The Prince of Tennis Box Set, Vol. 1
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Artist: Artist Not ProvidedBrand: VIZ MEDIA
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language), Stereo; English (Published); Spanish (Published); Japanese (Published), Stereo
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 300 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: DPTBS01
Studio: Viz Media
Product features:
- Ryoma Echizen is the 12-year-old son of a famous tennis player and a tennis genius in his own right. With talent in his blood and fire in his eyes, he backs up his confidence on the court with amazing skills. Now he has to overcome the older players on his high school team who are dead set against letting him surpass them. To defeat the slippery "Viper" Kaido, the calculating Sadahara Inui, and a
Movie Reviews of The Prince of Tennis Box Set, Vol. 1
Movie Review: One of Japan's most popular anime series finally comes here!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been waiting for this one a long time. TENNIS no Oujisama (aka The Prince of Tennis) is an insanely popular series that started as a Manga and then became a 179 episode anime series, as well as an ongoing series of live musicals and even a recent live action movie. Not to mention an unending series of music CD releases. 13 episodes is a great bargain for the price. These 13 episodes barely scratch the surface in this 179 episode series. They won't play their first rival team until the next set comes out. Still, this has its own nice story arc as the main character must earn himself a position on the SEIGAKU tennis team.
The DVDs are both in English and in Japanese with subtitles, which is great because the English dub as seen on Cartoon Network recently is one of the worst I've ever heard. You'd think they could get somebody familiar with the show to at least tell voice actors how the characters names are pronounced. Still, the dub is good for a laugh. The inferior openings and endings that were created for the US airings is used, but that's ok because the original Japanese opening and ending are included as bonus features. I hope they continue to do so, because the Japanese version went through half a dozen or so different openings and endings.
I highly reccomend this DVD. It's hard to go wrong with one of the most popular anime series ever.
Summary of The Prince of Tennis Box Set, Vol. 1
Studio: Viz Media Llc Release Date: 04/24/2007When 12-year-old tennis prodigy Ryoma Echizen, the hero of the shonen (boys') sports series The Prince of Tennis (2001), enters Seinan Academy Middle School, the tennis coach, the members of the team, and the kids in his class are all intrigued. Many of the early episodes follow a formula: an arrogant bully challenges "the kid" to a match and Ryoma beats the shorts off him. Ryoma's response to these challenges is an intense glare; he rarely talks to his rivals--or anyone else. He hurts the well-intentioned Sakuno because he repeats fails to remember her. While a self-contained stoicism characterizes many anime heroes, Ryoma is a difficult character to know or like. Things become more interesting when his icy façade cracks, enabling him to forge an alliance with teammate Takeshi Momoshiro in a doubles match. Ryoma also has a difficult relationship with his father Nanjiro, a former tennis pro once known as "the Samurai." A goofy monk who spends his time reading girlie magazines and playing with his cat, Nanjiro refers to Ryoma as "that cocky, rotten boy of mine." Director Takayuki Hamana uses split-screen, multiple images, negative color, and manga-style drawings to enliven the inevitably repetitious scenes of tennis games. Based on the long-running manga by Takeshi Konomi, The Prince of Tennis scored a big hit in Japan: the broadcast series ran for 178 episodes and spun off two OAVs and two features, so this 13-episode set is only the beginning. (Unrated, suitable for ages 10 and older: minor violence, minor risqué humor) --Charles Solomon
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