History Trivia / ThePrinceOfTennis

*** Eiji Moriyama (the first Momoshiro) returns but playing Nanjiro (who was previously being played by director and choreographer Yukio Ueshima).

* StarMakingRole: Ryoma Echizen was the role that catapulted Creator/JunkoMinagawa to stardom.

** While there was a Rikkai B assembled for The Final Match Rikkai First, Toshiki Masuda replaced Yagami Ren as Yukimura, while Yuuki Yamaoki replaced Ono Kento as Yanagi, Mio Acaba as Marui and Shingo Toda as Jackal for the rest of the Season (they both played their parts for both casts). Averted for Kanesaki Kentaro, who was the only one to play Sanada for both Rikkai casts during the entire season.

** Subverted. Hiroki Aiba [[StarMakingRole started his career in the musicals]], and later moved on to voice acting and other gigs as a dancer. For the 'New Prince of Tennis' plays, he returns to play Irie Kanata on stage, who he ''also'' voices in New Prince of Tennis.

* StarMakingRole: Many of the actors start off as rookie actors in the musicals, and eventually move on to bigger productions, music careers, bigger acting profiles, and so on.

** Shirota Yuu (1st Season Tezuka 2) and Creator/KazukiKato (1st Season Atobe 1) [[FanService played a lot with this]] in the backstage videos.

** In English, Viz Media produced a dub from 2007-2008 at Salami Studios in Los Angeles, covering the first 50 episodes. In 2021, Funimation announced that they were producing a brand new English dub for their streaming service. It premiered on Crunchyroll in 2022, although it initially picked up where Viz's dub left off, as the latter was still streaming on Hulu until Viz's license expired in August of 2022. The new dub is recorded at Sound Cadence Studios in Texas, with some actors recording from Los Angeles.

** Kato Ryosuke plays both twins Kisarazu Atsushi from St. Rudolph and Kisarazu Ryou from Rokkaku in 1st Season. It even gets lampshaded by him in a Dream Live, replying [[LampshadeHanging it gets tiring to change costumes everytime he has to get one of them backstage]].
** Like Kato Ryosuke, Hirose Daisuke also plays both Kisarazu twins, in 2nd Season.

** Yuu Shirota (1st Season Tezuka 2) and Creator/KazukiKato (1st Season Atobe 1) [[FanService played a lot with this]] in the backstage videos.

** Any former alumni who had co-starred in a BoysLove movie with Takumi Saito (1st Season Oshitari 1). So far, we have Yoshikazu Kotani (1st Season Kawamura 2, in "Boys Love"), Hiroki Aiba (1st Season Fuji 2, in "Sukitomo") and Ryunosuke Kawai (1st Season Hiyoshi A, in the adaptation of "Itsuka no Kimi e").

* TheOtherDarrin: Aside from the actors graduating and PassingTheTorch to the next cast, there were cases where the recast happened without a graduation.

** "Side Fudomine ~Special Match~" (2004-2005), was a remake of the original Fudomine play. This version has Endou Yuuya as Ryoma (he shared the role with Yanagi Kotaroh, who returned after his recovery). Also YOH replaced Sugawara Takuma as Tachibana, and Fujiwara Yuki played Kamio instead of Matsui Yasuyuki.

** While there was a Rikkai B assembled for The Final Match Rikkai First, Masuda Toshiki replaced Yagami Ren as Yukimura, while Yamaoki Yuuki replaced Ono Kento as Yanagi, Acaba Mio as Marui and Toda Shingo as Jackal for the rest of the Season (they both played their parts for both casts). Averted for Kanesaki Kentaro, who was the only to play Sanada for both Rikkai casts during the entire season.
** In Dream Live 7th, the Seigaku 1st cast made a special guest appearance, but Eiki Kitamura replaced Abe again because of scheduling conflicts. It's even mentioned by the guys themselves on stage.

** Yuu Shirota (1st Season Tezuka 2) and Kazuki Kato (1st Season Atobe 1) [[FanService played a lot with this]] in the backstage videos.

* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** [[Creator/HirokiTakahashi Kikumaru]], [[Creator/TakayukiKondo Oishi]] and [[Creator/KenjiroTsuda Inui]] are [[Manga/YuGiOh Jonouchi, Honda and Kaiba]].
*** [[Creator/RyotaroOkiayu Tezuka]] are playing as Honda in the Toei series and [[Creator/HaruhiTerada Yuki]] as Mai.
** [[Creator/NobuyukiHiyama Jackal Kuwahara]] and [[Creator/NozomuSasaki Jin Akutsu]] are [[Manga/YuYuHakusho Hiei and Yusuke Urameshi]].
** It shares the voice actors with 1999 Hunter x Hunter.
*** [[Creator/YukiKaida Shusuke Fuji]] is Kurapika.
*** [[Creator/HozumiGouda Mamoru Inoue]] is Leorio.

* RoleReprise: With the exception of Kotaro Yanagi, the second musical's main Seigaku cast reprised their roles for the 2006 LiveActionAdaptation, including Yuu Shirota as Kunimitsu Tezuka, Hiroki Suzuki as Shuichiro Oishi, Hiroki Aiba as Shusuke Fuji, Hirofumi Araki as Sadaharu Inui, Osamu Adachi as Eiji Kikumaru, Masaki Fuji as Takeshi Momoshiro, Yoshikazu Kotani as Takashi Kawamura, and Kosuke Kujirai as Kaoru Kaido.

** Since Creator/{{Funimation}} announced that they will be redubbing the whole series from scratch, everyone will inevitably be recast.

** In English, Viz Media produced a dub from 2007-2008 at Salami Studios in Los Angeles, covering the first 50 episodes. In 2021, Funimation announced that they were producing a brand new English dub for their streaming service. It premiered on Crunchyroll in 2022, although it picks up where Viz's dub left off, as the latter was still streaming on Hulu until Viz's license expired in August of 2022. The new dub is recorded at Sound Cadence Studios in Texas, with some actors recording from Los Angeles.

** In English, Viz Media produced a dub from 2007-2008 at Salami Studios in Los Angeles, covering the first 50 episodes. In 2021, Funimation announced that they were producing a brand new English dub for their streaming service. It premiered on Crunchyroll in 2022, although it picks up where Viz's dub left off, with the latter still streaming on Hulu; it's been suggested that those episodes will be redubbed when Viz's license expires. The new dub is recorded at Sound Cadence Studios in Texas, with some actors recording from Los Angeles.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The original 2006 English dub by Creator/VizMedia was released on DVD, but they have since gone out of print. All 50 episodes of that dub are still available for streaming on Hulu.

* FanNickname:
** Atobe gets called "Ore-sama" by the fandom. "Monkey King", in canon.
** Niou is known as MagnificentBastard, due to him being... well, a magnificent bastard. A running gag in the fandom is that Niou is planning all the events in the series.
** [[TheScrappy Richard]] is known as "Lost to [[InformedAbility Sengoku]] 6-4"
** Shitenhouji's vice-captain Kenjirou Koishikawa was nicknamed by the Shitenhouji fans as "Banira Aisu" for his resemblance to [[Music/VanillaIce a certain rapper]].

* DuelingDubs: There's two Latin American Spanish dubs: One done at the 2000s for Animax Latin America done in Venezuela, and another one at 2021 done by Funimation done in Mexico.

** Fuji, played by Creator/YukiKaida, and Yukimura (Sachiko Nagai) are the only two third year guys to be voiced by a woman. Yukimura also is the ''only'' captain or vice-captain voiced by a female seiyuu.