The Prince of Tennis: Season One

The following is a list of espisodes of the anime series The Prince of Tennis.

Episodes 1-10: Intraschool Ranking Arc I

Episode 1: A Prince Appears
Episode 2: Samurai Junior
Episode 3: They’ve Arrived! The Seigaku Regulars
Episode 4: The Man Called Viper
Episode 5: Snake Shot
Episode 6: That Man, Echizen Nanjirou
Episode 7: Two Ryomas
Episode 8: Split Step
Episode 9: The Hard Day
Episode 10: Counter Attack! Sasabe Once Again

Episodes 11-21: Vs. Fudomine Arc

Episode 11: Echizen VS Momoshiro
Episode 12: The Two “AH UN” Boys
Episode 13: Men Play Doubles
Episode 14: The Swallow Return!
Episode 15: Their Respective Fights
Episode 16: Boomerang Snake
Episode 17: The Small Winning Pose
Episode 18: Love Letter
Episode 19: Ryoma is Injured
Episode 20: Time Limit
Episode 21: Is the Tennis Court Heating Up?

Episodes 22-26: Seigaku Training

Episode 22: Kaoru’s Misfortune
Episode 23: Appeared! Inui’s Juice Deluxe
Episode 24: Ryoma’s Holiday
Episode 25: The Strongest Man in Seigaku
Episode 26: The Strongest Man in Seigaku (Part 2)

The Prince Of Tennis List of Characters

The following are the list of characters’ name that used in the episode.

The Seigaku Tennis Club

Regulars

o Ryoma Echizen
o Kunimitsu Tezuka
o Shuichiro Oishi
o Shusuke Fuji
o Eiji Kikumaru
o Takashi Kawamura
o Sadaharu Inui
o Takeshi Momoshiro
o Kaoru Kaido

Other players
o Masashi Arai
o Masaya Ikeda
o Daisuke Hayashi
o Satoshi Horio
o Kachiro Kato
o Katsuo Mizuno

Supporting characters

o Nanjiro Echizen
o Sumire Ryuzaki
o Sakuno Ryuzaki
o Tomoka Osakada
o Karupin
o Mamoru Inoue
o Saori Shiba
o An Tachibana
o Nanako Meino
o Rinko Echizen
o Taro Sakaki
o Mikiya Banda
o Miyuki Chitose
o Richard Baker

The Prince Of Tennis

The setting of the story is primarily in Tokyo. After finishing his grade school in the USA, his family move back in Japan. The Prince of Tennis, Ryoma Echizen enrolled in Seigaku and joined the tennis club. He played against numerous good and talented players and secured a regular spot on their team after defeating them. In pursuing to their ultimate goal to be the number #1 in All – Japan High School Tennis Tournament, the members of the team make new friends while enjoying, learning and mastering complex techniques.

Episode 1: A Prince Appears!

In this espisode, Ryoma Echizen, 12 years old, won 4 straight junior tournaments in the USA and known as the prodigy appears. Sumire Ryuzaki, former coach of Echizen’s father, head coach of the “Seigaku Tennis club” called him as “The Prince of Tennis”.

Vocabulary Word: Prodigy defined as a person with exceptionally great talent usually discovered at an early age.

He encountered Sasabe and friends in the train talking about the proper way of handling a Western grip that ended up in to a tennis match. Ryoma wasn’t able to play against his match in the 16-category tournament because he late, default or disqualification of the game. He was late for 5 minutes in finding the exact location of the tournament.

Ryoma VS. Sasabe

Ryoma Echizen challenged Sasabe, a tennis player registered under the 16-category. During the first set, Sasabe was going easy in serving the ball but Echizen was so arrogant and annoying brat.

Sasabe was very frustrated and annoyed at the same time threw his racket intentionally to Echizen that caused bleeding in his face. Echizen reacted as nothing happened with his favorite expression “Mada Mada Dane!” which means “No, Not Yet!” The match didn’t ended up there, he used the “twist serve” with his right hand letting the ball bouncing into the face of Sasabe. Ryoma Echizen is actually a left handed player.

I embedded here the match between Ryoma and Sasabe, the ending part of episode 1.

The match ended up with a score of 6-0. Game set and won by Ryoma Echizen.