"The Prince of Tennis" is a sports-themed manga created by Japanese manga artist Xu Feigang from 2000 to 2008, and began to serialize the follow-up chapter "The New Prince of Tennis" on "JUMP SQ" in 2009, and recently in the official activities of "The Prince of Tennis", the official official announcement of the "New Prince of Tennis" theatrical version of the animation project began, and the production director was the original author Xu Feigang!
The new theatrical version of the story is based on the 3-month gap between the "Prince of Tennis" and the "New Prince of Tennis" manga story, "The Prince of Tennis" tells the story of tennis genius teenager Echizen Ryoma entering the tennis school Youth Academy, with amazing strength to win the recognition of the strong seniors in the tennis department to officially join the school team, and began the road to the national competition. The plot of "The New Prince of Tennis" follows the final return of the previous game, starting from the national convention a few months later, Ryoma, who disappeared after winning the national competition, once again returned to Japan from the United States, as the representative of the United States, that is, to fight against the Japanese team and the world's best players. It seems that the theatrical version of the animation of "The New Prince of Tennis" is a completely original story that complements the two manga.
The Prince of Tennis is a very successful and enduring popular manga in Japanese sports manga, based on the original manga, the animated version of The Prince of Tennis was launched in 2001 with a total of 178 episodes, and the new Prince of Tennis anime was broadcast in 2012, in addition to live-action movies and TV series, stage plays, games, OVA, theatrical versions, etc. The most recent anime is the New Prince of Tennis OVA, which was released from 2014 to 2015. Before this new theatrical version, "The Prince of Tennis" has two theatrical versions of "Two Samurai" and "British-style Court Ball City Showdown", in fact, Xu Feigang has debuted as a singer and artist, and has also dubbed behind the scenes of the "Prince of Tennis" animation, and has composed and filled in the lyrics for animation songs, but the comic creation has not stopped, and the production director of this theatrical version is Xu Feigang himself. The specific production and release information of the theatrical version of "The New Prince of Tennis" has yet to be further announced by the official.