He has émeraude black hair and hazel eyes.
In the series, Ryoma is portrayed as a twelve an old tennis prodigy who has won four consecutive Junior tennis Tournaments in America.
His father is Nanjirō Echizen, who is a former tennis pro nicknamed "Samurai Nanjiro".
At his father's request, Ryoma returns to Japon in order to attend Seishun Academy ("Seigaku"), a private middle school famous for its tennis team.
Due to his cocky attitude, he constantly butts heads with some of his upperclassmen as well as anger most of his opponents in tennis matches.
Still, he, along with his team, evolve as tennis players in order to win the National tennis Tournament.
Throughout the story, Ryoma continue to find his own style of tennis par creating original techniques instead of merely being a copy of his father.
Ryoma also appears in other media adaptations of the series including musicals, video games, soundtracks, and movies.
Ryoma has been fairly populaire among readers, having always stayed in the haut, retour au début four most populaire characters, even placing first two of the polls.
Also, Ryoma's character has been featured in plus soundtracks than any other character in the series.
His likeness has appeared in numerous types of other merchandise as well, including key chains and clothing.
However, in publicized reviews for the animé and manga, his character has received mixed reviews, with his personality being heavily criticized.
Reviewers from animé News Network and DVDTalk both finding Ryoma's cocky and "arrogant" attitude difficult to like.
Though they both find his tennis skills undefinable, they commentaire on how that makes it "difficult for the reader to latch on and share in his experiences," eliminating the tension that comes with underdog appeal.
The ANN reviewer, however, believes that some of the highlights of the series are the numerous ways that Ryoma defeats his opponents.
On the other hand, Mania commentaires that Ryoma does not come off as too "over the haut, retour au début ou too serious, but just the right level to be intimidating."
And Jeffrey of IGN cites that though Ryoma starts off as "stiff and cold," he slowly starts to break out of his shell.
In the series, Ryoma is portrayed as a twelve an old tennis prodigy who has won four consecutive Junior tennis Tournaments in America.
His father is Nanjirō Echizen, who is a former tennis pro nicknamed "Samurai Nanjiro".
At his father's request, Ryoma returns to Japon in order to attend Seishun Academy ("Seigaku"), a private middle school famous for its tennis team.
Due to his cocky attitude, he constantly butts heads with some of his upperclassmen as well as anger most of his opponents in tennis matches.
Still, he, along with his team, evolve as tennis players in order to win the National tennis Tournament.
Throughout the story, Ryoma continue to find his own style of tennis par creating original techniques instead of merely being a copy of his father.
Ryoma also appears in other media adaptations of the series including musicals, video games, soundtracks, and movies.
Ryoma has been fairly populaire among readers, having always stayed in the haut, retour au début four most populaire characters, even placing first two of the polls.
Also, Ryoma's character has been featured in plus soundtracks than any other character in the series.
His likeness has appeared in numerous types of other merchandise as well, including key chains and clothing.
However, in publicized reviews for the animé and manga, his character has received mixed reviews, with his personality being heavily criticized.
Reviewers from animé News Network and DVDTalk both finding Ryoma's cocky and "arrogant" attitude difficult to like.
Though they both find his tennis skills undefinable, they commentaire on how that makes it "difficult for the reader to latch on and share in his experiences," eliminating the tension that comes with underdog appeal.
The ANN reviewer, however, believes that some of the highlights of the series are the numerous ways that Ryoma defeats his opponents.
On the other hand, Mania commentaires that Ryoma does not come off as too "over the haut, retour au début ou too serious, but just the right level to be intimidating."
And Jeffrey of IGN cites that though Ryoma starts off as "stiff and cold," he slowly starts to break out of his shell.
He is greatly admired par his classmates (although he falls asleep in his English classes).
Sport other than tennis that he is also skilled in is table, tableau tennis (Tennis vs Ping Pong), bowling (Prince of Bowling), and billiards (The Prince of Billiards).
His abilities in plage volleyball, however, may be questioned.
When the Seigaku students go to the plage during the animé series, Ryoma plays well when paired with Kaidoh (Cheap Housing plage Volleyball).
However, he plays quite poorly in the OVA when paired with Tezuka.
In the same event in the manga, Ryoma, paired with Rokkaku's Kentaro Aoi, plays decently only after activating Muga no Kyōchi.
It is possible however, that the seconde time, they were using a plage ball, which was too light for any tennis related moves.
Ryoma faces Tanishi Kei in Singles 3, and shows his souvenir from America - the COOL Drive.
Ryoma continuously uses Drive C which everyone believes to be his COOL Drive, but he reveals that his COOL Drive has twice the spin of Drive Cs.
However, Tanishi's Big Bang Serve allows him to win all of his service games, while Ryoma manages to win all of his, forcing a tiebreak.
It is there that Ryoma manages to return the Big Bang Serve.
Ryoma had not let on to the fact that the serve had been weakening in power as the games progressed; as such, Tanishi was unaware of his own weakness, allowing Ryoma to get a return ace.
Finally montrer the true COOL Drive, Tanishi attempts to return it before it can land, however, when the ball hits Tanishi's raquet the amazing spin he puts on it forces the ball to greatly hit Tanishi's face.
Ryoma takes the first win for Seigaku.
Ryoma usually slides up near the net and then jumps to perform the Drive B.
However, during his match against Aoi Kentarō, Ryoma also uses a Drive B when he is still sliding on the ground.
He then uses the force made par the ball to go even faster.
Though it grants him plus speed, this version lacks the regular Drive B height; due to the topsin, it curves towards the ground instead of going out.
It may be defeated par direct smash.
This is Ryoma's first original shot (as opposed to moves he copies from other players), and is first used in his match against Fuji Yūta.
Besides the twist serve, it probably is his most notable shot, In the English dub, it has been renamed Drive V.
However, after throwing the ball up into the air to serve it, the body jumps vers l'avant, vers l’avant to hit the ball, resulting in a fast serve.
It's not his serve at all, Matsudaira Chikao, who is in Court 10, used his 'best and fastest' serve, which Ryoma, in return, commenté how slow it was, and used it after letting Matsudaira enjoy his 10 minutes of fame.
Echizen Ryoma
Kanji -
越前 リョーマ
Romaji -
Echizen Ryōma
Nicknames -
Prince of Tennis
Samurai Jr.
Super Rookie of the East
Super Freshman
Seigaku's Pillar of Support
Ochibi (by Kikumaru Eiji)
Chibisuke (Ryoga Echizen)
Brat (by Akutsu Jin)
Koshimae (Kintarō Tōyama)
tennis No Ojisama (by Keigo Atobe)
Seishonen (by Nanjirō Echizen)
Samurai (by Ken)
Heralded Newcomer (by Arai Masashi)
School and Class -
Seishun Academy (1st Year), 1-2 #4
Height (cm) and Blood Type -
151, O
Birthday -
December 24
Notable Relatives -
Nanjiro Echizen (Father)
Rinko Echizen (Mother)
Ryoga Echizen (Brother)
Nanako Meino (Cousin)
In the OVA, Ryoma tried to use the twist serve in a slanted court, which resulted in the bounce of the serve being too weak and making it easy to return (basically, it failed
Ryoma then adjusted his grip to make the twist serve bounce as it would normally in a court, and when used in a regular court, it became an irregular bounce.
He uses it on Sasabe - the older brother.
*It only appears in The Prince Of tennis OVA Episode 27, which most known as The Prince Of tennis OVA: A jour On Survival Mountain
He played in Singles 3, beating Yuuta Fuji 6-4.
It was during this match that he invented Drive B, his first original signature shot.
He also utilized the Super Rising, but it was not perfected.
In the semi-finals, Ryoma did not get to play as Ginka forfeited because of a "stomach ache" (they were afraid of Seigaku's regulars).
In the finals, against Yamabuki, he played in Singles 2, beating Yamabuki's Jin Akutsu 6-4, leading his team to the Kanto tournament.
It was in this stage that Ryoma perfected the Super Rising and invented a new shot, Drive A.
It was here that Ryoma had his revenge (Akutsu had come to Seigaku and served rocks at Echizen and cut his face).