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Do you wonder why I am ultra active this year?
It's because it's POT's tenth anniversary!!!
To celebrate this wonderful year, since only a few remembers, I would want to make a joint project with all of you, POT fans!
Our joint project for this commemorative year is to make a POT encyclopedia here on fanpop.
You can write messages to me containing articles for POT. It may be terminology, the moves, the people, the places and the likes!
I will publish the article "The Prince of Tennis Encyclopedia" if I have compiled at least ten articles.
I will only compile articles of POT. You can only send message to me via fanpop by visiting my profile at http://www.fanpop.com/fans/ryomaidol and write me a message or via my e-mail at andres_ryoma@yahoo.com.
Also, articles should be as short as zero to two articles only.
I will accept articles as long as fanpop exists.
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Jamie Lano, an American artist and columnist who has been living in Japan since 2004, is assisting Takeshi Konomi on his New Prince of Tennis (Shin Tennis no Ouji-sama) manga, which just launched in Shueisha's Jump Square magazine on Wednesday.
Lano answered a notice that Konomi posted for new assistant artists last September. At the time, Konomi had not officially announced that he was restarting The Prince of Tennis manga after ending it last March. During parts of the six months leading up to the new manga's launch, Lano and the rest of Konomi's staff would work in marathon sessions and not step foot outside the studio for up to a week or longer. (Lano qualified this to ANN, "Though the longest stay has been 10 days, the norm is roughly a week, then a break, and another week. We go out for dinner or to parks or events and things like that on occasion. Once even to an onsen [hot spring].")
In addition to contributing to the actual art, Lano translated the English dialogue in the manga. (The story's first chapter takes place in New York, although the story then moves back to Japan.) She speaks English, as well as Japanese "but not fluently."
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Zero-Shiki (Degree) Drop shot. This shot causes the ball to roll away from the opponent and towards the net once it drops on their side of the tennis court (usually landing a foot away from the net), preventing them from hitting the ball again since it does not bounce toward them. He later develops a variation of this technique in the form of a serve called the Zero-Shiki Serve. Another one of Tezuka's signature techniques is the Tezuka Zone (手塚ゾーン Tezuka Zōn), a technique which involves him putting enough spin on the ball in order to force nearly all hits to be "sucked" into his hit zone, making it unnecessary for him to move around the court. He is also able to use this technique so as to make the ball go out of bounds rather than toward him, with this being dubbed the Tezuka Phantom. However, in order to do this, Tezuka must create an even greater spin on the ball, which can result in Tezuka re-injuring his arm or being permanently sidelined if he uses it consecutively.
Tezuka has also opened two of the three doors of Muga no Kyōchi (無我の境地, trans. State of Self Actualization), which is a technique in the series that can only be achieved when a tennis...
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