Tennis no Ouji-sama (The Prince of Tennis)

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Synonyms: Prince of Tennis

Japanese: テニスの王子様

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 42

Chapters: 382

Status: Finished

Published: Jul 6, 1999 to Mar 3, 2008

Genre: Sports

Theme: School

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

Authors: Konomi, Takeshi (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.71¹ (scored by 12,920 users)

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Ranked: #1584²

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Seishun Academy is home to one of the best middle school tennis teams in all of Japan. Freshman tennis prodigy Ryouma Echizen enrolls in the prestigious institution with his eyes set on claiming a regular position on the Boys' Tennis Team. As the son of legendary tennis player Samurai Nanjirou, Ryouma is sick of living in his shadow and wishes to surpass him someday. He is confident in his skills and has the cocky attitude to match. His teammates, however, are reluctant to accept him into their starting lineup, as he hasn't proven himself worthy of the spot.

Seishun's ultimate goal is to make it to the National Tournament by the end of the year, but they first have to make it through the Kanto Regionals to even qualify for a spot in it. With their new "super rookie" on the team, Seishun is ready to take on anything that comes their way. With a varied assortment of rivals and opponents that can threaten their chance at the title, the Seishun team needs to give it their all in order to rise to the top.

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Included one-shot:
Volume 5: Tennis no Ouji-sama (pilot)

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Tennis no Ouji-sama serialized in the Weekly Shounen Jump from July 1999 to March 2008. The series was put on hiatus in July 2006 after the writer, Takeshi Konomi, was injured in an accident; publication resumed in September 2006. The series was published in English as The Prince of Tennis by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump imprint from April 21, 2004 to July 5, 2011.

The manga has received multiple media adaptations. Since the Golden Week of 2003, Marvelous Entertainment has produced a series of musicals that are shown bi-annually, with each musical adapting one arc of the manga storyline. A live adaptation film was released in Japan on May 13, 2006, covering the storyline from when Ryoma arrives in Japan to the match against Hyotei Academy. Three Chinese dramas have been produced. Due to localization, the dramas feature different characters and cultural themes, but the story and characters' portrayal remain similar to the manga.

A variety of video games based on the series, mostly tennis games or dating simulators, have been released in Japan across multiple consoles. A half-hour weekly radio show was also produced, featuring over 300 music CDs along with a large range of merchandise.

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Sequel:	Shin Tennis no Ouji-sama
Alternative version:	Houkago no Ouji-sama
Adaptation:	Tennis no Ouji-sama, Tennis no Ouji-sama: Zenkoku Taikai-hen, Tennis no Ouji-sama: Zenkoku Taikai-hen - Semifinal, Tennis no Ouji-sama: Zenkoku Taikai-hen - Final, Tennis no Ouji-sama: Best Games!!

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Echizen, Ryouma

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Fuji, Shuusuke

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Tezuka, Kunimitsu

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Kikumaru, Eiji

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Kaidou, Kaoru

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Momoshiro, Takeshi

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Inui, Sadaharu

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Kawamura, Takashi

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Oishi, Shuichiro

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Atobe, Keigo

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Sep 14, 2008

worldstraveller

Recommended

well, the manga is the best I've read so far, completed.
the development is very great, however not much development focus on the female character.
and the author to me give me a lot of enjoyment, is so funny, there always the drama, the spirit team always present, and so touching, exciting, can be even thrilling and I'm not a fan and usually don't like sports neither sports anime and manga, and this one, for some reason is special and so different.

