K I threw together a translation for the new es21 anniversary chapter! There's probably mistakes and some awkward phrasing because I always end up prioritizing accuracy over flow rip. Hopefully the way I've formatted this isn't a total pain to read. I recommend looking at the page first, and then referring to the translation when you can't read something. I skipped any panels that don't have dialogue/text so just reading the translations might be confusing.
Anyway it's under the cut!
(Lol sorry I didn't bother translating character blurbs on the right)
Page 1
Panel 1: Announcer: “Noooooww, there’s barely any time left on the clock! This final play will decide the outcome of the match!!”
Panel 2: “One of these teams will command the University American Football World!!
Panel 3: Which one will it be!?
Panel 4: Two star players who once fought together now face off—
Panel 5: in this Final Decisive Match”
Page 2-3
Panel 1: Eyeshield 21 aka: Kobayakawa Sena!! VS. The Commander from Hell: Hiruma Yoichi!!
Panel 2: Set, Hut!!!
Cover page (4-5): Their First Collision!! Sena [Eyeshield 21] and Hiruma [the one who named him (literally the ‘parent’ who named him)]—
Page 6
Panel 1: [Some months earlier—]
Panel 3: DEVILBAT GHOST!!
Page 7
Panel 1: TRIDENT TACKLE!!!
Page 8-9
Panel 1: The ball was fumbled!! Whichever team manages to claim it will win….!!
Panel 2: [An American Football rule you can understand in 1 SECOND]
Devilbat: YA—HA— It’s stupidly simple! Carry the ball to the enemy line and score (a touchdown)!
DB jr.: You can get around 7 points!
Panel 4: Monta: CATCH MAX!!!
Panel 5: Suzuna: YA—!!!
Panel 6: Announcer: The Kanto representatives for the Japanese National American Football University Championships is the team lead by Eyeshield 21 aka. Kobayakawa Sena— the Enma Fires…..!!!!
Page 10
Panel 1: Sakuraba: You really got revenge on us this year. It’s frustrating but it was our total defeat….!
Panel 2: Sena: Though, one-on-one, for the most part I couldn’t really get past you (Shin-san) until the very end…
Panel 4: Shin: undecipherable
Panel 6: Ootawara: OOOOHHHHH MAKE SURE YOU HIT THEM HARD ENOUGH FOR THE BOTH OF US, KURITA—!!
Panel 7: Takami: Finally, you’ve earned the right to challenge the undefeated champions
Page 11
Panel 1 & 2: Takami: The championship finals against the team lead by Hiruma, the Saikyodai Wizards— at the Koushien Bowl….!!!
Panel 3: Sena: Yes….!!
Page 12
Panel 4: Monta: Mukya! What the hell, we can’t get into the club room!
Riku: Looks like we have a few visitors—
Panel 5: Crowd: The United States President’s son?? Even SP (I believe this is a tv channel) is here…
Page 13
Panel 3: Sena: T-this is way too crazy…
Kurita: To clear away people like this…..
Page 14
Panel…2?: Hiruma: Kekekekeke, you’re late fucking Fatty and fucking Shrimps
Panel 3: Kurita: HIRUMA!
Sena: —san!!
Monta: And that guy’s from the American Match, the ultimate boss… wait actually, he’s a NFL player now!
Page 15
Panel 1: It’s the President’s Junior, Mr. Don….!!
Panel 2: Don: An ordinary person goes to a foreign country to run rampant for their own entertainment. A champion (or king lol) goes to a foreign country to express his respect.
Panel 3: Don: In this country, it seems excessive meddling from pros in the affairs of amateurs isn’t appreciated, so I’ll get straight to the heart of the matter.
Panel 4: Don: Together we will fight and acquire the throne. I’ve come to welcome/receive one hero.
Panel 6: Kurita: ??
Monta: What does that mean?
Sena: Isn’t this excessive meddling…..
Page 16
Panel 1: Crack!
Panel 2: Sena: ….?? Inside my shoulder pad…
Panel 3: Sena: What is this, it’s tiny… A white chip?
Monta: Ooh, it’s in our shoulder pads too!!
