#rikkaidai

[kisa-ownworld]

(REUPLOAD) [SORRY GUYS!! I'VE ACCIDENTALLY DELETED THIS POST SO NOW IM POSTING IT AGAIN!! m(;> <)m I'm sorry abt that guys!!!]

(Part 2) Now it's Rikkaidai's team time to shine! Here's my first impression of Rikkaidai team! This also took more time than i expected especially Kirihara's, but as u know, this boy is how i've starting to realize how crazy and violent Prince of Tennis can be. On the other hand, his Gakupuri route is very cute especially his interaction with MC >v<

Sanada's route is also pretty great, seeing Yanagi helping Sanada and Nio helping MC spending more time with each other is really entertaining lmao. Yukimura has the least screentime and the shortest route in Gakupuri because of his condition, which is understandable but i wanna see more of him but oh well.....

Speaking of which, Jackal should have his own route. I was kinda surprised when i first learned that he's not dateable in the game.

(Part 1, 3)

[horoteni]

1st years

[thepasteldyke]

video version cus gifs get crunchy in live2d (though tbh i kinda like the crunchiness too)

their duet off Bunta's character album is so cute, and uh, youtube allows you to use it so I did. For the speedpaint also.

[princeoftennis-scenarios]

Main masterlist

Middle schooler teams:

Seigaku

Hyotei Academy

Rikkadai

Fudomine

Higa Chu

Yamabuki

St. Rudolph

Rokkaku

Shitenhoji

Misc.

High Schoolers:

Byodoin Hoo

Kazuya Tokugawa

Shuji Tanegashima

Jusaburo Mori

Tsukimitsu Ochi

Jujiro Oni

Ryoga Echizen

Kanata Irie

Atsukyo Tono

Duke Watanabe

Ikuto Kimijima

Ryuji Omagari

[parfaitparka]

Zaizen Hikaru's birthday party live stream if room 205 were K-idols.

[home-bythesea]

I cannot contain myself….. once u draw tenipuri….

[aleksandra25cracow]

Fanfic link or name? Rikkaidai x OC nc 17

Hi people!

Long time ago I found by accident a steamy fanfiction when rikkadai and some OC were having a group sex, for sure we had Kiriharax Sanadax Yukimura and others in the background.

I cant recall the name and of course forgot to bookmarks:(

Any hints?

#rikkaidai #fanfiction#nc17

[allersinwonderland]

today has been SUCH a bunta/ marui day. he was all over my twitter feed too.

i've always had a soft spot for him. i wish he was showcased more, but overtime all the serve & volley players diminished as they're doubles focused.

Can we all agree that Marui is the sweetest character in the series? Like, he always help people around him because he cared for them ❤❤

I especially loved the fact that he's the only one who hugged Yukimura after his match with Tezuka 💕💕

[incorrectpot]

Sanada: This year, I lost my dear Yukimura

Yukimura, at the distance: QUIT TELLING EVERYONE IM DEAD

Sanada: Sometimes I can still hear his voice

[thepasteldyke]

If you're not careful you're gonna get smacked, boys... This was my first time drawing any of these characters in so many years.

Gotta thank @incorrectpot for the inspiration for this one.

[princeoftennis-scenarios]

Rikkai Dai Fuzoku Chuu Masterlist

Yukimura Seiichi

Girlfriend being cornered by some creeps

Piggy-back ride

Stupid argument

Unwanted kiss

Sleeping in their jersey on the floor

NSFW Shiraishi, Atobe, Yukimura, Yanagi, Chitose & Tooyama

NSFW Shy girlfriend

Sanada Gen'ichiro

Stoic nsfw

Yanagi Renji

NSFW Shiraishi, Atobe, Yukimura, Yanagi, Chitose & Tooyama

Yagyu Hiroshi

Niou Masaharu

Relationship headcanons

Marui Bunta

Jackal Kuwahara

Kirihara Akaya

NSFW headcanon with their girlfriend

Team

Balancing time with S/O and their tennis training

[2sweetforu]

anowi:

btw, when I was looking on my nakagauchi pics this one reminded me of the other two, with Kanesaki… 

is this what being in rikkai does to people? Oo or is this what being in tenimyu does to people? =A=

third one:this hairy calves Oo

nakagauchi’s photo from fuckyeahnioumasaharu

[parfaitparka]

Rikkai boys in Hai Guang poses

(just finished watching the series and missed them already)

[himebushou]

Okay, I think this is happening -- I've been drawn in and I'm now rewatching The Prince of Tennis.

Thoughts on Episodes 2 through to 6 below.

Ep 2 - Samurai Junior

Inoue appears! This guy is so important for the audience as he explains so much tennis teminology to us (at Shiba's expense, whoops) but the fact that he works for a (presumably) well-known tennis magazine yet spends so much time covering the middle school scene is... odd. Like, he's there for the entirety of Seigaku's ranking tournament? What about the other Kanto schools?

HE TALKS ABOUT NANJIROU and says how Nanjirou 'might have even won the Grand Slam'. To my memory, Nanjiroh was one match away from becoming World No. 1 (is that possible without winning a slam?) but suddenly quit because, y'know. The boy.

Ryoma does this lil glower after the first time he meets Momo and it's so funny, lol

Ryoma's contrary nature is RIDICULOUS. Arai demands that the freshmen introduce themselves, which the Ichinen Trio do, but Ryoma? Just stands there. Like, CHILD. He asked for your name! these are not state secrets!

So of course, we have the whole thing with Arai trying to con the freshmen and Ryoma gets pretty mad about Arai trying to fleece the freshmen -- he gets pretty heroic (?) about the whole thing and, with it, very bratty: "If I hit the can 100x, do I get 100,000 yen?"

Then Momo is there and it really seems like he just wants to beat Ryoma up!

Rather adorably, Horio umpires the Ryoma v. Momo match. When Ryoma's about to serve, the Triple Counter OST starts playing (I really don't remember any of the titles from the OST -- except Yuugure -- but I'm sure everyone knows what I mean). It's very cool.

Tomo-chan sees Ryoma serve ONCE and calls him Ryoma-sama -- MY GIRL.

And then we get our first Nanjiroh appearance! And it turns out that he even has an umpire's chair at the temple, so? Who is umpiring his games against Ryoma? Nanako? RINKO??

Ryoma also tells the Ichinen Trio that he learnt to play tennis at a temple. Um. Ryoma is a big liar because he has only lived in front of said temple for about 5 minutes. What a DORK. In the best way!

(The temple is absolutely gorgeous by the way.)

Ep. 3 - The Seigaku Regulars Make Their Debut!

Man -- so we see Sakuno and Tomo-chan in one of the classrooms overlooking the courts and they comment on how cool the team is -- and then the camera pans up to Tezuka who's on the floor above, watching silently and I just enjoyed that so much. Like, at this stage, Tezuka is a bit of a mystery, so it's so fun!

Then Horio brags about how strong Momo is and Ryoma spends an eternity tying his shoelaces. Many moons ago (we're talking about 15 years ago, at least), I read this blog post about how much screentime is dedicated to Ryoma TYING HIS LACES and, honestly, I've never been able to get that post out of my head. Truly incredible stuff.

Guhhh I hate the obsession with heirarchy at Seigaku... Hyoutei and Rikkaidai are a heck of a lot more flexible, whoops.

Oishi! Beloved Oishi! Until he gets to the courts, the freshmen are just running around doing Tasks -- then Oishi arrives and tells them to practice playing because he wants them to get a good feel for the way things run at Seigaku. And it's so heart-warming! Oishi recognises that these kids are there because they want to have fun and he does these little things throughout the early eps to build camaraderie -- like when the freshmen are cheering for Seigaku in episode 8 or 9, Oishi teases, "Freshmen, we can't hear you!" and it's just... wow. Oishi's not there to pull rank: he's there to encourage the team. Tezuka honestly could not have had a better VC.

(I'm honestly just loving this so much... everyone's regarding Ryoma as this potential problem and sussing him out and being in this privileged position of knowing how much this team will grow to love him -- and how much he'll grow to love them -- is really special. It's really incredible to see this journey again.)

