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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 is serialized in the weekly Shounen Jump (Japan issue, NOT the US one).
The tankobon are 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 onsale) of Jump Square !!!! Here we go again ^^;
And you thought the OVAs were done? Haaha! New one starts coming out in May!
Odds 'n Ends:
SOME Screen caps of Ryoma from ep97
List of DVD releases from 2005 onwards and some other older news
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Shitajiki & lami card scans
News Tidbits
Nov 6, 2009: CD album by Kite, " Faith ", 3000Yen
Nov 18, 2009: Mini album by Rokkaku team, "Chibauta", 2500Yen
Nov 19, 2009: Konami: Special Bromide Vol16: Secret School Festival Version: 15regs, 3 rares: 3780Yen/box (12 in a box)
Nov 26, 2009: Musical "The Prince of Tennis" Complete CD Box: 5 CD set + extras. Limited edition.
Every single performed from Aug 2005 to Aug 2007: 10000Yen
Dec 17, 2009: Musical "The Prince of Tennis The Final Match" Live CD 2800Yen
Dec 22, 2009: OVA Fan Disc Message in a Bottle: 50min total: includes footage from Tenipuri Festa 2009,
Character profiles, music video, commercials, and a "picture drama" (Atobe finding a bottle with a message)
Jan 1, 2010: Character CD by Yagyuu, "Undine", 1800Yen
Jan 1, 2010: CD single by Nasu Pair (= Fuji & Taka), "Ichi-Fuji, Ni-Taka, San-Nasubi", 1000Yen
Jan 4, 2010: Shin Prince of Tennis Vol2 and Pair Puri Vol3 (manga) come out
Jan 14, 2010: Konami: Trading card set Vol2 covering rest of the Another Story OVA
Jan 27, 2010: Tenipuri Fest 2009 out on DVD. 2 discs, 230 minutes total. 9240Yen.
Feb 3, 2010: Valentine Kiss by Niou (with rest of Rikkai), 777Yen
Feb 3, 2010: Valentine Kiss by Hiyoshi (with rest of Hyotei), 777Yen
Feb 11, 2010: Konami: Special Bromide Vol17: Sweet Valentine's Day Version: 15regs, 3 rares: 3780Yen/box (12 in a box)
Feb 17, 2010: 6 CD box set of the Tenipuri Festival (6/9/09), Holy Ground in Ariake Colosseum, 12000Yen
March 5, 2010: Yukimura mini album, no title yet, 1800Yen
March 10, 2010: Shishido CDS, no title yet, 777Yen
March 11, 2010: Konami: Special Bromide Vol18: Precious White Day Version: 15regs, 3 rares: 3780Yen/box (12 in a box)
April 14, 2010: Shiraishi album, not title yet, 3000Yen
Characters / Seiyuu HERE
Music HERE
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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).
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Shitajiki & lami card scans
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Tennis no Oujisama belongs to Konomi Takeshi, Shueisha, TV Tokyo, NAS & Production I.G.
