Tennis no Oujisama (The Prince of Tennis)

At the request of his father, tennis prodigy Ryouma Echizen has returned from America and is ready to take the Japanese tennis scene by storm. Aiming to become the best tennis player in the country, he enrolls in Seishun Academy—home to one of the best middle school tennis teams in Japan.

After Ryouma catches the captain's eye, he finds himself playing for a spot on the starting lineup in the intra-school ranking matches despite only being a freshman. Due to his age, the rest of the Seishun Boys' Tennis Team are initially reluctant to accept him, but his skill and determination convinces them to let him in.

Armed with their new "super rookie," Seishun sets out to claim a spot in the National Tournament, hoping to take the coveted title for themselves. In order to do so, the team must qualify by playing through the Tokyo Prefectural and Kanto Regionals. Yet, the road ahead of them is shared by a plethora of strong schools, each playing tennis in unique ways for their own reasons. Ryouma and his teammates must learn to cooperate if they want to become the champions they aspire to be.

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Background

On April 24, 2007, Viz Media released the first DVD box set in the United States. An additional three box sets have been released since January 15, 2008. However, these four sets only contain 50 of the 178 episodes.

On April 2, 2021, Funimation obtained licensing rights to the series and announced a new dub was in the works.

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Adaptation:	Tennis no Oujisama
Side story:	Tennis no Oujisama: Atobe kara no Okurimono - Kimi ni Sasageru Tennis Prince Matsuri, Tennis no Oujisama Movie 1: Futari no Samurai - The First Game, Tennis no Oujisama: Sonzoku Yama no Hi, Tennis no Oujisama: Oshougatsu Special, Tennis no Oujisama Movie 2: Eikokushiki Teikyuu Shiro Kessen!, Tennis no Oujisama: Pair Prince, Tennis no Oujisama: Message in a Bottle
Sequel:	Tennis no Oujisama: Zenkoku Taikai-hen
Other:	Tennis no Oujisama: The Band of Princes Film Kick the Future, Tennis no Oujisama: Mini Theater
Alternative version:	Tennis no Oujisama: Best Games!!
Character:	Miloha CM: Oresama ni, Amae Chai na

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Characters & Voice Actors

Echizen, Ryouma

Main

Minagawa, Junko
Japanese

Fuji, Shuusuke

Main

Kaida, Yuki
Japanese

Tezuka, Kunimitsu

Main

Okiayu, Ryoutarou
Japanese

Kikumaru, Eiji

Main

Takahashi, Hiroki
Japanese

Kaidou, Kaoru

Main

Kiyasu, Kohei
Japanese

Momoshiro, Takeshi

Main

Onosaka, Masaya
Japanese

Inui, Sadaharu

Main

Tsuda, Kenjirou
Japanese

Kawamura, Takashi

Main

Kawamoto, Naru
Japanese

Oishi, Shuichiro

Main

Kondou, Takayuki
Japanese

Atobe, Keigo

Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi
Japanese

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Takahashi, Tomoko

Producer

Hamana, Takayuki

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Hiramitsu, Takuya

Sound Director

Andou, Masahiro

Episode Director, Storyboard

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Opening Theme

	1: "Future" by Hiro-X (eps 1-26)
	2: "Driving Myself" by Hiro-X (eps 27-53)
	3: "Make You Free" by Kimeru (male version), hisoca (female version) (eps 54-75)
	4: "Long Way" by Ikuo (eps 76-101)
	5: "Fly High" by Toshihiko Matsunaga (eps 102-128)
	6: "Shining" by Yuki Shirai (eps 129-153)
	7: "Paradise" by Yuki Shirai (eps 154-165)
	8: "Dream Believer" by Osami Masaki (eps 166-178)

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Ending Theme

	1: "You Got Game" by Kimeru (eps 1-26)
	2: "Keep Your Style" by Masataka Fujishige (eps 27-35,38-39,41-47,49-53)
	3: "Walk On" by Masataka Fujishige (eps 36-37,40,48)
	4: "White Line" by Aozu (eps 54-75)
	5: "Kaze no Tabibito" by Fureai (eps 76-101)
	6: "Sakura" by Yomu Hamaguchi (eps 102-140)
	7: "Wonderful Days" by Pull Tab to Can (eps 141-165)
	8: "Little Sky" by Kentaro Fukushi (eps 166-178)

