It’s something that’s been mentioned more often in the OG manga, and I don’t think it’s ever mentioned in the anime. It’s been mentioned several times throughout the manga.

It’s the tournament that the Fudomine boys were barred from due to the fact they got into a fight with their former coach and old team. It was said that Hiyoshi from Hyotei did really well against Akaya in the tournament. Also, Marui Bunta from Rikkai beat Jiro from Hyotei in it (presumably not the same tournament that Akaya and Hiyoshi played in).

Based on context, it’s a tournament that is played outside the main season for first year players who hadn’t competed in any of the qualifying tournaments. Seems like it’d be scheduled for after Nationals. It’s primary purpose is likely to give those who didn’t play a chance to gain experience, as well help schools choose who will be apart of the regulars of their team next season

Momo and Kaido probably played in it. Ryoma, Kintaro, and also Kentaro from Rokakku would have played in it but didn’t because they were made regulars for their teams and competed in the qualifying tournaments.

It sounds like the tournament operate on at least a regional scale since Rikkai and Hyotei players played against each other in it. I don’t think it’s mentioned in the Nationals. I don’t imagine there’s one Newcomers for the entire Japan middle school. I think it’s more like there’s a Newcomers for each of the regions.

Also, it sounds like the tournament isn’t played in a team format like the main tournaments, but as an individual thing. Lastly, I imagine Akaya won this tournament since he’s basically described as the “strongest second year”.

Most of what I’ve said is conjecture. I believe the only things we do know about the Newcomers tournaments is that Akaya and Hiyoshi, as well as Marui and Jiro played in them. I imagine we would have seen it if Ryoma had played in it.

I think it’d interesting to watch a prequel about the Newcomers. See some of our favorite second years go at it.

Hey guys does anybody know where to watch the whole anime in order? I watched it in Aniwave all complete series in order but now that Aniwave is gone I don't know where to watch it where all of the sequels and series are available to watch does anybody know any sites? Begging 🙏🏻 im gonna cry if i can't watch every single PoT season from season 1 to u-17 world cup

Where do you read NPOT Manga in english for free? I have so many backlogs for it. Last I read it was prince vs prince match.

New Prince of Tennis manga had a Fuji vs Echizen match recently

I have always loved Fuji, and am biased, so I think he should have won. His new tennis is barely short of being perfect. But somehow, Echizen got the win instead.

What do you guys think, should Fuji have won ?

Where do you think he stands now compared to all the other strong players including the highschoolers ?

1. Ryoma, pretty unpopular opinion I guess but I think he is the embodiment of P.o.T flaws. I have nothing against little genius characters but I really feel some Gary Stu's vibes about him.

And what he did in U17 tournament is unforgivable to me, the author tends too much to bend the story in his favor. He wins too much, everything is handed to him, everyone likes him, he never really struggles or loses, I can't like him, same with his family, they're all the same to me.

All of that and his cocky, arrogant and repetitive personality makes him annoying to me, the cast is so large and diverse with actual developed and well written characters, I don't want to follow him all the times.

2. Ryoga, basically Ryoma but even worse, far worse. At least we don't see him too much, but it's like this guy doesn't belong to this manga, I think he is poorly integrated to the story.

Weird half-baked backstory, that even Ryoma doesn't seem to remember (that's the worse point. Whatever the reason, if even the MC denies your only anchor to the story, it's bad for you).

Then he switched national teams two times and somehow became the final antagonist... I really think that it would have been better if Ryoma had actually remembered him from the start, if he had been better integrated into Team Japan, if he had actually played and interacted with the other characters during Japan's training camp, to give him a real presence, not just a non-canon character thrown in quickly.

Ryoma shouldn't have been kicked out of training camp, Ryoga should have gone home to the US after failing to persuade Ryoma to come with him. Then Ryoga and Team USA could have been in the semi-finals against Japan, instead of making USA a fodder team.

