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| I am glad i watched this. Way to go Peco! Akuma was a real bro. Smile and Kazama, nice to know this characters. Smile finally found his way thanks to his best friend. The guy who found his love for ping pong again was in Peco's match. Really nice detail. Gonna give 8/10 but whatever. I really enjoyed the series and that's what matters most. |
rockmandude said: lihle808 said: very unexpected outcome between tsukimoto and hoshino. I thought Smile was gonna take it but Peco managed to take it even with a bad knee. Peco managed to beat Kong and Kazama with a bad knee, now that was cool. Great anime except for visuals 9/10. the outcome wasn't unexpected, smile let peco win so he could fulfill his dream did you even watch the show? he didn't let him win, he targeted his knee and still lost. letting him win would go entirely against what the show was always building towards... |
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Sad said: did you even watch the show? he didn't let him win, he targeted his knee and still lost. letting him win would go entirely against what the show was always building towards... it seems like you didn't watch the show, smile would've easily won if he targeted his knee but he decided to lose on purpose and let peco fulfill his dream just like butterfly jo did in the past. if you didn't get that you should really pay more attention |
rockmandude said: Sad said: did you even watch the show? he didn't let him win, he targeted his knee and still lost. letting him win would go entirely against what the show was always building towards... it seems like you didn't watch the show, smile would've easily won if he targeted his knee but he decided to lose on purpose and let peco fulfill his dream just like butterfly jo did in the past. if you didn't get that you should really pay more attention episode 11 - 08:35 onwards "Deep to the forehand, then switch to the backhand side.." and then he actually goes through with it whilst joe looks on in shock. Peco then returns the backhand and goes on to win the point anyway. live in ignorance, and also on my blocked list. cheerio |
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| Teacher eh? Well he's really good at calculating afterall "Where did I go wrong?" Well probably because you're not giving her love enough? xD Peco and Kong still in competitive while others not Simple and beautiful ending |
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| Never cried so much at anything as much as I did when the children were singing: "Bokura wa Minna Ikiteiru". What a beautiful ending. 10/10. Masterpiece. |
| PPTA was very engaging, with interesting characters and a relatable story to follow. Though the art was not the best for me, I found it fitting the show well. I wish there more anime like this :) |
| Beach Guy has reached full circle in his pilgrimage to fit in. His starting point was the finish line all along. Even at his best, Smile still couldn't defeat Peco with an injured knee. The fight was so intense that he finally saw the Hero in Peco, remembered that he is indeed human and smiled for the first time in ages. We got to see a glimpse of obaba in her youth and damn she's cute. I'm glad to see there was no bad blood between Koizumi and Kazama. Another timeskip but this time to ten years later I think. Some has improved their lives and others not so much but they're all happy anyway. Hearing the ED for the last time made me feel happy and empty inside. 9/10 β‘ |
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| Well it definitely ended on a high note. Part of me thinks it's a cop out. To not depict an earnest battle of skill and will between Peco and Smile. And instead show them having fun. And reveal the results at the very end. It's a cop out favoring people who didn't want to see either of them lose. When as Smile learns in this series, someone has to lose before someone else can win. But it was so expertly handled I hardly feel cheated at all. I loved the debatably overlong set up. Where we saw in full what we'd already pieced together from the fragmented flash backs. And Peco and Smile's match may not have been as brutal or as finite as it could have been. But the series has been hyping up them actually going head to head since Episode 1. And it didn't exactly disappoint either. And I liked the moment between all the old coaches which put a nice ending on their story. After the dizzying emotional and visceral high of the match, the more reserved final scene packs an even greater punch. Smile chose to leave Ping Pong and become a teacher. An endearing but lazy one at that. Ryuichi got kicked off the Olympic team and is visiting Smile as a framing device for the epilogue. Still curious what he did, did I miss that? And Peco and Wong are the two who thrived the most in the world of Ping Pong. Ping Pong the Animation was a hell of a ride and a sports anime like no other. I felt a little sad when I saw Smile hurl away Peco's old racket from earlier in the series. But it's hard not to grin at a series this exciting, well crafted and just a genuinely all around positive viewing experience. I give it a 10/10 hands down my favorite sports anime I've seen. |
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| A great ending to a great show! Truly amazing and a great watch!! |
| “I love heroes, but I don't want to be one. Do you even know what a hero is!? For example, you have some meat. Pirates will feast on the meat, but the hero will distribute it among the people! I want to eat the meat!” - Monkey D. Luffy |