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Dec 30, 2022

Godslayer27

Recommended

This anime is an cclasic and if we talk about the genere sports in this medium we (at least me) cant skip to mention this series, now as many others animes of begginins of 90`s early 2000 i remember them with nostalgia and maybe some bias in between but leaving that aside i have seen along these years some of these animes of that era due to nostalgia wanting to relieve some of those moments and i have to say that many of them have aged so freaking well that even today i can enjoy them almost the same as before and gladly to say ... that prince of tennis wasnt an exception and even after more than 20 years since his emission still keeps being an amaizing series.

Now i want just to leave some of my thoughs about the series having watched in my middles 20 in comparation of when i was 8 years old, although i still love the series and was able to finish it from the beggining to end properly it has some things that are worthy to mention to those who havent yet and are planning to or at least interested in it.

Most of the characters if not all are kinda what we can say for today standarts something that are in a way stereotype (in a way understandably by their time) being ryouma the protagonist the most clear example but what i consider mark an huge difference is how you handle them and this case along the series the characters overall were well flesh out and charismatics which even nowdays i found out many series sins of recicling the same formula and not even doing it decently.
You end up getting attached to most of them as you advance and really far from being outstandingly complex or anything they feel really enjoyble and you care for them, each one being iconic to his way with really define personas.

The story takes out as an normal sports anime and gradually as you progress into it slowsly starts adding some more ficticious elemets in the matches and everything that revolves around tennis which to me its really nice and those smalls touches of fantasy really makes this series feel so much entertaining and adds his own flavlor to it.
There may have gone a little too much in the last arcs of the series with some techniques and fiction involved but that might depend from each one, i personaly didnt have problem with it but worth mention it.
There were what you could call fillers episodes but to me all of them removing just two or three (being some kind of chibi version of the cast) all the rest were really entertaining and really appreciate them by allowing us to see them in their daily life and knowing them more a bit more without being all the focus centered to the tennis itselft.

The camaderie and good sports its instilled in the series with even the most bad one characters (i seeing to you akutsu hehe) which i dont know if call it a message but really is present along all the series.

The soundatrack has some tracks that are dope as fuc***** being "honki modo" one of the most iconics and really memorable but also as some others that are aimed for more chills situation and works so well with an good melody, the firts op for people like me how grow up with series lke this is so nostalgic and far from being an masterpiece its an catchy song as well.

The animation was decent but had his downs though also were some good frames involved in some matches that were really good , in general was acceptable but i think that this aspect was the one in which more faltered with some really bad drawing or in-between from time to time that you could see along the episodes, in a way is comprensible by the studio at charge of the production and also this format of so many episodes being really difficult to impossible to hold an good lv of quaiity.

This was the review just for the firts 178 episodes, the series has secuels and continues (which im planning to watch also) awaiting to see what else depares to our protagonist ryouma and the team of seigaiku

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If you are wanting to see some sports anime and you still havent watched prince of tennis i reccomend it to you 100% its an really good series that has aged really well, to me is one of the most not only iconics but actual ambassadors of this genere and not for anything i think deserve at least an try by anyone into sports.

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Sep 6, 2020

SinCrow11

Mixed Feelings

introduction to the review:

First of all I want to clarify that I am not to create reviews and especially extensive, but I consider that being a fan of the genre "Spokon" and that the adaptation of Tennis no Ouji-sama (TnO) receives a significant amount of chapter in its first series, It is up to me to make some things clear about the Anime. Before starting I clarify that I will try to omit any spoiler but maybe at some point it deserves to mention a specific scene.

History: (5.5 / 10)

As for the plot, I am not going to detail the obvious that he refers to ...

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Oct 23, 2016

CrookedPanther

Not Recommended

I am probably one of the few people who did not enjoy this anime at all. I honestly found it horrible and not because of the old animation, i mean when you watch an old anime you really cant have high expectations for animation. First of all the story, it s the classic sports story where the protagonist aims to be the best. But in this case the protagonist is just too strong, he has no real opponent, you barely even see him train at all, even when he struggles vs an opponent he suddenly overcomes the difficulty for no reason at all (kind of ...

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