Preface: Every review I write is confronted with 3 major problems. Memory Patience and Sense of Purpose. 1 My memory is horrible writing a review on a certain subject implies mastering that subject to a certain extent. And that personally requires revisiting noting and rereading. Activities that I usually practice but it requires the use of the second part patience. 2 To write a review I need to write primarily in my native language Portuguese to then translate into English an unfortunate submission to the AngloSaxon imperialism that I face with each text on a foreign website. To ensure that my analysis is not nullified by bad grammar and the fear of judgment of being considered an illiterate enormous care is put into this part even if in a limited way. All this requires from me a huge effort both creative intellectual and willingness simply to write regardless of the quality of what was written. 3 This is the most difficult I cannot produce anything when I do not feel that I will be relevant or differentiated in some way apart from academics works that I am obliged to do even without wanting to. That is it is not easy to produce something new and interesting from scratch. Something new is usually impossible something interesting is unfortunately even more beyond my range. Now what allows me to produce this Review? The complete disregard for the three rules I set for myself. I made an effort of revisiting and memorizing which I dont usually do. I am having patience and spending my time on an activity that many would consider useless making a point of being prolix enough and producing countless lines of text introducing my experience with writing and so far with zero mention of the reviewed work. Finally choosing now to finally address what should be addressed to recognize that my review will not be spectacular or new at all but that even so compared to the horrible and amateurish level of the other reviews on this site my amateurish and horrible review will be an amateurishly and horribly superior review to those that have already been produced here. Concluding not the Review concluding the introduction to my review. I like to write and today I decided to write about Eyeshield 21 a manga published in 2002 in the Japanese Magazine Weekly Shnen Jump written by Riichirou Inagaki and drawn by Yuusuke Murata. The division of this work will not be the conventional one divided by arcs or moments doing that would be personally both tedious and unnecessary. I will not enumerate and categorize things like a bot. There is no separation between art: rating 9 characters: rating 8. If you do something like that you are a complete and total dumbass not wanting to be rude sorry. Now regarding scores... they are useless. They serve only as a north of direction not as an end or something defining. But well if you care so much about little numbers if I were to categorize Eyeshield would be in my parameters an 8 the spoiler is given. However you will notice at the end that I will give it a top grade the maximum. Why? Because I can and because I want to. That way it draws more attention and raises your expectation read it and create your own experience. Maybe the 100 is exaggerated I think so too or maybe not but then you will have to read it and correct me. Anyway it would not be an unfair grade. If it is good it is 10 if it is bad it is 0. Lets stick to this monochrome world for now. Now more important than an empty number is to understand what this story wanted to tell me if it succeeded and if it did how well it succeeded. Then we can together decide whether or not it was a good read if my time was well spent because if it was used in a good way it will not have been a waste of time. And how could I develop this if not through my personal experience in a totally partial and subjective way? After all there is no objectivity in art implying that there is a wrong would imply that there is a right and the other way around and this does not exist at all when it comes to art. Well. Eyeshield 21 Three acts Act 1 Power of friendship 550https://i.ur.com/eyW38LN.png How do you ensure the motto of the magazine that shelters you Perseverance Friendship Victory without establishing bonds of friendship and perseverance towards victory. Nothing embraces this more than Sena and its friends. Nothing here is handed out nothing is given. If you watch American Football you know well that there are positions that matter more and which matter less which receives more importance and which receives less importance . This information I pulled out of my head my experience following the sport is null it was the manga of Inagaki/Murata that made me create interest in the art of the oval ball. I will support the Denver Broncos they have a cool logo. Back to the point everything is earned nothing is handed out on a plate. We see a cast carefully assembled its poetry nothing is more beautiful than seeing the careful importance that each character receives throughout the Mang each position matters each member is added to the group over time slowly with patience in a cohesive natural and organic way in a genuine manner. Concluding this story and seeing where each one has come seeing where this same group started from what they have accomplished is the satisfaction that can only be achieved by a story that pours passion for its cast successfully accomplishing the nonsimple writing exercise