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The Eyeshield 21 anime and manga series features an extensive cast of characters created by Riichiro Inagaki and Yusuke Murata. The series takes place in Tokyo, Japan, where the members of Deimon Devil Bats have the ambition to compete at the Christmas Bowl, the most important high school American football championship of the country. The main character of the series is Sena Kobayakawa, a wimpy boy who was a gofer to avoid being bullied during his childhood; he enters Deimon High School. While he runs away from the Ha Ha Brothers his running ability is witnessed by Yoichi Hiruma, the captain of the Deimon Devil Bats, the school's American football team. After this, Hiruma coerces Sena to join the club under the alias "Eyeshield 21" to keep him from being recruited by other teams. Sena and Hiruma along with the other member of the club, Ryokan Kurita, try to recruit new players to compete at the Christmas Bowl. While developing the characters, Murata intended to create characters who have unique qualities and that could stand out amidst the teams they are included. He focused his work on the characters' outfits since he thought it was the thing that would be most noted during the matches. Inagaki also used real world influence for the teams. Most reviewers have praised the characters of the series, declaring that the characters are one of the best elements of the Eyeshield 21 series as they are distinguishable.

When Riichiro Inagaki and Yusuke Murata were creating the Eyeshield 21 series, Murata was concerned that each character had a stand out quality because many of them are in groups. Murata said that "due to their heavy protective gear, it would be very difficult to identify personal characteristics in games" and because of this he decided to become more engaged in detailing their clothes, "so the most work on character designs are on their uniforms". Inagaki conceived the teams knowing that "each team has its own style", and designed the characters prior to assigning them a team. and for its logo he created six prototypes, saying he "spent a lot of work on designing the logo".|Yuri Lowenthal
Sena Kobayakawa (小早川 瀬那) is one of the main characters in the Eyeshield 21 series. During his childhood, he was a shy boy who was bullied and needed to be protected by Mamori Anezaki. Seeing this, Riku Kaitani, a young friend of Sena, taught him a running technique he referred to as the "explosive run" so Sena could defend himself. However, Sena used this to become a gofer for others instead of getting rid of bullies. In his first day at Deimon High School, he is chased by three bullies known as the Ha Ha Brothers and his speed is discovered by Hiruma. Under the alias "Eyeshield 21" because of the green eyeshield he wears to conceal his identity, Sena joins Deimon's football team as a running back.

Yoichi Hiruma (蛭魔　妖一) is the captain and the quarterback of the Deimon Devil Bats. When he was a child, Hiruma learned about American football after crawling through a hole in a fence of an American military base. He befriended Ryokan Kurita and Musashi, and with them, founded the Mao Devil Bats. After completing middle school he intended to join the Shinryuji Naga, but as Kurita failed the entrance exam, he entered Deimon. Along with Kurita and Musashi, he re established their former club, Mao Devil Bats, but renamed the team the Deimon Devil Bats. As Musashi leaves the club and few people have an interest in American football, he starts to blackmail students, forcing them to join the club. Hiruma is greatly feared both by students and administrative members of the school. Besides blackmailing people, he also intimidates them with the multiple firearms he carries with him. He is also a genius in maverick trick plays and mind games that he uses to try to frighten his adversaries.

Manabu Yukimitsu (雪光 学) is a second year student who has always been dedicated to only the studies. His mother wants him to be a studious person and makes him study from day till night in addition to going to cram school. Contradicting his mother, Yukimitsu decides he wants to have sweet memories of his high school not related to studying, and so he applies for Hiruma's qualification test and enters the Deimon Devil Bats. Yukimitsu does not participate in the first game and knowing his limitations he begins to devote more on training to dispute the Autumn Tokyo Tournament. However, he is not cast to that competition, making his debut only in the match against the Shinryuji Naga at the Kantō Tournament.

voiced by|Hidenori Sakaki Later, Suzuna follows the team back to Japan and then proclaims herself a cheerleader for the Devil Bats even though she is not from Deimon High School.

Doburoku Sakaki (酒奇 溝六) is the coach of the Deimon Devil Bats and a former American footballer. He trained Hiruma, Musashi, and Kurita, and taught them how to play American football before they entered high school. However, after his loan shark's debts became too high because of his gambling habits, he left them and fled to the United States. There, he became a beach football coach, returning to Japan only after Hiruma paid all his debts. He and Ojo's trainer and coach, Gunpei Shoji, were teammates at Sengoku University's American football team, and were known as "The Twin Japanese Blades", (二本刀, Nihon Gatana) where he played as a tight end.

