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Finished Airing
TV PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Ping Pong the Animation
ピンポン THE ANIMATION · 2014
Two friends, one table, very different reasons to play.
StatusFinished Airing
SeasonSpring 2014
StudioTatsunoko Production
SourceManga
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Makoto Tsukimoto, nicknamed Smile, plays table tennis like he expects to lose, while his childhood friend Yutaka Hoshino, nicknamed Peco, plays like winning is inevitable. As both boys collide with rivals who take the sport far more seriously than either of them initially does, their friendship and their relationship to competition itself get pushed and reshaped in ways neither expects. It is a sports anime unlike most others: introspective, visually unconventional, and far more interested in what winning and losing actually do to a person than in staging a predictable underdog triumph.
⚠ Background — may contain spoilers
Ping Pong the Animation is based on Taiyo Matsumoto's manga, directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Tatsunoko Production, airing in 2014. It is celebrated as one of the most distinctive sports anime ever made, praised for its bold, sketchy visual style and its unusually mature psychological approach to competition and self-worth. Yuasa's direction turned what could have been a straightforward sports story into something closer to a character study, and the series remains a favorite among critics and animation enthusiasts for proving just how much artistic risk a sports anime can take.
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Key Animation55
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