The twentieth anniversary occasion for The Prince of Tennis anime introduced on Sunday {that a} new anime collection, Shin Tennis no Ōji-sama U-17 World Cup (The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup), will premiere subsequent 12 months. It will likely be the primary tv collection within the franchise in a few decade. The occasion introduced a teaser visible that includes the primary lead Ryōma Echizen alongside Kunimitsu Tezuka and Hōō Byōdōin with the tagline, “To a world as but unseen….” (The promotional video under is blocked exterior Japan.)

The brand new collection options the returning solid members:

• Junko Minagawa as Ryōma Echizen
• Ryotaro Okiayu as Kunimitsu Tezuka
• Hiroki Yasumoto as Hōō Byōdōin
• Junichi Suwabe as Keigo Atobe
• Sachiko Nagai as Seiichi Yukimura
• Yoshimasa Hosoya as Kuranosuke Shiraishi
• Tarusuke Shingaki as Eishirō Kite
• Mamoru Miyano as Ryōga Echizen

Keiichiro Kawaguchi (ISLAND) is getting back from the final 2D anime, The Prince of Tennis II Hyotei vs Rikkai Sport of Future, to direct the brand new collection at Studio KAI and M.S.C, and Mitsutaka Hirota (Anime-Gataris, Nanbaka) is once more superivising the scripts. Akiharu Ishii (Blood+, Ultramarine Magmell) is again to design the characters and function chief animation director.

The opposite returning employees members embody:

• Coloration Key Artist: Yuko Tsumori
• Artwork Director: Sei Ito (Studio ARA)
• Backgrounds: Studio ARA
• Artwork Deisgn: Tomoyuki Aoki
• Compositinng Director of Pictures: Yūta Nakamura
• Modifying: Daisuke Hiraki
• Sound Director: Yuki Matsuoka
• Music: Chihiro Tamaki
• Sound Manufacturing: Jinnan Studio
• Manufacturing: NAS

Sunday’s occasion introduced a promotional video to rejoice the anime franchise‘s twentieth anniversary:

Takeshi Konomi serialized The Prince of Tennis manga‘s unique run in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Bounce journal from 1999 to 2008. The manga follows center faculty tennis participant Ryōma Echizen as he battles rivals to achieve the nationwide match. That unique manga impressed a 2001-2005 tv anime, two anime characteristic movies and a theatrical brief, numerous video anime initiatives, a live-action movie, a live-action tv collection in China, and a well-liked stage musical collection.

Konomi then launched The Prince of Tennis II manga collection in Shueisha‘s Bounce SQ. journal in 2009. The story picks up after the nationwide match, when Ryōma joins a choose group of center faculty gamers at Japan’s high coaching camp for gamers beneath 17. This ongoing sequel manga spawned its personal 2012 tv anime collection The Prince of Tennis II. The Prince of Tennis II OVA vs. Genius 10 collection then ran for 5 volumes from October 2014 to June 2015.

The franchise has impressed the Tennis no Ōjisama BEST GAMES!! unique video anime (OVA) venture. The venture retells the story of the franchise‘s high matches. The primary OVA started its restricted two-week screening in Japan in August 2018, and shipped in Japan on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in October 2018. The second OVA obtained a two-week occasion screening in Japan beginning on April 2019, after which shipped on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in June 2019. The third OVA screened in theaters in Japan for 2 weeks beginning in November 2019, and shipped on dwelling video in January 2020.

Extra just lately, The Prince of Tennis II: Hyotei vs Rikkai Sport of Future anime venture streamed in two elements. The primary half streamed on February 13, and the second half streamed on April 17.

The Ryōma! Shinsei Gekijōban Tennis no Ōji-sama (Ryōma! Rebirth Film The Prince of Tennis) 3DCG movie for The Prince of Tennis franchise opened on September 3, after being delayed from spring 2020. The movie encompasses a fully unique story that takes place within the three-month time interval between the occasions on the finish of The Prince of Tennis manga and the beginning of The Prince of Tennis II manga.

Viz Media printed the forty second and closing quantity of Konomi’s unique Prince of Tennis manga run in North America in 2011. Crunchyroll streamed The Prince of Tennis II tv anime into a number of international locations because it aired in Japan, and it then streamed the spinoff unique video anime initiatives. Funimation is now streaming or will stream virtually the entire earlier anime within the franchise up to now.

Sources: The Prince of Tennis anime’s web site, Comedian Natalie