[Prince of Tennis] So, You Want to Try Some PoT?

[flonnebonne]

This has probably been done a million times, but...



Disregard any and all laws of physics

The most important quality in a tennis player is the ability to turn golden.

Everything and everyone revolves around tennis. No exceptions.

If you ever need to attack someone/catch something/save the world, it's best to do so with tennis equipment.

Fortunately, everyone carries tennis equipment all the time.

For a non-contact sport in which you are separated from your opponent by a net and the only time you'll ever touch is to shake hands, tennis can be awfully violent.

Fortunately, the most heroic thing a player can do is to lay down his health for his team.

Tennis techniques can easily be transferred to any other sport and vice versa.

To make the ball go into slow motion it's best to launch into a flashback, though deep thoughts and long-winded commentary work well too.

Freshmen are annoying. Deal with it.

Being twelve years old and having only two years of tennis experience is laughable.

Redheads are nimble but have bad stamina.

Japanese sports reporters have nothing better to do than stalk junior high school students.

This is understandable because the best tennis players in the world are all Japanese junior high school students.

Made-up tennis moves beat the crap out of real ones.

If you make up a tennis technique, make sure to give it a snazzy name so that it's easily identifiable and observers can yell out it's name when you use it.

Also give it a snazzy visual metaphor.

Like Pokemon, tennis players tend to evolve in a dramatic fashion in the heat of battle.

Doubles pairs tend to be screwing each other amazingly close, even for best friends (suggested by tokkitsu).

Women's tennis does not exist. (added August 17, 2005)

And, most importantly...

PoT = CRACK is love



Inspired by a similar thing that reality_is did for Slam Dunk. I would link to it except I can't seem to find it anymore...if anyone knows where a permanent link to it exists, please drop me a line.

And if anyone has anything to add to the PoT Primer, please also drop me a line!

Also, I KNOW Pokemon can't evolve during battle in the actual video game yadda daya ya. It's only in the TV series that they do that. Though according to shinra_lackey they sorta can. But she knows this stuff better than me. In her words: "total geek."

Comments

[shinra-lackey.livejournal.com]

Random Pokemon observation: I haven't played the game in years, so I may be wrong, but can't pokemon evolve after defeating another pokemon? So if you're battling a trainer and he/she uses a second pokemon, you can evolve after fighting the first and use new moves on the second? It's not during a battle per se, but close? Um, and I'm a total geek.

Also POT = CRACK is love.

[flonnebonne]

Am proud to admit that I never actually played Pokemon except for about ten minutes when my little brother handed me his gameboy and told me to fight a nasty random kid lurking in the grass. Most of my Pokemon knowledge comes from the TV show

...wait, that's even more embarrassing. Um, but anyway, I'll take your word for it about the evolving during battle thing.

Also, thank you for the PoT Primer suggestion! Will implement immediately.

[tokkitsu.livejournal.com]

Doubles pairs tend to be screwing each other amazingly close, even for best friends.

[flonnebonne]

Thanks! Is so very true. Will add this to the list right away.

[fromastudio]

SO MEM'ING THIS. *spams you with hearts* ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

[flonnebonne]

Baby, you can meme me any day!

*spams you with hearts back* ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