Ping Pong (TV)
Alternative title:
Ping Pong: La serie (Spanish)
ピンポン (Japanese)
Objectionable content:
Mild
Plot Summary:
Childhood friends Makoto "Smile" Tsukimoto (ironically, he seldom smiles) and Yukata "Peco" Hoshino are capable and aspiring table tennis players of Katase High School. Coach Jō "Butterfly" Koizumi has high expectation to both of them, but when Peco gets decisively defeated by a Chinese student he becomes so devastated and stops practicing. Meanwhile, Koizumi discovers Smile's potential and tries to motivate him to overcome his psychological obstacle.
User Ratings:
385 ratings have been given [details]
Number of episodes:
11
Episode titles: We have 11
Vintage:
2014-04-10
Opening Theme:
"Tada Hitori" (唯一人) by Bakudan Johnny
Ending Theme:
"Bokura ni Tsuite" (僕らについて) by merengue
Insert song:
"Midnight Flight -Hitoribocchi no Christmas Eve-" (Midnight Flight -ひとりぼっちのクリスマスイヴ-; All Alone on Christmas Eve) by Shogo Hamada (ep 6)
Official website:
TVアニメ『ピンポン』公式サイト (Japanese)
Links: We have 1
Review:
Ping Pong the Animation BD+DVD (Jun 25, 2015)
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| Blu-ray (Region A) |
| Ping Pong the Animation [Essentials] (Blu-ray) delayed/cancelled |
| Blu-ray + DVD combo |
| Ping Pong the Animation - Complete Series (BD+DVD) 2015-06-23 (from $213.00) |
| Ping Pong the Animation - The Complete Series [S.A.V.E.] (BD+DVD) 2017-06-20 |
| Ping Pong the Animation [UK] [Collector's Edition (BD+DVD) 2016-07-11 |
Director: Masaaki Yuasa Series Composition: Masaaki Yuasa Script: Masaaki Yuasa (eps 1-11) Episode Director: Eunyoung Choi (ep 10) Fumihiro Ueno (ep 4) Hideki Itō (eps 1-2) Masaaki Yuasa (ep 11) Masaki Utsunomiya (ep 5) Masatsugu Arakawa (ep 3) Pyeon-Gang Ho (ep 8) Ryota Itoh (eps 7, 9) Takehiro Kubota (eps 1, 6) Unit Director: Shinya Ōhira (OP) Music: kensuke ushio Original creator: Taiyo Matsumoto Character Design: Nobutake Ito Art Director: Kevin Aymeric Animation Director: Hideki Itō (ep 2) Hiroki Abe (ep 4) Kenichi Ishimaru (eps 5, 8) Kenji Hattori (ep 4) Kenji Shibata (eps 7, 9) Naoyuki Asano (eps 6, 8-11) Nobutake Ito (5 episodes eps 1, 3, 6, 10-11 )Sayaka Toda (eps 3, 6, 8-11) Shinya Ōhira (OP) Shōko Nishigaki (eps 7, 9-11) Yoshiko Okuda (ep 9) Sound Director: Eriko Kimura Director of Photography: Shunsuke Nakamura Animation producer: Tsutomu Fujio Assistant Director: Eun Young Choi Chief Producer: Kōji Yamamoto (Aniplex) Color Check: Asami Maruyama (ep 6) Kumiko Sone (ep 10) Makiko Yamanaka (ep 8) Mariko Kawai (eps 9, 11) Mariko Shinohara (eps 1-3) Miho Sakurai (ep 4) Miu Yamamoto (ep 5) Shiori Shōji (ep 7) Color Coordination: Kunio Tsujita Color design: Asami Maruyama (ep 6) Kunio Tsujita (eps 3, 9) Makiko Yamanaka (eps 8, 10) Mariko Shinohara (eps 1-2, 11) Miu Yamamoto (ep 5) Ryoji Nagasawa (ep 4) Shiori Shōji (ep 7) Editing: Kashiko Kimura Ending Animation: Eunyoung Choi In-Between Animation: Naoki Suda (ep 5) Key Animation: Aya Suzuki (eps 1-2) Bahi JD Hakuyu Go (OP) Hideki Itō (eps 1-2) Hideyuki Sugiura (ep 7) Hiroyoshi Iida (ep 5) Hokuto Sakiyama (OP) Izumi Murakami (6 episodes eps 1-2, 4, 8, 10-11 )Kanchi Suzuki (ep 10) Kaori Dou (eps 6, 8) Kei Masaki (ep 1) Maiko Kobayashi (eps 3, 7-8, 11) Maki Fujita (ep 5) Miyu Kaneko (ep 4) Natsuko Shimizu (ep 9) Noriyuki Imaoka Satomi Higuchi (ep 9) Satoshi Nakazawa (ep 6) Setsuko Unno (ep 4) Shin Ogasawara (ep 6) Shinji Hashimoto (OP) Shinya Ōhira (OP) Shun Enokido (eps 3, 7) Tetsurō Karai (ep 3) Tomoyuki Niho (OP) Tōru Hamazaki (ep 6) Yasunori Miyazawa Yōko Iizuka (ep 4) Production Advancement: Atsuko