Prince of Tennis II Under 17 World Cup Gets New Sequel

The Prince of Tennis II franchise has a new anime on the way. Its official website announced on Sunday that a sequel to The Prince of Tennis II: Under 17 World Cup Semifinal has been greenlit, carrying the title The Prince of Tennis II: Under 17 World Cup Finals Members Decisive Match.

The new series will follow the battle to decide which players represent Japan in the finals against Spain. It continues a story that has been building across several entries, with the Semifinal anime itself a sequel to the earlier Under 17 World Cup series.

That earlier series premiered on TV Tokyo in July 2022, streamed by Crunchyroll as it aired along with an English dub, and stood out as the franchise’s first new television anime in roughly a decade. It picks up with tennis prodigy Ryoma Echizen, who is thrown out of Japan’s elite training camp and ends up trying out for the United States team instead.

The Semifinal chapter arrived in October 2024 and centered on the Japan versus Germany match, directed by Yoshinobu Tokumoto at M.S.C. For the new sequel, Keiichiro Kawaguchi returns to direct at Studio KAI and M.S.C, with Mitsutaka Hirota again supervising the scripts and Akiharu Ishii back to design the characters and serve as chief animation director.

My take: It is impressive how far this saga has stretched the Under 17 World Cup, and longtime fans clearly are not tired of it. If you have followed Ryoma this far, there is no reason to step off the court now.