Rokkaku's not going down without a fight. And Rikkai is better than
expected. It's up to Eiji–and Ryoma–to pull out all the stops for Seishun!
Can their new moves turn the tables?
Author Biography
A member of the tennis club in junior and senior high-school, Konomi submitted
his work to Weekly Shonen Jump after graduation from university and was debuted
in a special edition of the magazine in 1993 with TETSUJIN SEKAI ICHI KATAI
OTOKO. In 1997, his COOL ~ RENTAL BODYGUARD manga became serialized in Weekly
Shonen Jump, followed by THE PRINCE OF TENNIS in 1992. Because of THE PRINCE OF
TENNIS, the number of children in Japan who have taken up tennis as a sport has
increased exponentially, and the tennis club has become one of the more popular
school clubs in junior high today, creating a huge boom for the game. An anime
version of THE PRINCE OF TENNIS was created in 2001, and is still going
strong.
