The popular sports anime series The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup Semifinal was revealed over the weekend to be the next competition in the Tennis World Cup, which will take place in 2024! After the conclusion of the The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup series in 2022, the following set will pit Japan against Germany to determine which nation's representative is the superior competitor on the tennis court. You can smell the competition in the air!
Check out the new logo for the series below!
The most recent anime adaptation, titled The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup, was shown on television from July 7 to September 29, 2022, and it is currently available to watch online in English on Crunchyroll.
Not familiar with The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup anime series? Crunchyroll describes the series below:
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--
The first volume of the Prince of Tennis manga was released in Weekly Shonen Jump on July 19, 1999, and remained there until March 3, 2008; since then, it has been adapted into a plethora of various anime and stage productions. Since March 2009, a continuation manga story titled The Prince of Tennis II has been serialized in the monthly magazine Jump Square. This series has already inspired anime, stage productions, and other mediums.
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