I should've gotten that booster shot

[xparrot]

I thought I was safe. I thought I was immune; I thought I was taking the necessary precautions, abstaining from the fangirl-decimating plague that is Prince of Tennis--only to go and come down with a bad case of an entirely different sports shounen.

The irony is, I don't even like sports. And of all the sports in all the arenas - American Football?? The most mind-numbingly boring sport in the world, as pretty much all the world except America agrees. And yet.

My Eyeshield 21 infection can be attributed to the following vectors:

--Hiruma
--The rest of the Deimon Devil Bats, every damn adorable one of them
--immicolia (fine, fine, we're even for GetBackers)
--Hiruma
--Blatant emotional manipulation, not limited to moments including: ice cubes, cream puffs, Death Marches, football games
--Distractingly sexy boys, even allowing that football has the ugliest uniforms known to mankind.
--Laudable levels of slashiness in the rival teams (see: the Shin/Sakuraba/Takami affair, Akaba/Koutarou, Kakei/the stripping ex-swim-team sweetie whose name I never remember, the Kid/Tetsuma (What? Oh, come on, they totally love each other.), Banba/Harao ("We've been doing it together for three years already." Haw.) Edit: can't forget Panther/Homer!)
--Hiruma
--"We're going to the Christmas Bowl!"
--"You're thirteen thousand, two hundred and ninety-seven hours and forty-nine minutes late."
--Hiruma
--Hiruma
--Hiruma

Eyeshield 21 isn't the easiest manga to pimp out. Oh, it's funny, and pretty, and exciting for sure. But the slashy bits are mostly in the other teams; the Devil Bats are fun as anything, but while they certainly can be hot, and they could be doing each other, it's not handed to you on a PoT-shaped silver platter. But. There's Hiruma. Who's worth reading the manga for all on his own, if you go for obscene, evilly brilliant blond demons with an unhealthy penchant for firearms, unnaturally sharp teeth, and an unholy obsession with football. And while Hiruma is distracting you, his teammates sneak up, whack you over the head with a cute stick and drag you into their cavern of laughter and friendship and sportly team antics.

Knowing Hiruma? This is his wicked plan all along. Damn it.

Warning: Highly contagious. Click at your own risk: Torrent for ch.1-160

And before certain people start panicking/chewing me out - no, I'm not writing fic. Yet. Now, doujinshi, that's another story....5 and counting.

Comments

[immicolia.livejournal.com]

Yea, my biggest problem with the anime is just how badly they appeared to have butchered everything involving Musashi. He doesn't come back during the Seibu game! And I've been flailing in rage over that ever since I saw it. There is the odd redeeming episode (the one during the Death March with the Hah bros. running off is still my absolute favourite. The fistfight at the end. And the squabbling over how many colours in a rainbow and... oh god *squishes them*) And I still squeak over the thing as a whole because I'm ultimately a bitch to this series. But the manga is superior in every way. (Although... I'm pretty sure the creampuff story is in the anime somewhere. I'm positive. although it's been a very long time since I've seen most of the episodes save for the odd one I've rewatched)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I watched some of the anime there at the end of the Seibu game, and what the hell? Why did they change that? (and yet they still did the super-fired-up Kurita, and grr the whole point was that happened because Musashi was back and time had restarted and grrr...umm, thinking about this too much, yeah ^^;) Has he actually come back in the anime, or are they gonna do his triumphant return during the Bandou game?

Dangit, I'm gonna end up watching most of the anime, I think. (...which maybe is better than rereading the manga, which I'm already doing, and what were you saying about being its bitch? >__>)

[immicolia.livejournal.com]

I know! Dammit! This is why I was flailing about in rage. They pretty much went and destroyed one of my favourite parts. And I think (given my complete inability to understand Japanese I don't know for certian) but I think he was finally convinced to come back at the end of episode 76. I'm just making an educated guess due to body language though. The Bando game hasn't actually started yet so, we'll see. Either way I'm still horribly irritated. (although I have to admit, as much as it annoys me, that part in the middle of the Seibu game where Musashi is supposed to come back, but instead they have Hiruma attempt to make the kick and not, and then act like he's completely broken..... that may or may not have made me squeak a lot.... I'm kinda weak like that. ^^)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I'm not totally sure (spoken Japanese is so much harder than written >_>P_, but watching it myself, I think Musashi was saying the same line he gave in the manga (in an earlier scene). Pretty much he's saying Hiruma and Kurita are idiots (...or something insulting) but then Sena says it's not like that, they're not like that, and he thinks that Musashi's father's condition is really serious so Musashi can't return, but that he shouldn't badmouth Hiruma & Kurita because they really love football. Then Musashi says he knows that better than anyone, and if by some miracle his father did get better, then morning or night he'd come running to kick. (Musashi's father goes "idiot kid") And Sena & Monta are happy because they realize that Musashi really wants to play football with Hiruma & Kurita, and that H&K understand this and that's why they're waiting. So Sena & Monta decide to believe in Musashi and wait, too, and run off with Monta saying, somehow, some way, they'll definitely win!
And Kurita is saying the two are really good...um, something. And then Hiruma says something absolutely unintelligible (all I can understand is "kuso debu" which is his pet name for Kurita, "fucking chubby") and dammit why must my favorite chars always speak in incomprehensible slurred boy-slang? (...except for Kaiba, who speaks like a samurai in written form half the time.)

...oops, didn't mean to translate the whole thing there, just got a little distracted by it ^^;; So by this at least it seems set up for Musashi to make his grand entrance in the Bando match (when does that start, do you know? looks like up through 78 is up on youtube...)

And oh yeah, Hiruma acting broken got to me so bad...except of course it was an act. I really should know by now. I think the only time he's actually lost control in front of people is the Musashi flashback when he kicks over the bench...but I keep getting fooled. Like all through the Shinryuuji game. Damn demon...