I'm really disappointed to have unknown randoms like Spain in the finals, but maybe Ryoga will join Japan during the match, who knows ? Lol

3. Kawamura, loud and boring at the same tile, his two personalities are unappealing to me. His story with his father and Akutsu are fine, but this guy isn't playing tennis. Most of the time he just yells and spams Hadokyu, it's exactly the kind of player / matches I dislike.

Momoshiro is a power player too, but has some cool techniques and a kind of vibe for him, while not being the most interesting to watch.

4. Akaya Kirihara, while being pretty scary and unique the very FIRST TIME we saw him, he quickly, quickly became annoying and a kind of embodiment of P.o.T flaws. Noisy, one-dimensional, over the top, not believable...

Its just Tennis, calm down.

He is some kind of Frieza, this guy has at least 4 or 5 transformations I think, red eyes mode, red eyes and white hair mode, angel mode, angel and demon mode, and so on.

I can't stand that this guy will be Rikkaidai next Captain. I don't know, take ME instead

5. Hyotei team : can't explain why. Except for Atobe and Scud Serve guy, I can't stand these guys, they really are indistinguishable fodder extras npc to me, and they are pretty unlikable. Atobe deserved better teammates.

Whats about you guys?

Make a list for fun 🤩

I really liked his introduction, his dangerous shots and his charisma. Especially since the U17 tournament begun, he is acting like a cool captain instead of the jerk he was before. (his glowing shot was sick however 😍 )

However, his matchs are depicted boringly to me.

First : the pirate ship stuff is cool but we know they just see that on their head, it doesn't make the match exciting to me

Second : his world technique are not explained at all except for exotic or Japan. They are just generic shots with cool country background and names, and doesn't seem to do anything unique.

What do you think?

(I'm talking about techniques, not the show itself)

I have loved this manga since the beginning, so I have always accepted the exaggerated skills. Whether it is Fuji's improbable counters or Tezuka's extreme feats, or most of the shots in the work, it is just an extreme effect applied to the ball, I can believe it. Whether it is the pinnacles, auras, loss of senses and other modes, it is just mental conditioning and its extreme representation. Whether it is the acrobatics, impossible movements or teleportations of the Okinawan players, it is just a visual representation, I can accept it. Even the tennis on horseback is just for fun. I can accept all of that. But there are two things I can't. Sanada's Black Dragon double clutch, Sanada hits the ball, THEN hits it one or two times AFTER hitting it, which deflects the ball's trajectory once or twice, there is no excuse for that, it's just magic. The other example is obviously Tokugawa's black hole but no need to explain it 🤣 It would be so easy to explain them differently, like both of them being specific spin of the ball coupled with a specific aura or something!

I'm a huge fan of the series to death so I'm speaking as a fan, no hostility. What's your opinion on the matter?

I feel that this is a legitimate question. Obviously, POT has been far from realistic since the beginning, and it’s only spiraled since then.

Does he not like real tennis? To be fair, he’s a Shonen mangaka. Shonen does not need to be realistic. And Shonen is a staple for dramatic and sudden power ups. But even Inazuma 11 was still soccer despite its fantasy. You can’t call the New Prince of Tennis tennis anymore. Just super men that fight with their special powers using tennis rackets and balls.

One of our biggest updates yet, we now have up to chapter 387, which is around volume 39. We're getting much closer to catching up, now.
This chunk of chapters covers most of the Spain team's character intros so def check that out.

And as usual, we're still recruiting, looking for proofreaders, editors, and typesetters. You can reach out to me or the person's socials included in the recruiting page after each recent chapter.

https://mangadex.org/title/a67996ca-ef48-4fd1-84d5-5319afd49108/prince-of-tennis-ii

So a big part of Nanjiro's past was that he was one match away from winning something big before he called it quits - some translations say that he was close to a Grand Slam title (one of the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, or US Open, hasn't been done by a Japanese player in the PoT world or real life) whereas others say he was close to 'the Grand Slam', period (winning all four majors in one calendar year, hasn't been done by *anyone* since 1969). Was it ever specified which one it was? As a big IRL tennis fan I've always been curious!

can someone explain how did ryoma came back from the usa open after the first anime to the nationals, where can i see that part of the anime, and how tf did ryoma lose memory in the final of national. Does the anime just cut all that parts?

