The Prince of Tennis

The Prince of Tennis (Japaneseテニス の 王子 様tenisu no ōjisama ) is a manga series by the Japanese illustrator Takeshi Konomi that has been implemented as an anime series and is attributed to the shōnen genre. It is about the rise of Ryoma Echizen boys in the tennis world.

• 3.1 Manga
• 3.2 Anime
• 3.3 Musical
• 3.4 movie

Action

The boy Ryoma Echizen has just moved back from the USA to Japan and has logged on to the Seigaku Junior High School, which is known for its good tennis team. He wants to be on the team and even though he's only in the first year, it takes the strict captain of the team, Kunimitsu Tezuka, in the core team on. Ryoma ultimate goal is to defeat his father. Nanjiro Echizen was a famous and world renowned tennis player, after he had, however, lived his dream, his new dream Ryoma was to make a professional.

Together with his friends from the team, of which each individual has a very special style and character and is not so easy to defeat, as Ryoma initially thought he fights his way up the rankings of major national Youth Championship Tournament. The team competes against several other schools with their team members, they will soon close friend or enmities. It must realize that he must first of all overcome the players of his own team and other strong opponents before he can make it to defeat his father Ryoma.

Characters

Seishun Gakuen ( Seigaku )

• Ryoma Echizen

(1st class Junior High) - is a new player on the team because of his talent. He often seems disinterested and arrogant, which irritated his opponents (and sometimes his friends ). He playfully tries to break away from his father, who is a kind of invincible opponent a constant challenge for him. Throughout the series is shown how Ryoma developed on and with his opponents.

• Kunimitsu Tezuka

(3rd grade of junior high ) - is the captain of the team. He takes his position very seriously and work purposefully towards the goals he sets himself and the other members of the tennis club. He is regarded as very talented and has a year before the series takes place, participated in the national championships. His appearance often looks very cold and arrogant, which also led to his injury, the left elbow by a teammate, which caused him to date problems. In Ryoma he sees a great talent and therefore tried to help him both as to demand too. His techniques are very sophisticated and are considered by many opponents as feared and not to beat. Although he is left-handed, he often plays with his right hand because his left hand was injured before the series began.

• Syusuke Fuji

( 3rd grade Junior High) - regarded as a genius. Outwardly, the more feminine -looking player is often portrayed as a quiet, attentive and polite boy, which is characterized by an almost constant slight smile. His playing is more restrained - he often plays just as good as it is necessary for his respective opponents and is rarely really required. There are only a few tennis players he really needs to take seriously, for example: Kunimitsu Tezuka, Ryoma Echizen and Kuranosuke Shiraishi of Shitenhouji. As a trademark in its Counter- tennis techniques that are often decisive game apply.

• Syuichiro Oishi

( 3rd grade junior high ) - the vice-captain and as the "mother " of the tennis club is often sought after by a good atmosphere. He plays as a Golden Pair with Kikumaru usually double. His playing style is a quiet baseline game with a lot of overview of what his partner enables its acrobatic style only. Together familiar with the two special double technique mastered by only a few other double so.

• Kikumaru Eiji

( 3rd grade Junior High) - is a lively, very acrobatic boy. Together with Oishi he plays doubles, where he is through his acrobatic and unpredictable network play a good match for the quiet game Oishi. With this he is a friend, since that could defeat him when they first met in singles. Oishi with it are known as the " Golden pair".

• Takeshi Momoshiro

(2nd class Junior High) - is an athletic, very self-assured player. He was the first to Ryoma hit, and has since become very good friends with him. Quite the contrary, is based on his rivalry friendship with Kaidou. He plays a very aggressive and visually striking tennis, which he combines with deliberately provocative or willful appearance.

• Kaoru Kaidou

(2nd class Junior High) - is a very taciturn and solitary player. Outwardly, he is often portrayed as scary and daunting. His strength is his stamina. It is also called "Viper " because of his style and behavior, which is not least that he often exhales with a snake-like hiss. When his trademark applies a blow, at which the ball with a curvature in the airline is very unpredictable - the Snake.

• Sadaharu Inui

( 3rd grade Junior High) - is a rather quiet, calculating boy. For a time he has held the position of team manager and acts as an auxiliary coach, giving him quite easily falls due to its large collection of facts about all the players, since its archives on the properties of the other can be quite impressive. His great love for collecting data is also reflected in his style of play, the "Data Tennis ," objected. A special feature is its self-mixed potions, which he himself describes as healthy energy drinks, but are feared by the rest of the team members because of the horrible taste and most disgusting appearance.

• Takashi Kawamura

( 3rd grade Junior High) - an outside of the tennis court very reserved boy who changed radically with a tennis racket in hand. It will then be very sure of himself and full of energy. He is regarded as one of the strongest impact on the team, which is also reflected in his style of play, which is technically very straightforward, but very powerful. His goal is to be the strongest of the force her players. His Lieblingsschlachtruf: Burning! He decided in the course of the series to emulate his father as a sushi chef.

Publications

Manga

The Prince of Tennis was released in Japan from July 1999 to 3 March 2008 weekly in individual chapters in the manga magazine Shōnen Jump of Shueisha Publishing. These individual chapters are also published regularly in 42 anthologies. The manga had over several years of the most successful Japanese comic series; the first forty anthologies are in Japan to March 2008, sold about 40.6 million times.

Under the title Shin Tennis no ōjisama (Japanese新 テニス の 王子 様) published since March 2009, continued in the monthly Jump SQ.

The series has been translated into eleven languages; into English, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Malaysian, Dutch, Indonesian and German. The manga since April 2006 published by Tokyopop in German. In October 2010, the 42nd and final volume was published.

Anime

Production IG produced the manga, a 178 - episode anime series that aired from 2001 to 2005 on the Japanese broadcaster TV Tokyo. In addition, four OVAs and three movies emerged.

An OVA series with a total of 13 episodes, which only deals with the National Junior High School Tennis Championship, appeared in April 2006 in Japan. As of June 2007, the continuation National Junior High School Tennis Championship Semifinal before April 2008 was followed by the National Junior High School Tennis Championship Final began the last act.

Since 4 January 2012, the sequel Shin tennis no Ōji - sama will be broadcast on Japanese television.

Musical

In 2003, the first Prince of Tennis musical premiered, the at intervals of about three to four months more followed, including repetitions already listed shows and live concerts, which were limited only to the singing scenes. The performances were usually initially be restricted to a period of less than a week, which was later extended to almost two months. The events were very well attended. The cast of the musicals changed several times due to various circumstances. They are now at the Fourth occupation. So was from Dream Live 1st, about Dream Live 2nd and 3rd, ultimately Dream Live 4th. In May 2008, then Dream Live 5th was performed.

Film

On 13 May 2006, the first live-action film was in the Japanese cinema showing a match in a regional tournament. The actors of the regulars were to Ryoma Echizen on the musical performers of the second occupation. Ryoma Echizen was played by Kanata Hongo (Silk, Nana2 ). On the side of Hyotei player was Koji Date ( Chōtarō Otori ) the only one who starred in the musicals. The screenplay is by Takeshi Konomi and the music of taro Iwashiro.