Prince of Tennis: Ficlet: The Freudian Sense 1/1 (TezuRyo, PG)

[soundczech]

So I've been obsessively watching this anime about tennis while I was supposed to be doing my homework :| Gay pubescent tennis players :| I blame fucking bookshop.

Here is a ficlet. Characters do not belong to me, but to Konami. TezuRyo pre-slash and pubescent confusion.

ETA: Thankyou to lower for translating this into Chinese. Find it here. *_*

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[bookshop]

He smells like school-issue soap and his skin is a little rough when he reaches out to take the Game Boy out of Ryoma’s hands.

*squeaks*

THEIR ARMS ARE PRESSING TOGETHER. SADFKJSDKFJKLFSLKAFS OH MAN LOVE.

*SCREAMS*

I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU. THIS IS FABULOUS. THEIR HANDS AND GOLDEN BROWN SKIN AND TEZUKA TRYING NOT TO LOOK CONFUSED AND RYOMA'S DREAMS. OH. WRITE MORE. WRITE MORE. WRITE MORE. THANK YOU. OMG. I just kept trying to think of something to write and cover my mouth with my hands to keep from squeeing at the same time so it turned into this classic flail-type maneuver. omg.

[soundczech]

ldskjflksdjf Thanks. I'm glad I could please. S:DLKF:L FLAILING =D>.

I love Tezuka asldkj I love like. The idea of Tezuka. Serious young men kill me. Making their lives difficult. The thought of Tezuka being bad at anything kills me. I find the characters on PoT pretty hilarious in general, really. Ryoma is one of my favourite characters of all time. And Ibu, god. Stroke of genius.

I can't promise I'll write more as when I sat down to write last night I kept getting confused about the whole names thing. And I have that sense in the back of my mind that people can tell I don't know anything about tennis.

[bookshop]

Tezuka makes me gleeful. I love him and I love how he is perfect and stoic and ridiculously never wrong even when he is, and how he basically follows Ryoma around staring at him and sacrificing things for him and FLYING BACK FROM GERMANY FOR HIM aksjdfsl;akfjlsfd (even though in my world the last 3rd of the anime never really happened and is only there so I can have more evidence to add to my "Tezu/Ryo = OTP" file). Tezuka is the classic tall dark stoic romantic hero in so many ways--he just shows up and you are half in love with him already.

Ryoma is like Harry for me in a lot of ways--the way he's sort of like the sun and all things revolve around him, and he awes you just by being no more or less than himself. Oh, Ryoma. ♥

Shinji, god, there are no words. IN THE MUSICAL HE SINGS AND PLAYS THE GUITAR. ASDJLKSJFKLSF. And his actor is perfect, you will bow down and never get up

[soundczech]

S:LDF:KSLF I HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN THE BIT WHERE HE FLIES BACK FROM GERMANY YET, BUT SOMEHOW I KNEW HE WOULD :ALKSD:LSAKD. :ALSKD:LAKSDA:LDK. GOD. THIS SHOW.

Tezuka is like laksjd suspisciously hot. Should I be afraid of your insistence that the last third of the anime never happened? If they lose I may die.

I love how bratty Ryoma is. There are Ryoma moments where I can just think about it and I still crack up. Like that early episode where they make him go to Kawamura sushi after the tournament and he's like :| and shuts the door in their faces. I love that his specialty serve is designed to hit people in the face.

My problem with the names thing is mostly the senpai buchou kun san chan thing, 'cause even though I'm aware of what they mean I get like, preoccupied with whether or not I have to use them. And there are a couple of them that like, I forget their other name. I can never remember Oishi's (first? last?) name.

:SLKDF: I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE MUSICAL. I'm saving it. God I love Japan.

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[bookshop]

Eeee look at you YOU ARE GETTING COMMENTS FROM POT FANS. AND CATHY LIKED YOUR FIC *_

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[wonapalei]

I swear you'd think it was the kind of teasing your friend does when your friend knows you like A Boy and The Boy doesn't know and you're both about to see The Boy and you can't resist teasing the friend."Echizen, when we meet buchou you'd better not cry." *snickering

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[bookshop]

Hahahahaha, oh wow. "I'm not gonna cry." *grumbling (and probably blushing offscreen)* IT'S EVEN BETTER THAN I REMEMBERED. *_*

do you have the link to that comic? That is adorable *squees all over you*

gosh, the anime divergence. Well. The anime definitely starts to feel longer in later episodes; but there are also some great moments. I'm fond of the whole training camp arc just because you get to touch base with so many of the characters; plus there's Tezuka's triumphant return with the above scene I mentioned with Ryuzaki, and the total escalation of the Tezuka-Ryoma interaction to, like, "omg WOW" levels. Really the Tezuka-Ryoma dynamic sort of drives the final third of the anime for me, because all of the other things that are happening aren't really, uh, I'll say engaging--but there is a lot of intriguing development between them that really gives a lot of room to grow the slash potential and take their relationship in a certain direction. I think it's really telling that Hal ships Tezu/Ryo in the anime but not the manga

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[soundczech]

I haven't seen the training camp arc but now I'm really looking forward to it. I think I like the training episodes best. I love the one where Oishi's freaking out the day before the finals.