Natsuhiko Taki (瀧 夏彦) is a high school student who has the dream of becoming an NFL player. He is a narcissist person and he is usually called an "idiot" by several people, including his sister Suzuna and Hiruma, due to his odd and rather foolish attitude; it is exemplified by his habit of opening his jacket to bare his pecs and making weird poses and pirouettes. However, Taki can be serious, using his flexibility to block the adversaries. Even having been refused by high school teams, Taki goes to the United States, abandoning his family, to apply for a position in the San Antonio team by taking all the savings in his house to the flight. He fails, but Sena asks him to join the Devil Bats back in Japan as a tight end. However, Hiruma says he can only join the team if he follows them in the Death March, a journey of two thousand kilometers along the American coast. After arriving in Japan, he has yet to make the high school entrance exam, and he debuts only in the second match of the Autumn Tokyo Tournament.

Agon Kongo (金剛阿含) is the younger of twin brothers on the Shinryuji Naga team. Agon joined the school through a scholarship for students with athletic skills above average, and he is considered a genius player who appears only once in a century, and he treats everyone with indifference, arrogance, and as worthless trash. He can play in most of the skill positions, and has a reaction time of 0.11 seconds. However, Agon is a womanizer and irresponsible, having to be monitored by his brother, Unsui. Inagaki described him as "a real ladies' man, a very strong character" and noted he could not depict Agon "laying with the ladies" in a shōnen manga.

Mamoru Banba (番場衛) is the Taiyo Sphinx's captain. Considered one of the best linemen in Japan, he is a third year student who holds the school record for squats. He is distinguished by his massive physique, complete baldness, and, during the Kantō Tournament, multiple scars from training. Later, he serves as a personal coach for Shozo Togano during the Devil Bats' preparation for the Christmas Bowl.

The NASA Shuttles (NASAシャトルズ) are a team based in Houston, Texas. The team was known as the NASA Aliens (NASAエイリアンズ) before they changed their name after their loss to the Devil Bats in a match they have bet with Hiruma that if the NASA Aliens could not win with a lead of ten points or more, they would not return to the United States. Then its coach, Leonardo Apollo, changed the team name to return to their home country. Its members include Panther, the running back, Homer Fitzgerald, (ホーマー・フィッツジェラルド, Hōmā Fittsujerarudo) the quarterback whose specialty is a long pass known as the "Shuttle Pass",, Jeremy Watt, (ジェレミー・ワット, Jeremī Watto) the Japanophile wide receiver, and two brothers, Nisan (ニーサン・ゴンザレス, Nīsan Gonzaresu) and Otto Gonzalez; (オットー・ゴンザレス, Ottō Gonzaresu) the former is tall and strong and the latter smaller, but faster. Inagaki visited a space center to collect reference materials to use as a basis for creating the team.

Patrick Spencer (パトリック・スペンサー), most known as Panther (パンサー), is the only black member of the NASA Aliens. He is also known as "The Man who Possesses Weightless Legs" (無重力の脚を持つ男, Mujūryoku no Ashi o Motsu Otoko) because he has innate and extraordinary running talents. However, by the start of the series, he is just used as a ball boy by the team coach, Leonard Apollo. Panther struggles because he has the dream of becoming a professional NFL player to sustain his grandmother, and also because he admires Apollo. Apollo allows him to play for the first time in the match against the Devil Bats. Later, he is recruited by the Team USA.

Cerberus (ケルベロス) is Hiruma's dog and one of the Devil Bats' mascots. In the manga, Hiruma finds the dog on a rainy day while placing flyers and is attracted to take it with him because of its fierce look. Differently, in the anime, Cerberus appears in the training field, Hiruma challenges it, and after succeeding in putting the collar on it, the canine starts to obey Hiruma's commands. Hiruma often uses Cerberus to frighten his adversaries as well as his own teammates. Cerberus is also used to help to keep Sena's secret identity; for example, with some pet food in a bowl, a Sena doll, and a camera, Hiruma can make it appear that Sena is recording games, while in fact, he is playing as Eyeshield.

