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Among sports anime fans, Prince of Tennis remains an icon that few series can hope to match. So, when series creator Takeshi Konomi announced that the sequel series, The New Prince of Tennis, would be ending sometime in 2026, fans were eager to see how the series would end. 27 years after the first chapter of The Princes of Tennis was published, the final chapter of the franchise will finally be published this summer.

Back in July 2025, Konomi said that he would be ending The New Prince of Tennis within a year. This was followed by a post in February 2026 that stated there were only six chapters left until the series ended. However, because Konomi often publishes multiple chapters of The New Prince of Tennis each month in Shueisha’s Jump Square magazine, no one outside of the editorial team knows exactly when that final chapter will be released. We suspect it will be in either the July or August issue of Jump Square.

This final chapter of The New Prince of Tennis, when it does come, will represent the end of one of the most remarkable runs in manga. The Prince of Tennis was first published in Weekly Shonen Jump back in July 1999 and ran for 379 chapters until March 2008. A year later, in March 2009, The New Prince of Tennis began serialization in Jump Square magazine. It followed the same main character, Ryoma Echizen, just a few months after the end of the previous series. The sequel series has run longer and for more chapters than the original.

The final chapter of The New Prince of Tennis is coming before the summer is over, and we’ll be waiting to see what happens at the end of this remarkable journey.

Each week, Popverse's resident anime expert Trent Cannon runs down the latest and, dare we say "greatest," in anime and manga in Popverse Jump. Some recent columns have included... 

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