| Now I completed my very first sports anime; fortunately it was a lot of fun. The uncoventional visuals didn't disappoint, and I even grew to like a few characters along the way. Koizumi, Tamura and Peco ended up being my favorites, which is not what I expected. It was an endearing coming of age story. I'll definitely return to the OST once in a while. Yoshikawwa said: in the last lines of tsukimoto talking to kazama they said that the summer is coming and things will get exciting again, what does that mean? I think that's just a way to reassure the viewer that life goes on, and though most characters didn't reach success as professional ping pong players, their lives can still be exciting in the future. Or maybe it's just something people say, and it doesn't have any particular meaning. |
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| "Blood tastes kind of like iron, isn't that cool?" "No you weirdo wtf" Peco drawing Evangelion fan art on his test as a kid was a great little detail. Interesting artistic choice not to show the end of the match, instead showing that Peco won through that picture. Smile decided to become a middle school teacher instead of a pro ping pong player...meanwhile Peco got his dream and continues to play professionally. My favorite part about the show was probably the way you never really knew what to expect when it came to Peco and Smile's sort of journey of discovering themselves through ping pong. When Peco went through that phase where he gained weight and quit table tennis entirely, I was convinced that was the end of him. I also thought that the coaches were going to be able to push Smile into a table tennis career...at the end of the day, I guess that just wasn't his type of life. |
| "No, son, you may not have your body pillow at the dinner table!" |
| This is fully deserving of a 9/10. Going in between Toradora and Shigatsu as my 8th favourite show. The character development was simply staggering for just 11 episodes. The cast were all very interesting and had their own important part of the story. This is how a sports anime should be done. |
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| I know that i am a bit late to the bandwagon but this show was near perfect. At first, i thought that the art style wouldn't be appealing at all but it really suits the story and after a while, it even starts looking pretty. The character development and the rivalries and relations between the characters were nothing short of flawless.. I am kinda sad that it ended.. But watching it was a treat.. |
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| Tokyo Anime Award wasn't wrong. Glad I watched this. |
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| Wish there was more to this series but it was fantastic. Seeing them as adults after the tournament was cool, and seeing Peco in the Olympics and Smile teaching kids Ping Pong just warmed my heart. |
| Man... I feel really bad laughing retardedly when the first episode comes up and dropped it like a hot garbage years ago. Now I know how to appreciate things more. This is a masterpiece. Forgive me, Yuasa. |
"I'm tired, Boss. Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly at each other." - John Coffey, Green Miles |
| A great way with the last ep. and end the series. I loved that they didn't show the whole match, but showed us a mix of Peco and Smile's childhood mixed with the fight. What I learned after the last ep. is that hero exist, humans can fly and that BLOOD TASTES LIKE IRON!! πππ Just kidding, but seriously the way they did the match was just amazing. But it makes me wonder if Smile played rough against Peco throughout until the end or if it was just the part we saw. I don't think he let him win. I mean it makes sense that Peco win after all. Peco was Smile "coach" and taught him everything about Ping Pong. It's amazing how much everyone had changed after the tournament. Smile was the one who surprised me most. I mean he gave up on becoming a world champion and only plays as a mediocre player, as he said himself. I never thought Smile and Kazama would be good friend. That's really something for itself. Looking at her last name, I guess he married her after all, since they have the same last name now, Kazama. It's good to see Kong back in the game too. What annoyed me the most was we never got to know what the hippo dude's, that had wandered all around the world, relationship with Tsukimoto. Is he his father or what was his relationship with Smile. I mean he cried when he finally saw him and said he had looked for him all around the world. Overall, it's was a good sport anime. Animation was very unique and good. Use of metaphor to depict the story was just amazing. Something I really loved with this one, which I don't see very often in anime. Character developments of all characters were intense, especially with Peco, Kazama and Kong, and it's some of the best I have seen in my whole anime history. The OST were meh. Overall I loved and enjoyed it very much. 7/9 = fair score. :) |
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| That was a great anime overall. I liked the story, the art style was unique but worked pretty well. The German was a bit awkward, bc it was really bad (in pronounciation and gramatically). |
| Today I rewatched this show maybe like 4th times and it is still a masterpiece |
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| Just finish rewatching this. Absolutely great anime :) |
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| Just finished this earlier today. A really excellent watch and the first anime with sports as a major genre that I really gave a serious try to and enjoyed. For all the talk the animation gets, I didn't find it as trippy or inaccessible to get into at first as Yuasa's other work, Kaiba. It was just high quality classic animation. Reminded me of old sketch panels, and some shots were just amazing, like the close-ups of balls ricocheting off the rubber on paddles or the way they conveyed a sense of speed and movement from different angles around the table. You could really get lost in some of those shots. I felt like I could just watch a dedicated five to ten minutes of zoom-ins on racket action. They really elevated this one by incorporating all the details too. Backstories and history of characters with the flashbacks, players' psychological states changing minute to minute in midst of a game, and even sports advertising with Poseidon and the perspective of spectators in person and online. |
