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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, 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 starts.
Odds 'n Ends:
SOME Screen caps of Ryoma from ep97
Have some Tennipri items for sale here shitajiki here cards here
Shitajiki & lami card scans
News Tidbits
List of DVD releases from 2005 onwards and some other older news
Japanese site with Tenipuri news
Jan 22/23, 2011: 10th anniversary of the anime special event (2011 Tenipuri Festival). Japanese site.
Oct 26, 2011: Another Story II 2nd volume out, 2 separate stories on it. 5250Yen
Nov 9, 2011: Limited re-release of a whack load of CDs. Atobe's Valentine Kiss, Dreaming on the
Radio, OP and ED Request CDs, the Radio Themes, character solo albums, etc. (Why?)
Nov 9, 2011: Kite's 3rd CDS (and #301 CD release) and on his birthday, " AWAY ", 777Yen
Dec 7, 2011: 10th anniversary version release of " future " by HIRO-X, 1250Yen
Dec 22, 2011: 10th Anniversary Fan Disc: 60min long: special talks/comments from Tenipri Fest 2011, the new movie
and the 10th anniversary project; Shin POT promo; Another Story II picture drama, couple other things as well from ASII
2625Yen
Dec 31, 2011: Yagyuu CD, " LASER BEAM ~ ULTRA VIOLET VERSION ", 1000Yen
Jan 4, 2012: Shin POT anime starts. TV Tokyo webpage is up (but still rather sparse (as of Dec 2))
Jan 4, 2012: Shin POT manga Vol7
Feb 1, 2012: Valentine Kiss CDS by Kite accompanied by Higa Chu, 777Yen
Feb 15, 2012: Kawamura CD, " Ano Basho Made ~ Sloping Road ", 1000Yen
Feb 22, 2012: Musical Dream Live 2011 CD, 3300Yen
Feb 22, 2012: CD release of Shin POT ED, " ENJOY ", by new (seiyuu) unit, Moukyuu (Ami Kyuu? Ami Tama? Mou Tama?)
Danji (= Global Network Boys?), 800Yen
Feb 29, 2012: Fuji CD, " Serendipity ", 2800Yen
Mar 5, 2012: Yukimura CD, from miracle prologue tour 2011, 3500Yen
Mar 14, 2012: Nasu (Fuji&Kawamura) another CDS, no title yet, 1000Yen
Mar 23, 2012: 2011 movie out on DVD. Limited ("Gorgeous Edition") version is 2 discs, 2nd disc is bonus material with seiyuu interviews
and such, also a few other items like a deluxe booklet, different art on the case), 7800Yen. Regular edition is 5800Yen. No Blu-ray.
Mar 28, 2012: Nioh & Yagyuu CDS, no title yet, 777Yen
Mar 28, 2012: Shin POT CD Soundtrack, 2300Yen
Apr 4, 2012: Eiji CDS, no title yet, 777Yen
Apr 11, 2012: Kai CDS, no title yet, 777Yen
Apr 20, 2012: Bunta (same day as his birthday) CDS, no title yet, 777Yen
April 20, 2012: Vol 1 of Shin POT on DVD and Blu-ray. Ep1 and fist disc exclusive OVA. OVA is Return of the Prince
(Ryoma in NY). There will be an OVA on each volume. The Pair Puri books are likely the source of the material for the OVAs.
Each disc will also have seiyuu commentary track. Vol1 has 2 different tracks (seiyuu for Ryoma, Tezuka, Fuji on one track,
Atobe, Kite, Sanada for the other track). The first pressings also have some extras like bonus illustration/sleeve art. And the
animate limited edition comes with one of 5 (Ryoma, Atobe, Yukimura, Shiraishi, Tokugawa) possible figures straps. DVD
(3990Y)/Blu-ray (5040Y).
June 22, 2012: Vol 2 of Shin POT on DVD (5250Y) and Blu-ray (6300Y). Ep2&3. There's 7 volumes listed for Shin POT.
2 TV eps on Vol2-7. So that means there's ONLY 13 TV episodes!! oO I figured Shin POT would hit 26 at least before
surpassing the manga...
Aug 24, 2012: Vol 3 of Shin POT on DVD (5250Y) and Blu-ray (6300Y).
Oct 26, 2012: Vol 4 of Shin POT on DVD (5250Y) and Blu-ray (6300Y).
Dec 21, 2012: Vol 5 of Shin POT on DVD (5250Y) and Blu-ray (6300Y).
Feb 22, 2013: Vol 6 of Shin POT on DVD (5250Y) and Blu-ray (6300Y).
April 26, 2013: Vol 7 of Shin POT on DVD (5250Y) and Blu-ray (6300Y).
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.
