Elementary school Eyeshield cuties!
I must apologize in advance for this, but . . .
I'll be damned if a person can't turn into a gibbering pile of fangirl in her own journal.
So that's my excuse.
And . . . THEY'RE SO DAMN CUTE OMG BLAHHHAHH ASPOIDFNAPSOIN!!! (And !!!!!!!)
(Click that to see the full picture in all its glory! It's Hiruma Youichi and Kurita Ryoukan as ten-year-olds!)
I'm, like, incoherent about how cute this episode was. Yeah, the new one containing information about Hiruma's past was just scanlated by some angelic person out there. Wow! He was . . . both so cute and SUCH A HUGE HORRIBLE BRAT!
Er, if you read Eyeshield, or plan to, and you don't want to know more about Hiruma until you get to this issue, then you need to close your window now, bitches.
Anyway. One thing's for sure: They explained how he got his personality. He kind of has no parents. They're in jail. Surprise. (They're in jail for fraud. In another country, I think. Gee, that's surprising!)
Look how angry and cute he is.
So this episode involved showing how he met the people he later formed the football team with. Of course, Hiruma started on his own, observing football games on an American military base, just watching the dudes play, memorizing the rules (effortlessly, as he does everything), and then one day they got wise and caught the kid where he wasn't supposed to be.
Heh, I got a little jolt seeing someone picking him up like that. Everyone knows you don't do that to Hiruma. Even if he's just a ten-year-old. (I have the same reaction in the "present day" of the story when someone tackles him. I'm like, do they have any idea who they're messing with?)
So of course he responds in typical Hiruma fashion.
Here he's threatening the guy saying he saw his boss letting women in at night, and asserting that he should be treated kindly if they don't want him telling on them.
So the dude was kind of impressed that a li'l kid came up with such a bluff, and they decided to teach him to play cards. Ohhhh, cutecutecute.
You know what, American military guys?
Teaching him to play and actually betting money with him was probably a bad idea. See why. . . .
::dying of the awesomeosity of Hiruma::
I tell you what, I would NOT want to be his baby-sitter.
And believe me, he didn't get any better by the time he hit junior high (though apparently he got his ears pierced and dyed his hair by then):
The rest of it was mostly just a cute story about how Kurita loved American football but had no one to play with and they wouldn't let him start a team without at least three members, but then he encountered Hiruma drawing football formation stats for his gambling. He found out that Hiruma lives in a business hotel (for free, because of information he has about something illegal the hotel did), makes a killing on gambling (including on football games), and doesn't have any desire to actually buy anything with the money he's winning; he just likes to win.
Oh yeah, and I lurve him. Bunches. :)
So Kurita was following Hiruma around trying to convince him to play quarterback, and there was some hoopla over their third member, Musashi, and how he patched up a hole in the fence (that Hiruma had been using to trespass) but kicked the hole back in again because its being there was important to these guys. Yay.
I think I'll go scream in Eyeshield forums now with other people who are as nuts as I am.
I'll be damned if a person can't turn into a gibbering pile of fangirl in her own journal.
So that's my excuse.
And . . . THEY'RE SO DAMN CUTE OMG BLAHHHAHH ASPOIDFNAPSOIN!!! (And !!!!!!!)
(Click that to see the full picture in all its glory! It's Hiruma Youichi and Kurita Ryoukan as ten-year-olds!)
I'm, like, incoherent about how cute this episode was. Yeah, the new one containing information about Hiruma's past was just scanlated by some angelic person out there. Wow! He was . . . both so cute and SUCH A HUGE HORRIBLE BRAT!
Er, if you read Eyeshield, or plan to, and you don't want to know more about Hiruma until you get to this issue, then you need to close your window now, bitches.
Anyway. One thing's for sure: They explained how he got his personality. He kind of has no parents. They're in jail. Surprise. (They're in jail for fraud. In another country, I think. Gee, that's surprising!)
Look how angry and cute he is.
So this episode involved showing how he met the people he later formed the football team with. Of course, Hiruma started on his own, observing football games on an American military base, just watching the dudes play, memorizing the rules (effortlessly, as he does everything), and then one day they got wise and caught the kid where he wasn't supposed to be.
Heh, I got a little jolt seeing someone picking him up like that. Everyone knows you don't do that to Hiruma. Even if he's just a ten-year-old. (I have the same reaction in the "present day" of the story when someone tackles him. I'm like, do they have any idea who they're messing with?)
So of course he responds in typical Hiruma fashion.
Here he's threatening the guy saying he saw his boss letting women in at night, and asserting that he should be treated kindly if they don't want him telling on them.
So the dude was kind of impressed that a li'l kid came up with such a bluff, and they decided to teach him to play cards. Ohhhh, cutecutecute.
You know what, American military guys?
Teaching him to play and actually betting money with him was probably a bad idea. See why. . . .
::dying of the awesomeosity of Hiruma::
I tell you what, I would NOT want to be his baby-sitter.
And believe me, he didn't get any better by the time he hit junior high (though apparently he got his ears pierced and dyed his hair by then):
The rest of it was mostly just a cute story about how Kurita loved American football but had no one to play with and they wouldn't let him start a team without at least three members, but then he encountered Hiruma drawing football formation stats for his gambling. He found out that Hiruma lives in a business hotel (for free, because of information he has about something illegal the hotel did), makes a killing on gambling (including on football games), and doesn't have any desire to actually buy anything with the money he's winning; he just likes to win.
Oh yeah, and I lurve him. Bunches. :)
So Kurita was following Hiruma around trying to convince him to play quarterback, and there was some hoopla over their third member, Musashi, and how he patched up a hole in the fence (that Hiruma had been using to trespass) but kicked the hole back in again because its being there was important to these guys. Yay.
I think I'll go scream in Eyeshield forums now with other people who are as nuts as I am.