I'm on episode 109 and I feel like I'm forcing myself to get through these filler eps. Early fillers were pretty funny and enjoyable. Some of my favorite eps are filler lol. But it's really starting to get boring and making me lose interest.

What fillers can I skip and what fillers are good? Wish there was an in depth filler guide instead of just the animefillerlist.com

I've only watched the anime (up to nationals), and it's my favorite anime since forever. That being said, I'm a tennis player myself, and I can't get over a few things, and no, it's not the super saiyan moves etc.

Its the way they stand when they're receiving a serve. For instance, Choutarous's Scud serve that's supposed to be over 190kmh, you'd have to stand at best a meter away from the base line, and they stand practically at the service line which is insane. They also serve from the far corner of the baseline, essentially where you'd stand to receive. Which again, bonkers.

And then there's the fact that I'm supposed to believe these are junior high players lol. And why the ridiculous height difference between the second and first years? Wild.

I'm on my third rewatch (last one was over a decade ago), and these are the same thoughts I've always had. Just wanted to unload them somewhere.

Also, another thought, Sakuno, she really is useless in the anime. I really think Ryoma has more chemistry with Momo 😅

Anyway, that was me. Still my fav anime though

Hi, I'm not in the fandom at all, just a random Kenjiro Tsuda fan who happened to purchase the E=mc2 album because I found the track where Inui recites decimals of pi funny. So I'm ripping it to listen to these tracks on my phone.

Turns out this album has a second CD (IDトラック・スペシャル・ディスク) with 99 tracks contaning, from what I can understand, lines from the character, dialogues where Tsuda kinda voices everyone and comments from this same voice actor. I haven't found any listings on this special CD so I don't know how to tag them. Is this a recurring thing with other characters' character song albums? Do you know anything about that?

Maybe someone in the fandom translated all these bonuses and I just didn't find them. 🤔

What should I expect from here on out? Will it get better or???

I know it's filler but man this episode caught me off guard. Funniest episode so far. Inui casually calling the whole team to come witness the scenes to Tezuka constantly hanging up on him. And then Kaido's reaction to misunderstanding the call as Inui asking him out on a date was way too funny. 10/10 episode lol

Everyone is saying they have not seen niou play before so they have no data for niou, which is true.

But as a viewer theres another player im very curious about. Zaizen Hikaru.
We have never seen him play apart from that one OVA where it shows him younger and not even IN the tennis group. After that he is known as a "genius" too but we never saw him play before so im just confused about him. Like what even makes him a genius? If he is suppose to be a geinus, please show us??
And he is also only paired with kenya if i'm not wrong? But we never saw him play alone.

Am i the only one curious about him? x'D I wish we got a peek into inui's database for him cus MAN i know his hobbies and school but nothing about his playstyle IN A TENNIS ANIME sure is funny.

Hi everyone. I host my media using Emby, and using Sonarr to organize them. I'm having difficulties with this anime.

For The Prince of Tennis, I have [ShadoWalkeR] The Prince of Tennis (1-178) [1080p HEVC x265 10bit][AAC][Soft Eng Subs] that contains 178 episodes spread throughout 7 seasons.

