Resources.

this is an incomplete entry. Many of the original livejournal links that made up this post in its first incarnation have been removed. For reference, the original post is here ( http://bookshop.livejournal.com/667563.html ) though you will not be able to see it unless I have friended you on my livejournal, which I no longer use. – August 2007

Part Five: Where to Find It & Other Resources

How to get the manga/anime/etc.
I. Manga availability.
II. Anime availability.
III. Musicals availability.
IV. Livejournal resources.
V. Other Fandom Resources:
     Information, Character Summaries, & Ep Guides.
     Fanbooks
     Media
     Doujinshi
     School Shrines
     Fanart
     Ship Manifestos
     Fanfic
VI. Things I Love.

Thanks and Final Notes.

I. Manga availability.

For other ways to obtain the manga and the anime, please drop me an email.

English scanlations of the manga are most easily accessed at Stoptazmo. Stoptazmo has been known to have problems with corrupt files in the past. The manga scanlations are done by FET (Fruity Explosive Translations). FET’s IRC forums – #fet @ irc.irchighway.net –are your best bet.

FET does not directly link to their downloads, but if you comment to this post and ask, I will give you a response which includes the links to various FET mirror sites which do. I will immediately screen the response in order to respect requests against direct-linking, so make sure you have your lj set to email replies before you comment.

As of August 2007 there are currently over 350 issues of the manga of Prince of Tennis. The more recent issues are available in the raw (untranslated version) throughout various Tenipuri communities on livejournal. The newest raws are released fairly regularly at _tenipuri and other places, and you should have little trouble finding the downloads if you hunt. For translations, again, Tenipuri comms are your best bet.

IMPORTANT! Do not, I repeat, DO NOT go to Borders and buy the published translation of the manga by VIZ. It sucks. They get names wrong, they muddle character relationships and dynamics, they get scores wrong, half the time it doesn’t make any sense, it is notoriously awful. It’s the worst argument ever made for the wholesome legal purchase of Japanese media. Download the manga instead.

VIZ also has the distribution rights to the anime. The English dub of Tenipuri airs on Toonami Jetstream, though most people agree the dubbing is as bad as the official translation.

II. Anime availability.

Again, your best bet here is to email me or go through IRC. Chiya got hers off Ebay. I got mine from my friend Dave. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. But, to get you started, I’m going to talk about torrent sites, because there are LOTS of torrent sites out there which have all or part of Prince of Tennis: the one I am linking to here is Scarywater.net.

In order to use torrents, you will first want to download a client, such as bittornado: http://www.bittornado.com/ or bitcomet: http://www.bitcomet.com/index.htm. Once that’s done, the torrents are pretty simple. You go to a bittorent site such as Scarywater.net and download the torrent file. Then once it has downloaded, open the file, and choose where you want to save the actual anime file to on your computer. The torrent will then download, and this will cause a drain on your broadband, but for Anipuri, you will bear the burden. Note: if you are behind a Firewall your download might be unreasonably slow, in which case you will need to Port Forward: http://www.portforward.com/

III. The Musicals.

If you want to know where to find the musicals, email me or comment to this post with your email, and I will email you.

IV. Livejournal Resources:

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V. Other Fandom resources:

Information, Character Summaries, & Ep Guides.

Prince of Tennis at Anime Chains. This is a really neat site that features among other highlights instructions on how to do the twist serve!

Raine’s Archive. Contains a good episode guide as well as a rotating music download list and screencaps.

Youthful Days recently closed but still retains its content. It is a wealth of information on all schools and most of the characters, and contains good, if incomplete, basic intros to all the media. Be sure to check out the character interviews and profiles from the 10.5 fanbook while you’re there.

PoT Info site featuring a basic rundown of everything that’s out there in terms of tenipuri manga/anime/music, merchandise and so forth. Features a complete listing of all the tenipuri voice actors. Especially check out the list of Tenipuri fancards, because though the quality is something of a tease, it’s about as complete a list as you’re likely to find anywhere of all the bromides & trading cards in one place, and some of these scans are priceless.

CrackPoT. Hilarious, fun site featuring the PoT Diaries- an episode recap site complete with caps and all-too-accurate commentary–as well as doujinshi, fanart, and other things.

Fanbooks:
These are books put out by Konomi which are full of additional information and interviews with the characters. There are three of them. It’s hard to find the scans and the translations in one place, especially for 10.5, but I have scrounged up a bunch of links to translations of different parts where I can.

