New 'Prince of Tennis' OVA Project Announced

by tsubasalover
Dec 16, 2017 12:02 AM | 10 Comments

The Prince of Tennis stage event at the Jump Festa 2018 on Saturday has revealed that the franchise will receive a new OVA to commemorate its 20th anniversary in 2019. Titled Best Games!! Tezuka to Atobe, the OVA episode will serve as the second part of the movie project announced last year, and will reanimate some of the most popular matches from the series. The OVA will be screened in Japanese theaters in 2018.

The first part of the movie project will have three runs of "cheering screenings," with the first run screening the The Two Samurai, The First Game and Atobe's Gift movies on December 3, 10, 17, and 24. The Eikokushiki Teikyuu Shiro Kessen! movie will be screened on February 2, 11, 18, and 25 in the second run, and the third run will screen the "Teni Fes All Night" live event on April 7, 17, 21, and 28 next year.

The original manga, drawn by Takeshi Konomi, was serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump between 1999 and 2008. The Shin Tennis no Ouji-sama sequel manga has been publishing in Jump SQ since 2009. Tennis no Ouji-sama inspired a 178-episode anime adaptation, two movies, and several OVAs. The sequel manga was also adapted into a 13-episode TV anime in Winter 2012, as well as a 10-episode OVA series.

Source: Moca News

Prince of Tennis: Best Games!! on MAL

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Official Nico Live channel for the series
Nico Live on July 27 and not only character ranking result will be revealed, but also more info to the franchise, probably including Ryouma: Prince of Tennis Movie (2020 premiere, which was initially announced during Jump Festa 2019) will be revealed
https://moca-news.net/article/20190704/2019070400000a_/01/

Jul 3, 2019 8:24 AM by tsubasalover

Screening on August 24 for two weeks and BD & DVD will release on October 26.
Key visual also revealed.
https://natalie.mu/comic/news/276453

IN: "Eien (永遠)" by Kunimitsu Tezuka (CV: Ryutaro Okiayu) & Keigo Atobe (CV: Junichi Suwabe)
ED: "You got game?" by Ryouma Gozen (CV: Junko Minagawa)

http://moca-news.net/article/20180604/2018060400000a_/01/

OVA 2: Inui & Kaidou Pair vs. Shishido & Ootori Pair / Ooishi & Kikumaru Pair vs. Niou & Yagyuu Pair

OVA 3: Fuji vs Kirihara
http://moca-news.net/article/20180804/2018080400000d_/01/

OVA 2 releasing on June 25, 2019, will be screened on April 5, 2019.
EDs: "B∀CK SHOT" by Sadaharu Inui (CV: Kenjirou Tsuda), Kaoru Kaidou (CV: Kouhei Kiyasu) & Ryou Shishido (CV: Kousuke Kuwano), Choutarou Ootori (CV: Daisuke Namikawa)
"GOOD MATCH UP" by Shuuichirou Ooishi (CV: Takayuki Kondou),・Eiji Kikumaru (CV: Hiroki Takahashi) & Masaharu Niou (CV: Yuuki Masuda)・Hiroshi Yagyuu (CV: Eisuke Tsuda)
https://moca-news.net/article/20181222/2018122200000g_/01/

OVA 3 screened on November 15, 2019.
https://www.animatetimes.com/news/details.php?id=1564235059

OVA 3 Key visuals
Released on January 28, 2020
https://natalie.mu/comic/news/346261

Apr 3, 2018 8:12 AM by tsubasalover

Kuma said:
what next? time treveling tennis?

i mean the manga had a technique called black hole...

Jan 3, 2018 9:21 PM by SkyFullOfStars

Great. The year of sport's animes 2018 :D

Dec 17, 2017 9:18 PM by Wakashimazu

Cheering screening on Sunday report: https://www.animatetimes.com/news/details.php?id=1513503787

Dec 17, 2017 6:39 AM by tsubasalover

Cool! A sequel!
Reads article.

Oh...

Dec 16, 2017 8:36 PM by malvarez1

I've always loved Prince of Tennis!

Dec 16, 2017 7:00 PM by raynaninja