For The New Prince of Tennis, I have them like this:

• S01 - The New Prince Of Tennis S00-01 1080p WEB x264 AAC -Tsundere-Raws (CR) (Multi-Subs, Shin Tennis no Oujisama, The Prince of Tennis II)
• S02 - The Prince Of Tennis II OVA vs Genius 10 S01 1080p WEB x264 AAC -Tsundere-Raws (CR) (Multi-Subs, Shin Tennis no Oujisama vs. Genius 10, The Prince of Tennis II vs Genius10)
• S03 - [ASW] The Prince of Tennis II - U-17 World Cup [1080p HEVC x265 10Bit][AAC] (Batch)
• S04 - the one that is ongoing right now

Are they correct and enough for collection? Did I missed anything? It is very confusing because Sonarr is TVDB as their source of metadata. https://thetvdb.com/series/prince-of-tennis#seasons https://thetvdb.com/series/the-new-prince-of-tennis#seasons

My aim is to have good quality of this anime in my collection.

Thank you.

Where does the most recent adaptation begin?

Some of you may know of Howard Wang, he directed the dub for the Prince of Tennis for the past few years, and recently he stated that he's not directing the Prince of Tennis English dub anymore (something out of his control) starting with this ongoing season. He's done so much work to make the dub as amazing as it can and went the extra mile to make it high quality and enjoyable for the fanbase. I wanted him to know that we appreciate all the work he did so I set up a magma board project, it's an online canvas for you to write and draw, so feel free to hop on and show appreciation and thank him for his work!

This is a secret project (I don't believe he checks this subreddit and if he does, oh well I guess lol). There's only 2 days left on this, posting this late cause I was unsure about posting it here.

Here's my tweet with a thread of more details on the project https://twitter.com/PrinceofThanks/status/1848951852458774806
And here's the link to the magma board: https://magma.com/d/daoO2ofzR1

Where I can find all episode of the OVA tournament, and it is canon?

I've finished the first season and when i looked up what to watch next i was told to watch the ova national championships but it doesn't seem to have been dubbed so i have a few questions first any news about it getting a dub if no news do you think it's worth holding onto hope for it getting one since the new season is currently getting dubbed.

It seems like this is an important part of the story and not something to skip over right? even though later seasons of the show have already gotten dubs.

any opinions on whether i should wait for a dub, skip it and watch the next season or read the manga (I don't like watching subs) if i read the manga is it worth starting at chapter 1 or wherever the national championships takes place

As a tennis player myself, I find it a bit odd how unrealistic PoT became, especially after the original series. The players are middle schoolers (7th to 9th grade), but in reality, their physique and mental state are that of high schoolers already. The strength and level of players exhibited in the show were also that of high school level players. The best reference they could’ve used is the best teenage player of all time, Rafa Nadal. He entered the pro scene at 15 yrs old. Defeated a Top 5 in the world (Carlos Moya) at 16 y.o., if I remember correctly. Nadal’s prowess and storyline fits perfectly with Ryoma’s narrative of conquering the tennis scene in Japan and the world. Ryoma, at 15 y.o., also perfectly fits the freshman high schooler narrative since most 10th graders, or freshman high schoolers, are at 15-16 yrs old (and not a freshman middle schooler). Furthermore, most 3rd yrs in the anime didn’t look middle schoolers. They looked so mature that they’d fit perfectly as graduating Senior High students who would either enter collegiate tennis or the pro scene (Tezuka, Sanada, Yukimura, etc. are perfect for the pro set-up). Then, those players who they played in the U18 arc looked college players or pros already.

Just my two cents though. PoT is really great, but I think some unrealistic aspects of it ruined it for me. I thought that they should have sticked with the original set of techniques and retained them that way. Though the techniques in the original series were still a bit out of this world, they can still be explained and salvaged by true tennis physics. The following seasons after the original run are not appealing anymore, especially when they added “power-like” moves.

Seriously.

I feel like the New Prince of Tennis matches are rushed af and they barely show anything unlike the matches in the 1st series, is it like that in the manga or is it just an anime thing?

Will there be a season two? If so, do you know when? I want to see the main cast get stronger.

Just finished the first 179 eps and don't know where to watch the rest can't find the national championship ova thing it's just gone