Monday, January 25, 2010
kumabukuro
"Bomberhead" Kumabukuro is a retired American football player who use to play in X- league, who becomes a reporter for the American Football Monthly magazine. He is noted to have a hatred for the helmets messing up his hair, and people think that his massive afro was grown in spite of it. He often appears with "Machine Gun" Sanada, a commentator known for his fast, rapid fire delivery of commentary, and his daughter, Riko Kumabukuro, a high school student studying to become a reporter like her father. Riko later replaces her father as Sanada's commentating partner.
koizumi karin
Although she appears like a very feminine, girlish person, Karin is in actuality the quarterback for the Alexanders. First seen around the showy fourth-stringer Ibarada, Yamato is forced to defend her whenever she isn't on the field. Karin is first seen in chapter 275 where she is revealed to be the first string quarterback for the Alexanders. She has Sena's immensely shy personality, which everyone noticed right away (since both of them bowed, flustered, to each other at the same time, asking for the other to be gentle). Hiruma told the team that Karin was actually a man so that they would go all out on her (although Sena and Monta knew that she was a girl already). She has many male fans in the audience because of her beauty, including those from Shinryuji.
Karin was first recruited on the team after being scouted by Taka. One day, Karin was passing the football field, when Ibarada misthrew a pass, and it hit Karin's bag. Asking who she should throw it back to, Taka raised his hand. She sent the ball spiraling beautifully, with perfect accuracy, back to him. Taka immediately told Heracles and Yamato to make her join the team, even admitting that she had "pure talent." Karin had at first rejected, due to her modesty and insecurity, but then when Yamato started to talk, Karin found it difficult to argue with him. She joined the team, and though the training was hard, like Sena, she grew to love American Football, and stayed with it.
Jersey Number: 6 1st Year Student (10th Grade) Height: 157 cm Weight: 44 kg Blood Type: O Bench Press: 35 kg Like all of the first team Karin has a 40 yard dash of under 5 seconds (4.9 Seconds) Enjoys drawing and playing the piano (which is where she got her skillful fingertips, as pointed out by Heracles) TECHNIQUES/STRATIGIES
Floral Shoot: A soft, gentle pass, with great height and perfect accuracy, which makes it hard for anyone but Taka to catch. As Sena puts it, "it looks as if it's spinning in place in the air." Dodging Abilities: Since most of her talent as quarterback is perfect (accuracy, speed, range), all that left to do is to build up her dodging abilities. As result, she's able to evade even the rampaging Kurita with relatively ease.
Karin was first recruited on the team after being scouted by Taka. One day, Karin was passing the football field, when Ibarada misthrew a pass, and it hit Karin's bag. Asking who she should throw it back to, Taka raised his hand. She sent the ball spiraling beautifully, with perfect accuracy, back to him. Taka immediately told Heracles and Yamato to make her join the team, even admitting that she had "pure talent." Karin had at first rejected, due to her modesty and insecurity, but then when Yamato started to talk, Karin found it difficult to argue with him. She joined the team, and though the training was hard, like Sena, she grew to love American Football, and stayed with it.
Jersey Number: 6 1st Year Student (10th Grade) Height: 157 cm Weight: 44 kg Blood Type: O Bench Press: 35 kg Like all of the first team Karin has a 40 yard dash of under 5 seconds (4.9 Seconds) Enjoys drawing and playing the piano (which is where she got her skillful fingertips, as pointed out by Heracles) TECHNIQUES/STRATIGIES
Floral Shoot: A soft, gentle pass, with great height and perfect accuracy, which makes it hard for anyone but Taka to catch. As Sena puts it, "it looks as if it's spinning in place in the air." Dodging Abilities: Since most of her talent as quarterback is perfect (accuracy, speed, range), all that left to do is to build up her dodging abilities. As result, she's able to evade even the rampaging Kurita with relatively ease.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Koigahama Cupid
Originally the quarterback of the Bando Spiders, he abandoned his former team when he was recruited by Teikoku, thinking that Bando wasn't strong enough to get to the Christmas Bowl on their own. Attending the Kanto final with the (supposed to be) manager of the team, he was confronted by former teammate Kotaro Sasaki for leaving a team that was close to making the Christmas Bowl themselves the previous year. But Akaba held Kotaro back from attacking him, letting him leave the Tokyo Dome without further difficulty. He is also said to be a good quarterback. However although he was considered the best quarterback in Tokyo in the previous year, his quarterback skills were only good enough to make him reach the 4th team, making him resentful for main team (and female) quarterback Karin. Whether it is sexism or hatred that he himself is not on the 1st team always puts him at odds with the entire team.