Riku: Since when…
Panel 4: Hiruma: It’s called an RFID (radio frequency identification (apparently lol)) chip. When you have this on—
Panel 5: Glasses: The current location of each player can be determined and measured by inches. Stats like speed and acceleration, it can analyze all data in real time.
Enma Babes (presumably): A SCI-FI MACHINE LIKE THAT EXISTS!?
Page 17
Panel 1: Don: There’s nothing Sci-Fi about it. Within the NFL world, all players have been using this for a number of years now.
Sena & Monta: REALLY!!?
Hiruma: They even have them inside the balls. Since you can measure the rotations that way
Devibat: It’s true!!
DB jr.: The actual pro sports world sure is turning into something amazing!
Panel 2: Riku: So, this data analysis chip…
Panel 3: Riku: Why are they in our protective equipment…??
Sena: I mean, there’s only one person in this world who would be devilish enough to quietly do something like that…
Panel 4: Glasses: With this hoard of collected data, and by using the help of something like Google Brain, we can rely on machine learning to—
Sena: Goo… what? Machine…??
Panel 5: Don: How sad~ Oohh, AI, AI! Civilization has simply taken the human privilege of ‘thinking’, and given it up to machines.
Page 18
Panel 1: Don: Most of all, humanity’s been dulled by favoritism, politics and social correctness. Well, compared to a slow/primitive ruler, it’s (AI) infinitely more reliable.
Panel 2: [For our team to reach victory, what kind of player is indispensable? The answer provided by the AI was—]
Panel 3: A running back with the speed of light! Or— A phantasmagoric (look it up) quarterback!
Panel 5: Glasses: International Player Pass Way Program. In short, there is one slot available for a foreign student trainee as the Japanese representative.
Don: Which means that we would be receiving you into our team.
Page 19
Panel 1: Kobayakawa Sena, Hiruma Yoichi: between the two of you, only one—
Page 20
Panel 3: (I believe this is some sort of form that Sena filled out about what he wants to pursue after graduation— he says after graduation he wants to become a pro American Football athlete)
Panel 4: Hiruma: With my physical abilities, I won’t be able to get into the NFL the usual way.
Panel 5: Hiruma: Obviously, I’ll struggle for the top even if it kills me. That’s the thing that makes it fun….!
Page 21
Panel 1: Don: When I consulted the man at the top, Panther, about which one to pick— he gave me a truly straightforward answer.
Panel 2: Panther: Hm? Well they’re going to have a confrontation directly in the Koshien Bowl, aren’t they?
Panel 3: Panther: Sena VS. Hiruma!! We’ll just take whoever wins. Because, isn’t that American Football…!!
Page 22
Panel 1: Sena: …… this contest against Hiruma-san, I’m glad that it’s an American football match.
Panel 2: Sena: If it wasn’t, there’s no way I could win against Hiruma-san, you’d bring out your blackmail book and in an instant….
Hiruma: Kekeke, seems like you understand the situation reeeeal well
Panel 3: Sena: I mean, whether it’s Don-san’s AI verdict or the pro tryouts— if you put your mind to it, you could use your blackmail book to get whatever you wanted. But, Hiruma-san, when it comes to American football, you’ve always…. you’ve always—
Panel 5: Toss~
Panel 6: Hiruma: Well, since I’m going to win against you and become a top pro, I don’t need this thing.
Page 23
Panel 5: Sena: But, the one who’ll win is me
Page 24
Sena: I’ll go to defeat you with all my strength. So, Hiruma-san, you also—
Hiruma: Kekeke, naturally
Page 25
Panel 1: HANSHIN KOSHIEN STADIUM
Panel 3: Kurita: Truthfully, I want to root for both of their dreams— For Sena-kun, and for Hiruma. But if I really can’t choose both—
Page 26-27
Panel 1: Kurita: FUNNURABAAA!!!!!
Panel 2: Kurita: For the sake of my team, and for Sena-kun’s sake, I’ll defeat Hiruma…..!!!
Panel 3: Announcer: Koshien Bowl, the final, decisive match! Against the Saikyodai Wizards, made up of all star members throughout the country—
Panel 4: Announcer: Somehow!! The Enma Fires are just slightly in the lead!!
