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Tennis no Oujisama (Ohjisama) is a shonen (written with male audience in mind) manga by Konomi
Takeshi which probably has more female fans than male do to his rather delicious (and over abundance
of) male characters, especially the main 9 Seigaku Tennis Club players. Unique and intriguing
personalities accompany their looks along with ever evolving relationships among the characters make
this series such a hit (extremely hot in Japan and no slouch in other parts of the world either ^^). Oh, right...
there's a lot of tennis content too. The setting is a junior high tennis club whose goal is to get to (& win) the
Nationals (Japan). The story is focussed on Echizen Ryoma, a 4 time junior champ in the USA
who has returned to Japan with his family to enter first year at Seishun Gakuen school and moreover
to join it's well known tennis club (Seigaku). Owing to an incredible amount of skill he becomes
the first first year member to become a regular (one of 8 that compete in the tournamanents). Then
the battle (win all the tournaments) to get to their goal begins....
Media
Prince of Tennis manga was serialized in the weekly Shounen Jump (Japan issue, NOT the US one).
The tankobon were released by Jump Comics (Shueisha) which is currently at volume 42 (=END).
VIZ Communications is owned by Shueisha (& Shogakukan) so the English version of the manga is logically
being put out by VIZ.
The anime started airing Oct 2001 on TV Tokyo on Wednesday nights at 7pm. March 30, 2005 marks the end of the current anime with episodes 177
& 178 (gotta have hope there'll be another one or OVA at least once the Nationals are done!!). Anime was done by Production I.G. and NAS.
Anime followed the manga closely although with differences (generally small but over the past year the variances have gotten bigger
(primarily since the anime had gone beyond where the manga was at): Tezuka going to Germany for rehab in anime vs Kyuushyuu for one,
entire match against Johsei, entire Senbatsu arc.) Digisub is being excellently done by Anime Otaku fangroup.
Weekly radio show is continuing!! And still more CDs and merchandise scheduled for release.... and an OVA series starting March 24, 2006
(info initially was in Weekly Jump issue 39.). Boy I hope the OVA series is about 100 episodes long. ^^; Nope, only 7 episodes volumes
(= 13 episodes) (ending in 2007). How the heck can do the WHOLE Nationals tournament in 13 TV sized only episodes?!! -_____-
And the answer is they can't! Initial news was in Shonen Jump and then the official page was updated March 5, 2007: 2nd OVA series starts June 22
which will be the National Championship Semi-Finals (and this instantly means there will be a 3rd OVA series for the Finals).
NEW PofT Manga to start in April issue (March 4, 2009 on sale) of Jump Square !!!! Here we go again ^^;
And you thought the OVAs were done? Haaha! New one (Another Story) started in May (2009)!
Shin Prince of Tennis OVA (if not a series) will be done one of these days. Seems inevitable ^^
Well for now we get Another Story II OVA (2 volumes, out in the Fall 2011) and a movie.
Aug 22, 2011: Inevitable time is here! Promotional poster (for the new movie, Shin POT manga 6 and Pair Puri 9)
also includes notice that Shin POT anime will be coming. But no date. Yet.
Thinking the anime will be kinda short (<26 episodes) with only ~55 short chapters so far as source material. :[
Sept 3, 2011: Shinpuri anime will start in January 2012 (Konomi said so at movie opening event).
Jan 4, 2012 it started. Only 13 episodes aired on TV and then there's DVD/Blu-ray only episodes being done.
Sept 21, 2013: Shinpuri anime will continue as an OVA series (DVD/Blu-ray only) in 2014: New Prince of Tennis OVA vs Genius 10
Dec 23, offiicial JP site has a 1:11 clip up now but still no other details/info.
Oct 29, 2014 the first volume of the OVA will come out. Volumes will come out every 2 months (Vol5 due out June 26, 2015).
Feb - March, 2021: New two part OVA, Hyotei vs Rikkai Game of Future came out (in theatres then on streaming services in Japan)
Sept 3, 2021: Original storyline movie, all 3DCG finally (was due out in 2019 then 2020) came out. (More details near bottom of this page).
Oct 10, 2021: New anime in 2022 (details unknown so far) which will cover the U-17 World Cup Tournament.
Will cover ALL the tournament? Hope the manga storyline for this tournament is over by the time the anime starts (so don't have an AO ending, or pause
to continue somewhen). Guess this had to happen sometime. Not 3DCG thankfully. Not super excited because the skills many of the new characters
from the other country's teams has been up another level past the already beyond hard to believe, and been hard to like many of them either.
CR news Oct 10. Official JP Twitter for this anime.
