Shin Prince of Tennis 44, 45, 46 and 47 Discussion/Predictions

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i noticed 4 things in chapter 47:

- Irie let atobe get the last point for whathever reason.
-Sanada lost and eye and sill look badass.
- Tanishi lost weight.
- Mummy Inui is back!.

thats all

I thought Irie fares low on stamina according to his player statistics? But he was able to continue until 187-187?

If this was real life, the players would have been crippled by now. ^^

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Originally Posted by steelwingcrash1

I thought Irie fares low on stamina according to his player statistics? But he was able to continue until 187-187?

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The reason for this is most likely that Irie didn't move all that much. Atobe injured himself during the match, so Irie took advantage of that and made him run around a lot (take a look at the last point for an example).

Translation should be up rather soon as well btw.

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Originally Posted by chaosmaster1991

The reason for this is most likely that Irie didn't move all that much. Atobe injured himself during the match, so Irie took advantage of that and made him run around a lot (take a look at the last point for an example).

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On the other hand, didn't Irie pretend to run around the court during the first part of the game? Shouldn't that take stamina already? LOL.

Anyway, it seems that Irie was also having a hard time with Atobe during the point breaker. He must have miscalculated that. I'm really looking forward to the translations. Hope they'll be released soon.

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Originally Posted by steelwingcrash1

On the other hand, didn't Irie pretend to run around the court during the first part of the game? Shouldn't that take stamina already? LOL.

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I guess he played in a way that minimized stamina losses.

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Originally Posted by steelwingcrash1

Anyway, it seems that Irie was also having a hard time with Atobe during the point breaker. He must have miscalculated that. I'm really looking forward to the translations. Hope they'll be released soon.

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Actually, I think Irie could have just ended it at pretty much any point but dragged it out to put more pressure on Atobe's foot. When you look at the last shown point, Irie just hits drops shots and lobs and could probably score by simply hitting the ball into a corner.

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Originally Posted by chaosmaster1991

Actually, I think Irie could have just ended it at pretty much any point but dragged it out to put more pressure on Atobe's foot. When you look at the last shown point, Irie just hits drops shots and lobs and could probably score by simply hitting the ball into a corner.

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Irie really is a despicable creature. The mangaka succeeded in creating a hateful and loathsome character.

Anyway, by the looks of it, Atobe won, right? I'm really looking forward to Yukimura's and Fuji's battles in the future.

Actually it was only 187-187 in a tie breaker which is much more reasonable, but still quite a bit considering it is a tie breaker. I'd say that's about the length of a close five set match give or take.

Also I don't Irie isn't as despicable as you say he is, the injury didn't look all that serious for one and of course you'd should take advantage of any opportunity in a close tennis match. It seems like he was acting when it came to the shoulder getting tired (why he didn't lift his arm for the last overhead) because he caught that towel from that one guy pretty quickly using the same motion. He could've probably won, but still choose to let him win. No despicable creature decides to reward an opponent based on his effort, which is pretty much all Atobe had in the match, and come to think of it any match he has played. The guy just never gives up.

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Originally Posted by Astray

Actually it was only 187-187 in a tie breaker which is much more reasonable, but still quite a bit considering it is a tie breaker. I'd say that's about the length of a close five set match give or take.

Also I don't Irie isn't as despicable as you say he is, the injury didn't look all that serious for one and of course you'd should take advantage of any opportunity in a close tennis match. It seems like he was acting when it came to the shoulder getting tired (why he didn't lift his arm for the last overhead) because he caught that towel from that one guy pretty quickly using the same motion. He could've probably won, but still choose to let him win. No despicable creature decides to reward an opponent based on his effort, which is pretty much all Atobe had in the match, and come to think of it any match he has played. The guy just never gives up.

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yeah, but maybe irie had advantage over atobe because of his injury, that might be why he kept playing with atobe the 187 points, i think irie is slightly better than atobe, he might be at court 1 level .... but its hard to tell without the translations, :D

what it is not hard to tell is that the loser team kicked some massive asses in court 2 :D

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Originally Posted by steelwingcrash1

Irie really is a despicable creature. The mangaka succeeded in creating a hateful and loathsome character.

Anyway, by the looks of it, Atobe won, right? I'm really looking forward to Yukimura's and Fuji's battles in the future.

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Astray answered already, let me just add something...

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Originally Posted by Astray

Also I don't Irie isn't as despicable as you say he is, the injury didn't look all that serious for one and of course you'd should take advantage of any opportunity in a close tennis match.

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As a reminder, Atobe himself used that strategy in order to defeat Tezuka, he even remembers it in the match and notices how he is on the receiving end this time.

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Originally Posted by Astray

It seems like he was acting when it came to the shoulder getting tired (why he didn't lift his arm for the last overhead) because he caught that towel from that one guy pretty quickly using the same motion.

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This is correct, Irie was indeed acting. That other guy was Shuuji btw.

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Originally Posted by Adolfoortegasalas

yeah, but maybe irie had advantage over atobe because of his injury, that might be why he kept playing with atobe the 187 points, i think irie is slightly better than atobe, he might be at court 1 level .... but its hard to tell without the translations, :D

what it is not hard to tell is that the loser team kicked some massive asses in court 2 :D

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Atobe himself said that Irie's strength was much higher than 3rd court, so he's most likely court 1 material. That also means Atobe is at least court 2 powerwise by now, maybe even court 1.

Regarding the losers, it seems that they just arrived at the camp and will challenge 2nd court next time (if they can find them).

One thing that has been bugging me is that the pinnacle of perfection seems to put players at the level of professional. I'm basing this on the fact that Nanjirou became a pro as a result of it and Tezuka is now going to start working towards that since he achieved it as well. If PoP really is that ridiculous then Echizen should not have lost to anyone yet, even the Court 1 guys are not professional level otherwise they would've left the camp by now. Either Nanjirou was something special even by PoP achievers or Echizen has been extremely powered down/didn't use PoP against the top court guy.

Translations are up.

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Originally Posted by Astray

One thing that has been bugging me is that the pinnacle of perfection seems to put players at the level of professional. I'm basing this on the fact that Nanjirou became a pro as a result of it and Tezuka is now going to start working towards that since he achieved it as well. If PoP really is that ridiculous then Echizen should not have lost to anyone yet, even the Court 1 guys are not professional level otherwise they would've left the camp by now. Either Nanjirou was something special even by PoP achievers or Echizen has been extremely powered down/didn't use PoP against the top court guy.

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We have two theories regarding that:
1. Echizen can't use TnK willingly.
2. Kazuya managed to seal it somehow.

I'll expand a bit more later, no time now.


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Ok, here goes:
Theory 1 is plausible, because Echizen didn't use it willingly in the match against Yukimura, so we can assume he didn't master it yet. What supports this is that the aura was much more visible when Tezuka used it.
I feel like I'm forgetting something atm...

As for the second theory, well, there's not much to support it aside from the assumption that Echizen can control TnK but Kazuya still beat him easily. This could either be through some kind of stronger Yips (Kirihara commented on Kazuya's presence being the same as Yukimura's after all) or even Kazuya being able to use TnK himself.

Releasing PoT now 4 Chapters per month in a monthly magazine or what ?

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Originally Posted by TemplateR

Releasing PoT now 4 Chapters per month in a monthly magazine or what ?

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It'd be nice if that was the case, but Konomi might just wanna make up for the months we got only one chapter. We'll see next month I guess.

I'll be happy with 3 chapters. Or even 2 chapters. If the chapter aren't 11 pages chapter, that is.