After reading a ton of posts about the end of the series, I feel like I have to make another post.
One that's less...flail-y, I guess.
It's the end of tennis as we know it.
I'm really, honestly
going to miss missing Prince of Tennis. It was what got me into anime in the first place, because before, I never really got into the fandoms.
I can seriously remember how it happened - I was going to watch my friend go play a game (of
tennis), and I saw a manga she had. At the time, I was tennis stupid. Like, I had no idea why the game was dragging on, or why it was so boring (I thought it was boring to watch. I might still think that, because I'm so used to seeing Higuma Otoshis and Hadoukyuus and Tezuka Zones). So I borrowed it to read, and it happened to be the first volume of the Prince of Tennis. And I was hooked.
I went home and, because I was like that back then (and now that I think of it, this was only around the beginning of summer or so - ah, how time flies), I went and looked for the anime, not the manga.
Well, the anime had to stop at some point, or I caught up to it finally, I guess, is the better way to put it, so I decided, after a long, long break from canon (fan fiction has served me well these past months), I went back and read the manga.
(Yes, their hair seemed weird. Yes, I liked the anime versions better, but I now love the manga much, much more than the anime.)
And while it did lose its flair sometime, getting repetitive and predictable, I never lost my love for the series. After 372, which is what was published when I started reading the manga, I obsessively checked to see when the next genius would come out. I couldn't wait to read the next part, and sometimes, I wanted to pull my hair out waiting for it.
Prince of Tennis is seriously a part of me now, even if that is totally dorky. I can't even imagine what life would have been like without it (what if I - le gasp - never got into anime?!), though I have a feeling I would have been really missing out.
Now, all I (and the rest of the fan girls and boys who love this series as much as me) can do is satisfy my TeniPuri needs with fan fiction, merchandise, doujinshi, and whatever else I can get my hands on.
Oh. And TeniMyu.
Hm...that reminds me....
Must go off and find a place to download Second Service.
Wahhhh~
I have Chinese class tomorrow, and it's late for a youngster like me. TT_TT
Goodnight~