Review of Scorching Ping Pong Girls

Holy cow someone on the animation team likes sweat. Maybe it's like a common thing it all sports anime, but once I noticed it in this show it was pretty hard to un-notice. Every time the girls were in a serious match and the stakes were high, I was having trouble focusing through all that sheen and near see-through layers of clothing. If that's your fetish, look no further I guess. Other than that I'd say it was a fairly standard "underdog" sports anime. Or it was trying very hard to set up an underdog story with the other team they were facing. It has alot of build up to a match that ultimately ends with our plucky new recruit figuring out the secret is to just hit the ball even harder. I honestly love how the medium of anime manages to make even the most mundane little techniques or changes in attitude so dramatic. The over-the-top voiceovers and framing just wouldn't work at all in live action, or really any other medium I can think of. I don't know how else you would make ping-pong more exciting, and any traditional film that tried would probably just rely heavily on a bunch of CGI slowmo close-ups. I don't know if they'd be able to get enough sweat in frame though to tell it right.

It's a decent sports anime 7/10