Eyeshield 21 is an overall o.k. anime, but it has many flaws which damages it from becoming a more popular anime.
Everyone (even when the characters visit America) speaks Japanese with no variation what-so-ever. Whether the person is a football coach or a punk biker on the back roads of Texas, they ALL speak Japanese. When eyeshield 21 runs the ball the background makes it seems he is moving a lot faster than he actually is (kind of like those old speed racer scenes). Eyeshield 21 seems to travel 50 yards, but in reality it was a 5 yard gain... Even though the anime is about football they do not seem to entirely understand the rules about the game itself, especially in the first (approximately) 20 episodes where calls were being made that made no sense. For example the quarterback is sacked and that leads to a turnover, even though the ball wasn't fumbled and it wasn't fourth down at the time. New rules seems to be created early on to improve the progress of the game, even though it was unnecessary.
Character development is somewhat impressive for an anime of this caliber, especially when about 15 characters need to be developed and show that they are different from everyone else. Backgrounds, personality, abilities are all drawn out well, even compared to more well known animes like Full Metal Alchemist and Naruto.
This may seem to have more flaws than what is good for an anime, but football lovers will enjoy this anime.
~Stanner Hawk
Everyone (even when the characters visit America) speaks Japanese with no variation what-so-ever. Whether the person is a football coach or a punk biker on the back roads of Texas, they ALL speak Japanese. When eyeshield 21 runs the ball the background makes it seems he is moving a lot faster than he actually is (kind of like those old speed racer scenes). Eyeshield 21 seems to travel 50 yards, but in reality it was a 5 yard gain... Even though the anime is about football they do not seem to entirely understand the rules about the game itself, especially in the first (approximately) 20 episodes where calls were being made that made no sense. For example the quarterback is sacked and that leads to a turnover, even though the ball wasn't fumbled and it wasn't fourth down at the time. New rules seems to be created early on to improve the progress of the game, even though it was unnecessary.
Character development is somewhat impressive for an anime of this caliber, especially when about 15 characters need to be developed and show that they are different from everyone else. Backgrounds, personality, abilities are all drawn out well, even compared to more well known animes like Full Metal Alchemist and Naruto.
This may seem to have more flaws than what is good for an anime, but football lovers will enjoy this anime.
~Stanner Hawk