Panel 5: Gaou: Fuh… Half of American football is decided by the power of the line. This is the unmatched power of Kurita when he has something to protect….!!!
Page 28
Panel 1: Announcer: Noooooww, there’s barely any time left on the clock! This final play will decide the outcome of the match!!
Panel 2: Announcer: Two star players who once fought together now face off—
Panel 3: Announcer: In this Final Decisive Match!!
Panel 4: Announcer: Eyeshield 21 aka. Kobayakawa Sena!! Vs. The Commander from Hell, Hiruma Yoichi!!
Page 29
Panel 1: Hiruma: KILL! KILL!
Panel 2: Suzuna: K.I.L.L…..to kill? What’s it mean?
Doburoku: In American football, it’s a sign that’s given by the pitcher. It means to completely kill the strategy that had been agreed upon. To put it simply, it’s a signal to hurriedly reset the strategy of the play.
Panel 3: Mizumachi: After seeing our defense formation, looks like they want to change things up!
Panel 4: Sena: Hiruma-san’s— that ever-changing adaptability’s strength—
Page 30
Panel 1: Hiruma: Kill—
Panel 4: Unsui: NO!! THERE HASN’T BEEN ANY CHANGE IN HIS PLAN!!
Page 31
Panel 1: Hiruma (I think): This was just a snap counter from the get go— A signal to start the play after the 4th KILL…!!!
Panel 2: Enma player: Shit, even though we know what kind of guy he is!
Enma player 2: He’s gonna throw a pass—
Enma player 3: No, don’t let Hiruma trick you! He’s not throwing— he’s still holding it!!
Panel 3: This is a run….!!
Panel 5: Shit, that’s wrong, it’s a pass after all….!!!
Page 32
TOUCHDOOOOWN!!!
Page 33
Panel 1: Hiruma: YA— HA—!!!
Panel 2: Announcer: The final decisive battle was completely controlled by the sorcerer of the field-- Hiruma Yoichi! (there's actually a word in this line I don't understand lol, but this should be the general gist)
Panel 3: Announcer: In a sudden turnabout victory, the Saikyodai Wizards win the championship—
Page 34
Panel 1: Announcer: —No, the remaining time on the clock is 1 second!!
Panel 2: Hiruma: !!
Taka: That was my bad.
Panel 3: Taka: On the ground was Sena-kun with his light speed, and in the air Monta was closing in. I had no choice but to catch the ball one second earlier than planned.
Panel 5: Unsui (presumably): — 1 second left. Whether we laugh or cry about it, this will be the final play—
Page 35
Panel 1: Sena: These sort of seriously close calls… I dunno if you’d call it deja vu or—
Panel 2: Monta: That’s right! This is the kind of cliff’s edge that we’ve run along a bunch of times!
Panel 3: Agon: Aaaahhh? Ain’t this match already certain victory—
Panel 4: Agon: —If we weren’t up against the tiny trash brigade, that is.
Hiruma: Kekeke yo~~~ You also know what’s up huh, fucking dreads.
Panel 6: Yamato: That’s right, all of us should know by now well enough that it hurts.
Panel 7: Yamato: That there are demon-like men out there whose power explodes during dire straits like this.
Page 36
Panel 1: That there was once a miraculous team called the Devilbats—
Panel 2: Hiruma: The last play will be Eyeshield 21! They’ll 100,000,000,000% comes at us with Sena’s run!! Anything else is a ruse, completely ignore it, don’t even think 1mm that it’ll be anything else!!
Panel 3: Unsui: There’s only one way to go: Sena’s run. All of us will open a path!!
Page 37
Panel 1 & 2: Sena’s Run, Complete Specialized All Star Team!! VS. Anti-Sena formation, Complete Specialized All Star Team!!
Page 38: — DON!
Page 39
Panel 1: Announcer: Remaining time: 0 seconds!
Panel 2: Announcer: With this last play, it’s game set!
Panel 4: Yamabushi: Rodio Drive!! Are they coming with Riku!?
Taka: No—
Panel 6: Riku: Sena…!!
Page 40
Panel 3: IKKYUU…!!
Panel 4: How can he reach it, to go into a cut from such a distance…..
