The Prince of Tennis (series)
テニスの王子様- User score: 8.3
- Production country: Japan
- Production companies: Shueisha, Production I.G, J.C.STAFF, NAS
- Genre: Animation, Comedy
- Release date: 10/10/2001
- Release date of last episode: 3/30/2005
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 7 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 178
- Run time: 22 min.
Series description
Ryoma Echizen 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.