The Ping-Pong Club

Polaris★ 10

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 oflosers 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... I've also noticed the Op themes which are very very funny, just like Maeno's "Propeller" song Story: Well the bulk of the anime lies in the story and characters... well it's not a plot driven anime, not the kind that focuses all it's power on a goal reached at the end, nope it's the kind of story that i like to call "lifestyle story" cos it shows the day to day routine and problems the characters get into... Character: ..and belive me when you have two perverts with loud mouths and tons of energy who do nothing else but exagerated practical jokes to other people like dressing-up-games, bullying, blackmail, stealing money, farting and all sorts of stupid plans (Maeno and Izawa.. they are one of the most original and best couples out there) ... then you have the sickest most twisted and perverted little quiet type of guy (Tanaka)... a big and really good-inside person that has the worts BO (Tanabe)... a Casanova kinda guy (Kinoshita), two evil teachers with some psycho problems, a secret Loosers Club organization with the sole purpose of making the hole school look bad so all the kids can be as stupid as the members of the secret club... and a love story between a counscios guy and a sadistic girl which has some anger management problem (Takeda and Kyoko)... well what more could you want? some sado-masochism, cross-dressing, nudity and lots more. Value and Enjoyment: Well don't worry this isn't a hentai and it could never bee since the show is about everything it can be exept romance... but still i wouldn't recomand it to kids.. this is more of a "toilet comedy" like American Pie... but for a teenager with a sense of humor this is a real goldmine... and can be rewatched over and over again just for the humor. It's just strange how few people have seen this one, well since the animation isn't good and the girls aren't really cute i guess that the bulk of anime viewers didn't try it, since they were looking for cute panty shots and lots of cute girls falling in love with one spineless normal guy.. people can be soo shallow... lol but then again how can you call a guy that enjoys this??? Good and Bad points: +funniest show ever (in a carefree but twisted perverse way) +some of the most original characters ever (like no other you have ever seen) -bad animation (although i found it apropiate) -has tons of offensive and grows out material for the sensitive ones (not that i cared) Well i laughed soo hard at this one that i couldn't keep my ass on the chair and i developed some agonising abdominal pain.. i recommend this to all the insensitive guys out there who wanna just laugh...

konakona495★ 10

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 oneroom. Ping-Pong is the only title where a totally perverted (and sometimes just plainly wrong) joke could be followed by one the best and natural romantic scenes you will ever encounter. Ping-Pong is the only title with LITERAL character development...In many ways. Ping-Pong is the only title where by the end of each serie you think you've seen it all just to be proved wrong the very next serie. Ping-Pong is one of the few titles where there are no bad series; all 26 are amazing. Ping-Pong is like Paris. You either like it or you don't. Anyway, you just need to watch it at least once. 10/10