Prince of Tennis Review
By animefan05
Prince of Tennis Review
J.C. Staff
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Plot Synopsis
Taking place in Tokyo today, it follows the journey of Ryoma Echizen, who is a a tennis prodigy. He enrolled to a school called Seishun Academy Middle School (Seishun Gakuen), or in short Seigaku, a school famous for its strong tennis club and talented players. Because of his cool and apathetic attitude, upperclassmen challenge him to play tennis. However, Ryoma had won the American junior tennis championship tournaments four times in a row, and easily defeated the upperclassmen.
Making new friends and learning new tennis tactics, Ryoma and the Seigaku tennis club strive to win the All-Japan junior high tennis team championship tournament.
Credits: niomea
Story & Characters
The story talks about a 12-year-old boy called Ryoma Echizen from the US. He won
4 consecutive US tennis championships in the space of 1 and 1/2 years and
brought his talent to Japan. He joined a popular and one of the best tennis
schools called Seishun Gakuen junior high school, which is also as known as
Seigaku and became a regular at his 1st year there. He learns to find his own
type of tennis in an attempt to defeat his biggest obstacle of all. his father,
Nanjiroh Echizen, as well as himself. The regulars included The captain Tezuka
Kunimitsu, the vice captain Oishi Syuichiroh, Momoshiro Takeshi, Fuji Syusuke,
Kaidoh Kaoru, Eiji Kikumaru, Inui Sadaharu and Kawamura Takashi. The plot and
storyline is interesting and humorous and a popular anime in Japan. The story
has also made more interesting by adding rivalry schools into it including the
Fundomine, Yamabuki, St. Rudolph and Hyotei. To me there is some characters they
should get rid of or basically make them show up less! This anime is considered
unique or unusual because not many Japanese create an anime that is based on
sport.
- Rating
- 10 (excellent)
Art
The presentation overall in this anime is excellent. Throughout the whole anime
the drawings of the characters remain the same whist some other animes drawings
change throughout the anime. The art used appealing colours and done
professionally, and most of the animation there is realistic and not too fake. I
particularly like the fact that all the characters in this anime is has their
own unique personality. So to sum it up the art is colourful, drawn
professionally, and realistic (well most of it is.)
- Rating
- 9 (very good)
Sound
The music used is pleasing and enjoyble to listen to. They're not sang by the
best bands or singers in the world but its the track itself that is really to be
considered. To me the songs are quite good and the opening and ending themes are
not too bad. Here are some songs that are in the anime:
You got game?, White Line, Future, Driving Myself, Shining, Wonderful Days, Your
Style and some others that are used as background music. Theres some other
miscellaneous tracks that I particularly like such as birthday song which i
think was used in the band of princes music video.
- Rating
- 8 (good)
Presentation
Overall the presentation is fantastic, each character has their own personality
which makes the anime interesting such as Inui with his "special
juices" and making everyone trying them out (hilarious!), Tezuka a strict
captain, Eiji the big kid and some others. The characters style of play is
impossible to perform in real life but it is interesting to watch and
motivating. This anime is very enjoyable to watch and I recommend it to sport
lovers, anime lover well everyone! The creators of The Prince Of Tennis try to
make scenes that dont always include tennis so the anime doesnt always stay the
same. Its not very original as there is not many animes in Japan that is just
based specifically on sport so I would say the idea used for this anime is
unique and diffrent. The humour is quite good as it is used frequently,
relevantly and at the right time and also they put in specific characters to
create a humourous atmosphere such as the 3 freshman that are in the same class
as ryoma, especially the one with the brown hair (with his dodgy green and
orange shirt.....ergh....), The two stalkers, well reporters, (you cant blame
me! theyre everywhere!). So overall the presentation is not too bad.....
- Rating
- 9 (very good)
Final Verdict
9.17 (very good)
Reviewed by animefan05, 3y 1wk ago
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does anybody agree with my review? Its my first one so be nice please......
Very nice review, but I wouldn't agree with the sounds though. Many of the bgms are reused over and over again, which got dull after a long while. The opening themes and ending themes were interesting because they were sung by the voice actors themselves. And it was an enjoyable anime as it was something different as well.
Everything seems to be right. It's a good thing you put how old Ryoma is or people might think that he is older than 12. He does look older than 12. THe other Seigaku players look older too.
yeah thanks for all your comments! keep them coming! ^^
yeak i know ryoma no way looks like 12 years old and you know atobe? hes fourteen!
Everything looks good, even through I not really a big fan of Prince of Tennis, but I still watch them. After I see this review I may even watch if i just see this review. He look more like a 14 to me
I agree with it. Prince of Tennis rocks!!! But, to tell you the truth,I don't really like the 3 freshmans.... Other than that... I totally agree!!! I also like the fact that the cast sang songs for the anime.
i find the 3 freshmans, the 2 reporters, sakuno AND her scary friend tomoka (i think) reaaaallllly annoying i wish they'd just disappear!!!
I totally agree with the ratings!! I love it too much to give it a bad rating!!
Tenipuri is so much love. =3
there is a lot of BGM's that are overused, yes. But they make it up by having the characters/rivals sing their own songs. (Wonderful Days is my personal favorite song) <3
Your review was very nicely written. Good job. ^^
i must agree wf u
POT rocks, man
I like anime
but I'm only crazy 4 1 only, tat is POT!!!!!!!
i'm a POT freak, tat's y.
I also did a review abt POT but still didn't dare to gv such a high rating
I haven't seen the anime before but I've heard of it. Well, i guess it's fine... hehe...
i love POT and i tink ur review is well justified... the anime drawings din vary much throughout the whole duration of its 178 eps which is q commendable... i love the detailed matches between all the characters and yes, each individual character is fleshed out very well with their each distinct personalities... it's the only anime that had me pawing through fansites and stuff to know more abt the characters since i dun read the manga...
and the soundtracks and music~! it's the only anime with so much music? including the character singles and albums.. there much be like almost 100 cds of their music... and the rajipuri... haha... it's still going on even now when the anime has ended which is testimonial to how popular it is...
as for the plotline... i hafta say it gets pretty predicatable after awhile and the ending was... quite adrupt though there is that "closure"... the filler eps are all quite hilarious with the chibi versions of the characters doing some really dumb stuff...
thankew for all teh replies x3
much appreciated
I also agree with your review. This is probably one of the animes I watched fastest despite its length. The characters are so lovely and I had to laugh quite often (I absolutely love the ep. about the "date"
)
YEAAAAH! Tenipuri for the world!
much appreciated <33
Agree! I love Inui and his crazy data + juice haha. The tenipuri world is so cute esp shinji as the snow white's stepmother and the sensei as snow white haha...
I totally agree with your review. POT is amazing. It's my favourite anime. Tenipuri is the best. i just think it ended too soon, don't you agree? I would like to have seen the Nationals. POT 4ever! =)
I really like POT, my favourite are Tezuka & Fuji. But I didn't like the end of the anime (Too much explosions and sfx^^).
But I really prefer the manga, the drawing is better.
Since I've yet to finish watching POT, So far I can only comment on the soundtracks and its true that some tracks aren't sung by the best of bands...and as much as I love fuji, he really should just stick to tennis. I get tired just listening to him sing. But echizen is an excellent vocalist. I think if my MP3 player can complain it'll be bitching on how often I play echizens albums.
I think soundtracks of PoT is very good , they are sung by characters in the film , so special . I love Syuusuke voice , it's very sweet . Anyway , I love PoT so much , I wish PoT were really