dreamlessness, thanks for the rec! I have caught up to Katekyo Hitman Reborn and I NEED more! It went from this strange, kind of interesting series that I may or may not follow to OMFG! WHERE IS THE NEXT CHAPTER? I have this deep LOVE for Yamamoto! LIKE COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS LOVE that MAY or MAY NOT be PLATONIC! The way the artwork evolved is just amazing – compare the first chapter to the newest chapter and it is like two mangaka drawing the same series. Sure, this series isn’t going to be on my top 5, but it is just fun to read! And YAMAMOTO, Gokudera and OMFG! Mokura is like your average psycho times a billion!

They TRAVELLED into the FUTURE?! I mean from a plot POV it would have been stupid not to utilise the timecanon, but still I just wasn’t expecting it. Mind you, KHR isn’t exactly a series full of coherent plot points, but it doesn’t matter because it is such a fun series!

I have also caught up to Eyeshield 21. Oh gods, just oh gods, this is why I LOVE shounen manga so very MUCH! I would have a much more coherent write up except all I can say is YOUNG HIRUMA! And OMFG! GO DEVIL BATS, GO! I get terribly involved in the matches that I ended up mainlining approximately 150 chapters of the series, and everything is really jumbled up in my head at the moment.

Hiruma is estranged from his family, I’m very interested about his father and why he is no longer with them. Also, Christ, his fricking arms, that was one match that had me bitting my nails and screaming. Because guys, I read Slamdunk, and I honestly wasn’t sure if the Bats were going to make it to the Nationals.

The small flashback of little Sena and little Shin had me making stupid squeaky seal noises. I like the fact that the two of them were DESTINED to be rivals but never knew it. And it was just awesome.

Kid’s past is all sorts of interesting, and I was really saddened the fact that they got taken out. However, it was necessary for drama, and honestly you don’t want the team to be against the same time more than twice at the most.

It is pretty cool that the Devil Bats are fecking deadly, and most of the time the only thing letting them down is more back up players. They may win games but they do some serious damage to themselves because they have to play because they have no additional members to switch out.

GUYS, I have MISSED shounen MANGA so very much! Please PROVIDE recs to your favourite shounen manga series. I love sports and tournament series. What I require more than anything is ENERGY and PASSIONATE characters; hence the love of shounen sports series. perseid, what was the name of that baseball series you were talking to me about? I require names!