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From Viz: Ryoma Echizen just joined the Seishun Academy's tennis team, which is known for being one of the most competitive teams in Japan. Its members are incredibly talented, gifted, and athletic. With rigorous and extremely intense practices, the upperclassmen of the team expect the very best from themselves and they expect even more from the new members of the team. While most of the freshmen are on pins and needles hoping they won't get cut from the team, Ryoma Echizen is confident, cool, and collected. Some might even say he's cocky, but at least he's got the skills to back up his attitude. With his virtually unreturnable "twist serve," Ryoma is sure to make the starting team. Join Ryoma and the other first years, as they train hard, make friends, and try to find a place for themselves on the team. And meet Ryoma's cute but chronically shy classmate Sakuno Ryuzaki. She's got a big crush on Ryoma, but will he ever notice her? Ryoma Echizen is the Prince of Tennis. He may be ready for the Seishun Academy tennis team, but are they ready for him?!
The best part about Prince of Tennis is NOT the cool moves, but rather the right time to use it. Usually, one or two exceptional players beat Kaido's Buggy Whip (Is it called that?), or Nanjiro's the only guy that can keep Ryoma at his toes. Who says the moves aren't cool? Without the moves, Prince of Tennis wouldn't be so popular! What do you expect? This manga is fiction, thus the moves are fiction.
One thing I didn't like about Prince of Tennis was...all the regular players looked able; all the muscles, hands, and legs are moving at the right speed and pace but...not the first years besides Echizen. Look at Sakuno, she's looks fragile, as if one hard swing could break her into pieces. Look at two of Echizen's male friends, they're so puny, they have scrawny arms, like they're only in 4th grade, but Echizen doesn't look anywhere near it. It's nice to able to differentiate (dunno if that's a word XDDD) the main character from the rest of the not-so-important characters but, c'mon! At least, make Sakuno more mature with boobs or something! And Sakuno's grandma? Man, choose one! Make her a man OR woman, not a woman with man looks!
I don't understand why people are so against the "special moves". Yup, some of them are pretty unrealistic, but they only look so weird, cuase magaka enchanced existing moves and coloured them with with flashy names and effects(See youtube vids if you don't beleive me). Forgetting what's real and not, shouldn't shounen manga be rated by how interesting it is? I don't know about the others, but I couldn't put it down- that's enough for me.
I see people going on and on about how unrealistic the moves are. Sure they are really 'O_O' but if it was just normal tennis (please don't get offended tennis fans), I wouldn't want to read it anymore. It'll get too boring for me ^^ It's because of those fancy moves that got me into Prince of Tennis in the first place (gives me a tiny bit of hope that maybe I could be like Ryoma or Tezuka or Fuji and become Number #1! Haha!)
a sport manga worth reading, with all the bishounen scattered through pages. but i dont like the unrealistic ( well. how do you manage to cut the ball into two--and still play with that faulty ball?) and it almost turning into somekind of dragon ball kind... with all those aura. i hate the way Ryoma always win. and the way Tezuka getting lost every single time after he came back. really good manga otherwise. i am a Yukimura supporter by the way.
This was my first step into sports manga and i loved it.
Cons: The moves they whipped out sometimes were... strange. And there was occasionally the weird, odd sized head on a too-tiny body, along with all of the characters having either monsterous or minute feet. There was no middle ground, at least from my POV. There was also many many many characters to keep track of (Not all were main, but most were commented on in passing after a match. The author most of the time accompanied it with a picture of the person though.)
Pros: easy to understand with a nicely flowing plot line. I also loved all of the little breaks, like prince of bowling or prince of beach volley ball. That was rather specatular. The weird moves that the characters seemed to whip out on every occasion were strange, but the author gave realistic explinations of how they could happen, even if it would be impossible to do so.
All in all: 8/10
Some of those moves were a little too weird for me...
I loved this series. It tells you some about tennis, but you don't have to play Tennis to like this series. The characters are interesting with very defined personalities. I think that this series is probably the best sports manga I have ever read. I would recommend this series to everyone! (Also, the characters are awesome and really kewl!) And this is NOT A YOAI!!!
I don't understand why PoT is so popular. In fact, I did start to read it because of its popularity, and even got as far as volume 16 but then I just couldn't stand it anymore.
This is by far the worst and most ridiculous sports manga I've ever read and I deeply regret ever starting it.
While the beginning is still good, it turned bad when they introduced so many new characters/teams. I couldn't distinguish them anymore. Of course, for each character a new special attack/skill had to be created... one more ridiculous than the other. Also, the story is not the most original one. It is, after all, a sports manga where it's all about competing. But introducing each character's "tragic circumstances" was just a total turn-off. I actually can't remember much of that except for Tezuka's case, and that just totally annoyed me. Not by what happened to him but by how it was told in the story.
Recommended for ppl who like mainstream stuff and dig sports manga and those who want to get a good laugh...
Btw, it still got 2 from me because of the drawings. They're pretty neat.
I like the characters, the plot, and art is okay too. It finds a way to perfectly mix reality and a touch of impossibility with action and sports. The characters are really interesting and, while being really cool, don't exceed the plot. The two are really balanced and that's what makes this a great manga. The only thing is that there isn't too much character development, but for this manga, that works. Overall, I think it's something that can be recommended for just about anyone.
This is my all-time favorite manga without a doubt. This is definitely a memorable classic that I'll never forget. The character growth with Ryoma, with Seigaku, with all the other schools is amazing. I'm so glad that they announced a new PoT. I'm definitely looking forward to that.
this is more of a character based story where they're all trying to get to be number 1 at the nationals before graduation. the plot is pretty simple. sure, the tennis is unbelievable xD but if it was then it wouldnt be as fun as reading prince of tennis. sure, it seems to be the same thing again and again but that's tennis xD there's only so much you can do with a game of tennis yet i'm surprised how the much xD they can do with a game of tennis lol. even though it's really unrealistic, xD it makes me want to play tennis! the explanations for the moves that they use do make sense, the author isnt just putting forward moves xD without any explanations. there are lots of unique characters, so you're bound to like one of them xP.
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?) and it almost turning into somekind of dragon ball kind... with all those aura. 
