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image=[[Image:nanjiro123.jpg|225px]]|caption=Nanjiro Echizen
|character_name=Nanjiro Echizen
|character_name_unicode=越前 南次郎
|voice_actor=[[Takashi Matsuyama]]
|voice_actor2=[[Liam O'Brien]]
|voice_actor3=[[Benjie Dorango]]
|eyes=[[Brown]]
|hair=[[Brown]]
|height=178
|birthday=[[November 11]]
|blood_type=unknown
|school=formerly [[Seishun Academy Middle School|Seigaku]]
|year_class=none
|playing_style=[[All rounder]], [[Right handed]]
|shoes=none
|racquet=none
|food=none
|hobbies=Reading explicit magazines
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{{nihongo|'''Nanjiro Echizen'''|越前 南次郎|Echizen Nanjirō}} is a fictional character in the [[anime]] and [[manga]] series ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]''. His name is spelled ''Nanjiro Echizen'' in the English manga and ''Nanjirou Echizen'' in Roman characters in the Japanese version of the anime.
==Background==
Nanjiro is the father of [[Ryoma Echizen]]. He is also known as '[[Samurai]] Nanjiro' for his invincible [[tennis]] skills during his earlier years as a professional tennis player. During his Junior-High years, he was trained by the current coach of the Seigaku Tennis Club, [[Sumire Ryuzaki]]. It was also in his highschool life that Ryuzaki discovered Nanjiro's natural talent (when he discovered 'nitoryu' all by himself) in Tennis. All throughout that time in his life, he remained undefeated and was only one more opponent away to earning a [[Grand Slam in tennis|Grand Slam]] title before he unexpectedly decided to retire.
Nanjiro is married to a sweet-tempered attorney named Rinko (maiden name: Takeuchi), who is unfazed by her husband's antics and treats him almost like a younger brother. Nanjiroh actually met his wife in the USA, 15 years before the events in the Prince of Tennis series take place, when shortly after arriving to the USA to become a pro he stood up for her against her abusive tennis coach, George Smith, who injured Rinko after she protected George's younger pupils. Years later, George's child Kevin would become one of Ryoma's fiercest rivals.
===Personality===
In a way he can be perceived as a foil for his son. Although both are rather confident, to the point of being arrogant, with their extraordinary tennis skills, Nanjiro is very outspoken, eccentric, a shameless flirt, brash, peverted and almost childish at times, whereas Ryoma adopts a quiet, aloof, and somewhat socially dense mentality.
Both, father and son, are proven to be very popular with ladies. Though, Ryoma is quite oblivious of his admirers, Nanjiro had proven himself to be a ladies' man in his younger days, often being seen with several women, before meeting his wife.
==Story==
In episode 6 of the series, Mamoru Inoue, a reporter from Monthly Tennis Magazine, went to visit Nanjiro to ask him of the reason of his early retirement. However, he was not able to obtain any information because he couldn't score a single point in tennis against Nanjiro (which was the latter's condition for answering any question).
In the latter part of the anime (more exactly, episode 129), it was revealed that the real reason Nanjiro retired at the height of his career was because he wished to spend all of his time furthering/teaching his son's tennis skills. We learn that Nanjiro has high hopes and dreams for Ryoma to not only cultivate his tennis playing potential to its fullest in order take over the title as the strongest tennis player in the world, but to also become strong enough to someday defeat him.
He is also the only known player who has opened the last door in The State Of Self-Actualization, the Pinnacle of Perfection.
==Techniques==
===Nanjiro Zone===
A perfected version of "[[Kunimitsu Tezuka#Tezuka Zone|Tezuka Zone]]" (obviously it isn't called Tezuka Zone, it's unofficially named Samurai or Nanjiro Zone).
A technique where all returns are drawn towards Nanjiro. Nanjiro stays in one position and only pivots around one foot without lifting it from the ground. With every shot, Nanjiro puts a specific rotation on the ball, forcing nearly all returns to be "sucked" into his hit zone. The Nanjiro Zone, while nonexistent in reality, is loosely based on the [[Magnus Effect]].
In both the manga and the anime, Inoue goes to visit him and ends up dueling him in a tennis match. Nanjiro uses his ''Zone'' with both his eyes closed, while still being able to hit the ball, resulting in Inoue not scoring even one point against him.
===Nitouryuu===
Using this move, Nanjiro can use either his left hand or right hand to return a shot, making him more flexible. It has been stated that Nitouryuu was originally conceived by Nanjiro as a way of overcoming a sloppy backhand.
===Teni Muhou No Kiwami (Pinnacle of Perfection)===
One of the three doors, presumably the last, of Muga no Kyouchi. Nanjirou Echizen is the only person ever to master this technique. However, it is hinted in Genius 340 by Chitose, Fuji and Tezuka that Echizen might have opened this last door during his match with Kintarou Tooyama at the semi-finals of the Nationals.
==Sources==
*Various ''Prince of Tennis'' manga chapters, anime episodes, musicals, and ''The Prince of Tennis'' film.
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