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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