Ping Pong the Animation (2014)
Ping Pong the Animation (2014)
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Plot.
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 win, despite his innate talent. As the two grow, and experience the ups and downs of the sport – and life – they try to figure out exactly who they really are and what drives them to play.
Where to Watch.



Currently Ping Pong the Animation is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Apple TV, Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
Cast & Crew.

Koki Uchiyama
Makoto 'Smile' Tsukimoto (voice)

Fukujuro Katayama
Yutaka 'Peco' Hoshino (voice)

Aaron Dismuke
Hoshino

Yousei Bun
Wenge 'China' Kong (voice)

Shunsuke Sakuya
Ryuuichi 'Dragon' Kazama (voice)

Subaru Kimura
Manabu 'Demon' Sakuma (voice)

Alan Chow
Kong 'China' Wenge

Yusaku Yara
Jou Koizumi (voice)

Masako Nozawa
Obaba Tamura (voice)

Kashiko Kimura
Editor

Taiyō Matsumoto
Comic Book / Thanks

Yuka Okayasu
Producer

Eriko Kimura
Sound Director

Nobutake Ito
Character Designer / Animation Director / Supervising Animation Director / Key Animation / Character Designer

Aymeric Kevin
Art Direction

Kunio Tsujita
Color Designer

Shunsuke Nakamura
Director of Photography / Compositing Artist

Tomoyuki Niho
Opening/Ending Animation / Opening/Ending Animation / Key Animation

Shinji Hashimoto
Opening/Ending Animation

Hakuyu Go
Opening/Ending Animation

Shinya Ohira
Opening/Ending Animation

Masaaki Yuasa
Series Director / Series Composition / Storyboard Artist / Director / Series Director / Writer / Series Composition

Kensuke Ushio
Original Music Composer

Koji Yamamoto
Executive Producer

Yutaka Ishikawa
Executive Producer

Yuichi Nakao
Executive Producer

Yoko Matsuzaki
Executive Producer

Masuo Ueda
Executive Producer

Katsuhiro Nakano
Sound Effects

Hiroaki Sano
Music Producer

Eunyoung Choi
Assistant Director / Opening/Ending Animation / Assistant Director / Director / Key Animation / Opening/Ending Animation

Etsuko Chiba
Music Producer

Tsutomu Fujio
Line Producer

Ryosuke Nishii
Opening/Ending Animation / Key Animation / Opening/Ending Animation

Yasunori Miyazawa
Opening/Ending Animation / Opening/Ending Animation / Key Animation

