Summary
Ryoma Echizen just joined the Seishun Academys tennis team which is known for being one of the most competitive teams in Japan Its members are incredibly talented gifted and athletic With rigorous and extremely intense practices the upperclassmen of the team expect the very best from themselves and they expect even more from the new members of the team While most of the freshmen are on pins and needles hoping they wont get cut from the team Ryoma Echizen is confident cool and collected Some might even say hes cocky but at least hes got the skills to back up his attitude With his virtually unreturnable twist serve Ryoma is sure to make the starting team Join Ryoma and the other first years as they train hard make friends and try to find a place for themselves on the team Ryoma Echizen is the Prince of Tennis He may be ready for the Seishun Academy tennis team but are THEY ready for HIM By the way the Tennis skills in this series is completely beyond normal human standards and includes but is not limited to burning holes in your opponents rackets striking your opponent so hard he flies several dozen meters travelling in a spiral in mid air and even shutting down your opponents senses so that they cannot see hear or feel somehow and therefore has been put under the Fantasy genre NOTE It has been announced that these 379 chapters serve as a prologue to a new series currently in the works See Shin Tennis no Oujisama for continuation ANOTHER NOTE Also there is a short collection of 4 panel comics under the name of Houkago no Oujisama or Prince of Afterschool featuring characters and inside jokes from this manga