The Prince of Tennis

The Prince of Tennis
Original Title	テニスの王子様 Tenisu no Ojisama
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio 1	Salami Studios
Dubbing Studio 2	Sound Cadence Studios
Dubbing Studio 3	Voiceovers Unlimited
Voice Director 1	René Veilleux
Voice Director 2	Howard Wang
Voice Director 3	Mike Haimoto
Voice Director 4	Chuck Powers
Translation & Adaptation	Elizabeth Hinson Jeremy Kushner (Salami Studios Dub) Caitlyn Elizabeth Kieran Flitton Chris Cason (Sound Cadence Studios Dub)
Recorded	2006-2007 (Salami Studios Dub) 2021-2022 (Sound Cadence Studios Dub)
Dub Country 1	United States
Dub Country 2	Singapore
Original Country	Japan
Episodes	178 50 (dubbed initial run) 30 (redub)
Year	2001-2005

The Prince of Tennis (テニスの王子様 Tenisu no Ojisama) is an anime adaptation of the manga created by Takeshi Konomi, produced by I.G. Productions and directed by Takayuki Hamana. The anime aired across Japan on the anime satellite television network Animax and the terrestrial TV Tokyo network from October 10, 2001 to March 30, 2005.

The series ran for 178 episodes, of which only 50 were dubbed, in addition to 6 OVAs and 4 films which were also not dubbed until 2022. The series was initially only available on Toonami Jetstream, beginning on July 14, 2006. However, the series was added to Cartoon Network's Toonami lineup on December 23, 2006 and aired until May 26, 2007.

In 2022, episodes 51-80 were dubbed with a different voice cast. The same voice cast was also in the English dub of The Prince of Tennis II.

Synopsis Echizen Ryoma is a young tennis prodigy who has won 4 consecutive tennis championships but who constantly lies in the shadow of his father, a former pro tennis player. He joins Seishun Gakuen Junior High School, one of the best tennis schools in Japan, and there along with his teammates he learns to find his own type of tennis in an attempt to defeat his biggest obstacle of all: his father as well as himself.

