So eyeshield 21 was a manga which I had really high hopes,paricularly due to murata's art work.And so I started reading it and finished it in less than a week.One of the best things about eyeshield 21 is that its really easy to get into.Now I am not someone who can read 333 chapters in like 4 days,I get really exhausted after 100-150 chapters but eyeshield for some reason felt very easy to read and I appreciate it.

I am not veteran when it comes to sports manga.The only sports manga I read are slam dunk(its the best in my opinion) and haikyu.Reading eyeshield I felt like this was more unrealistic than the other two and this one had more energy than the other two.

In terms of character,I liked Hiruma kun and kid san the most.Both felt like they controlled the story whenever they were on screen and both were intelligent and more charismatic than most of the other characters.

Now coming to the best aspect of the show,I think that this show has one of the best villains in a sports manga that I've read up to now,Agon.
No,he's not the kind of villain whom you can relate to but the kind of ones that you want to get defeated so bad

The best match in the entire manga was devil bats against agon's team,it was very good.

So coming to the part of the manga which I truly hated.So in the previous two paragraphs I talked about the villains in the manga.In any other sports manga,I never felt like the opposing team was the villain.They always felt like they just wanted get to the same goal as the main team.

Potraying most of the opposite as downright villains we really want them to lose and if these villain teams defeat the devil bats,it will be realy anticlimactic.But the manga never felt like it would go in that direction.So most of the tournaments felt predictable.

This was not the only problem I had with the manga.Rather than going on the usual realistic depiction of a sport,they decided to make the manga as shonen as possible.Like bleach,naruto etc were the mc becomes the strongest character in the world,here also it felt like this rookie guy who came to play american football for some reason became one of the strongest players (in highschool) in american football(not in just japan that is,in the entire world)
I really wish the last arc would've been avoided it felt really forced and did not contribute much to the main characters in devil bats team