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Now I've watched through the first season of Prince of Tennis II and the specials, which is completely uncharted territory because I haven't read any of the sequel manga. This training camp is so stupid (don't go to a mysterious training camp in the woods about which you know almost nothing and which has terrifying gates, kids), and I'm shocked and surprised to discover Echizen is a cool jacket guy?! Because that jacket sure is cool!

Atobe lightly smacking Hiyoshi on the butt with his racket - wow, I never found them shippy before, but suddenly... Though as a Tezuka/Atobe shipper I am also eating so well. As a fan I feel serviced. Look at their eyes sparkling at each other.

Kaidoh carrying Momo on his back up the mountain is also insanely shippy.

Everything about this mountain training camp is fucking stupid, but I've accepted this Prince of Tennis is about nonsense boys adventures and not about actual tennis, so I'm enjoying it. Shishido and Gakuto squabbling is so entertaining to me. I really enjoyed Inui and Yanagi's data doubles moment. The Shitenhoji dorks have grown on me. Even Sanada is growing on me, which I thought was impossible!

I'm never going to like the Rikkai characters the way Rikkai fans do 😂 but I'm invested in so many characters banding together to turn Kirihara into a functional human being. It's sort of fascinating how completely Rikkai fucked themselves up, now that they're in a context where they're interacting people from outside their toxic mess. Yukimura has to learn how to enjoy things, and Sanada basically hates himself, and Yanagi even feels guilty for what they all did to Kirihara.

It's amazing how after so many episodes of watching the losers camp be forced to climb mountains, get chased by eagles, and sleep rough, switching back to the winners camp seems so decadent and infuriating in comparison! They get catered food and nice baths!!! Atobe brought his own rose petals for a rose bath!!! Maddening!

It is cute watching Eiji and Ohtori be so sad and lost without their doubles partners, though.

Me when Atobe developed X-ray vision: Of course this would happen, I don't know why I expected otherwise.

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I watched the Another Story OVAs and I cannot believe they somehow made Shitenhoji grow on me just by having an episode where one of their team tells them all they're not funny and don't need to make so many jokes 🤣

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The Inui-Fuji friendship is deeply underrated. I've said it before and I'll say it again! I'd love to see more of their off hours adventures in Osaka.

Aw, the young Hyotei episode! Atobe and Oshitari looked like they were having fun! I'm also amused by Oshitari getting on the wrong train. TBH, Hyotei are my favourite of the rival teams and I think part of it is because they seem like they have fun and make time for friendships. I also liked the Jirou episode about his sleep disorder and his admiration for Marui from Rikkai. It was kind of cute.

Even when trying to make a fun charming backstoy episode for Kirihara, Rikkai still seems grim and joyless, with only about two characters who ever seem to have any fun...

Kintaro has grown on me, and he and Ryoma playing across the river is entertaining. Though I think my favourite moment was actually Eiji catching the ball.

I really liked the conversation between Eiji and Oishi about going to different high schools, not just that Oishi is a little pained about it and has struggled to tell Eiji, but also that Eiji is instantly so supportive. Obviously they're soul bonded on the tennis court, but it's nice to see them having those increasingly mature conversations outside of it.

I don't think I ever noticed until now that Taka and Tezuka talk more than I previously realised?!?

I did also like Momo and Kaidoh taking on the pressure of a team that's now going to be defending champions, as opposed to before when they were just part of an underdog team... It's a very different vibe, to be sure. And Higa popping up because they don't have the money to go home 🤣

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Celebration Chance (1029 words) by thawrecka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Tennis no Oujisama | Prince of Tennis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fuji Shuusuke/Kawamura Takashi
Characters: Fuji Shuusuke, Kawamura Takashi, Kikumaru Eiji
Additional Tags: Fluff, post nationals, First Kiss
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Kawamura is still injured, but Fuji takes a chance on what he wants anyway.

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I finished the Nationals OVAs! They're fun. It's a shame they don't have more time to expand some matches, but also I think some things work better animated than they did for me in the manga. Yukimura v Ryoma seemed so silly to me in the manga, but in the OVAs I'm like, oh, I get it: Yukimura visits his trauma on other people with his tennis style that aims to make people feel like they're being betrayed by their bodies and don't enjoy tennis anymore, so Ryoma defeats him in the psychological battle by still liking tennis. It's not deep, but somehow it works better for me in the OVAs than it did when I speed read through it.

Though I'm a bit sad that the original anime series cannibalised bits of what happened during the Fuji v Niou match for the Fuji v Tezuka match it put in towards the end of the original anime, because it means anime Fuji v Niou seems so much less interestingly weird.

Once again I feel like I don't understand why there isn't tons of fic about Oishi's desperate unrequited feelings for Tezuka. Everyone is weird about Tezuka obvs, but Oishi is the most so.

also lmao, Inui capturing Tezuka smiling on video

Also also, for the most part I think Tezuka's sexuality is leaving everyone on read, but during the yakiniku insanity when Inui was trying to fly mouth first towards Atobe and then Tezuka dakked Inui before he fell on the grill... that seemed more like Tezuka trying to stop Inui from trying it on with his man than anything.

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I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

Glitter (196 words) by thawrecka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jennifer's Body (2009)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jennifer Check/Anita "Needy" Lesnicki
Characters: Jennifer Check, Anita "Needy" Lesnicki
Additional Tags: Resurrection, Short, Nonnies Made Me Do It
Summary:

The 17th time Jennifer resurrects and finds Needy all over again...

First posted here on FFA.

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