Arai behaves like a dork, gets scolded by Tezuka and told to run laps, questions this, and is then told to run more laps. Ryoma just dutifully runs his laps without any argument (the slight contradictions in his personality are so funny -- like he will sometimes rail against authority and, at other times, just accept it without question).

Come to think of it... Ryoma and Gon Freeccs get pretty similar treatment, I think, in that we don't get a look-in at their literal thoughts? Compare that to how often we're in Killua's head, for example, or Inui's or Oishi's or whoever's and... it's a very interesting way of storytelling.

Eps 4 & 5 - The One Named Viper & Snake Shot

AND SO, THE RANKING TOURNAMENT IS UNDERWAY.

Man, there are so many girls watching the ranking tournament? The tennis club is so popular lol

WE SEE RINKO FOR THE FIRST TIME. Of course, her face isn't shown, but!! She's there!

Ryoma's match against Kaidoh is a lot of fun. Momo's on standby to provide commentary to the Ichinen Trio (and they correctly determine that he's so knowledgeable about Kaidoh's playstyle on account of having lost to Kaidoh, which is hilarious). Ryoma impresses everyone by pulling off his own version of the Snake Shot -- the Buggy Whip Shot! -- and phew, good stuff. There's a lot of technical tennis talk.

(I hate how Kaidoh hurts himself at the end of the match. Both Kaidoh and Sanada need to be seen by school counsellors or something.)

I love seeing Ryoma get squashed by the Ichinen Trio -- he looks slightly bewildered, haha.

Ep 6 - That Man, Echizen Nanjirou

OOFT, probably my favourite episode so far! Nanjirou has become my second favourite in The Prince of Tennis (no prizes for guessing my favourite) and this episode is wonderful.

Inoue barges over to the Echizen house and ends up playing a game with Nanjirou -- the stipulation is that Nanjirou will only answer Inoue's questions if Inoue manages to get a point past him. Despite this, Nanjirou ends up telling Inoue a lot: he explains that he quit his pro career because playing with the 'impudent' Ryoma is a heck of a lot more fun than playing his pros and geez, Nanjirou loves his son SO MUCH. Nanjirou also explains that Ryoma's tennis style is currently identical to his and, to go further, there are some things Ryoma has to achieve. We get to see some of Nanjirou's skill.

The only question Nanjirou doesn't answer is when Inoue suggests that Ryoma's being trained to go pro. Nanjirou's pretty dismissive of this idea (AND WE KNOW WHY! YAHOO!).

Ryoma has a conversation with Sakuno and says that he doesn't know when he started playing tennis -- it's been part of his life for as long as he can remember and he couldn't quite even if he wanted to because there's something he has to do. So, once again, this episode sets up one of the major themes/conflicts of The Prince of Tennis.

(It turns out that the temple is behind the Echizen's house! Nanako -- the sweetheart -- explains that the monk is currently on a retreat and that Nanjirou just made a court without permission. This is one interaction I desperately want more information on.)

So... yeah. I'm genuinely having a whale of a time.

[nuisancehelicopter]

also rikkaidai's yanagi renji was as good as inui but iirc renji wasnt the one who tailored the training menus of rikkaidai. Rikkaidai had a proffessional team that looked after their members. the training and development of the players did not fall on yanagi renji like how it fell on inui.

that also makes inui really different from renji, right? there's a reason why renji calls inui "doctor" while inui calls renji "professor"

they were the same but also not

so if inui was more into the sports science, athlete development and sabermetrics, then what was renji more of an expert of? crunching numbers and possibilites?

[allersinwonderland]

Marui never played singles match during nationals arc in 3rd year!! Makes sense given he’s a doubles player with jackal but wowwwww

Lesser known tenifacts #5

More Rikkai tenifacts! Garanteed to be less interesting then yesterday's tenifacts!

In the National quarterfinals, Rikkai's lineup had Yanagi-Kuwahara pair in doubles 2 and Marui in singles 1.

Neither played because Rikkai won in 3 straight sets against Kabuto.

This makes Marui the only Rikkai regular who hasn't played a singles match during Nationals (Kuwahara played S3 against Murigaoka).

Today's tenifacts are from page 90 of the fanbook.