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Crunchyroll Streams English Dub for 'The Prince of Tennis: Two Samurais, The First Game,' The Prince of Tennis: A Gift from Atobe Films
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Crunchyroll has added the English dub version for The Prince of Tennis: Two Samurais, The First Game (Tennis no Oujisama: Futari no Samurai The First Game) and The Prince of Tennis: A Gift from Atobe (Tennis no Oujisama: Atobe Kara no Okurimono) films on October 15.
The Prince of Tennis: Two Samurais, The First Game — the first film in the franchise — opened in Japan in January 2005, along with the 30-minute The Prince of Tennis: A Gift from Atobe. Crunchyroll also streams the films in Japanese audio with English subtitles.
The Prince of Tennis: Two Samurais, The First Game is set on a cruise ship, where players from Seigaku participate in an exhibition game. But they discover that the event is being run by a corrupt millionaire who wants them to lose the match on purpose.
In The Prince of Tennis: A Gift from Atobe film, Hyoutei Gakuen team captain Keigo Atobe throws a big party for his friend and teammate Munehiro Kabaji, and they participated in different sports and activities.
Shin Tennis no Ōji-sama U-17 World Cup Kesshō Member Ketteisen (The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup Finals Members Decisive Match), the franchise's latest anime and sequel to The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup Semifinal (Shin Tennis no Ōji-sama U-17 World Cup Semifinal) anime, premiered on September 30. Crunchyroll streams the anime as it airs.
The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup Semifinal debuted in October 2024. The anime centers on the Japan vs. Germany semifinal, and is itself a sequel to The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup anime series.
Takeshi Konomi serialized the original manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1999 to 2008. The manga follows middle school tennis player Ryōma Echizen as he battles rivals to reach the national tournament. The manga inspired a 2001-2005 television anime, two anime feature films and a theatrical short, various video anime projects, a live-action film, a live-action television series in China, and a popular stage musical series.
Konomi launched The New Prince of Tennis sequel manga in Shueisha's Jump Square magazine in 2009, and ended the series on August 4. Shueisha published the manga's 48th and final compiled book volume on September 4.
Source: Crunchyroll via @AnimeDubUpdates
