It's been many years since the last Prince of Tennis anime that actually followed the manga. Now our prayers have been answered and the story will continue.
It depends on how long this series will be whether we'll get to see any new ground. The manga translation fell off at some point so it would be nice for the anime to move things forward past where we can read for the English-speaking world.
Prince of Tennis is one of those never-ending manga, so even with this anime the story will remain incomplete and not fully adapted. But it's a step in the right direction. This announcement removes Prince of Tennis from my anime wishlist, which I promptly replaced with the ever-ready placeholder Koutetsujou no Kabaneri.
For a series with so many episodes, you'd think Prince of Tennis would rank higher than its current #121, but a lot of those episodes are filler -- they don't follow the manga. And then on top of it sometimes even the manga feels like filler, as it wastes our time with dumb and unrealistic matches and pointless off-the-court fights. You have to wade through a lot of nonsense to reach the occasional high quality scene. A laser focused series of 12 episodes like Ryuuou no Oshigoto can pack in more emotion and more events than the diffuse mess that is Prince of Tennis, which is why Ryuuou ranks higher.
This continues the trend of virtually every famous old anime having a sequel announced but none actually airing. From Code Geass to Fairy Tail to Bleach to Prince of Tennis, we should be living in nirvana by now.
Reddit reports that Aiyoku no Eustia's visual novel translation should be released in a couple weeks. If so that would be a huge improvement to the year.
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