Dude idk but imho Jumonji was down for Sena badly, and just wasn't ready to face it

Yeah, I'll go ahead and incorporate that into my world view.

he's gotta be up to something......

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!

AHHHHH!!! 15 years later, a new chapter at last! Bless you @beansterpie for the lightspeed and high-quality translation!

Random spoiler-y thoughts below from approx 15 seconds after I finished reading.

Eyeshield 21: Brain x Brave special 21st anniversary one-shot color spread

year 2 of no albedo winter break... damn 😔

“A chef’s knife is not a katana” - a slice-of-life comic between Sanji and Zoro about blades, trust, and desire to eat nashi pear 🍐

Mental Crop Rotation

When farmers grow the same crop too many years in a row, it can leave their soil depleted of minerals and other nutrients that are vital to the health of their fields.

To avoid this, farmers will often alternate the crops that they grow because some plants will use up different minerals (such as nitrogen) while other plants replenish those minerals. This process is known as “crop rotation.”

So the next time you find that you need to step away from a project to work on something else for a while, don’t beat yourself up for “quitting” that project. Give yourself permission to practice “mental crop rotation” to maintain a healthy brain field.

Because I’ve found that when that unnecessary guilt and pressure are removed from the process, a good mental crop rotation can help you feel more energized and invigorated than ever once you’re ready to rotate back to that project.

: A crucial part of crop rotation is that the field is let fallow sometimes. You plant what’s called a “cover crop”, which is something you don’t expect to harvest– it’s there for its roots to hold the soil in place, and often it’ll be what’s called a nitrogen-fixer, i.e. a plant that can pull nitrogen out of the air and fix it into the soil with its roots (but sometimes it won’t, sometimes it’s really just there to shelter the soil surface), and then you’ll till in that cover crop, or let the frost kill it and the stalks lie as mulch, and then you’ll rotate productive crops back into that field the next season. 

It’s important, though, to understand that during the fallow period, no nutrients are removed from that ground, and nothing is expected of it. Whatever the land grows then, it keeps, and it gets tilled back in or decomposes in place, to return its energy to the earth.

We’re not allowed, in our current society, to just let our minds be fallow for a bit, to produce nothing for export, to make nothing that can be sold. But it’s part of good land stewardship, to give every field time when it doesn’t need to give you anything back. 

So yes, grow and produce different things from time to time, rotate them around your mind and exercise different mental muscles, take different things from your creative processes, yes– but also, give yourself a fallow spell now and again, and let the field of your mind grow things for itself to keep, to break down and save for later. 

OP has the right idea, albeit slightly incorrect on the agricultural details. Rotating crops isn’t just a matter of soil nutrition (some plants use more nutrients than others, but they’re pretty much all going to use those same nutrients, even if legumes–nitrogen fixers–can pull some nitrogen from the air and leave a bit of it behind afterwards, which is why the second point was made with planting a cover crop to use as green manure, assuming your soil moisture reserves are adequate enough for that, but what’s left behind will not be enough for the next crop; ‘fallow’ is typically reserved for not planting anything–weeds holding the ground in place–or just tilling the field, which has fallen out of practice because soil erosion is a thing). Farmers need to fertilize to replenish those lost nutrients, just like you, as a writer, might need to take a break and find some inspiration–whether in canon, other fanfiction, or something entirely unrelated–to help get you excited about your fic again and get some new ideas rolling around to help you through the rough patches. Does a particular scene seem really weak or forced to you? Might be a nutrient deficiency, a lack of one element which is limiting the rest from reaching its full potential; try to evaluate the scene with different eyes–say, how another character might view the scene–to see if you can spot ways to improve it, or call in someone your trust for a second opinion.

Crop rotation also aims to prevent disease and pesticide (chiefly herbicide) resistance. So, by giving yourself permission to rotate, your writing doesn’t become stagnant, stale, forced. If you don’t, it might start to rot, getting to a point where you aren’t happy with anything you’re writing and you’re rewriting scene after scene. If you keep pushing it, you might find yourself with what feels like insurmountable writer’s block, where nothing seems to work (like herbicide resistance). Try something else. A different story, a different fandom, however far you want to go. The situation may not look as bad when you come back to it.

…from the fandom feedback perspective, you could liken that to crop prices. Some fandoms tend to review more than others, and farmers keep in mind crop prices when they’re deciding what to plant because they actually need to make a living, so even though it’s not the determining factor in what you write, jumping to something where you’re slightly more likely to see feedback/get encouragement might help your opinion of yourself.

Don’t forget environmental influences, either. Going through a drought? That’s okay. You can’t really do anything about that other than pray for rain and give it time. Inspiration isn’t really something you can force. Flooded by ideas and overwhelmed? Jot down detailed notes so you can revisit them later and just work on your favourites for now. Patchy field? See if you can figure out why. Isolated scenes that need small, intermediate ones to connect them? Scenes that are there but just need to be fleshed out? An attempt at foreshadowing or another literary device that just seems confusing in hindsight? Step back, look at it as a whole, and decide if you need to reseed–rewrite–or if you can just flesh out a few scenes to help the story grow. 

Farming is a gamble. You put in a lot, and you have no guarantee of getting anything back in the end. Writing is a gamble, too. It’s hard to share your work with other people, even strangers on the internet. You don’t know how anyone’s going to react. You don’t know if anyone’s going to leave you positive feedback. You don’t know if anyone is going to appreciate all your hard work. But you took a risk to create something beautiful on the chance that someone other than you will appreciate it, and that’s wonderful.

uh racing au??

albedo and klee from my royalty au

American Football Sports Manga "Eyeshield 21" by Yuusuke Murata & Riichiro Inagaki will return with a new chapter in Weekly Shounen Jump out Jan 29, 2024. 55 pages & Center Color Page too! (via)