I appreciate the Sengoku crumbs for this week's episode. It's been so long I forgot his Tiger cannon existed, would be really neat if they included his anime only boxing tennis style but I suppose they still want to make him as he is in the manga.
Okay I watched the new episode and wow they gave Kaji something he's basically like Kenya in that he's a speedster and he won a game against Irie where in the manga he didn't even won a single one(iirc.)
Would not Tezuka and Atobe be S1 going by Atobe's future vision? Since they're both the future captain and would be naturally placed last, so I see Ryoma being S2 and Akutsu at S3.
Tezuka vs Atobe is pretty much confirmed in Atobe's vision of the future, they're eternal rivals after all.
I honestly see Ryoma vs Siegfried since both are young and cocky.
Idk who to give Frankensteiner maybe Sanada or Akutsu both are singles oriented but Sanada could be in a doubles with...
I have a feeling he'll draw a special at some point in a manner of that Eyeshield 21 special.
Anyway for how I feel about this ending, I'm quite indifferent it's what I expected minus the teasing part of WC 3 years later, I sorta would definitely would like a special just to see what broken...
Honestly this match is story focus rather than tennis focus and it's been very clear from the past chapters or so. There are not even any stakes besides Ryoma's tennis on the line.
Chapter titles
474- Growing Samurai
475- Tennis of Hope
476- Secret to being strong
Also on July 3? That's a day early than I expected, but hey it's nice. I am looking forward what young samurai Ryoma can do.
My thoughts is that the Kijin of Nanjiro within Ryoma could be the remnants of Nanjiro that he consumed when he was young that laid dormant and only appears when he's cornered, after all Nanjiro is at his best when cornered so it activates when Ryoma is cornered like in the previous chapter...
Haha! Ryoma and Ryoga with both consume vs the medanore brothers would certainly be interesting, one of the trappings I could see with the Echizen brothers is them relying too much on consume that when face with opponent that can counter it they may not get the wins they would like even if in...