Torakichi (虎吉) is a grade school fan of Sakuraba, who wishes to become a player after witnessing Sakaruba catching a very high pass. Even when Sakuraba says he caught that pass by accident and when Torakichi learns Sakuraba is really a sub par player, Torakichi remains a loyal fan and encourages him to become stronger. Torakichi plays flag football until he is hospitalized with a broken leg, which leaves him unable to play football for up to two years. He almost gives up on his dream, but he is inspired by Sakaruba to continue with his rehabilitation

Masaru Honjo (本庄勝) is a former baseball player of the Shuei Bears team. He played as an outfielder and was known for his extraordinary catches, which leads Monta to become his fan. After retiring from baseball, he became a chairman of Kansai's High School Football Association after being invited by a friend, the head commissioner of Kanto's High School Football Association, who believes Honjo's presence would help to attract fans.

Nakabo Akira (中坊明), most known as Chubo (チューボー), is a middle school student, who admires Sena and wishes to become an American football player after seeing him. He attempts to try out for the Japanese team for the international tournament by copying Sena's moves. Though he is initially laughed at, he shows that he can use the "Delta Dynamite", a blocking technique that involves ramming the enemy with the head, shoulder, and fist simultaneously in a delta shape, which makes the block three times more powerful. He becomes a prominent lineman on the team, though if his timing is messed up, he is very weak on the field.

Team USA is coached by former NFL star Morgan, (モーガン, Mōgan) who will pay 300 million yen to the MVP from the world tournament's winning team and sign him to his NFL team, San Antonio Armadillos. (サン アントニオ・アルマジロズ, San Antonio Arumajirozu) Five first string players for Team USA share the title of "Pentagram", named for the stars on the American flag. These five players are regarded as the top candidates for the MVP award. The team is formed by Donald "Mr. Don" Oberman, (ドナルド・オバーマン ｢Mr.ドン｣, Donarudo Obāman (Mr. Don)) the lineman and the leader of Team USA and the son of the president; Panther of the Shuttles is the running back of the team; Clifford D. Lewis, (クリフォード・D・ルイス, Kurifuōdo Di Ruisu) the arrogant quarterback, who is known as the "Invincible Gambler", (不敗の勝負師, Fuhai no Shōbu shi) Bud Walker, (バッド・ウォーカー, Baddo Uōkā) the cornerback and an action movie star in Hollywood, and the Native American linebacker, who is known as the "Human Dome" (人間ドーム, Ningen Dōmu) as he is the tallest player within the tournament.

Eyeshield 21 (アイシールド21) is the title of the best runner of a generation. At the start of the series, Hiruma assigns this name to Sena to frighten his adversaries by claiming he is the running back who came from Notre Dame to Japan. "Eyeshield 21" is in fact not a person but a tradition of the college affiliated to the University of Notre Dame to distinguish the best player of the team. Shun Kakei, however, reveals he had already met "the real Eyeshield 21" when he was in the United States, and he returned to Japan to search him. During the match between Deimon Devil Bats and Bando Spiders, Akaba Hayato claims for himself the title; after being defeated by Sena, he admits that Sena can be the title holder. But, the "real" Eyeshield 21 is Takeru Yamato, who was the person Kakei met in the United States. When he meets Sena, Yamato declares that whoever wins the confrontation between them is the one who deserves such title.

The characters of Eyeshield 21 have been well received from publications dedicated to anime, manga, and other media. Deb Aoki from About. com said that one of the best things about Eyeshield 21 are "the well written, distinctive and loveable characters", while Zac Bertschy from Anime News Network (ANN) stated the characters are "perhaps the strongest element [of the series]". Carlo Santos from ANN praised the "appealing characters" and the "well defined cast of characters". Christina Koh of The Star asserted "Each character is drawn with a distinct look", while Santos commended their distinguishable physical characteristics, and their design, which, "of course, are a feat of imagination." Santos affirmed the series has "hilarious characters",

Scott Green of Ain't It Cool News described the characters "recognizable as people" and praised Eyeshield 21, for "taking the personal relationships a little less serious, but going a bit overboard with the motion and personalities". Mania. com's Jarred Pine classified the characters as "very likeable", and said that because they have "their own personalities" they "are instantly memorable". Chris Zimmerman from Comic Book Bin praised the development of the characters through the manga series. Chris Homer of The Fandom Post also commended the characters' development in the anime series and said that some of them, such as Ikkyu and Ishimaru, were better developed in comparison to the manga. Homer praised how the rivals were full integrated in the main story and how their back stories were explored.