Introduction
When the Inaho Junior High Ping-Pong Club grows apathetic about an upcoming tournament, their new manager, Kyoko Iwashita, boosts their morale with something they cannot refuse—a "sex pass," a voucher that grants the best player on the team unadulterated access to her body for a whole month. This is just one of many ways that this peculiar ping-pong club exceeds the realm of normalcy.
Among the Ping-Pong Club's six members, Maeno proves to be the most troublesome, discovering bizarre ways to distract the team each day. With the others contributing to these mischievous acts, Takeda—the captain of the club—tries his hardest to put up with the team's antics. But when popular vice-captain Yuusuke Kinoshita is being swept away by girls, he instead finds himself receiving support from the stern but resilient manager, Kyoko.
With the ever-present risk of their team being dissolved, Takeda and his friends find themselves having to overcome numerous obstacles. While Maeno often appears to put the club in jeopardy, it is usually he who devises schemes that are just so crazy that they have a chance of working. Can Maeno and his ludicrous stunts help his team persevere, or will they continue to just be a nuisance to the Ping-Pong Club?
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Audience reviews
9 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
chumchummaru
Humor that is not seen just like that and will not be created anymore nowadays. Especially the duo Izawa/Maeno (but also the others) are simply two great comedians who made it funny. I would say that Gintama was inspired by this and raised it to the absolute ceiling.
For me, I would see a minus in the slight absence of romance which would be very useful here, since a few characters have the right chemistry here and it would work between them. The plot is more about the everyday life of a pingpong club than about something holistic. I classically liked the old style of animation and 4:3 image, also the first OP and both EDs. I definitely recommend it even if someone objected that it was toilet humor, it just didn't sit well with someone.
Read at the sourceStunGunSudz
I rated this a 6 because the MAL rating system doesn't have any words to describe WTF I just watched.
Main thing you need to go going in, it's called Japanese South Park for a reason. Every episode you're going to see some form of nudity from its cast of 14 year old characters, along with incredibly gross out jokes and played for laughs sexual harassment.
Yet...It intrigued me.
Some of the episodes may be hard to get through but the the romance plotlines were surprisingly really cute, if the whole show revolved around those shenanigans it would be a genuinely 10 out of 10.
I hope the later works of the author focused more on character building, because even here, with this butchered anime setup, it shined through.
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Have you watched those cliches from accidental walk-in on girl changing clothes to nip slips, onsen scenes covered by unknown fog/light and every other scenes that end with a shriek "Kyaaa! Pervert" and the MC gets a red handprint on his cheek. What if there were no shrieks, slaps or embarrassed tsunderes, Ping Pong Club is what you'll get.
This is Pure Ecchi and what real Ecchi looks like. Series like High school DxD and etc. force Fanservice scenes & categorise them as Ecchi. In this series Ecchi scenes come naturally.
Nudity and Sex scenes are throughout the series but not once has it been taken seriously(Rom-genre serious), for that reason alone it's way different than H+ and Fanservices. Take the old hag for instance...Seriously who makes gags like that; still gives me the giggles.…
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I'm going to admit something here, I LOVE The Ping Pong Club. It is by no means a good series, but it's entertaining as FUCK I tell you what! Let me go over why this anime is bad, but why I LOVE it at the same time
Story: 2/10
The Story in Ping Pong Club is practically non-existent. The series basically consists of a group of losers known as the boys Ping Pong Club. The first 2 episodes of the series are about the boys trying to keep their Ping Pong Club together, but after that the story is basically complete non-sense. While this in theory is a bad thing, I honestly don't mind it here. I like that the story doesn't get in the way of the shenanigans, so I at least appreciate that we jump straight into the entertainment of this series. Still though, I'm not going to call a "story" that o…
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Ping-Pong Club is a path, a path you should take with an open mind and not because you've enjoyed Ping-Pong the Animation.
A path could not exist without any obstacles; don't let the first few series to fend you off.
You will encounter the worst imaginable and very perverted, eight-grade type of humour combined with crappy animation and little no storyline.
You just wait.
Ping-Pong is the only title where you will laugh about the farting jokes for 26 series straight, regardless of your education, background or social status.
Ping-Pong is the only title with absolutely realistic school girl and absolutely anime-cliche school girl sitting together in one room.
Ping-Pong is the only title where a totally perverted (and sometimes just plainly wrong) joke could be followed by one the best…
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Overall
Yes! At last an anime where most of the characters are total bastards! It is quite similar to Green green, but regarding perversion, this goes further. It's not a hentai, though. It's more about toilet humour, psychedelic cross-dressing, small penises and a fair amount of boobs.
This anime had me laughing out loud several times per episode, which is rare. I give it the same fun rating as Photon!
Animation
Ok, it doesn't look very fresh, but the character designs are good, and the animators must have set a world record in funny face creation.
Sound
Somewhat ok intro and outro tunes and the background music felt varied and suiting. The voice acting was good, but there may have been a bit too much hysterical screaming.
Story
The six members of the ping pong club mostly just go…
Read at the sourceCaeryx
First of all I would like to say, I never really expected this anime to be that great. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Here's why...
At some point a while ago, I got rather bored of watching the regular series that I tend to watch. Not for the fact that what I was watching I thought was bad- but I wanted to step into a darker territory of anime that I hadn't experienced. So what I did was, I googled "worst anime ever"... Somehow, I managed to find this... This hilarious yet unbelievably crap masterpiece that had been panned elsewhere on the net as being really bad- the worst thing that japanimation had ever spawned, supposedly.
Now, you see the plan was this- find an anime and get some real laughs from how shitty it was to kind of change the atmosphere of what I had been watching. I…
Read at the sourceRunaway28
Ping Pong Club is one of those series that turns your mind upside down. Right about the first five minutes, where you lay your eyes on the characters and how they behave, you will immediately have a notion of what to expect for the rest of the series. And this is where you make a choice. You can choose to preserve your sanity and perfectly normal IQ level or go down that crazy roller coaster that is this series.Needless to say that you already know what turn I've taken. And I don't regret it, far from it. PPC is the perfect metaphor for all the craziness that somewhat in our lives flashes trough our mind in one situation or another. Bear in mind that these "situations" are not the common ones, as you can see by the Age Rating (ranging from PG-13 on this website to Mature).
Every single on…
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Ping Pong Club is the most twisted and perverted comedy ever with the funniest characters and situations ever... and i'm not kidding... it can also be considered as a cornerstone of exagerated/ecchi/comedy/schoolkids animes that would follow, like Green Green and even Great Teacher Onizuka.
Animation:
The animation is not well mannered and without any cute intentions, even crappy... strange, after i called it that i still gave it a high grade, yes i did because that crappy animation gives it that funny feeling.. it just perfectly blends with the mood and the characters... I mean did you see their faces? the guys look like a bunch of losers and perverts, and guess what, they really are like that.
Sound:
The voice acting is very good, and the Bg music is well blended with the comedy part..…
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