Page 42
Panel 1: Sena: UUOOOOOOOOHH!!
Panel 2: Mamori: Sena…!
Panel 3: Ikkyuu: That guy’s too damn fast— I already knew that but…..!!
Panel 4: Announcer: Sure enough, in the end they went with the light speed running back, Eyeshield 21!!!
Page 43
Panel 1: Mizumachi: Uha! I said make way!
Panel 3: Chuubou: A path for Sena-senpai….!!!
Page 44-45
Panel 3: Announcer: He’s passed everyone! At this rate it’s a touchdown—!!!
Panel 4: Hiruma: Kekeke, dig out your eyeballs and give them a good wash— take another look. It’s not over.
Panel 5: Kid: He’ll stand in the way— in the end, the ultimate opponent—
Page 46
Panel 1: AGON!!!
Page 47
Panel 2: Shin: Sena’s Devilbat Ghost has been fully realized.
Panel 3: Shin: It’s a perfect technique for a runner to get past his opponent. The Optimal Technique/Solution.
Page 48
Panel 2: vvrrrrr (vibration sounds)
Panel 3: Glasses: The Optimal Solution for this situation is none other than the Devilbat Ghost. But even then, Agon who possesses inherent superhuman reaction speed will likely stop him.
Panel 4: [That is the judgement the machine learning system has made based on the real time analysis from the RFID chip]
Page 49
Panel 3: Shin: The essential thing you need to reach new heights, is to surpass your Optimal Technique/Solution™— with Courage™
Panel 5: Sena: That’s right— my road isn’t limited only to the two directions that I can dodge
Panel 6: Shin: It relies on his light speed cuts. A third option, much like a trident. In a manner of speaking—
Page 50
Panel 1: DEVILBAT TRIDENT!!!
Page 51
Panel 1: Mizumachi: You mean he might not dodge!?
Riku: A headlong collision!! There’s no way…
Panel 2: Glasses: It’s absolutely impossible, how reckless. There’s no chance of winning. The AI declares that this is at most a feint. In the end, Sena will definitely move to evade him!
Panel 3: Hiruma: Kekeke, you’re wrong. It’s a hundred billion years too early to try getting past using that hand.
Panel 4: Hiruma: But that’s why you’ll go for it. Isn’t that right, Sena.
Panel 5: Agon: Aaahhh~~ Hiruma, I’ve fought with you so many times it makes me sick, so I already know all of that….!!!
Page 52
Panel 1: Hiruma ??: The Human brain hasn’t been able to compete with semiconductors for a long time. I’m sure it’ll aaaalll become like that in the future.
Panel 2: Hiruma: When it comes to searching for Optimal Solutions™, no one can compete against Sir AI anymore. But—
Panel 3: Shin: Beyond the Optimal Solution™
Panel 4: Beyond even the very summit— you continue to struggle with only courage at your back.
Page 53
Panel 1: THAT IS WHAT AN ATHLETE IS
Panel 3: ??: I’LL GO PRO AND KILL EVERYONE!!
Panel 4: ??: I’LL SURPASS THE TOP!!!
Panel 5: ??: That athlete will be—
Page 54-55
Panel 1: Hiruma: ME
Panel 2: Sena: ME
Panel 3: [He surpasses theory, with his light speed courage—!!]
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A few thoughts on NJs
I'm currently in the unique position where my most frequent social contacts are an ENTJ and an ENFJ, and one thing I find is that NJs generally strongly gravitate towards each other. Coming across a fellow NJ out in the wild is exceedingly rare, so whenever that happens, there is always this strange moment of instinctual mutual recognition. Suddenly you see your own Ni reflected back at you. It makes sense that you'd want to stay close to that person.
