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Do I need to watch all the seasons to enjoy this?

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I really like national team sports, and I would like to see this, even tho I never really seen the anime series.
As I'm writting this, only the first episode was released yet, but my question is, do I NEED to watch all of it to understand this, or can I just watch this one, and maybe if I'm interested enough I can see from the begging.

JiroSama 3y
yeah, it's a sequel.
tyoshi9 3y
Yeah, why would you watch something a sequel if you haven't watched the series before?
Twi 3y
Unfortunately, you don't really understand the connections between all of the characters if you don't watch the original series and the extras.
There are a ton of OVAs, but I think if you just watch the base series and the 2nd series you should be fine.
It helps you understand the moves and dynamic.
e- It's also part of the battle sports group, similar to Kuroko, but it predates it.
I'd say if you can't get into the first ~15 episodes of the first season, then it's probably not your cup of tea.
AquamarineGem 3y
- It's a sequel. But they are introducing a lot of international sports teams, and athletes that weren't in the prequel.
- I would recommend watching at least the Prince of Tennis II. It has all the players from the Japanese National Team. The main Seigaku team get some screen time as well.
- The original Prince of Tennis has 178 episodes. I really don't expect anyone to remember that much character info when there's a huge cast of characters already.
- There's some background characters that weren't added to Prince of Tennis II as well.
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