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[wonapalei]

It would be even better if we could see their damn faces. Or at least Ryouma's face (though I'd love to see the reactions of the other regulars as well). Instead we get an exterior shot of the bus pulling up to the rehab center, and it's just a voiceover. Animator-san, you are such a TEASE.

Woe. It appears that I am going to have to watch the rest of the anime after all, if just to skip to the Tezuka-Ryouma moments. And here I thought I was done with the major life-eating bits of this obsession.

Have scoured my history, and I present you with the comic I mentioned. I can't read much of the Japanese, but it appears to be mainly "Buchou..." breathily, followed by "Buchou!" *glomps*, and then "Echizen?" *bewilderment*. And then there are tears everywhere and much squeeing. Or something.

And here's a bonus: Hannah declaring her love for Tezuka, only for him to let her down and explain that he and Ryouma are together, which fills her with rage that both these disrespectful, conceited boys are getting some and she isn't. Or at

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[bookshop]

oh my god, that is SO CUTE.

AND ASDJGSAFKSDLFSAJFSALFJDSAJFSLDKFJSF.

TEZUKA IN A COW SUIT. AHAHAHAHAHA WTF WTF.

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[wonapalei]

Have only just received the comment notification for this. *beats LJ with a pointy stick*

Oh god, the cow suit. I do NOT get it, but it is HILARIOUS. And there are SO MANY like that. I do not think I want to know what the artist is smoking. WTF, indeed.

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[soundczech]

I think you could probably hear me laughing in the next apartment when Ryoma stands in for Horio. Shrieking is probably a more accurate description. When he says he has two years tennis experience, I pretty much die automatically. I love Ryoma

[bookshop]

It is not just the musical. It is five separate filmed productions, six, actually, going on seven (but only 5 are released). There is a whole big saga behind the musicals involving the originally cast Ryoma getting injured in a car crash and being in a coma for like a year before he awakened and underwent rehab, by which point the cast had been performing without him and had become like this big family, and by the time you see the last production with the whole original cast, he is well enough to join them in the performance, and at the end, the whole cast is, like, crying onstage, and by that point you feel like you know them all and you are just bawling along with them, and OH MY GOD THE GAY TENNIS DANCING AND SINGING. THE SEIGAKU FRESHMAN HAVE THIS CHORUS LINE BACKSTORY NUMBER THAT KILLS ME EVERY TIME. THEY DO "THRILLER" AND HIGH KICKS. AND HORIO SHRIEKS LIKE A GIRL. AND NANJIROH DOES, LIKE, BALLET. AND OMG. THERE IS JUST NO WAY TO PROPERLY DESCRIBE THE TENIMUYO

[wonapalei]

Oishi Syuuichirou, or Shuuichiroh if you want to be phonetic. Also Momoshiro Takeshi, not to be confused with (as the subtitles occasionally do) with Kawamura Takashi, AKA Taka-san. And Kirihara Akaya. For some reason, I managed to remember the names of pretty much everyone in this series when I usually have great difficulty doing so. Maybe it's because I was paying so much attention to who was more formal with whom

[soundczech]

In the first couple episodes Momo calling Ryuzaki 'Obaasan' really confused me because I thought she really was his grandmother, and then she was Sakuno's grandmother, yet he and Sakuno didn't seem to know one another. I thought they were siblings at first.

PoT has taught me all this stuff about tennis that I only vaguely knew before. It motivates me to play sports... theoretically. If I weren't quite so uncoordinated.

[wonapalei]

Being Indian myself, I think it's probably similar to the way every adult of my parents' generation is "Aunty" or "Uncle" to me, regardless of actual blood relationship. Rokkaku's Ojii (have you got as far as Rokkaku yet?) is another example of this. I just don't know why Momo's the only one who uses it in relation to Ryuuzaki-sensei.

Apparently you're not the only one; I hear that interest in tennis in Japan has increased exponentially since the manga first came out, and Ryouma's actually been adopted as a mascot/trademark-type-thing by the Japanese Tennis Association. Me, I've followed tennis all my life, though I too am far too physically ungifted to consider actually playing it. I've caught so many score inconsistencies and ignoring of the rules in the anime (and in the manga, though to a lesser extent) that if it weren't such addictive crack, my obsessive-compulsive side's irritation would probably ruin the experience.