Jersey Number Series

背番号シーリス (sebangou shi-rizu) is a fan-coined phrase referring to the cover pages with the player’s jersey numbers. They typically correspond to the chapter where the featured player confronts their past.

Chapter 14: Toudou Aoi

Banner: Even if I were to become a different me, the burden I carry remains carved in me.

Chapter 26: Chihaya Shunpei

Banner: The effort put in is an unchanging fact. Yet reality at times can be cruel.

Chapter 65: Kaname Kei

Banner: After everything that [I’ve] worked for, to be confronted by “You’re not [the chosen one]”

Chapter 143: Kiyomine Haruka

Banner: Having recalled, [I] can no longer escape.