This story of mine is continued from part 14, here. (*^-^*)
It’s been a little while, hasn’t it! But this whole week I’m posting an assistant post every day, and I’m going to take you through my memories of things like our first design work, our first event with Konomi-sensei, a tragedy, and my first time setting pen to a paper that would be PUBLISHED (omg!). Check back every day! 7 days of Tenipuri!!
I did something a little bit differently and answered your questions directly in the last post! You can check the answers out here!
I recommend reading through the comments and adding your own if you like! I really love to see discussion happening between others, and it has some hints from me as well! *^^*
Well, here we go!
If you remember from last time, I left off after our picture-taking session at the Takanodai Tennis Club!
Sensei piled most of us back into his totally-awesome car, and Watanabe-san got into the rental with the Photographer.
After we were buckled in, chatting about how our photos would come out compared to a professional photographer’s, Konomi-sensei turned to look back at us.
“Are you guys hungry?”
Weren’t we ever!! Running around a tennis club taking photos was more tiring than we had thought. Not to mention, who would turn up food on Shueisha’s payroll?
Sensei turned to me solemnly, though, and asked, “J, can you eat eel?”
I looked at him a moment, surprised. I’d never eaten eel before! But I eat everything (except vinegar), so I was certainly willing to try!
..Not that I’d really had a choice. We probably would have gone there no matter what I said. But it was nice to have the illusion of choice!
It wasn’t long before we pulled into a nice-looking restaurant with Watanabe-san’s car, and headed inside. It was a pretty pricey place, and we had our own little room with one of those cool tables where you sit on pillows on the floor, and there’s a big hole underneath the table that you put your feet into.
Sensei took the lead, ordering for all of us. We had all kinds of delicious fish and eel (and it IS delicious! I can’t recommend eel enough!)! YUMYUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMM!!
(Sensei and Kaiwa-san looking over the menu)
But soon enough, the papers came out.
Papers?
Well, this was a business lunch after all, so to speak!
I had been working for Sensei for more than two months now, but at this point, we hadn’t done anything more than practice drawing, play golf, and go out to eat. It turns out… the manga hadn’t even been named yet!
Not that I was too surprised. Sensei seemed like a pretty laid-back person so far.
So, when he pulled out a sheet of copy paper with some colorful logos that looked like the original series’ logo, all I did (all we all did), was crane over to look.
(Watanabe-san and Sensei discuss the logo and series name.)
“What do you guys think?” He finally asked us.
There were multiple pages of logos, maybe 15 in all. Some of them said, “New Prince of Tennis,” and the others, “Prince of Tennis 2.” Just those two options.
Suuuuuper creative, I know. ~_~;
To be honest, besides the color schemes and tiny little alterations, there wasn’t really much difference between them. The real big question seemed to be, though, “What should I call the series?”
I thought that it should be named a little more creatively, so I suggested names like, “Prince of Tennis: Second Serve,” and “Prince of Tennis: Love 2.” It even seemed like he liked them, and he jotted down all sorts of suggestions!
The lunch ended without a final decision, but with much debating over the suggestions. Sensei seemed to be leaning toward “Second Serve,” or so I thought at the time, so I was walking on air!
We piled into the cars, full and satisfied, and pulled away.
But the day was only half over! It wasn’t too long before we pulled up in front of a big, stone gate. Some intrepid readers of the Prince of Tennis manga might recognize this place: Daystar Golf Resort.
Do you?
Stay tuned tomorrow, where I finish our day!
Also coming later this week: Real work on the series begins!! Something beyond awesome happens! Then, a tragedy strikes.. 
See you soon!
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There were multiple pages of logos, maybe 15 in all. Some of them said, “New Prince of Tennis,” and the others, “Prince of Tennis 2.” Just those two options.
Most creative names, yes. XD Second Serve sounds better, tbh! Would’ve been nice if they picked a more creative name. Just adding “new” to the title kinda gives the wrong impression that Ryoma will be dethroned or something. ^^;;
I don’t think I recognize that Daystar place but it looks really cool. O:
Why not the “King of Tennis?” or “Heir of Tennis?” “Crown of Tennis?”
The “second serve” title does sound good, but a little on the regular side I suppose.
“Love 2″ Sounds great and is keeping inside the Tennis boundary! But some people might get mixed up with the ‘Love’ in the title thinking the story may end up in the romance lane.
Yeah, you have to stay true to what the fans know and recognize I suppose.
Love 2, in the fan’s view, is probably even more accurate. XD
(And not reading Prince of Tennis has slapped me in the face… XD)
I’m looking into it deeper now, The name could be a pun; “I’d ‘love to’ continue!”
Or simply the “love 2″ could certainly mean a start of a new round/match. Though Someone could of establish that before me…
“Love” is a tennis term, relating to keeping score.
Interesting read so far, looking forward to the upcoming entries.
Something I’ve been wondering about is how far ahead Konomi-sensei plans when creating new moves. So when he comes up with a new one, does he already take notes on what other techniques and playstyles it works against or how it can be defeated (even when there is no immediate need for it)? Or is it more that he adds those properties as the manga progresses?
Maybe somewhat related, but do all characters have stat sheets of sorts (like the ones that got included during some of the 3rd court vs 5th court team shuffle)?
I hope it’s acceptable for me to ask these more technical (I guess you could call them that) questions?
I can’t say for sure, since I’m not him, but Sensei did make up some moves on the spot, as we were working with him. Same for characters, too! I’ll cover a little bit about what I know about his creative process later on, as it comes up in the story. ^^
Oh, and as for stat sheets…. This is going to sound completely ridiculous, but he doesn’t make up a lot of the stats!! When I get to the part where we started work on the character books, you’ll understand.
Wow, I don’t remember that golf course either! LOL Darn it.
How cool to have at least an input on the name though! Even if he didn’t end up going with your suggestion, just the fact that he considered it is pretty neat to me
Yay!
Prince of Tennis 2, oh how creative XD;; ShinPuri is fine, but Second Serve would sound the best, not sure about how it is in japanese though XD
I think you might call me an interpid reader (:D) but I don’t recognize it XD
Can you tell us, was there a reason why TeniPuri 2 (haha) started in Jump SQ? Was it that Konomi-sensei wanted more freedom and not so much stress (seeing that he indeed is a laid-back person)? ^.^
Looking forward to this week \m/
I’m not 100% sure, since I’m not Konomi-sensei, but from what I saw, I think you’re right. He seemed to really prefer the relatively laid-back nature of a monthly magazine over a weekly.
I do know why he started it up again, though. In this own words, “I wanted the musical to be able to go on.” So here you have it.
Ha! I want the musical to be able to go on as well!
Although, some of those matches in the later chapters…they’re so interspersed and go back and forth and all…however will they put that on stage?? (And yes, some of my friends have already wonderered about that 
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I wonder! Likely, they’ll use it to draw out the musicals for as long as possible, in some way.
Mm, well I don’t see anything wrong with that, even though I’d give up some valuable things for having it in a weekly magazine XD Oh well
And that, is a very good reason. Very, very good reason indeed XDDD It makes me happy he loves the musicals so much XD
If they’re going to make a musical out of the ShinPuri, it will be…. interesting. In a really really really weird way! o___o
Ah, but who doesn’t want the musical to go on? *w*