History YMMV / Eyeshield21

** To a lesser extent, Juumonji, who has the most characterization out of all the Ha-Ha Brothers.
** To a much greater extent, you have Gokuu of the Shinryuuji Nagas, a character wedged ''deep'' in the background who hardly appears at all but has a surprisingly large fan following. Probably has to do with the fact that he's based on [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Wu kong]]

* CrazyAwesome: [[MagnificentBastard Hiruma]], [[DevilInPlainSight Hiruma]], [[CrossingtheLineTwice Hiruma]].
* CrossesTheLineTwice: Every other thing Hiruma does.

* FanPreferredCouple: Though they're only hinted in the series proper, Sena[=/=]Suzuna and Hiruma[=/=]Mamori do have their own followings.

* WhatAnIdiot: Typical reactions to Taki doing anything ever. His idiocy rating is "100%" (which is also a sly dig at his catch phrase).

* TheWoobie: Oh, goodness, ''Kurita.''
** IronWoobie: Oh, goodness, ''Unsui''.

* FriendlyFandoms: Is this with ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'', due to the main characters being incredibly similar: Short, cute-looking teenage males with messy, spiky brown hair and eyes who are no good in all aspects in life but are dragged into a crazy plot due to one particular talent. Their friends are anything but ordinary, and their stories revolve around a concept that's relatively foreign to Japan (American Football for Sena, Mafia work for Tsuna). Heck, even their _names_ sound similar.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Takeru Yamato is either a fine FinalBoss for the Christmas Bowl and a refreshingly passionate-but-good-natured rival after several story arcs' worth of {{Opposing Sports Team}}s, or an obnoxious, bland Shin-clone who lacks Shin's series-long buildup. The World Cup tone it down a bit and does give him more depths.

* MartyStu: Yamato is portrayed as [[TheAce an almost perfect player]]- not only incredibly fast, strong, skilled and intelligent, but also good-looking, friendly, honourable and liked and respected by almost everyone. Unsurprisingly, quite a few readers consider him [[TheScrappy completely insufferable]], especially as he also comes across as a borderline SmugSuper.

* BaseBreaker: Takeru Yamato is either a fine FinalBoss for the Christmas Bowl and a refreshingly passionate-but-good-natured rival after several story arcs' worth of {{Opposing Sports Team}}s, or an obnoxious, bland Shin-clone who lacks Shin's series-long buildup. The World Cup tone it down a bit and does give him more depths.

* FemaleGaze: Shin Seijuro. All those scenes to ogle him shirtless. This point it'd be criminal not to!

-> '''Shin:''' The past 6 months felt like decades to me because I was so focused on beating you.

* WildMassGuess: Since Eyeshield 21 doesn't have WMG section I will put this here. We all know Monta chose his jersey number because of Honjo, but Honjo himself did also take this number because of other player, that player being Jerry Rice.

* BaseBreaker: Takeru Yamato is either a fine FinalBoss for the Christmas Bowl and a refreshingly passionate-but-good-natured rival after several story arcs' worth of {{Opposing Sports Team}}s, or an obnoxious, bland MarySue and a Shin-clone who lacks Shin's series-long buildup. The World Cup tone it down a bit and does give him more depths.

* BaseBreaker: Takeru Yamato is either a fine FinalBoss for the Christmas Bowl and a refreshingly passionate-but-good-natured rival after several story arcs' worth of {{Opposing Sports Team}}s, or an obnoxious, bland MarySue and a Shin-clone who lacks Shin's series-long buildup.

** To a much greater extent, you have Gokuu of the Shinryuuji Nagas, a character wedged ''deep'' in the background who hardly appears at all but has a surprisingly large fan following. Probably has to do with the fact that he's based on [[JourneyToTheWest Wu kong]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LYdwZ40qe0 Be Survivor]] by ZZ. Several of the openings and endings would qualify as well.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Rui Habashira of the Zokugaku Chameleons proved surprisingly popular in one of the character polls, where he placed 5th and was the only character not from Deimon or Ojou in the top 10 (well, besides Kakei at the #3 spot). Despite his fairly minor presence in the series, he has a very strong fan following - which is probably why [[spoiler:he was revealed to be the mystery player on the World Cup team.]]

** And of course, the most memorable character of the series, Hiruma. He's consistently the number one on character polls starting from the midpoint of the series.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Be Survivor by ZZ. Several of the openings and endings would qualify as well.

** To a much greater extent, you have Gokuu of the Shinryuuji Nagas, a character wedged ''deep'' in the background who hardly appears at all but has a surprisingly large fan following.
** And of course, the most memorable character of the series, Hiruma.

* AntiClimaxBoss: The Pentagon served as the final boss for a lot of the characters in the World cup arc (Sena and Panther having their rematch, Mr.Don being the final test of strength for Gaou, Kurita and Yamato), Unfortunately all the receivers pretty much completed their development so Bud was useless, Tatanka only serves to give Takami a final awesome moment with Sakuraba and Clifford battle of wits with Hiruma was way less intense than with Kid or Marco. and that is not counting that America aside, the World Cup as no team shining even though we have the world strongest bench presser and Schultz stopping Yamato Caesar's charge dead on track.

* WildMassGuess: Since Eyeshield 21 doesn't have WMG section I will put this here. We all know Monta did chose his jersey number because of Honjo, but Honjo himself did also take this number because of other player, that player being Jerry Rice.

* NightmareFuel: Any of Himura's {{Nightmare Face}}s, in particular [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BlondEvill_188.jpg this one]].

* UnfortunateImplications: Panther being black is treated like it's a freaking superpower. Of course, given the [[EthnicScrappy usual Japanese treatment]] [[UncleTomfoolery of black people]] that's a [[PositiveDiscrimination massive improvement]].

* FoeYay: Sena and Shin. Their obsession with each other is staggering.

* NeedsMoreLove