New Prince of Tennis – 13 (end)
To my surprise New Prince of Tennis ends its first season with a strong finish. The matches shown here were not in the manga, or at least I don’t think they were, so this was all new material to me. The episode handled Echizen’s and the rest of the Black Jersey players return well. Sure the episode may have taken it a bit overboard with the crazy number of matches in a single episode, but it’s nothing to complain about when it’s the last episode of the season. It’s only too bad the Court 2 players did not put up a good fight as the one-sidedness of matches make me question how all the Court 2 players were better than the previous Court 3.
New Prince of Tennis – 12
Irie you’re such a trickster to the end. However, I don’t care anymore because with the return of our favorite losers, it’s time to focus on Echizen and crew. Forget all these pampered players I want to see what our nature loving group has to show after all their obscure training. Who am I kidding New Prince of Tennis is finishing its first season next week and with no time to do anything!
New Prince of Tennis – 11
New Prince of Tennis finally stops wasting time and for once delivers good on a tennis match. It’s ironic because they went too fast. I could have sworn they could have taken two episodes to finish this match. Oh well you can’t win them all. Before that though, poor Fuji, did not even stand a chance against Tezuka. Cannot blame him that instant win aura is really obnoxious. With that Tezuka heads off to become a pro in Germany, which in turns allows the other captains a shot at the spotlight for once.
New Prince of Tennis – 10
New Prince of Tennis finally stops wasting time and gets to the good stuff, this week’s match featuring Tezuka versus former Seigaku captain Yamato. However, let’s forget all that for a moment as I have been reading the manga up to this episode and I think I’m going insane by the direction of this show. I’ll just have you know the first two matches this episode casually skips over without a care in the world actually would have taken an episode and a half to animate; there was a lot of match time from the manga the producer just decided to skip. So apparently wasting five or so episodes in the forest training was worth the sacrifice of not animating these matches. What a disappointment.
New Prince of Tennis – 09
Drunken coach continues his quirky training activities by having Echizen and company run away from eagles of all things that are trying to pop the balloon attached to each of them. What? Luckily it starts to set in among the group that all these crazy exercises have improved their endurance, strength, coordination, and skills no matter how non-tennis related it seemed at first. Didn’t see that coming right?
New Prince of Tennis – 08
The lack of tennis in New Prince of Tennis continues to persist ever since the gang got stuck on this silly mountain. This week’s episode continues the trend of obscure, and this time cringe worthy tennis training by forcing Echizen, Tanishi, and Kenya to retrieve our favorite drunk coach some booze back from the main campus Metal Gear Solid style.
New Prince of Tennis – 07
It’s time for some slave labor to strengthen the body. In this week’s episode of New Prince of Tennis our group of losers is now under the will of their drunken coach who doesn’t mind assigning them to the most obscure of tasks for the sake of training. Worse yet Echizen and crew are stuck on the mountain with the first batch of eliminated high schoolers from way back in the beginning with their bothersome attitudes.
New Prince of Tennis – 06
Want to waste 20 minutes of your life? Well here you go. In an attempt to redeem the losers from their elimination matches, they are forced to climb a mountain. Is it really that hard to stay on the courts and give people what they want to watch? Anyway, much of nothing interesting happens. Some melodrama from people here and there and unbearable filler stuffed in the middle. Let’s not even begin with that ending. Now, I’m used to the absurdness of Prince of Tennis when it comes to the different techniques players use, but the nonsense going on top of this mountain was really pushing it to the … “this is just dumb” limit.
New Prince of Tennis – 05
By no surprise to anyone, the big boys have been toying around with Echizen and Kintaro who are sweating a river trying to score a couple of points. Either Echizen was holding back new techniques or has learned absolutely nothing while in America. Let’s just hope he has a couple of tricks up his sleeves after this loss. By episode’s end it looked like he and Kintaro are going to get some special training, admittedly the preview has them doing the same thing as the rest of the group, so not so special after all.
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