Off Topic from Genshin for a moment,
Can I just rant about an Otome game I recently rediscovered.
If any of you know Prince of Tennis, this is a Prince of Tennis otome game for the DS called: Prince of Tennis Motto Gakuensai no Oujisama
You have a potential of 37. YES 37 guys to date, all characters from Prince of Tennis.
It's a very simple game, but whoever the writers were, they knew what we ladies wanted lol.
Spoilers about the game and gameplay below the cut
First off, you can choose which school you go to. Prince of Tennis is kind of like Haikyuu, but with tennis. So if you're interested in a certain character, you would have to choose to go to their school.
Second, the story is totally something a fan author would write lol. It's totally a Y/N moment. You're part of the school festival committee and you're helping the tennis team build and manage their booth for the school festival. The story only spans I think, 2 weeks in game and if you really speed run it, in real time it would take around 30 minutes to an hour to finish one guy.
The way to romance a guy is pretty simple, and also very slice of life type. There's no complicated backstory, since you're just an average high school girl. Basically you just try to keep talking to the guy you're interested in and you get to know each other in the span of those 2 weeks. Sounds boring right?
But the dialogue in some of the routes is extremely fluffy.
Example: There's at least ONE scene where the guy worries about you.
One of them is when it's a particularly hot day during the school festival and you pass out. Cue the guy panicking and taking you to the infirmary, worried sick.
One of the other scenes involved the guy getting into a fist fight with another student and your character sort of tries to stop them and gets in between but instead you get hit (yes, really) So your guy is obviously panicking and angry. (The dialogue for the guy went something a bit like "...I can't believe you got in between us and got hit! I don't know what I would do if you--" and then he cuts off there cause guy hasn't confessed to you yet)
AND THEN there's another one where you go into the storage room with the guy and you're trying to find something in one of the boxes, but the box is too high and it ends up almost falling on you but you somehow evade it, except that you now have a sprained ankle. And then, of course, the guy is again extremely worried.
I'm not even kidding about how angsty/fluffy some of these scenes are. Like, I'm rambling! and remember there are 37 DIFFERENT GUYS WITH DIFFERENT SCENARIOS! (Actually I could probably get some writing ideas off of these lollll)
I am SO glad I found this game again (Playing it on a DS Emulator and I patched the game so that it was translated to English)
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PRINCE OF TENNIS PREQUEL
This oneshot (published in Vol 5) still have a lot of the elements of POT chapter 1
College student Sasabe is still the bully who keeps terrorizing College student Nanako Ryuzaki in some tennis club. Echizen comes to her rescue which pisses Sasabe off.
Nanako eventually ignores Sasabe and asks tips from this middle schooler who humbled Sasabe with lesson about grips.
We see Ryoma just splashing an entire Ponta to his face.
So Echizen goads Sasabe into playing a tennis match
Nanako's teacher/coach shows up.
And at some point he tells of Echizen's backstory
"He was a basketball fanatic up til the 2nd grade but during a game one of the upperclassmen kept fouling him where the teacher couldn't see."
@allersinwonderland Konomi was already unhinged way back before PoT was still a concept for him.
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In some shocking news, Suwabe Junichi, the one and only man who perfectly portrays the King of this series: Atobe Keigo, has announced that he has to go under hiatus and have a surgery for an undisclosed condition.
Suwabe himself said that it’s not due to overwork or mental health issue, but because he is “an old man in his 50s”
We wish him all the best and a soon recovery!! As the King, I’m sure he will come back with even more energy!
Get well soon, Suwabe-san!!
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