Hokuto Sakiyama
Opening/Ending Animation

Kazutoshi Yamamoto
Sound Mixer

Eriko Shibayama
Art Designer / Background Designer / Art Designer

Hisako Saitou
Art Designer / Art Designer / Background Designer

Yoshie Eguchi
Background Designer

Mayumi Nakajima
Background Designer

Masaki Watanabe
Background Designer

Sanae Tomoto
Background Designer

Miyuki Onodera
Background Designer

Hiroha Yamauchi
Background Designer

Tetsuhiro Shimizu
Background Designer

Yuya Morinaga
Background Designer

Samuel David King
Background Designer

Momonori Taniguchi
Background Designer

Yoo So-hyang
Background Designer

Etsuko Abe
Background Designer

Lee Da-eun
Background Designer

Choi Jin-a
Background Designer

Hidekazu Hara
Background Designer

Miyabi Kimura
Background Designer

Santiago Montiel
Background Designer

Ryota Itoh
Director / Assistant Director / Key Animation

Takehiro Kubota
Director

Masaki Utsunomiya
Director

Ho Pyeon-gang
Director

Masatsugu Arakawa
Director / Key Animation

Hideki Ito
Director / Key Animation / Animation Director

Fumihiro Ueno
Director

Yuji Tokuno
Production Assistant

Atsuko Tonomizu
Production Assistant

Rei Suigen
Compositing Artist

Kohei Suzuki
Compositing Artist

Yoshito Takemoto
Compositing Artist

Yukiko Kasajima
Compositing Artist

Masashi Kamiki
Compositing Artist

Abel Góngora
Animation

Naoki Atsumi
Compositing Artist

Juan Manuel Laguna
Animation

Minori Kimura
Compositing Artist

Shoko Nishigaki
Key Animation / Animation Director

Rana Miyajima
Compositing Artist

Momoe Yamaguchi
Compositing Artist

Kazuya Iwai
Compositing Artist

Sayaka Toda
Key Animation / Animation Director

Izumi Murakami
Key Animation

Tomomi Kawatsuma
Key Animation

Saori Koike
Key Animation

Naoyuki Asano
Animation Director

Tetsuro Kaku
Key Animation

Kanako Maru
Key Animation

Yuichiro Komuro
Key Animation

Kenichi Ishimaru
Key Animation / Animation Director

Kenji Shibata
Animation Director / Key Animation

Maiko Kobayashi
Key Animation

Natsuko Shimizu
Key Animation

Kanchi Suzuki
Key Animation

Thomas Hudson
Animation

Maki Kawake
Key Animation

Yukie Yamamoto
Key Animation

Betsujin Shishido
Key Animation

Hiromi Hata
Key Animation

Tatsuro Kawano
Key Animation

Satoshi Nakano
Key Animation

Masatoshi Hamazaki
Compositing Artist

Hiroki Abe
Animation Director / Key Animation

Yuki Matsuo
Key Animation

Mitsuhiro Kuno
Compositing Artist

Hideyuki Sugiura
Key Animation

Takahito Sakazume
Key Animation

Shun Enokido
Key Animation

Kaori Do
Key Animation

Kunji Nakamura
Compositing Artist

Yoshiko Okuda
Key Animation / Animation Director

Mayu Saito
Key Animation

Naoki Kawada
Compositing Artist

Ran Kamezawa
Key Animation

Kenji Kobayashi
Compositing Artist

Takuya Saito
Key Animation

Takashi Nakamichi
Key Animation

Takanobu Nakatani
Compositing Artist

Yuta Yokoo
Key Animation

Masahiko Matsuyama
Key Animation

Katsuji Matsumoto
Key Animation

Aki Maeda
Key Animation

Satomi Higuchi
Key Animation

Yuki Nakano
Key Animation

Soichiro Kubo
Key Animation

Shin Ogasawara
Key Animation

Toshiyuki Anzai
Key Animation

Tatsuhiko Komatsu
Key Animation

Dai Hariki
Key Animation

Toshiro Fujii
Key Animation

Masahiko Suzuki
Key Animation

Hiroshi Tanabe
Key Animation

Atsushi Komatsu
Key Animation

Yuichi Ichihashi
Key Animation

Sakiyu Saito
Key Animation

Nagisa Takahashi
Key Animation

Bahi JD
Key Animation

Yugo Ohashi
Key Animation

Mai Toda
Key Animation

Takeshi Iida
Key Animation

Shigemi Aoyagi
Key Animation

Rui Kondou
Key Animation

Kenji Hattori