Position: Quarterback (4th Team) Jersey number: 8 3rd Year Student (Grade 12) TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES
Rose Whip: A sideways throwing technique regarding the ability to throw while running, it is notable by Kotaro as Ibarada's specialty. But it useless against Sena, who quickly sack him before he can even throw the ball. Logo: Cupid 
Team colors: Crimson and Pink
The Cupids are a very weak team that is well known for all of their team members having girlfriends and bringing them to the games, which aren't very many, since they usually lose and get eliminated within the first or second matches.
Their girlfriends also act as their cheerleader.
Because of their pride as a team who had girls on their side, they often humiliate teams who had no cheerleaders (like Deimon Devil Bats) or came from all-boy school (like Seibu Wild Gunmen) (Naga). However, the jokes was overturned to them; Hiruma manages to goads the girls into joining Devilbats by promising them to meet with Sakuraba, and The Gunmen turned out to had their own private cheerleader team (Wild Fannings), all of them are gorgeous girls.
It was against this team that Eyeshield 21 made his debut by scoring a comeback touchdown victory. During Fall , they scores the worst record in Kantou's Fall Tournament, surrendered during the 3rd quarter with the score board shows 10-125, with all their members completely exhausted. They still managed to stole 10 points off them though, showing Seibu's extremely weak defense. The quarterback and his girlfriend have made appearances in the crowd at several of Deimon's games, including the match with Taiyo.
In their volume 1 match against the Devil Bats, Shin comments that the Cupids have some decent offense, but Sakuraba notes that their weak linemen are no match for Kurita whatsoever.
Players
Kaoru Hatsujo
Voiced by: Masami Iwasaki(Japanese) Sam Riegel(English)
(初條薫, Hatsujō Kaoru) Hatsujo is the captain of the Koigahama Cupids, a weak team that loses in both of the games they are depicted playing in. Hatsujo is a flat character that makes few appearances, and is primarily a comic relief character, known for teasing opponents for not having any girls to cheer for them, only for the opponent to reveal their cheerleading squad consisting of attractive young women. Hatsujo plays quarterback and safety for the Cupids and is also noted for his ability as a kicker: he scores his team's only points in the game against the Devil Bats, although Sena immediately afterward returns the following kickoff for the winning touchdown. Later, in the Autumn Tokyo Tournament, the Cupids forfeit in the third quarter to the Seibu Wild Gunmen while trailing 125-10. Hatsujo, like all members of his team, has a girlfriend who appears with him in several cameo appearances at some of the Devil Bats' games.
Position: Quarterback (4th Team) Jersey number: 8 3rd Year Student (Grade 12) TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES
Rose Whip: A sideways throwing technique regarding the ability to throw while running, it is notable by Kotaro as Ibarada's specialty. But it useless against Sena, who quickly sack him before he can even throw the ball. Logo: Cupid 
Team colors: Crimson and Pink
The Cupids are a very weak team that is well known for all of their team members having girlfriends and bringing them to the games, which aren't very many, since they usually lose and get eliminated within the first or second matches.
Their girlfriends also act as their cheerleader.
Because of their pride as a team who had girls on their side, they often humiliate teams who had no cheerleaders (like Deimon Devil Bats) or came from all-boy school (like Seibu Wild Gunmen) (Naga). However, the jokes was overturned to them; Hiruma manages to goads the girls into joining Devilbats by promising them to meet with Sakuraba, and The Gunmen turned out to had their own private cheerleader team (Wild Fannings), all of them are gorgeous girls.