the good character development. This of course is not limited to the main core of heroes in a sports manga rivalry is as important as brotherhood confrontation dispute your enemy is as necessary as if not more than your ally. Naturally its development is of equal importance and again seeing its outcome makes us reflect how well written the whole journey was. 550https://i.ur.com/wEuZEdG.png Fernand Braudel can brilliantly explain even this knowing that the histoire vnementielle reveals little to us other than the analysis of the present fact reflecting Eyeshield 21 as a whole from beginning to end through the longue dure allows us to understand the passion and importance that each character however small has for the whole story and its message as a unity. Ok this was extremely forced it was just to show that I am reading The Mediterranean. Im so cool right? 400https://i.ur.com/jiOh2eq.jpg Act 2 Winning and Winning 390https://i.ur.com/Hsd0rr2.jpg Sport competition in its very essence survives through cruelty and the need to overcome the loser. What would be the second place if not only the first loser? What conquers those who are left behind on the journey what is left for the defeated or even worse for the one who has lost before even having the chance to compete whether out of fear or inability. It is not about recognizing the cruel insignificance of the defeated but recognizing that this is the only goal victory always victory above all else. Just as the Buddhism teaches us not to fear the inevitable death Eyeshield teaches us not to fear defeat but to embrace it. The loser is not glorified the loser does not receive flowers he receives purely defeat. What he will do with it is what makes the total difference whether the cycle ends in it or will become a step towards victory the defeated will only be a defeated during this crucial decision. 420https://i.ur.com/JEwHCM9.png Act 3 Do or Die Misery or Glory 440https://i.ur.com/8NlUKbo.png To the defeated oblivion to the conqueror the next battle awaits. Glory is temporary and the next opponent presents itself the path of a winner is endless there is always the next opponent and for the elite the battle is to stay in the elite. It is truly never ending. And it fails to conclude those who believe that victory or defeat matters more than anything else just as the journey matters more than the destination the challenge the battle matters more than the outcome. 410https://i.ur.com/FGJVhxj.png The challenger trying to prove himself the best even though he isnt and not being seeking to be is what matters. To assert oneself to test oneself to challenge oneself is the duty and destiny of the sportsman it is his path and it is where Eyeshield 21 resides. Notconclusion The influence on reality 350https://nypost.com/wpcontent/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/NYPICHPDPICT000010405529.jpg?resize=1024728quality=75strip=all It is clear to an attentive reader that more than anything else Eyeshield twenty one has been influenced by reality. The 2023 campaign of the Miami Heat in heroic fashion the 8 seed reached the NBA finals in a totally discredited manner as did the young athletes from a humble Kanto school. Everything is very evident Hiruma and his injury and persisting on the court just like Jimmy Butler in the series against the New York Knicks the leader even injured on the court giving support to his teammates. Wonderful how reality influences our experiences and the experience of great works. The entire run of the Deimon Bats closely resembles the South Florida basketball team it was wonderful to realize that. If you did not realize even that I am sorry for your lack of ignorance. You lack intellectual baggage. I dont blame you for that failure I blame you if you stop informing yourself from here on out. HeatNation Yesconclusion Conclusion for real 410https://i.ur.com/fKC6ok2.png Just as Blue Lock exposes in a not so subtle and superficial way the selfishness within sport we can project the same idea in an extremely superior and improved way in Eyeshield. Sport is the selfish desire to be the best to overcome the opponent. And just like the selfishness of the sportsman it also shines through in his reader. My desire to produce the best review aligns with Senas goal to become the best Running back Montas to be the best Wide Receiver. Thats what sports is all about. Compete sweat be better than your opponent or if not dont chicken out and try to be anyway. You can absorb what you want from a story you can project and interpret it in the way you want just as Musashi managed to become the best Kicker other athletes seek to overcome him challenge him stop him in different ways. We express ourselves and find different responses in the face of adversity never without giving up It is always better to fail by giving it your all than not trying at all. 440https://i.ur.com/V6n11pM.jpg The duo Murata and Inagaki with few flaws and many merits recreate and apply with exquisite all the classic bases of the supreme sports genre one of the most delicious aspects of our favorite media. The beauty of sport the beauty of competition the frustration the pain of the pursuit of victory the desire to rise above all. Eyeshield 21 addresses everything and a little more never forgetting its macro or its micro. A reading that did not prove to be a waste of my time at all. 400https://i.ur.com/WxiY15C.png