Proof that the remaining 10% is worth dying for
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General Fics
Stories which primarily focus on the normal goings on of the cast.- Recommended by Zephyr 7
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Apollo meets Sena and is forced to give hard work another chance.
- Comments: An AU where Panther and Eyeshield 21 play for the NASA Aliens and utterly destroys the Ojou Knights in the exhibition match. Everyone's despairing reaction at how utterly and naturally superior an American team is compared to them is bittersweet. But when Sena reveals his nationality to them, it was proven otherwise in an awesome Wham Line.
The Devil With a Handgun: Twenty Truths About Hiruma Youichi
by idiosyn
- Recommended by Zephyr 7
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Hiruma had, under no circumstances, doubted they would win the Christmas Bowl at some point.
- Comments: Just a lovely insight on our favourite devilish quarterback.
Bequeath by Lys ap Adin
- Recommended by Zephyr 7
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Hiruma passes on the torch.
- Comments: The characters were written wonderfully and in-character.
- Recommended by Zephyr 7
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The joke would have gone to rest there, as neither Musashi or Kurita were bulletproof, but two nights later Musashi invited them to his house: "Dad said he'd like to know more about the club."
- Comments: A great bromatic fic about the original Deimon trio. Characterization is great and it feels like it would fit right in with the manga.
A Second Run by Dragonighta-93
- Recommended by Non Sequtur
- Status: Dormant
- Synopsis: Sena is a perfectly normal,if shy,young girl. Until one day she wakes up from a dream: a dream where she was male, and fast, and went by the name Eyeshield 21. But Sena isn't even in High School yet. It was just a dream...right? Fem Sena time travel sort of
Survivor by Mayonaka no Sasayaki
- Recommended by Nicca 39
- Status: Dead; last updated December 2019
- Synopsis: In her haste to be on time for her high school entrance exam, Kobayakawa Sena unknowingly sealed her fate when she ran past a certain demonic quarterback. Now with an early start to the American Football world, things are sure gonna be a lot crazier from here on out. May kami-sama help her.
- Pairings: Hiruma x Sena; other pairings appear as well.
- Comments: An AU where Sena is a girl rather than a boy. The story starts off at an earlier point than the canon did, and it takes the tale of the team’s journey to the Christmas Bowl and fleshes it out in a beautiful way as it follows both Sena’s struggles as a woman in a male-dominated sport and the struggles of the Devil Bats as a whole to see their dreams come to fruition in a sport that originated in a foreign country. It deals with heavy topics such as bullying, racism, bigotry, depression, responsibly, forgiveness, falling in love and the hardships that come with growing up and looking to the future, all the while keeping true to the feel of the original canon. The writer also incorporates minor background faces from the canon into the tale, fleshing them out into characters the reader can fall in love with, and the way the romances are portrayed - the good and the bad - make them feel painstakingly real. It’s a fantastic story, and definitely worth the read!
Shipping Fics
Stories whose primary focus is on romantic or sexual relationships between the cast.Good Girls by Lys ap Adin
- Recommended by Zephyr 7
- Status: Complete
- Pairing: Mamori x Hiruma
- Synopsis: Anezaki Mamori knows all the rules good girls follow.
- Comments: Definitely one of my favourite drabbles on how Mamori slowly decides to no longer be a good girl with the influence of Hiruma. The author has an amazing way of stringing words together and they used a nice repetitive flow to get the insight of Mamori across.
- Recommended by deltacrow
- Status: Complete
- Pairing: Multiple
- Synopsis: "A BL webcomic/novel about the ace quarterbacks of the Saikyo University Wizards and other college league football teams. This work does not depict real situations and is entirely fan-made." (Eyeshield 21 isn't Karin's only project.)
- Comments: This was fucking fantastic. A really cool point of view— it swaps between Karin and Sanzo, we don't ever really hear from/ of either of them in the manga or in fanfics— and while this is technically a shipping fanfic, it's really more of a General one. It's just— Karin and Sanzo are writing RPF. It's glorious.
