The Prince of Tennis (テニスの王子様）
Background
The other comics that we are going to introduce today is called The Prince of Tennis (テニスの王子様) - one of the most popular sport manga in Japan writen by Takeshi Konomi. The manga was first published in Japan in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in July 1999, and ended publication on March 3, 2008. A total of 379 chapters were serialized, spanning 42 volumes. It has also been adapted on screen for drama series and anime in many countries as well.
Story Plot
As the name shows, this manga talks about a story of tennis players. There has ten basic characters, Ryoma Echizen, Kunimitsu Tezuka, Shusuke Fuji, Eiji Kikumaru etc. Echizen Ryoma is a young tennis prodigy who has won 4 consecutive tennis championships but who constantly lies in the shadow of his father, a former pro tennis player. He joins the Seishun Gakuen junior highschool, one of the best tennis schools in Japan, and there along with his teamates he learns to find his own type of tennis in an attempt to defeat his biggest obstacle of all: his father as well as himself. These boys work extremely hard towards their tennis dreams.
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