAT THEM”

You better watch out

You better watch out

Some socialite telling him that he can’t bring his kids to events, asking what his mother would have said and Bruce deadpans and goes, ‘I think she would have liked to have met her grandchildren. But of course, she never did’

His med school lecturers threatening to flunk him if he doesn’t hand in his essay on blood loss, only for Bruce to say ‘it’s just a touchy subject for me’ and the lecturer blue screening because shit

Some rogue tries to kidnap Bruce at some event, holding a gun to his head, just for Bruce to look at the rogue, almost tearfully and be like ‘i always knew I would end up like my dad’ and the rogue just panics because now they are in a room with a bunch of pissed off people because they’ve almost made the Princess Diana of Gotham cry.

Clark gets mad at him over something, yelling at him and of course Bruce is just no listening so Clark just snaps, Ma Kent’s favourite phrase of ‘who raised you???’ Only to completely fucking choke, pray for the ground to swallow him up because Bruce’s expression just slips a little (inside he’s hysterically laughing). Clark comes by again with a batch of cookies.

Don't kids say the wildest things?

Schedule date of coronation

Organise a trip to the Royal Soothsayer with the new Queen

Search forest for the crown

Purchase a new throne, or locate the stolen one

We hired a mage.

Settle down. I understand this is a controversial decision, but the benefits have already begun to reveal themselves. While the mage is unable to detect ailments on a corpse, several of the princesses have all shared an ailment referred to as a “shellfish allergy”. While it is unclear what allergy means, it sounds detrimental, and the mage clarified that it is deadly if not handled. As lobster was served at that banquet, that is likely the culprit, and as such shall be removed from the palace’s future supply orders, preventing future queens from following her path. Staff members will be allowed access to the current stock until we run out, so I hope a nice lobster dinner will quell your fears.