It was against this team that Eyeshield 21 made his debut by scoring a comeback touchdown victory. During Fall , they scores the worst record in Kantou's Fall Tournament, surrendered during the 3rd quarter with the score board shows 10-125, with all their members completely exhausted. They still managed to stole 10 points off them though, showing Seibu's extremely weak defense. The quarterback and his girlfriend have made appearances in the crowd at several of Deimon's games, including the match with Taiyo.
In their volume 1 match against the Devil Bats, Shin comments that the Cupids have some decent offense, but Sakuraba notes that their weak linemen are no match for Kurita whatsoever.
Players
Kaoru Hatsujo
Voiced by: Masami Iwasaki(Japanese) Sam Riegel(English)
(初條薫, Hatsujō Kaoru) Hatsujo is the captain of the Koigahama Cupids, a weak team that loses in both of the games they are depicted playing in. Hatsujo is a flat character that makes few appearances, and is primarily a comic relief character, known for teasing opponents for not having any girls to cheer for them, only for the opponent to reveal their cheerleading squad consisting of attractive young women. Hatsujo plays quarterback and safety for the Cupids and is also noted for his ability as a kicker: he scores his team's only points in the game against the Devil Bats, although Sena immediately afterward returns the following kickoff for the winning touchdown. Later, in the Autumn Tokyo Tournament, the Cupids forfeit in the third quarter to the Seibu Wild Gunmen while trailing 125-10. Hatsujo, like all members of his team, has a girlfriend who appears with him in several cameo appearances at some of the Devil Bats' games.
Kirio Ibarada
Originally the quarterback of the Bando Spiders, he abandoned his former team when he was recruited by Teikoku, thinking that Bando wasn't strong enough to get to the Christmas Bowl on their own. Attending the Kanto final with the (supposed to be) manager of the team, he was confronted by former teammate Kotaro Sasaki for leaving a team that was close to making the Christmas Bowl themselves the previous year. But Akaba held Kotaro back from attacking him, letting him leave the Tokyo Dome without further difficulty. He is also said to be a good quarterback. However although he was considered the best quarterback in Tokyo in the previous year, his quarterback skills were only good enough to make him reach the 4th team, making him resentful for main team (and female) quarterback Karin. Whether it is sexism or hatred that he himself is not on the 1st team always puts him at odds with the entire team.
Position: Quarterback (4th Team) Jersey number: 8 3rd Year Student (Grade 12) TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES
Rose Whip: A sideways throwing technique regarding the ability to throw while running, it is notable by Kotaro as Ibarada's specialty. But it useless against Sena, who quickly sack him before he can even throw the ball.
Position: Quarterback (4th Team) Jersey number: 8 3rd Year Student (Grade 12) TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES
Rose Whip: A sideways throwing technique regarding the ability to throw while running, it is notable by Kotaro as Ibarada's specialty. But it useless against Sena, who quickly sack him before he can even throw the ball.
Kenta Yamaoka
Position: Receiver / Linebacker
Jersey: 58
40 yard dash: 5.2 seconds
Height: 168 cm (5' 6")
Weight: 62 kg (136 lb)
Blood Type: B
Birthday: August 10
1st Year Student (Grade 10)
Yamaoka is another basketball player who gets blackmailed by Hiruma to become a "support" player for the football team. Yamaoka has a thing for Ai Kago. He spends 98% of his allowance to buy her CDs, products, and other stalking supplies. Every morning when he wakes up, he kisses a poster of her. Like Satake, he sticks around longer than most of the other support players. He does not do much and is always trying to put the moves on Mamori. He gets excited along with Yohei when he sees the Yūhi Guts manager in her bloomers, and praised the fact that there was "still such a paradise in Japan."
