The Prince of Tennis is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takeshi Konomi. The title is often shortened to TeniPuri, a portmanteau of the two parts in the Japanese pronunciation of the words "Tennis Prince". The manga was first published in Japan in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in July 1999, and ended publication on March 3, 2008. A total of 379 chapters were serialized, spanning 42 volumes. As of volume 40, the manga has sold over 40 million copies in Japan. News that a sequel to the manga series was going to be developed was announced in the December issue of the Japanese manga magazine Jump Square. The new manga series, entitled New Prince of Tennis, began serialization in the Jump Square magazine on March 4, 2009, with the story taking place several months after the end of the original manga. Viz Media acquired the license to distribute the series in English in North America.
The series is primarily set in Tokyo, and centers around Ryoma Echizen, a tennis prodigy who attends Seishun Academy, or Seigaku for short, a private school famous for its strong tennis club and talented players. Ryoma quickly defeats numerous upperclassmen shortly after entrance to secure himself a spot as one of the team's regulars. In pursuit of their ultimate goal of winning the National Middle School Tennis Championship, members of the team make new friends while learning and mastering increasingly complex techniques. Ryoma also begins to develop his own style of tennis, and eventually realizes what the sport really means to him.
Tennis no Oji-Sama - DokiDoki Survival - Umibe no Secret: Targeted at girl gamers, the second Prince of Tennis Doki Doki Survival game in as many months moves from the mountain setting in the first game to the seashore. At the outset, the heroine is aboard a ship with 40 Prince of Tennis characters. The first scene takes place in the dining room where some of the boys introduce themselves but everyone eventually retires to their rooms. Sometime in the night, a massive storm causes a little bit of panic but the crew eventually guides the ship onto land and the characters regain their footing.
Although the game features 40 tennis players, only 20 of the boys are fair game for love and romance. The scenario length for each character is lengthier than in the original DokiDoki game so there's more time to enjoy special moments and view magical screenshots. Or something to that effect. The aim of the game is procuring a love confession from one of the boys and then watching the happy ending.
To add to the atmosphere of being inside the world of Tennis no Oji-sama, the voice actors from the animation series were hired to provide the copious amounts of speech in the game. Everyone talks except for the heroine who has dialogue but her voice is silent to maintain the illusion of you being her... even though she has blue hair, gray eyes, and a lime-green smock.
PLOT:
You are Fujimoto Ayaka. In your holiday, you joined your friend Kohinata Tsugumi in the ship her father captained. Inside the ship are also various schools tennis team who are going to the place where they are going to train.
In the way, there is a typhoon and during the ruckus of leaving the ship, you are saved by Saeki and Kurobane. You lost conciousness afterwards.
You are awake to Atobe and Tsugumi’s worried face. Apparently all of you ended up in an unhibited island. However Tsugumi’s father and the coaches’ whereabouts are unknown. After discussing, the tennis team decided to divide themselves in two groups. One taking the mountain area and another one the beach. You joined the beach team while Tsugumi joined the mountain one.
GAMEPLAY:
The gameplay is stalking the boys you want and pick the right answer when asked. Your daily activities there are helping the boys in their various survival chores and some mini-game through it.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
Love adventure his second of the "Prince of Tennis pounding survival of" the sea is the stage! Capture possible character number When 40 people capture to be able to match "the foot of the Mystic" and with 20 people! Although the song flowing at thrilling ending was "the foot of the Mystic" in the "Kunimitsu Tezuka", in the "sea of Secret", "Keigo Atobe" sing!
FEATURES:
- First person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Tennis & Anime themes.
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