The tennis boys we will always have with us.

[prillalar]

Shin Tenipuri anime starts Jan 4 and Crunchyroll will be streaming it! As unsatisfying as the manga has turned out to be, I am still ridiculously excited and will be following every episode. :) It's even airing on my day off, so I can be in front of the TV the very minute it's available. Except this week, since I have an optometrist appointment and will have blurry vision for hours after. :(

I have been re-watching the Prince of Tennis Chinese drama again. I think I love it even more every time.



The training camp, where they have to trick Hai Tang and Cheng Wu into sharing a room so they'll bond and become a good doubles pair! And Zhen Zhi constantly saying what a bad idea that is, it can't work, why don't Hai Tang and I make a doubles pair, etc, until Guo Guang yells at him to put his personal feelings aside and think about the team!

If you're a tenipuri fan and haven't watched the drama, I highly recommend it. DoReMii subbed both seasons.

I have been watching many other things as well, more about them another day. :)

Comments

[bloodybrilliant]

I didn't know there was a Chinese drama! :o I've been so out of the loop as far as PoT is concerned...or really any fandom T_T Do you know if there's another way to dl it, like direct dl, besides torrent? I don't think I can use torrents anymore alas! This looks interesting though! Is it easy to tell who's who? xD

I haven't heard much about the manga since it's been continued. Is it that bad? Also, is this the first part of the anime for it being done, then??

[prillalar]

You should really check it out! The characters are quite similar but not identical, which I love -- it's a whole new interpretation. There are direct download links on the project pages: http://doremiiscale.blogspot.com/2008/03/prince-of-tennis-season-one-project.html Not sure if they are still active or not, though.

It took me a while to get everyone sorted out, not so much appearance, as learning the Chinese names. This is a really helpful reference: http://tenipuri.livejournal.com/2517722.html

The manga has been pretty crazy and recently there was a huge dump of new characters so it's really hard to keep everyone straight. Plus there's not much character stuff anymore, just crazy matches. I'm hoping the anime will fill in the corners a bit. This is the first of the new anime, yes. :)

[bloodybrilliant]

I'm going to check it out for sure! Of course, that may take a while, now that MU is down. All the files for PoT there have been lost. WOE! Hopefully someone will re-upload them soon and I won't wait too long to check it like I didn't check my email in time and missed out on dl'ing the eps. Alas~

I'm definitely going to bookmark that handy reference! I know that another Korean or Chinese drama of SOMETHING I tried to watch confused me so much! xD I think it was Hana Kimi. When the names are changed, I get so lost lol.

Oh boy! Tons of characters and not much development will certainly get me confused too ^_^ I'll have to be careful and keep up with the anime. I so hope they do a good job with the characters like they always have <333

Thanks so much for all of this! From being mostly out of the fandom for PoT for the past few years, I suddenly had no idea where to go to find info haha! <333