The Prince of Tennis II TV Anime Heads to the World Cup Semifinals in 2024
The Tennis World Cup continues in 2024 with The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup Semifinal, the popular sports series announced over the weekend. Following on from 2022’s The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup series, the next set will see Japan take on Germany to see which country’s representative can hold out on the court.
The logo for the new series was released:
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The original Prince of Tennis manga was published in Weekly Shonen Jump from July 19, 1999, to March 3, 2008, spawning a myriad of different anime and stage adaptations. A sequel series, The Prince of Tennis II, has been running in the monthly manga magazine Jump Square since March 2009, itself inspiring anime, stages and more.
The latest anime adaptation, The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup, aired from July 7 to September 29, 2022, with Crunchyroll streaming it in English, describing the series as such:
Middle school students fought fiercely against one another in a national tournament.
Now, 50 chosen representatives return to fight again as high school students!
The stage is the U-17 (Under Seventeen) Japanese Representative Training Camp.
Middle school students have been invited for the first time to a camp known to produce the best Japanese tennis players. National champions from Seigaku, Hyotei, Rikkai, Shitenhoji… With all the rivals from the national tournament attending, everyone eagerly awaits their reunion.
At first, the middle schoolers do not expect much from their high school opponents. However, the training camp is not so easy!
Athletes with skills incomparable to those they previously faced and their mysterious coach appear before them. Faced with numerous demanding challenges, can the middle schoolers survive in this meritocratic training camp?
The new chapter of “Prince of Tennis” begins here!
The curtain rises on a new stage–
Source: Comic Natalie
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Daryl Harding is a Senior Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.