Animation Director

Seung-hyeon Hong
Key Animation

Kozue Tanaami
Key Animation

Yoko Iizuka
Key Animation

Tatsuo Honda
Key Animation

Kei Shimada
Key Animation

Ryo Nishikawa
Key Animation

Kyohei Sawada
Key Animation

Sonoka Kuroiwa
Key Animation

Rika Kanetaka
Key Animation

Kei Masaki
Key Animation

Izumi Yamanaka
Key Animation

Setsuko Unno
Key Animation

Shigeru Uchihara
Key Animation

Sadao Ōshima
Key Animation

Hiroyoshi Iida
Key Animation

Fumiyuki Uehara
Key Animation

Ryōta Komatsu
Key Animation

Yumiko Ishii
Key Animation

Toru Hamasaki
Key Animation

Aiko Utsumi
Key Animation

Maki Fujita
Key Animation

Masaharu Watanabe
Key Animation

Nana Yamaguchi
Key Animation

Kei Nakazawa
Key Animation

Shingo Yamashita
Key Animation

Miyu Kaneko
Key Animation

Mua Tsukino
Key Animation

Noriyuki Imaoka
Key Animation

Etsuko Kawano
Key Animation

Aya Suzuki
Key Animation

Shingo Fujisaki
Key Animation

Tomoki Kouda
Key Animation

Tamotsu Ogawa
Key Animation

Kaoru Nagakawa
Key Animation

Shouichi Funaki
Key Animation

Haru Sakuramoto
Key Animation

Atsuko Sugawara
Key Animation

Maimu Matsushima
Key Animation

Takashi Mukouda
Key Animation

Miki Komuro
Key Animation

Nobuyuki Kitajima
Key Animation

Takana Shirai
Key Animation

Yuki Nakano
Key Animation

Yutaka Kawasuji
Key Animation

Kenji Hayama
Key Animation

Airi Ootsu
Piiko (voice)

Kenjiro Tsuda
Egami (voice)

Tei Ha
Wenge's coach (voice)

Takahiro Shimada
Michio Tamura (voice)

Yu Seki
Tsujidou club member B (voice)

Yohei Shintaku
Producer / Student E (voice)

Yuya Tamaki
Katase Club member C (voice) / Iida (voice) / Student D (voice)

Una Sahara
Mrs. Koizumi (voice)

Akira Fukuzawa
Announcer (voice)

Yuma Uchida
Katase club member B (voice) / Student A (voice) / Chief referee (voice) / Student B (voice)

Takuya Masumoto
Kaiou club member B (voice)

Shohei Shimada
Yamada (voice) / Student A (voice)

Takayuki Nakatsukasa
Koeda (voice) / Student C (voice) / Reporter (voice) / Tsujidou club member A (voice) / Student (voice) / Tournament sta...

Hiroki Goto
Akuma's father (voice)

Haruka Shiraishi
Woman (voice)

Shiho Kokido
Girl (voice)

Takahiro Miyamoto
Dotechin (voice)

So Nozawa
Kimura (voice)

Sho Koneri
Tsujidou Academy advisor (voice)

Kenji Hamada
Sanada (voice)

Tasuku Hatanaka
Katase club member A (voice) / Student B (voice) / Student A (voice)

Yasuyo Tomita
Peco's little brother (voice)

Ayako Kawasumi
Yurie (voice)

Akihiko Ishizumi
Taku Kazama (voice)

Ryu Ken
Kong's mother (voice)

Erina Kurita
Mūko (voice)

Mitsuaki Hoshi
Takamura (voice)

Mitsuki Nishida
Yutaka 'Peco' Hoshino (young) (voice)

Hiromu Satomura
Makoto 'Smile' Tsukimoto (young) (voice)

Shinya Hamazoe
Hama-chan (voice) / Player (voice)

Shinji Ogawa
Ryuu 'President' Kazama (voice)

Takumi Ikezawa
Manabu 'Demon' Sakuma (young) (voice)

Kenichi Hoshino
Head referee (voice) / Tournament staffer A (voice)

Keiko Domon
Emiko (voice)

Yuusuke Suda
Mori (voice)

Soichi Abe
Norio (voice)

Waku Sakaguchi
Ryuuichi 'Dragon' Kazama (voice) (young)

Hidetoshi Akutsu
Child A (voice) / Child B (voice)

Masayuki Haruhara
Child B (voice)
Media.












Details.
Release DateApril 11, 2014
Original Nameピンポン THE ANIMATION
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes11
Running Time23m
Content RatingTV-14
Genres
Last updated:
This TV Show Is About.
spokon
ping pong
coming of age
based on manga
seinen
anime
table tennis
Scripted
high school
sport
spirituality
self reflection
bromance
prodigy
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