Mar 26, 2022: Anime (official website) starts July 6, 2022. New key visual and PV. Few seiyuu revealed. Seki Tomokazu is voicing Greek player Zeus.
OP song is "I can fly" by YOSHIKI EZAKI x Bleecker Chrome and ED is "Dear Friend" by the Tenipri Artists (consists of?) News of
May 21, 2022: German team key visual, PV, and seiyuu (Saiga Mitsuki doing Q P) comments are out, PofT JP site news.
June 2, 2022: Australian team key visual, and seiyuu comments are out, PofT JP site news.
July 4, 2022: French team key visual, and seiyuu comments are out, PofT JP site news. Midorikawa Hikaru is voicing Leopold.
1st key visual for 2022 new anime
June 4, 2023: Of course the July 2022 anime didn't cover the whole tournament and the manga isn't done yet either. . . get anime continuation somewhen 2024:
Title: New Prince of Tennis U-17 World Cup Semifinal which will cover the Japan vs Germany match. ANN.
Dec 16, 2023: New Prince of Tennis U-17 World Cup Semifinal will start airing Oct, 2024.
Odds 'n Ends:
Have some Tennipri items for sale here shitajiki here cards here
Shitajiki & lami card scans
DVD 45 cover art / mini poster inside ... interesting hand placements :)
News Tidbits
List of DVD releases from 2005 onwards and other older news
Japanese site with Tenipuri news
Oct 4, 2023: Shin POT Manga Vol 40
Oct, 2023: 2024 anime style calendar by Ensky, 1980Yen: cover page and 6 other pages: List of characters on each page. A2 size, 59.4cm H x 42cm W.
Dec 4, 2023: Advance release/delivery (digital only?) of Nioh's 1st cover album. Two different CD jacket artwork have: 1, 2
Dec 6, 2023: Latest version of New Prince of Tennis Rising Beat is released.
Dec 6, 2023: Digital release of song for 6th anniversary of New Prince of Tennis Rising Beat: " Satisfaction " by Atobe and Ochi Tsukimitsu.
CD release unknown (so far).
Dec 20, 2023: CD release of Nioh's first cover album, " Puri Puri A La Carte " with 12 songs (1 of is new), 3000Yen+tax.
Dec 22, 2023: Blu-ray/DVD (9900Yen each) out for the Tenipuri Fest 2023 U-17 World Cup event. POT JP news
Dec 24, 2023: Digital re-release (remix of Shin POT Radio OP from Jan 2020) of song as " Kimi to Party Night ~Party Mix~ " by Kimijima Ikuto
Jan 31, 2024 (from Dec 3): 2024 = 20 years of Valentine Kiss releases. Oshitari and Shishido will be the 2 versions for 2024. Digital
release will be Jan 31.
Feb 29, 2024: Fuji's 1st digital song release, " Saa, Ikuyo " (Well, Let's go)
Mar 4, 2024: Shin POT Manga Vol 41
?? 2024: Shin POT Manga Vol 42
Oct, 2024: New Prince of Tennis U-17 World Cup Semifinal will start airing (announced Dec 16, 2023).
Characters / Seiyuu HERE
Music HERE
Merchandise
Probably easier to list what HASN'T been made. ^^ CDs, DVDs, video games, shitajiki, stationery,
calendars, lami, posters, jerseys & other apparel, pins, mascot straps, clocks, doujinshi, plush UFO
dolls, metal tins, letter sets, candy, postcards, keyholders, drinking glasses & LOTS of trading cards ...
Most interesting items are the hardest to get since tend to be the game prize centre only goods (can
only get by winning from machine in arcade (usually) in Japan) such as the Banpresto made plushies,
Tomy keychains, and Jump Fest (& Animate Fair) event only items.
Most goods that can buy at Animate (Japan) are made by MOVIC or animetopia.
Konami makes all the cards plus some lami card sets: gaming cards, trading cards, bromides, smash
hit cards, seal X seals.
CDs are made by NEC and distributed by King Records.
Ryoma's seiyuu radio shows compiled onto 2 different discs (CD-ROM)
R2 only DVDs came out one volume a month for the TV series. 4 episodes a disc, 3800Yen (great price by Japanese
DVD standards). First pressings come with a set of 3 still photos from the anime. Discs look like
tennis balls. ^_^ Released by Bandai Visual. Also been a special episode on Shonen Jump zenen
(mail in) DVD (spring 2003).
Have some Tennipri items for sale here shitajiki here cards here
Shitajiki & lami card scans
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Tennis no Oujisama belongs to Konomi Takeshi, Shueisha, TV Tokyo, NAS & Production I.G.