Tonomizu (ep 5) Fukutarō Takahashi (eps 3, 6, 11) Izumi Shibutani (eps 1, 9) Jun Kurebayashi (ep 4) Takahisa Ishida (OP; ep 10) Takazumi Shimizu (eps 7, 9) Tomoaki Okumura (eps 2, 8) Yūji Tokuno (ep 6) Production Advancement Assistant: Tomoaki Okumura (ep 11) Yūji Tokuno (ep 11) Yukiya Sakikawa (ep 5) Yumeno Miyashiro (ep 5) Production Desk: Izumi Shibutani Setting Production: Hidekazu Hara Sound Effects: Katsuhiro Nakano Sound Production Desk: Takuya Ōno | Fukujūrō Katayama as Kōki Uchiyama as Masako Nozawa as Mitsuaki Hoshi as Shunsuke Sakuya as Subaru Kimura as Takanori Hoshino as Yosei Bun as Yūsaku Yara as Airi Ōtsu as Akihiko Ishizumi as Akira Fukuzawa as Ayako Kawasumi as Erina Kurita as Haruka Shiraishi as Hiroki Gotō as Hiromu Satomura as Keiko Domon as Kenji Hamada as Kenjirō Tsuda as Kenta Ōkuma as Masayuki Haruhara as Mitsuki Nishida as Ryu Ken as Shiho Kokido as Shō Koneri as Sō Nozawa as Sōichi Abe as Takahiro Miyamoto as Takahiro Shimada as Takanori Hoshino as Takayuki Nakatsukasa as Takumi Ikezawa as Takuya Masumoto as Tei Ha as Una Sahara as Waku Sakaguchi as Yasuyo Tomita as Yōhei Shintaku as Yū Seki as Yūsuke Suda as | |||
2nd Key Animation: AI Anitus Kōbe Asahi Production Jumondo Kino Production Meta Studio Snowdrop Studio Angle Studio Gimlet Tatsunoko Production Triple A Animation Production: Tatsunoko Production Finish Animation: Ace Company AI Asahi Production BEEP Big Owl CL Corporation D-COLORS Hayashi Jumondo M.S.J Musashino Production R.I.C Studio Elle Studio Kuma Studio μ TAP Triple A UEC Flash Animation: Science SARU In-Between Animation: Ace Company AI Asahi Production BEEP Big Owl CL Corporation Hayashi Jumondo M.S.J Musashino Production R.I.C Studio Elle Studio Kuma Studio μ TAP Tatsunoko Animation Room Tatsunoko Production Triple A UEC Logo Design: Groovisions Photography: Tatsunoko Production Recording Studio: Omnibus Japan Special Thanks: Shonan Fujisawa Film Commission Video Editing: Q-Tec | ||||
ADR Director: Christopher Bevins Translation: Sarah Alys Lindholm Executive producer: Gen Fukunaga ADR Supervisor: Gino Palencia Assistant producer: Zach Bolton Head Writer: John Burgmeier Language Asset Coordinator: Sarah Alys Lindholm Language Asset Manager: Susie Nixon Lead ADR Engineer: Alyssa Galindo Mix Engineer: Neal Malley Talent Coordination: Tara A. Williams Video Post-Production Director: Clarine Harp Video Post-Production Manager: Matthew O'Hara | Aaron Dismuke as Micah Solusod as Alan Chow as Anthony Bowling as Christopher Bevins as Marcus D. Stimac as Mark Stoddard as Pam Dougherty as Tyson Rinehart as Alison Viktorin as Apphia Yu as Austin Tindle as Ben Phillips as Bill Jenkins as Chris Cason as Clifford Chapin as Cynthia Cranz as Dallas Reid as Eric Cherry as Eric Vale as Ian Sinclair as Jad Saxton as Jeff Yale as Jeremy Inman as Jerry Jewell as Josh Grelle as Juli Erickson as Justin Duncan as Kara Edwards as Lindsay Seidel as Maxey Whitehead as Robert McCollum as Sean O'Connor as Sean Michael Teague as Terri Doty as Tze Yep as | |||
Distributor: Madman Entertainment (Australia and New Zealand) | ||||
Translation: Xavier Fleury (Wakanim) | (none) | |||
Internet Streaming: Wakanim | ||||
ADR Director: Fernando Savignano | ADR Studio: Estudio Mandinga Broadcaster: Canal UCR (Costa Rica) ETC...TV (Chile) RTVNL (Mexico) XEIMT Canal 22 (Mexico; subtitled) XHCDM-TDT (Mexico City, Mexico; subtitled) XHST-TDT (Mexico) Distributor: The Japan Foundation (Latin America) Licensed by: The Japan Foundation (Latin America) | |||
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