Shin Prince of Tennis Spoiler Thread (Next Ch. July 4th)

[Brandnewkid]

How is hitting his teammate ascend to power? Did Kimijima promise Kite something before the match start? I don't know, it look to me like I'm seeing match of two normal player vs 2 incredibly dumb as hell player.

But I guess it's probably Kimijima power to "control" other people. I wonder what would be the requirement to prevent this, probably high enough mental?

I'm not sure, my translation is not 100% accurate. Kite's probably punishing Bunta for fucking up both of their chances of becoming 1st Stringers. This is a doubles match; Bunta's mistakes affect Kite as well.

[Darjaille]

Controlling, as in literally, mystical powers and woodoo? o_O Or just that Kite decided on his own, or something like that?

And I said that it looks normal X-D

Marui seems to be in character, he always was cheeky and childish and a show off or is that only the girls' fandom that tweaked my views without me knowing? Now Iìm just intrigued if Kite is a jerk, or he's literally being controlled. lulz

[sisco]

i dont think mind control is the case here at all. i think kite hit bunta for being avoiding getting hit by the ball so many times. dodging the ball would mean fear, and probably what kite means to do is snap bunta out of the habit so he can be more aggressive at net since bunta does have a habit of dodging balls that come right at him if you remember earlier chapters, except that jackal wouldn't really scold bunta much. in other words this is kites way of saying "man up, you can't be scared if you want to reach the top" either that or Kimijima hits the ball in such a way that he can manipulate his opponents to hit where ever he wants them to "in this case to hit bunta at net" kind of like how inue does to make his data tennis work. he makes shots that manipulate opponents to react or hit a certain way, hence why he can predict what shot is coming next.

[Airgrimes]

Gosh. So glad Kimijima isnt a Super version of any MSer.
Tohno is a super Bloodshot!Mode Kirihara though.

But yeah, I wanna throw my predictions down first before everyone. Tohno/Kimijima pair to win.
Marui as No.7 or 8 is just unreal haha.

I just cant wait for this to get animated now. Although if its done by the company who does New PoT its gonna be worse and take years to arrive in a non-canonic OVA or something.

Either way, unless Kite brings out Big Bang PLUS improvement and Marui improves too in this match, they cannot win.
If they like Ishida Gin have made no real improvement since Nationals, this is as good as decided.

[Hardy]

Gosh. So glad Kimijima isnt a Super version of any MSer.
Tohno is a super Bloodshot!Mode Kirihara though.

But yeah, I wanna throw my predictions down first before everyone. Tohno/Kimijima pair to win.
Marui as No.7 or 8 is just unreal haha.

Tohno/Kimijima against Kirihara/Shiraishi would fit 10000 times better as a match...

[Airgrimes]

Tohno/Kimijima against Kirihara/Shiraishi would fit 10000 times better as a match...

Ugh... Shiraishi in Doubles with Kirihara... The only guy that benefitted in that match was Kirihara. Shiraishi was held back.
Shiraishi should never pair with Kirihara for something as serious as a Top 10 match.

Shiraishi/Fuji pair sounds better. Would much rather Kirihara with Kite(I originally wanted Kite with him).
Kirihara/Yanagi or Kaidoh or Akutsu.

Basically, I am a hater of Makeshift pairs. Let that be known. (I reckon everybody knows ahaa).
So, going by the makeshift pairs so far, only ONE member of the pairing in each Makeshift pair has actually improved.

Our first was Shiraishi/Kirihara pair. Kirihara got Angel Mode but Shiraishi only removed a weight.
Momoshiro/Kenya. Momo got BJK for goodness sake. Without doubt Top 5 for the best Tennis shots in the series. Kenya didnt do sh*t.

Oishi/Niou. Niou was absolutely amazing, becoming Kikumaru then Mutsu to win it for them. Oishi was same Oishi from Regionals.
Kawamura/Kabaji. Kawamura showed us he now has 108 degrees of Hadoukyuu. Making him equal to Gin. Kabaji will never change.

Atobe/Niou. Niou again showed us how amazing he is by showing us ZSS and becoming his partner to pull off Synchro with virtually ANYONE. Atobe hasnt improved but its okay coz he is amazing already.

Marui/Kite. Wanna bet that only one guy improves or neither improve. Or the improvement is ridiculously tiny?
All matches I mentioned beside Atobe/Niou don't even come anywhere near to mind for best battles in PoT. Anywhere near. In fact only Atobe/Niou was a particularly good match.

Now to end off my rant, for Canon pairs: Tachibana/Chitose, apparently they got a new Synchro.

So basically since only one MSer improves in makeshift pairs, there cannot be an MS pair good enough to overcome NO.s 7 downwards.
Unless he breaks this pattern he has and brings in from this moment on, ONLY EXTREMELY good MSers.

I can only think of Sanada, Fuji, Shiraishi, Akutsu and Ryoma left. Since Yukimura and Kintaro I now doubt will appear again.

[Hardy]

Well, I don't like Shiraishi as a doubles player AT ALL (and I prefer Kirihara in singles as well) but Shiraishi/Kirihara doesn't look that makeshift at all, we might see more of them together.

So as you see, I don't like that pair either, I would like to see Kirihara pairing with someone else (maybe Fuji doesn't hate him anymore... or Yagyuu. If this wasn't top 10, I would say Kaidoh.)

