Is Tennis no Oujisama good to watch with a friend?
A commitment. Tennis no Oujisama (Prince of Tennis) is a TV series from Fall 2001 by Production I.G, Trans Arts Co.: 178 episodes, about 65 hours in total, finished, 7.77/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a commitment. 178 episodes is about 65 hours of watching: at two episodes a night that is 89 evenings. Pick it as a running fixture, not a one-off. Rule: 100 episodes or more → commitment.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 178
- Episode length
- 22 min
- Total time
- about 65 hours — a long haul
- First aired
- Fall 2001
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Production I.G, Trans Arts Co.
- Score
- 7.77/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, comedy, drama, school, shounen, sports, superpowers, tournament
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: The Prince of Tennis.
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More like this: action · manga adaptation · comedy · drama · school · shounen · sports · superpowers · tournament.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Tennis no Oujisama?
- About 65 hours for all 178 episodes at 22 min each — a long haul; at two episodes a night that is 89 evenings.
- How many episodes does Tennis no Oujisama have?
- 178 episodes of 22 min.
- Is Tennis no Oujisama finished?
- Yes, Tennis no Oujisama is finished (178 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Tennis no Oujisama good for a group?
- Yes. Tennis no Oujisama is tagged action, comedy, sports, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Tennis no Oujisama listed?
- Tennis no Oujisama is on AniList (id 22) and MyAnimeList (id 22); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists