Review of Ping Pong the Animation

The first 5 minutes of the first episode are so important, they are what determines if people watch the show or drop it. And there is one moment in the first episode (2:50) where it sort of freezes on this dudes face and it looks horrible. It made me want to throw up. ok other anime have slow/boring first episodes like d-gray man, gintama, steins gate, princess Mononoke ect. but I have never been straight up disgusted by a first episode until I watched this. I can guarantee 99% of the people who watched this dropped it at the 3 minute mark bc of that1 decision.

And the rest of the anime has way better art, great animation (these matches were hype even though I was disappointed by how short the final match was) and looks way better. But it doesn't matter bc the first episode had terrible looking art and everyone dropped it. One punch man would never have been popular if the art was trash in episode 1, even if the rest of the anime was the same. The animation in this anime wasn't quite as good as One Punch Man (let's be honest, no show is) but it is pretty close. It feels like the entire episode is sakuga, it's sort of amazing. But it doesn't matter. First 5 minutes of the first episode, if you mess that up the rest of your anime is irrelevant.