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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 absolute best sports series- past, present and future. If you love Bleach and company then there is a good chance that you will love this too. Even if you dont like sports or even tennis, still check it out! The action is unrelenting and you really dont have to know anything about tennis to enjoy. It really is one of the best series I have ever read.
i just heard that their was going to be a "new" prince of tennis following ryoma again?! And that it would start in march 2009.....and they said that this was just the prologue.... but im not sure, cus i did like the ending nd now i hear this s the prologe?!...hmm but i do want to read it more now, srry for the rant.......
...I'm not sure what to say about this. The plot is very simple, there are so many characters that it's hard to keep track of them all (and their abilities!), and the attacks are ridiculously unrealistic.
And somehow, I just couldn't stop reading it.
For someone who's grown bored with manga, that's an accomplishment. Perhaps it's the fast pace and the relative unpredictability (you don't always know who will win or lose), but it keeps your attention and makes you eagerly anticipate what's next somehow. In that respect, it's absolutely perfect.
Oh, TeniPuri, you are a strange thing indeed. The review title was what this series was recommended to be on, and at first I thought it was a joke. But no, it really is that, ah, unique.
The tennis took a turn somewhere from being unlikely, to highly unlikely, to THEY CAN FLY AND USE ILLUSIONS AND WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING. Seriously. I think part of the reason I like this series is because it is utterly ridiculous. Another perk is that there are so many characters that you are bound to find at least one you like. Personally Ryoma, the main character, is one of the only characters that I actively dislike and I still loved this series. The fandom is also massive, and you can get any type of merchandise you could dream up, for almost any character you want.
It does get repetitive, but it follows the time honoured shounen plot type of enemy is stronger, find enemies weakness, exploit weakness with new skill/weapon/move. Teni Puri never strays far from that structure.
The art is sort of, ah, really interesting I guess. The bodies are fine, but the eyes are terrifyingly badly proportioned, even for manga.
I would recommend it for the lulz, or for the huge yaoi fandom, but don't look for anything fresh or deep in this series.
Usually when a series is very famous I can see and appreciate its charms even when I don't like it. Perhaps not in this case. Tennis is presented as something like kung-fu minus its sophistication and delicacy, and the special style/powers the characters possessed left me o_O. The characterizations and plot couldn't do much to make me see beyond this. Maybe I'm too old or something for this manga. Sometimes the wrong target reader can cause strong negative reaction.
I'm quite determined to finish what I started also in reading manga (rather stubbornly), but I couldn't take it anymore and stopped reading this manga half way.
i was in love with the anime/manga but the ending sucks!! T_T *cries* the manga/anime was almost perfect, funni, has sport etcetc. its hard to create something amazing with a game of tennis, lol nicely done but the ending shouldn't have been rush for it seems 'cheap' like it was just quickly put together. iunno its just my opinion xD LOL but overall (if the ending wasn't there) 9/10 with ending 5/10
I only read up to volume 7 but it's really good so far.. But for some reason.. this manga will get worse soon. I'm going to give this manga a 10 at the moment since it's so addicting. But when I finish reading this manga, it probably will change 'cause some people are saying this manga gets boring soon.
It's a great sports manga that you can enjoy in the beginning. But it goes bad halfway and grows into a Sports manga that doesn't take itself very seriously with all tennis players getting superpowers. Worse than that, every match feels the same. Some guy (Seigaku or Other team)will start winning 4 games. Its 4-0. THEN THE OTHER GUY WHO HAD HIS HIDDEN TECHNIQUE REVEALS IT AND MAKES THE SCORE BACK TO 4-4. WHAT A COMEBACK. Finally, since the other guty is a little smart and had 4-5 games to study the new technique, he's able to win by a small wargin in the end.
From this point on , Prince of Tennis became a really bad manga to read and not worth buying at all.
Man I didn't hate it at start but theire is only so little you can do with tennis. Not my cup of tea and it took him 380 chaps to realize he enjoys tennis? Ending sucked completely and I enjoy action shonens a lot more then some tennis with supermoves that bore me out. The cheeziness when he lost his memory made me vomit almost.
Even in the shonen department it loses badly vs titles like DB, OP, Naruto, hitman reborn, hunterxhunter,... And at sports major owns it completely and even eyeshield 21 is a lvl above it, hell if you wanna read some sportsmanga go read most of Adachis works they'll be a hell more deeper and realistic then this overrated series. How people can rate this a 10 is beyond my knowledge. Man I hate my habit of ending each series that I start.
it really is amazin..i've also read PoT for years now...and when it finally ended..its like takin away a major part of my anime/manga fan self..=/ i wished we could have seen the adventures he will ahve in america =(
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