Cast

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Episodes
Seishun Gakuen "Seigaku"
	Ryōma Echizen	Junko Minagawa	David Neil Black	1 - 50
			Ry McKeand	51-80
	Takeshi Momoshiro "Momo"	Masaya Onosaka	Doug Erholtz	2 - 50
			Alejandro Saab	51-80
	Eiji Kikumaru	Hiroki Takahashi	Steve Staley	3 - 50
			Derick Snow	51-80
	Shūichirō Ōishi	Takayuki Kondō	Sam Riegel	3 - 50
			Jacob Hopkins	51-80
	Kaoru Kaidō	Kōhei Kiyasu	David Lodge	3 - 50
			Jarrod Greene	51-80
	Sadaharu Inui	Kenjirō Tsuda	Erik Davies	3 - 50
			Steven Kelly	51-80
	Takashi Kawamura "Kawa"	Naru Kawamoto	Richard Cansino	5 - 50
			Anthony Sardinha	51-80
	Shūsuke Fuji	Yuki Kaida	Adam Lawson	3 - 30
			Johnny Yong Bosch	31 - 50
			Stephen Fu	51-80
	Kunimitsu Tezuka	Ryōtarō Okiayu	Kirk Thornton	3 - 50
			Jonah Scott	51-80
	Sumire Ryūzaki	Shizuka Okohira	Barbara Goodson	1 - 50
			Wendy Powell	51-80
Allies
	Sakuno Ryūzaki	Mikako Takahashi	Cindy Robinson	1 - 50
			Xanthe Huynh	51-80
	Tomoka Osakada	Fuyuka Oura	Stephanie Sheh	2 - 50
			Sarah Wiedenheft	51-80
	Nanjirō Echizen	Takashi Matsuyama	Liam O'Brien	1 - 50
	Satoshi Horio	Shigenori Yamazaki	Adam Lawson	2 - 50
			Kylen Deporter	51-80
	Katsuo Mizuno	Kei Watanabe	Yuri Lowenthal	2 - 50
			Bryson Baugus	51-80
	Kachirō Kato	Akira Nakagawa	Wendee Lee	2 - 50
			Anne Yatco	51-80
	Masashi Arai	Norihisa Mori	Liam O'Brien	2 - 50
	Mamoru Inoue	Hozumi Gōda	Erik Davies	2 - 50
			Jim Foronda	51-80
	Saori Shiba	Noriko Namiki	Wendee Lee	2 - 50
			Jennifer Losi	51-80
Fudōmine
	Kippei Tachibana	Yoshihisa Kawahara	Doug Erholtz	14 - 50
	An Tachibana	Akiko Kimura	Stephanie Sheh	11 - 48
	Akira Kamio	Chihiro Suzuki	David Neil Black	14 - 50
	Shinji Ibu	Eiji Moriyama	Kirk Thornton	14 - 41
	Tetsu Ishida	Takeshi Maeda	Devon Bowman	11 - 41
	Masaya Sakurai	Makoto Ueki	¿?	14 - 41
	Tatsunori Mori	Takayuki Kondō	Yuri Lowenthal	15 - 41
	Kyōsuke Uchimura	Kōhei Kiyasu	Steve Staley	14 - 41
St. Rudolph Gakuen
	Hajime Mizuki	Akira Ishida	Steve Staley	28 - 40
	Yōshiro Akazawa	Masami Iwasaki	Tom Fahn	29 - 36, 48
	Yūta Fuji	Makoto Tomita	Tom Gibis	29 - 36
			Griffin Puatu	51-80
	Atsushi Kisarazu	Satoshi Tsuruoka	Peter Doyle	29 - 31
	Shinya Yanagisawa	Norihisa Mori	Darrel Guilbeau	29 - 31
	Ichirō Kaneda	Yoshihisa Kawahara	¿?	31 - 33
	Takuya Nomura	Takayuki Kondō	Sam Riegel	29
Ginka
	Michiru Fukushi	Daisuke Kishio	Peter Doyle	37 - 41
	Goki Domoto	Ryōtarō Okiayu	¿?	37 - 41
	Suzuki	Makoto Ueki	¿?	37 - 41
	Tashiro	Masakazu Morita	Joe Cappelletti	37 - 41
Yamabuki
	Mikaya Banji	Kazuhiko Nishimatsu	Christopher Corey Smith	41 - 50
	Kiyosumi Sengoku	Kōsuke Toriumi	¿?	21 - 50
	Kentarō Minami	Masaki Ishikawa	Johnny Yong Bosch	41 - 50
	Jin Akutsu	Nozomu Sasaki	Patrick Seitz	37 - 48
	Taichi Dan	Yumiko Kobayashi	Wendee Lee	41 - 48
	Tōji Muromachi	Takayuki Hirano	Patrick Seitz	41 - 48
			Daniel J. Edwards	51-80
Hyōtei Gakuen
	Keigo Atobe	Junichi Suwabe	Yuri Lowenthal	36 - 48
			Christopher Wehkamp	51-80
	Ryō Shishido	Toshiyuki Kusuda	Joe Cappelletti	36 - 50
			Billy Kametz	51-80
	Jirō Akutagawa	Yūji Ueda	¿?	48
			Caleb Yen	51-80
Rikkaidai Fuzoku
	Akaya Kirihara	Shōtarō Morikubo	Christopher Corey Smith	49
			Austin Tindle	51-80
Other Characters
	Nanako Echizen	Risa Mizuno	Stephanie Sheh	4 - 6, 25, 47
	Rinko Echizen	Yuki Nakao	Cindy Robinson	4, 25
	Kawamura's Father	Hidenobu Kiuchi	¿?	20
	Yuki Akutsu	Haruhi Terada	¿?	38, 47
	Kiichi Kuki (Kakinoki)	Eiji Takemoto	Yuri Lowenthal	13
	Kimiyoshi Fukawa (Gyokurin)	Hidenobu Kiuchi	Richard Cansino	11 - 13
			Nicholas Corda	51-80
	Tomoya Izumi (Gyokurin)	Ryo Naitō	Kirk Thornton	11 - 13
			Nicholas Andrew Louie	51-80
	Sasabe	Yoshiaki Matsumoto	David Lodge	1, 10
	Dr. Akitaka	Kaneko Hari	¿?	25-26
	Kachiro's Father	Jin Nishimura	¿?	10
	Sasabe's Father	Tetsuo Komura	Sam Riegel	10

Additional Voices

Salami Studios Dub Joe Cappelletti Erik Davies Gordon Gilmore Brent Hartley Aengus James Adam Lawson Aleen Lodge David Lodge Yuri Lowenthal Mark Mercado Tara Platt Sam Riegel Stephanie Sheh Christopher Corey Smith Steve Staley Julie Ann Taylor Kirk Thornton René Veilleux

Sound Cadence Studios Dub Mark Allen Jr. Michael Kovach Nicholas Andrew Louie Vanille Velasquez Molly Zhang

Singapore Dub

• Dwayne Tan - Satoshi Horio

Transmission

Date(s)	Channel	Country
2006-2007	Cartoon Network (Toonami)	United States

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Contents	Region	Country
Viz Media	2007-2008		Episodes 1-50	1 NTSC	United States
			4 Volumes

External Links

• The Prince of Tennis at the Internet Movie Database
• The Prince of Tennis (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia