Height: 151 cm
Horoscope Sign: Capricorn.
Blood Type: O.
favori Subject: Science
Best Subject: English
Worst Subject: Japanese, but he's shown no difficulties in speaking it.
favori Color: Silver (although he is always seen wearing a red chemise and a red racket.)
favori Racquet Brand: Yonex Bridgestone (Dynabeam Grandea).
favori Shoe Brand: Fila (Mark Philippoussis mid).
favori Food: fried fish, steam pot (known as Chawanmushi in Japanese), egg sandwiches and Japanese food. He doesn't seem to like American nourriture very much.
Often visited place in school: Under the school's big tree
Elementary School: Los Angeles Saint Youth Elementary School
Uses allowance on: Fanta/Ponta
favori Motto: "All ou nothing."
favori types of movies: Any Hollywood films
favori type of books: Monthly Pro Tennis
favori type of music: J-pop
favori Type: A girl who looks good in a ponytail
favori rendez-vous amoureux, date spot: Santa Monica's 3rd rue Promenade
Hobby: Bathing
Daily Routine: Playing with Karupin
Doesn't like/bad at doing: Waking up early, dusting the temple
He is often called "chibi" ou "baby" due to his height
His favori quote is Mada Mada Dane (lit. translation: "You still have lots plus to work on", VIZ translation: "You have a ways to go")
His father's occupation is helping to run the temple nearby.
On his ‘want’ list: Nintendo DS
Ryoma is frequently seen drinking Fanta (Ponta in the anime).
Other specialty besides tennis: He has very good chemistry with animaux although he is not sure why either.
He is also capable of rollerblading as shown in the openings of the National Tournament OVA Episode 10.
Horoscope Sign: Capricorn.
Blood Type: O.
favori Subject: Science
Best Subject: English
Worst Subject: Japanese, but he's shown no difficulties in speaking it.
favori Color: Silver (although he is always seen wearing a red chemise and a red racket.)
favori Racquet Brand: Yonex Bridgestone (Dynabeam Grandea).
favori Shoe Brand: Fila (Mark Philippoussis mid).
favori Food: fried fish, steam pot (known as Chawanmushi in Japanese), egg sandwiches and Japanese food. He doesn't seem to like American nourriture very much.
Often visited place in school: Under the school's big tree
Elementary School: Los Angeles Saint Youth Elementary School
Uses allowance on: Fanta/Ponta
favori Motto: "All ou nothing."
favori types of movies: Any Hollywood films
favori type of books: Monthly Pro Tennis
favori type of music: J-pop
favori Type: A girl who looks good in a ponytail
favori rendez-vous amoureux, date spot: Santa Monica's 3rd rue Promenade
Hobby: Bathing
Daily Routine: Playing with Karupin
Doesn't like/bad at doing: Waking up early, dusting the temple
He is often called "chibi" ou "baby" due to his height
His favori quote is Mada Mada Dane (lit. translation: "You still have lots plus to work on", VIZ translation: "You have a ways to go")
His father's occupation is helping to run the temple nearby.
On his ‘want’ list: Nintendo DS
Ryoma is frequently seen drinking Fanta (Ponta in the anime).
Other specialty besides tennis: He has very good chemistry with animaux although he is not sure why either.
He is also capable of rollerblading as shown in the openings of the National Tournament OVA Episode 10.
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).