Ike! Ina-chuu Takkyuu-bu (The Ping-Pong Club)

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Synonyms: Go! Ina Junior High Ping-Pong Club

Japanese: 行け! 稲中卓球部

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Type: TV

Episodes: 26

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 6, 1995 to Sep 28, 1995

Premiered: Spring 1995

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Trans Arts, Kitty Films, Studio Hibari, TBS, Studio Jack

Licensors: Central Park Media

Studios: Grouper Productions

Source: Manga

Genres: Comedy, Ecchi

Themes: Gag Humor, School

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

Statistics

Score: 7.51¹ (scored by 5,184 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #1864²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #5077

Members: 17,943

Favorites: 140

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Synopsis

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?

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Background

Ike! Ina-chuu Takkyuu-bu consists of 26 episodes; however, each episode is divided into two 12-minute segments, leading some streaming services to partition the show into 52 episodes. This occurs on the DVD releases as well, although the North American release confused certain two-part episodes, with its episode count at 47. The DVD set consists of five uniquely-named volumes, with certain episodes appearing on their own respective discs.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Maeno

Main

Okano, Kousuke
Japanese

Iwashita, Kyoko

Main

Uehara, Sakura
Japanese

Izawa, Hiromi

Main

Yamazaki, Takumi
Japanese

Tanaka

Main

Takato, Yasuhiro
Japanese

Gorou, Tanabe

Main

Shitanda, Michael
Japanese

Kinoshita, Yuusuke

Main

Kaseda, Susumu
Japanese

Takeda

Main

Takayama, Tsutomu
Japanese

Kamiya, Chiyoko

Supporting

Kurosaki, Nanami
Japanese

Tachibana, Youko

Supporting

Nagashima, Yuko
Japanese

Kitou

Supporting

Kobayashi, Yuko
Japanese

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Yamakawa, Norio

Producer

Hata, Masami

Director

Takahashi, Yukio

Episode Director, Storyboard

Tomita, Sukehiro

Script, Series Composition, Planning

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Opening Theme

	1: "shanimuni SHEIKU! SHEIKU!" by Switch
	2: "man-in densha hitomebore" by Switch

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Ending Theme

	1: "itsu ni natte mo itsu made mo" by The Zip Guns
	2: "booing" by Sakura Uehara

Reviews

Sep 7, 2007

Polaris

Recommended

Ping Pong Club is the most twisted and perverted comedy ever with the funniest characters and situations ever... and i'm not kidding... it can also be considered as a cornerstone of exagerated/ecchi/comedy/schoolkids animes that would follow, like Green Green and even Great Teacher Onizuka.

Animation:
The animation is not well mannered and without any cute intentions, even crappy... strange, after i called it that i still gave it a high grade, yes i did because that crappy animation gives it that funny feeling.. it just perfectly blends with the mood and the characters... I mean did you see their faces? the guys look like a bunch of ... losers and perverts, and guess what, they really are like that.

Sound:
The voice acting is very good, and the Bg music is well blended with the comedy part... I've also noticed the Op themes which are very very funny, just like Maeno's "Propeller" song

Story:
Well the bulk of the anime lies in the story and characters... well it's not a plot driven anime, not the kind that focuses all it's power on a goal reached at the end, nope it's the kind of story that i like to call "lifestyle story" cos it shows the day to day routine and problems the characters get into...

Character:
..and belive me when you have two perverts with loud mouths and tons of energy who do nothing else but exagerated practical jokes to other people like dressing-up-games, bullying, blackmail, stealing money, farting and all sorts of stupid plans (Maeno and Izawa.. they are one of the most original and best couples out there) ... then you have the sickest most twisted and perverted little quiet type of guy (Tanaka)... a big and really good-inside person that has the worts BO (Tanabe)... a Casanova kinda guy (Kinoshita), two evil teachers with some psycho problems, a secret Loosers Club organization with the sole purpose of making the hole school look bad so all the kids can be as stupid as the members of the secret club... and a love story between a counscios guy and a sadistic girl which has some anger management problem (Takeda and Kyoko)... well what more could you want? some sado-masochism, cross-dressing, nudity and lots more.

Value and Enjoyment:
Well don't worry this isn't a hentai and it could never bee since the show is about everything it can be exept romance... but still i wouldn't recomand it to kids.. this is more of a "toilet comedy" like American Pie... but for a teenager with a sense of humor this is a real goldmine... and can be rewatched over and over again just for the humor.

It's just strange how few people have seen this one, well since the animation isn't good and the girls aren't really cute i guess that the bulk of anime viewers didn't try it, since they were looking for cute panty shots and lots of cute girls falling in love with one spineless normal guy.. people can be soo shallow... lol but then again how can you call a guy that enjoys this???

Good and Bad points:
+funniest show ever (in a carefree but twisted perverse way)
+some of the most original characters ever (like no other you have ever seen)
-bad animation (although i found it apropiate)
-has tons of offensive and grows out material for the sensitive ones (not that i cared)

Well i laughed soo hard at this one that i couldn't keep my ass on the chair and i developed some agonising abdominal pain.. i recommend this to all the insensitive guys out there who wanna just laugh...

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Jun 1, 2016

konakona495

Recommended

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 series to fend you off.
You will encounter the worst imaginable and very perverted, eight-grade type of humour combined with crappy animation and little no storyline.

You just wait.

Ping-Pong is the only title where you will laugh about the farting jokes for 26 series straight, regardless of your education, background or social status.
Ping-Pong is the only title with absolutely realistic school girl and absolutely anime-cliche school girl sitting together in one ...

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Apr 17, 2011

Phatkap

Not Recommended

Preliminary (9/26 eps)

I watch the first 4 episodes and thought it was pretty funny. The characters are completely over the top, but I usually don't have any issues with that. The following 5 episodes though were a total chore. The jokes are always the same. Every episodes are build on the same model.
The anime might have been quite a novelty back then, but in 2011 I think you should spare yourself the pain to watch it. There are better things to do with your time.

Sorry for the fans.

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