In the following, I will just talk a bit about the observations that I've made (not very coherently, I'm sorry). Something that I find interesting is that even though our minds work very similarly (always dissecting everything, searching for patterns and meanings, making seemingly random connections in the search for the root of something etc.), NFJs and NTJs have very different priorities. The NFJ can be completely drowning in work, but that will never stop them from prioritising people over everything else. They will collect and cherish every tidbit of information that someone told them about themselves. They will sacrifice time they absolutely do not have just to be there when an acquaintance they somewhat like gives a talk about something that is in no way relevant to the NFJ. They will be able to recognise all their co-workers by the sound of their steps alone. All of this is precious information. The NTJs, on the other hand, will not even bother to learn your name unless they have taken an interest in you in any way. NTJs will be polite to you, that's no issue, but if they don't care, almost everything you tell them will be deleted from their brains. They prioritise the abstract over everything else. If they are busy thinking about, I don't know, quantum physics, you are welcome to discuss it with them and they will be delighted. If you and the conversation are interesting enough, they will also figure out how your mind works in the meantime. But this is a step you have to unlock with an NTJ first. The NFJs will do this automatically. Funnily enough, I find that NTJs become more openly annoyed by you the more they have grown fond of you. If you are being annoying and they don't care about you, depending on the situation, they will either simply leave or put you in your place. If you are being annoying and they do care, you end up with amazing conversations like this:
INFJ: "I needed help with that work thing, so I asked a friend, but it didn't really go as planned and so I ended up with even more work to fix the thing afterwards."
ENTJ: "Well, why didn't you ask ME for my help? I can help you better with this than your friend can."
INFJ: "I didn't know I could ask you."
ENTJ: "What do you mean you didn't know? Of course you can! Sometimes you are just ... Can you do it over?"
INFJ: "Why? I've already done the thing now."
ENTJ: "Can't you just throw it away and do it again, but with my help this time? I could help you with it right now."
INFJ: "What for? Like I said, it's all done."
ENTJ: "Just ask me next time."
Because once an NTJ cares, they care. They want to watch you live a good life, but then they witness you making your own life difficult just by being the way you are, and it will be frustrating because it's not something they can just fix. They will be nosy, they will observe and analyse everything about you (just like an NFJ in default mode but the NTJs are more normal about it). But if they don't care, you end up with actual conversations like this:
ESFP: "I'm going to leave work early today to go to that concert later tonight."
ENTJ: "Oh really? What concert?"
ESFP: "What do you mean 'what concert'? I literally told you that like an hour ago."
ENTJ: "Did you? Sorry, my brain must have registered our conversation as useless information and immediately deleted it."
This is absolutely not something that you will ever hear an NFJ say to someone. If they don't like you, they will just never seek out a conversation with you, but if put into a situation where they have to interact with you, they will remain polite, quiet and a bit awkward (but then again, I have yet to meet an NFJ that isn't a bit awkward in general). Something that I've noticed between ENFJs and INFJs is that we are very similar, but we externalise our Fe a bit differently. I will have the impulse to do a particular Fe-driven thing and then stop myself from doing it because I think it might come across as slightly pathetic. ENFJ just does it. An example: when someone I like (or even only feel neutral towards) tells me a story about something that happened recently and hands me their phone to show me a photo, I get the impulse to look at every photo related to this story because I want to know everything about this person and their experiences, just soak it all up and gather all the information. But then I take a step back and think this might come across as too intrusive, so I do nothing and just listen and look at what is presented to me. In that same situation, ENFJ will straight up ask to see every single picture, zoom in on every face and ask questions about all the people in the pictures and so many other things with genuine curiosity. Meanwhile, I express my Fe more by pulling faces as a reaction to everything that is said to me in order to make a connection with people (think of Jim Halpert looking at the camera in The Office. That's me.). ENFJs, however, are more blank in the face and generally the least emotive of all the FJs. You tell them a funny story and they will just ... stare at you. Their reactions and feelings remain hidden beneath the surface. I never really understood why so many people have told me all my life that I'm completely unreadable. Until I met ENFJ. I know what they mean now. There is a disconnect between the NFJ and other people. They collect all the information about everyone and figure them out in silence, but every non-verbal communication from them seems slightly calculated. Like they are in hiding. It's like there is a window between you and the NFJ. You can see them and interact with them, but you can't quite reach them. There's something invisible between you and it's keeping you separate. I get it now. Many have tried to read me, but only one seems to have cracked the code: ENTJ. Generally, NTJs do show the typical Ni detachment from the world, but their mental and emotional states are not hidden. You always know how they are feeling.
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