Oh PoT, how do you do this to me...
So, a week ago, a friend roped me into watching Shin Tenipuri, her way of introduction being: "Hey, check this out- the animators managed to make Ryoma look less jail-baity! He's almost 13 but you can now add high schoolers to the list of people who want to bone him
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I KNOW. :( The TezuFuji is also strong, but the AtoTezu is off the charts.
Oh god I'm so terrible at summaries, but um, basically they're all participating in the super posh Under-17 tennis camp, which used to be exclusively open only to high school students, but had an exception for this year. While they're there, these things happen:
* OPERATION BREAK UP, where U-17 coaches ask the boys to pair up, presumably for doubles matches, and then blindside them by making them play singles against each other. Losers drop out of camp. Silver pair proves how married they are:
* QUEST FOR THE NEW BOYFRIEND - Because Fuji and Atobe are all blatantly displaying their hard-on for Tezuka Ryoma decides to go seek out Tokugawa (who happens to be the top dog in the camp at that time) and ignore the Operation Break Up matches. Kintaro gets lost looking for the bathroom and runs into Ryoma. They eventually find Tokugawa and Oni rallying with 5 balls. Yeah. 5. They interrupt the rally. Tokugawa and Oni humor them for a while, get serious when the two kids score a couple of points on them, after which, Tokugawa throws his rainbow serve of gay at Ryoma.
and Ryoma is floored like so:
Since they skipped operation break up, Kintaro and Ryoma are disqualified and lumped in with the loser group.
* MOUNTAIN TRAINING FOR THE LOSERS - Where the losing middle schoolers who were supposed to go home were instead taken to a mountain to train in abusive conditions which are supposed to make them stronger. They fall off a bridge, forced to climb up a steep hill in the dark of night, get strung by their ankles on tree branches, sleep in caves, play in uneven courts, get chased by eagles, and have their jerseys pissed on and buried underground by the coach.
* MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - Ryoma, Kenya and Tanishi go out on a quest to sneak into the camp to filch some sake for their alcoholic coach. This happens:
* SANADA IS AN AWESOME SONOFABITCH as he serves as the pseudo leader of the losers.
* TEZUKA LEAVES THE CAMP TO PURSUE A PROFESSIONAL CAREER IN GERMANY. Before he leaves, Atobe vows to follow, and Fuji vows to surpass him someday.
* ECHIZEN UPS HIS UKE RALLYING SKILLS BY DEVELOPING THE ABILITY TO HIT 7, 8, 9, 10 BALLS AT THE SAME TIME.
* THE FORMER LOSERS HEAD DOWN THE MOUNTAIN STRONGER THAN EVER in fetching black jackets that are supposed to represent them as the new kids to beat, putting them a rank higher than the winners.
*SOMEWHERE IN THIS WHOLE BEDLAM OF SHENANIGANS, THEY PLAY TENNIS.
I'm not entirely sure this makes things clearer, but there you go. :P
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Sadly this cracktastic summary probably under represents how ridiculous and lacking in tennis this series is. I did like how overdramatic 'death' by eagle was.
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I think manga traders has categorized PoT under supernatural already. DUDE RALLYING WITH 10 BALLS- WHAT THE EVERLASTING FUCK IS THAT?. I mean, I cannot even imagine how that would work, unless they're channeling an inner Hindu god w/ like 6 arms or something.
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