Jersey: 58
40 yard dash: 5.2 seconds
Height: 168 cm (5' 6")
Weight: 62 kg (136 lb)
Blood Type: B
Birthday: August 10
1st Year Student (Grade 10)
Yamaoka is another basketball player who gets blackmailed by Hiruma to become a "support" player for the football team. Yamaoka has a thing for Ai Kago. He spends 98% of his allowance to buy her CDs, products, and other stalking supplies. Every morning when he wakes up, he kisses a poster of her. Like Satake, he sticks around longer than most of the other support players. He does not do much and is always trying to put the moves on Mamori. He gets excited along with Yohei when he sees the Yūhi Guts manager in her bloomers, and praised the fact that there was "still such a paradise in Japan."
Friday, January 22, 2010
Kengo Mizumachi
Mizumachi is a blonde-haired lineman, the third-tallest (203 cm) player on the Poseidon and a natural athlete. He is a first-year player who, in middle school, was on the swimming team, but he quit because his teammates were unwilling to match his dedication to winning the championship. Along with being incredibly energetic and naturally athletic, Mizumachi possesses a childlike innocence and is almost always optimistic. However, Mizumachi is also immature, and he has a bad habit of saying or doing disrespectful things. He thinks very highly of his abilities, and at first he believes that tall, slender players like himself are the future generation of American football players. Initially, this causes him to think little of opposing linemen of short stature, such as Onihei and Komusubi, and in fact he believes that Komusubi should leave the Devil Bats so as not to be a burden to them. When he is challenged and defeated by Komusubi in the game with the Devil Bats, Mizumachi changes his opinion of shorter opponents. On the other hand, he holds deep respect for the seniors on the Poseidon team, all of which are quite short compared to himself. He even criticizes the Devil Bats, claiming the Poseidon deserve to win because they have a great deal of third-year players on their roster while the Devil Bats have none. When the Poseidon are defeated, he cries because the seniors will never be able to play in the Christmas Bowl. He later appears at many of the Devil Bats' matches as a spectator, and also helps the team prepare for the Christmas Bowl by serving as Kuroki's personal coach.
While a powerful opponent, Mizumachi's lighthearted personality is generally used to comedic effect, along with his tendency to strip down to his boxers for no apparent reason. Still, Mizumachi is an incredibly athletic player, able to use his great height to his advantage in games. He is also very agile for a player of his size, and outside of American football he is a very fast swimmer and capable of pulling consecutive somersaults. Though Mizumachi is not exceptionally powerful, his great height and long limbs allow him to gain leverage on shorter linemen, while his slim build makes him faster than most player of his height. Though a rookie to American football, Mizumachi's experience in swimming grants him practice in the use of his two signature techniques. His explosive "swimmer's start", in which he assumes a competitive swimmer's stance on the starting block, lets him burst forward quickly at the start of the play, while the swim move, which is similar to his chosen swimming style, the front crawl, helps him to push opposing linemen aside. He can also serve as a fourth linebacker along with Kakei, Ohira, and Onishi when the Poseidon use their "Poseidon" formation. His prowess earns him the distinction of being named one of the best five offensive linemen at the end of the Autumn Tokyo Tournament.
While a powerful opponent, Mizumachi's lighthearted personality is generally used to comedic effect, along with his tendency to strip down to his boxers for no apparent reason. Still, Mizumachi is an incredibly athletic player, able to use his great height to his advantage in games. He is also very agile for a player of his size, and outside of American football he is a very fast swimmer and capable of pulling consecutive somersaults. Though Mizumachi is not exceptionally powerful, his great height and long limbs allow him to gain leverage on shorter linemen, while his slim build makes him faster than most player of his height. Though a rookie to American football, Mizumachi's experience in swimming grants him practice in the use of his two signature techniques. His explosive "swimmer's start", in which he assumes a competitive swimmer's stance on the starting block, lets him burst forward quickly at the start of the play, while the swim move, which is similar to his chosen swimming style, the front crawl, helps him to push opposing linemen aside. He can also serve as a fourth linebacker along with Kakei, Ohira, and Onishi when the Poseidon use their "Poseidon" formation. His prowess earns him the distinction of being named one of the best five offensive linemen at the end of the Autumn Tokyo Tournament.
Katsuko Konjo
She is the mangaers of Yuhi Guts. But it seems she is also cheer for Yuhi Guts in her bloomer which everybody commented on.
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