“Rowdy junior-high ping-pong team uses sex-pass bribes and Maeno's wild schemes to survive dissolution.”
The Ping-Pong Club
行け! 稲中卓球部
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Synopsis
Rowdy junior-high ping-pong team uses sex-pass bribes and Maeno's wild schemes to survive dissolution.
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?
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
What 9 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 1.99 · split reception
5.1 pts
Recommenders 9.1 · others 4.0
↓ 1.78
Running avg · Sep 2007 → May 2024
- 10 “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!...”
- 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...”
- 9 “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...”
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- Format 26 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 10h 24m all episodes
- Aired Apr 1995 – Sep 1995 Spring 1995
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R+ Mild Nudity
- Ref. BS-0830 catalog
Produced by
- Trans Arts Producer
- Kitty Films Producer
- Studio Hibari Producer
- TBS Producer
Licensed by
- Central Park Media Licensor