Shin Prince of Tennis

seriously, I was expecting the gang to be at least a few years older, but what is this?? they are the exact same age! where is my time skip? seriously...
aside from that, a great chapter, quite entertaining, it was like a big reunion party, and I enjoyed that, i guess.. Permalink " "

very interesting Permalink " "

I wish they let PoT end with the previous prequel, it had a weird ending after the final match, but the series was awesome as it was. More chapters are just ruining it.. Permalink " "

It's great to see players like Akutsu coming back to the tennis scene. Now we can see match ups we were only able to wish for, before. I'm glad it's back. Permalink " "

I think 26 chapters is giving enough of a chance, especially for a monthly manga. This is nothing exciting. Not even a shadow of the original PoT. I stopped liking PoT after they added super powers so I was happy that they closed that idea at the end of PoT.

I thought we would see something interesting in this new series, going back to the how the early PoT chapters were but unfortunately they seem to have forgotten how to play tennis. Instead, we have boot camps that can only be described as hilariously bad and the "matches" are about 2 panels long each. There has been pretty much no character growth so far despite most chapters being full of text.

As others have already mentionned, I was hoping for a time jump and a new cast of characters around Echizen with him playing on the junior world tour or something. The whole "school vs school" or "team vs team" was interesting but I've seen enough of that in PoT. I was really hoping for more of a solo climb through the world rankings with the supporting cast being other players and not just teammates.

I give it a 3/10. I will keep reading it and hopefully it pick up eventually and become interesting but I'm not going to hold my breath on that one.

P.S : I didn't lower the rating based on what I wanted the manga to be but I chose it based on what I think the current storyline merits. Permalink " "

I jus wish they would hurry up and go to other countries with the u-17 group like they did in and are still doing in the captain Permalink " "

I agree with @chubbycheese , where's the timeline ? And isn't Kaidou suppose to be the captain now ? Isn't that where they left off ? Anyways, I just brushed that off, since I love PoT so much, but New PoT isn't that bad aside from the timeline thingy, it's pretty great. :D Permalink " "