The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup Semifinal Anime Casts Shinichirō Miki

The official web space for The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup Semifinal (Shin Tennis no Ōji-sama U-17 World Cup Semifinal), the sequel to The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup anime sequence, published on Thursday that Shinichirō Miki will play Antonio da Medanoré, captain of Spain’s team.

The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup Semifinal began airing on tv on October 2 on TV Tokyo and varied channels. The anime centers on the Japan vs. Germany semifinal.

Yoshinobu Tokumoto (The Prince of Tennis II OVA vs. Genius 10 episode director) is directing the anime at M.S.C. Akiharu Ishii (The Prince of Tennis) is designing the characters. Mitsutaka Hirota (The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup) goes thru sequence composition. Chihiro Tamaki (The Prince of Tennis II Hyotei vs Rikkai Recreation of Future) is composing the music.

The additional workers involves:

• Coloration create: Yuko Tsumori
• Art director: Jin’ya Kimura
• Background: Atelier Roku 07
• Art atmosphere: Yukie Inose, Tomoyuki Aoki
• Director of images: Yūta Nakamura
• Editor: Daisuke Hiraki
• Sound director: Yūki Matsuoka
• Sound manufacturing: Jinnan Studio

emBLEm=ADLER, a unit consisting of participants of the anime’s German team, build the anime’s ending theme music “GLANZ.” The performers are Ryōtarō Okiayu (Kunimitsu Tezuka), Kentarō Tone (Jürgen Borisovich Volk), and Mitsuki Saiga (Q・P).

The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup premiered on TV Tokyo in July 2022. Crunchyroll streamed the anime because it aired in Japan, and likewise streamed an English dub. The anime used to be the major recent tv anime in the franchise in about a decade.

Crunchyroll describes the sequence:

When tennis phenom Ryoma Echizen is kicked out of Japan’s elite U-17 coaching camp for breaking the foundations, he is despondent. But a stroke of applicable luck hits when he is in a arena to strive out for the U.S. team. Proving himself against their hardened veterans is never any longer going to be easy, and if he is accredited, he’ll like to play against his feeble traffic. Can he back his recent brothers atomize their system to victory?

Keiichiro Kawaguchi (ISLAND) returned from the The Prince of Tennis II Hyotei vs Rikkai Recreation of Future anime to reveal the recent sequence at Studio KAI and M.S.C, and Mitsutaka Hirota (Anime-Gataris, Nanbaka) all over again supervised the scripts. Akiharu Ishii (Blood+, Ultramarine Magmell) returned to create the characters and served as chief animation director.

Sources: The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup Semifinal anime’s web space, Mainichi Shimbun’s Mantan Web