tenipuri end...

finished! I've finally finished!!!!

All 178 episodes of the Prince of Tennis!!!

I think i must've watched more than 80 episodes in the past week. but it was worthed it to finish up the entire series before the OVA starts in 2 weeks' time.

Roar Roar's commentary for Tenipuri...

the good...

Chibi attacks
haha... always the highlights after a major competition... I love the chibi episodes, esp the last few ones which had the seigaku team playing different members of a family... hilarious to the end...

Junior Invitational Team camp
now this is something that i love... and one of the better fillers i've seen compared to that in kenshin or bleach... had most of the best players from the kantou schools in a training camp to choose the best players to go against the US Junior Invitational Team.

the matches were great and you get to see combinations btn the diff schools... from fuji-saeki pairing, to a rematch between sengoku and momo...

fav singles match, atobe VS sanada
fav doubles match, eiji-ootori VS oishi-shishido

Tezuka VS Fuji
spanning 3 episodes at the end of the series, it was a fantastic match!! just dun watch it while ur sibling is sleeping behind u and all u want is to scream "YOSHA!!!" when Fuji gets a point... heehee... but that's just me...

the not so good...

Storyline
ok, the story drifted from the manga right when they started prepping for their game with Rikkaidai... the formation for the teams during the Seigaku-Rikkaidai matches were still the same, but the matches in the manga were much more exciting...

Ryoma in US Open
HUH!?!?!
i thot that was going abit far out. he's only13 for goodness' sake!!

and defeating tezuka in the final episode?!?! i'm already sadden that fuji was defeated by tezuka during the regulars ranking tournament...

no doubt this is ryoma's story but it should be alittle realistic wat... this is tennis, not ninjitsu...

on the last episode...
seriously, there was too much "special effects" during the ryoma-tezuka match that i thot i was watching gundam or cooking master boy or something...
i mean, wat's with all the cylones & energy blasts scenes when you really want to see the ball going back and forth the players? too much dramatization...


but overall, tenipuri is a great series... lots of exciting matches, bishonen-galore, very very cute chibis, funny sempais & even funnier moments of inui juices (penal-tea, aozu, akazu)...

i'm so looking forward to the OVA. it's right where they left off in the series.

NATIONALS!!!


next entry: tenipuri top 10...

heehee....