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Title: The Christmas Bowl
Title: The Christmas Bowl
Series:
Eyeshield 21 #32
Author:
Riichiro Inagaki
Artist:
Yusuke Murata
Rating:
4 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Sports Manga
Pages:
192
Format:
Digital Scan
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Synopsis: |
The special training happens and all the other top players from the defeated team help the Devil Bats train so they can beat the Alexandres, who have won the Christmas Bowl ever since it started. Of course, Agon, that paragon of evil who I'd throw under a bus, doesn't honor his agreement and goes to the Alexandres. What a bastard.
Then, the Christmas Bowl. The Devil
Bats take the immediate offensive and begin a huge drive. Only to
have the Alexandres stop them cold, stone cold! Everything the Devil
Bats try fails. Monta realizes that he is simply out-talented by Taka
Honjou, son of his baseball idol and that Honjou has been training
his own son for years as a catcher.. It almost breaks Monta. Then
it's the Alexandre's ball. Their quarterback is a girl named Karin.
The volume ends with Karin throwing a
perfect pass to Yamato, the Alexandres running back. Sena catches
him, is blown off, catches him again and is blown off again.
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My Thoughts:
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So, this game is going to be 5 volumes long, or maybe just 4 if they do the last volume as a wrapup, but I doubt that.
I have to admit, I was feeling a bit
bored. It was still good football, but still, you can only draw
things out so much. How many times have the Devil Bats been
immediately shut down? How many times have they been outclassed? How
many times has Hiruma played mind games and Sena run faster than
anybody else? I really hope the rest of the game doesn't bore me.
Now, Karin. I'm sorry, and I've
mentioned this before, but a girl playing American Football? No.
She's obviously going to be a big part of this game, as she's the
quarterback for goodness sake. But it is so inconceivable that the
whole idea throws me out of the game. It would be like Arnold
Schwarzenegger, back in his Terminator days, entering a Miss Busty
Bikini Contest and be given real thought to by the judges and the
crowd. It would be ludicrous. So I'm just switching off my brain for
this and hope it doesn't get too much more unbelievable.
A Real Tom Brady /sarcasm
★★★★☆
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