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Dec 8, 2009

JoesBladder

Not Recommended

I'm writing this review for a variety of reasons: for a manga as popular as Prince of Tennis (POT) i would expect much more reviews, there are currently three i believe, and all three of these reviews have a strong positive bias which doesn't sit well with me. I do believe that this manga has some merits but i feel that the popularity is completely undeserved. before i move on to the main section of the review i am going to list what i like about the manga, and from the low score i gave it, it should be obvious the list is small. It ... was an epic manga that incorporated emotions very well. For such a cheesy story i was surprised that at times i sympathized, and on the occasion empathized, for the characters. As i progressed through the manga i realized that aside from when the characters are quite realistic. I particularly enjoyed sections with Kawamura, whom i found to be the most realistic and mysterious. For having such a large cast i feel that Konomi manages to give the right amount of detail to all of the main cast. What pissed me off the most was of how small character Sakuno became as the manga went on; by the end of the manga i had nearly forgotten about her. It is almost unheard of to me for a shounen manga to have such a pathetic female lead, almost to the point where it is either her grandmother, the team's coach, or the fact that in the manga there just is no female lead, which is also a feat in shounen manga i find quite undesirable. That rant wasn't supposed to happen as i was hoping to list what i 'liked' about the manga. i'll end this section on a poistive note and say that the art in POT is wonderful, one of the best i've ever seen. Attention is spent to detail. All of the characters look distinct and i found that it seemed that the characters faces greatly reflected their type of personality.

Story: 3
I loved the story at the beginning. I found it realistic, plot driven, and refreshing in comparison to the similar story of many action shounen. It should be obvious, however, that POT is very, very long. What was an enjoyable plot became more and more typical. When i finished the manga i remembering comparing its story line to Rurouni Kenshin and Shaman King. In all these manga the main characters encounter a strong opponent, defeat the opponent and then face a stronger oppponent. this reoccurs in all of the nearly 400 chapters of the manga. the fact that some opponents are reused does little to sway my opinion that the story line boring and not enjoyable. It is long, unrealistic -- extremely unrealistic, has to much filler, and forced comedic scenes that aside from being humorless, they are weird, bizarre, and embarrassing to read. To be blunt; comic relief in POT is anything but relieving. Also these junior high kids, 13 14 and 15 year olds, performing superhuman tricks that i've never seen Roger Federer or Raphael Nadal come close to doing, is... bad. Are these kids playing tennis or do they belong in Dragon Ball Z?

Art: 9
I stated earlier that i loved the art in this manga, but i'll state why its so good, perhaps again. the characters all look unique and the detail to everything is great. the looks are very cool and many of the expressions the characters use sum up their personalities better than their quotations and actions.

Character: 6
the main cast, those on the Seishun Academy tennis team are unique, cool, and well developed. I liked them a lot. the way they acted as friends was very real. However many of the opposing teams were both needlesly aggressive and stupid. I often times found that Konomi spent to much time on the main cast and to little on the opposition, those that served as antagonists. As their were many its difficult to remember just one and ever more difficult to distinguish between the large amount of them. This made them seem very cheesy at times. Often to the point where it baflfled me. I am going to say that while real people act like those from the Seishun Academy, when it comes to the underdeveloped side characters i have yet to see any one person in real life that is like them.

Enjoyment: 3
If i were a kid perhaps i would have liked the manga more. It is after all, a shounen manga, and an extremely popular one. But, after reading POT i feel like i wasted my time reading, especially when i should have been reading something else. I liked the main cast but i found all of the other characters to be despicable. A manga with such poor antagonists would be dreadful. While i did hate them, which is often times the point to an antogonists existense, i feel like i hated them because, honestly, as characters they sucked and it was boring to read about them.

Overall: 3
I would never reccomend this to anyone. Those who wish to read a good shounen should read DBZ or Shaman King, or pretty much any other title. The plot dragged on and on. In my personal opinon POT is stupid. The mindless aggression of many of the antagonists, the gore in a sport where there is rarely ever any blood, seriously this is one gory manga, the forced and stupid humor, all coupled together with the result that this manga should not be viewed, that is just my opinion. i end by stating that it baffles me that not only is this one of the most popular mangas currently, it is one of the most marketable. There are musicals for this in Japan. If they reach American shores i will lose faith in the American Manga/Anime industry.

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Dec 8, 2008

whoiam_me

Recommended

i gave a 10/10 because i really really love the plot, characters, the artwork & everything in this series. Its really a great series & it was my 2nd best so far though im not a sporty person & didnt know 'bout tennis at all. but, through this, i have this feeling that i wanted to learn playing this kind of sport & apply those techniques.. hahaha.. but really, this is a great series.. im done with the manga & im still waiting/searching for the tournament finals in anime.. hope to find it soon.. ^_^

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