Ping Pong the Animation

About Ping Pong the Animation

Makoto 'Smile' Tsukimoto and his friend Yutaka 'Peco' Hoshino have been playing table tennis together since they were kids, but as they enter high school, they find that the game, and how they see it, has changed. Peco, brimming with confidence and energy, wants to be the best in the world, but the reserved Smile has little fighting spirit and doesn't want to sacrifice others' happiness just to wi…

Fuji TV's Ping Pong the Animation is an animation series. Koki Uchiyama leads the cast as Makoto 'Smile' Tsukimoto (voice), Fukujuro Katayama as Yutaka 'Peco' Hoshino (voice), Yousei Bun as Wenge 'China' Kong (voice), and Shunsuke Sakuya as Ryuuichi 'Dragon' Kazama (voice).

Its one season of 11 episodes aired between April 2014 and June 2014. It is adapted from a manga.

Members will find prodigy, spirituality, self reflection, and ping pong in it. American members can watch it on Crunchyroll and Crunchyroll Amazon Channel. It scores 8.2 out of 10 from 140 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-14 rating.

March Comes In Like a Lion, Haikyu!!, and Kuroko's Basketball make useful companions to Ping Pong the Animation, all filed under coming of age, high school, and based on manga.