That thing that you say,"in makeshift doubles only one player improves" isn't new at all, we saw a lot of it in POT...

[Kaoz]

So basically since only one MSer improves in makeshift pairs, there cannot be an MS pair good enough to overcome NO.s 7 downwards.

So just because people don't bust out a new technique every time they're on-screen, they didn't improve? Sometimes those improvements are not that great (Kabaji, Oishi, Kenya), but in other cases it's quite significant (Atobe and Kite each being able to rally 1 vs 2 against two members of the G10 is quite impressive imo).

With Atobe we're outright told by the coaches that he improved since the team shuffle. Same more or less goes for Kite if you believe Akutsu's words that he would have had a hard time against Takei (even if you don't, I highly doubt that Nationals!Kite with his ~17 total (rough guess) would give us this performance).

[Kaoz]

Spoilers. Sadly only one chapter this month because Konomi seems to be on vacation.


The chapter starts with a mini flashback of the previous day with Kimijima and Kite meeting. Kimijima says: "This isn't bad talk, I just want you to beat him." and the flashback ends, we then go back to reactions to Kite's betrayal.

Marui seems to have trouble fighting 1 vs 3 and eventually gets hit by Tohno's [Execution Method No. 12: Electric Chair], a stomach shot. Kite then hits Marui with Habu, causing the 1st Stringers to win the next game and giving them a 4-3 lead.

Tanishi comments that all of Higa's techniques were taught by Kite (so Viking Horn as well apparently). Momoshiro and Jackal help Marui when changing sides.

We go back to the flashback from the beginning,
Kimijima: "I have a request... for you who is called the Hitman."
Kimijima: "I want you to beat Tohno Atsukyou until he is beyond all recovery."

End of chapter.


Here are a couple images as well:

[-Ken-]

That's kind of cool. So it's not really a betrayal? If Tohno got beat up, then Kite might replace his spot. Marui..., well, I don't know about him, lol.

[Fosprey]

So it's actually 3 to 1...just in favor of 2nd string.

[-Ken-]

So it's actually 3 to 1...just in favor of 2nd string.

Well, really, Kimijima could be "tricking" Kite at the last minute and just win the game right then and there. He might be using Tohno only as a bait, after all.

[Kaoz]

Ch 87 RAW

A correction from before, it seems that the 1st Stringers win the first set 6-3.

[Tsukihime no uta]

It sucks that it was only 1 chapter this week, but at least it was a really good chapter. There were some really interesting developements, and there was a complettion of a set.

Would be happy if we are only getting 1 chapter, but it went to weekly, or even bi-weekly.

[Airgrimes]

It sucks that it was only 1 chapter this week, but at least it was a really good chapter. There were some really interesting developements, and there was a complettion of a set.

Would be happy if we are only getting 1 chapter, but it went to weekly, or even bi-weekly.

It runs in Monthly Jump. (Jump Square as of '08). So that can't happen.

Gosh, I bet i'm the only guy who absolutely loves how this chapter is packed with corruption. Disappointed we can't measure Kimijima or Tohno's skills now. They could possibly be weaker than Ochi for all we know since they are playing what's practically a fixed match.

THIS is the sort of great storyline SPoT needs.
It's a good thing he used someone as weak as Marui for this, I expected quite truthfully a sh*t encounter, but this is looking amazing can't wait for this to get animated.

Konomi has so far been 10/10 for his Middle Schoolers and Top 10 Shuffle arc.

Great job Konomi. Marui and Kite losing like this would be fantastic. Marui should just forfeit or something. He is too low on the tier to be competing with Top 10.

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So just because people don't bust out a new technique every time they're on-screen, they didn't improve? Sometimes those improvements are not that great (Kabaji, Oishi, Kenya),

For some of them, they have basically spent time in ''hell'' the mountain camp and come back with not much to show for it.

Can you please tell me how Kenya, Oishi and Kabaji improved? It was insignificant.
How did we know their stats have lifted? We don't.
We just know Kenya went from no balance to good balance. Good balance! Awesome...

With Atobe we're outright told by the coaches that he improved since the team shuffle. Same more or less goes for Kite if you believe Akutsu's words that he would have had a hard time against Takei (even if you don't, I highly doubt that Nationals!Kite with his ~17 total (rough guess) would give us this performance).

If Akutsu actually said that which I haven't yet seen, obviously I would believe what Konomi has had Akutsu state.
Since Oni crushed him, and Oni is strong beyond belief right now. Everybody on 3rd Court is a decent Singles player too. (Except Washio/Suzuki).

With Yamato and Irie being better than them as they hid their skills.

but in other cases it's quite significant (Atobe and Kite each being able to rally 1 vs 2 against two members of the G10 is quite impressive imo).

Also, Atobe was in Synchro, greatly boosted by the added vision Niou provided, since Atobe is already amazing it wasnt really 2 vs 1.
It 2 VS 1.5 rather.
Since without Niou's Synchro, Atobe lost 6-0.
The guy was hopeless against Ochi/Mouri when it was actually 2 v 1, Niou not in Synchro helping him.

For Kite, how do we know that he was up against a Kimijima/Tohno that was playing seriously? Tohno still has Execution Methods to reveal.
So really we can't prove that Kite has improved much since he has arrived at this camp.

Although Atobe's improvement being able to use WoI + AK at the same time was clear as day.