10.5 Fanbook scanlations/info. There is also a complete rundown of the character profiles at Youthful Days.

Ouijisama – Captain Edition has a complete character profile list from the 10.5 fanbook. This is a sadly incomplete site BUT they also have a ton of bromide pics which are definitely entertaining.

20.5. All-Stars has selected translation of parts of the 20.5 fanbooks including interviews. There is an overview here (http://muscatlove.livejournal.com/7709.html), a breakdown on the Hyotei section here and a Rikkai breakdown here (http://community.livejournal.com/tenipuri_yaoi/139652.html).
You can find a wealth of translations and commentary on these in supplanter’s memories on LJ, but no one site/person seems to have it all in one place, so you’re going to have to browse.

30.5 is available elsewhere. Please email me or comment for details.

Media:

Penal-Tea.net contains a variety of scanned doujinshi, music, and general information. Plus the Silver Pair are really hot.

Ore-Sama.Net. This site contains most of the direct translations of the PoT soundtracks and Rajipuri broadcasts. It’s also just a fun place to go in general.

White Line has a full music and rajipuri database. This site is so loud. I love going to it just to play with the layouts.

Dreaming on the Radio. This is a fabulously thorough guide to the Radio Eps. Site owned by .

Gendou’s Anime Music site. Download anything you can’t find on ’s music post.

VICTORY: a tenimyu fanlisting – a site with the most comprehensive information on all the actors who have appeared in the Tenipuri Musicals. White Line also has a wealth of information on them.

Anime News Network’s PoT Seiyuu page – features a ton of information on the Tenipuri voice actors.

Doujinshi:

Dragonfly – lots and lots of Tenipuri doujinshi (click Projects). Uses torrents.

Tenipuri Doujinshi – cute site with lots of Doujinshi, manga art scans, official anime art and screencaps, character summaries, and music downloads

Lamplighter – small PoT doujinshi scanlation group with a focus on Akira Hojo.

Aarin Fantasy’s Prince of Tennis Yaoi Thread. 200+ pages of Tenipuri slash art.

School Shrines:

Band of Princes – Seigaku Fanlisting.

Ice Ice Baby – Shrine to Hyotei.

Hyouteism

Rikkaization.

Fanart:

I think Happilmaster’s artwork is among the most amazing and dynamic I’ve ever seen anywhere. She draws Oishi more beautifully than I’ve ever seen him, and the art-deco style Kaidoh/Eiji/GP panels are breathtaking. I can’t rec this site enough.

Snowbunnyluv’s chibi art is love.

Nayami-chan’s Tenimyu portraits are so realistic that I watched a 20-minute animation of her art just so I could be convinced it wasn’t a photoshopped image.

I had the Roaming Tenipuri artwork of Snow in Savannah saved in my official tenipuri art folder til last week because I didn’t realize that it wasn’t part of the official tenipuri bromides set. This artist is in a word, stunning. Her regular artwork may be found here. She has done a BUNCH of fanart for the musicals that are absolutely amazing; but the real treasure of this artist’s collection is the work she has done for an AU RPG which transports the characters into a fantasy samurai world. The Roaming Tenipuri Art is easily some of the most amazing in the fandom.

Ship Manifestos:
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Fanfiction:
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I will at some point be updating this blog with personal recs.

In the meantime, the best run-down of Tenipuri pairings I have ever ever seen, is The PoT Yaoi Relationship Chart by Xel. This is not only extremely well-drawn, but it is INCREDIBLY, HILARIOUSLY ACCURATE. There is no tenipuri ship that goes unaccounted for here. AND THE COLOR CODING. This is the Tenipuri fandom in yellow, red, and green. I almost put this under “fandom resources”, except that I love it too much, so it’s here instead.

And finally…… SWAG.

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Thanks and Final Notes:

Special thanks to the following people who wrote guest sections of this very involved post series, and provided lots and lots of helpful information: achiasa, assyrian, and soundczech. Thanks also to orphne, and many many people from livejournal for directing me to a wealth of fandom resources.

Some images have been liberally borrowed from . I have used fanart by Snowbunnyluv and Weem. The very, very loose scanlation of Silver Pair versus Golden Pair was provided by sarahofcroydon.

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This guide to the tenipuri fandom has taken weeks to put together. In the process I have realized this fandom is bigger than even I had imagined. I don’t expect anyone to read all six posts in this series, but I hope that you have at least found parts of it helpful!

And of course, I hope that some of you may find yourselves falling as completely in love with this fantastic anime as I have. ♥

Bonus: PICSPAM!