| So Peco won... this final was awesome, like the entire anime 9/10 |
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| Peco ended up winning Very good anime and an absolutely awesome ending |
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| Honestly felt like this show dropped the ball a bit on the finale. It had the problem of too many things converging at once, too many flashbacks, too much repetition of motifs. It was to the point that I didn't feel all that invested in what was supposed to be the climax of the series. I also don't love that Tsukimoto's character development was basically condensed into this singular match with Peko. I'm not saying the show didn't do a good job setting up their rivalry and dynamic because it certainly did... but it could have spent time making the development seems more natural instead of repeating "The hero comes" like a mantra. All that said, the animation was as top-notch as ever, the pace and movement of the match was so lively. This episode can't top 7/10 for me, probably is around a 6, but it's hard to give the show overall any less than an 8 mainly because of how expressive its animation is. |
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| An amazing series with a great characters development. The story was interesting and the relationship between the characters were very good. Hoshino is a great character and the one with the best development, another one is Kazama with the way he opened his eyes and changed then. Also Wenge is a great character, my favorite after Peco. The friendship between Peco and Tsukimoto was the best thing of the series. I’m very glad I found the time to finally watch it. |
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| ngl I was rooting for Smile to win, but I understand why Peco won the finals. 9/10 for me. It was a great ride with some of the most grounded characters I have seen in an anime! |
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| Smile would have won if he aimed higher I guess. Still,that was great, not many series manage to have such an impact with few episodes. |
| The closer you get to the light,the greater your shadow becomes. |
| 9/10 for me :) only gripe is the ending felt a little anticlimactic/rushed, and we never got to fully explore side characters like the wandering guy and yurie. beautiful animation and message though, one of few objectively good anime |
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| 717 people must be blind. 9/10 |
| i'm so glad i finally picked this up. such a simple story yet it managed to bring out such complex emotions out of me. I haven't felt this alive in a long time. 9/10 |
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| Whoa, a flash forward into the future! Now that was unexpected. Holy shit though, Peco became a player at the olympics. Impressive stuff! It's a little sad that Tsukimoto put table tennis down for good but it looked like he didn't regret his decision. Awesome series. It excels in every aspect other than the rather strange art, but even that is nothing compared to everything else this series has to offer. 8/10 |
| What a good show! The animation put me off from watching it for so long, but I'm really glad I watched it. Honestly, animation wasn't bad at all, it was probably just the side by side comparison with newer shows made it look worse than it was. On to the actual show. After reading others thoughts on the show and thinking I've come to appreciate this coming of age story even more. I'm glad that the show seemed to move on from a theme it had in the middle, where talent trumps all. It's easy to look at small moments in your life, take note that these are the moments that the show actually focuses on, and feel that they are very significant. But despite this, you will come to realise that life simply goes on! The winners in life are those who don't let these moments stop them from doing what they love. After all, the winners in life are those who are doing what they love. |
| Great show and a good way to wrap up the series. Will miss this series. 9/10 |
So I've been banned from MAL-Badges, after spending nearly two years of my time and dedication to helping out, being the club's spokesperson, and planning for the revamp, it all goes down the fucking drain. What a joke the club has become. I advise everyone to stop using the feature and stop showing their support for the site and the club. We were promised that we will see changes come to the site, and nothing's been done for the past year. I doubt the site will be touched for the foreseeable future. If you're angry and annoyed about the lack of development, then good, you should be. |
| Yep, thats it, the final match, for once, and forever. Its had a Less satisfactory, on my opinion, for the sake of a good end. But, yeah, the duration kinda lacking, so its too understandable. For me, the best part was previously. So, this just served as an epilogue in the last 10 minutes. Ah, i shall be honest, the end had some bad tastes on my mouth. Here i am that thought it had a straight forward ending that could easily predict its last. But, nope, they decided to twist it with a time skip. Lmao. I am crying. Now, for my another pure opinion, this shall meet all of my criteria being my 10. However, the ending was a bit decreased my satisfaction. So, yeah, for all of my proud, 9/10 for this one. The characters were just too perfect and well developed. The story had all of a masterpiece criteria i wanted. The art and animation were so eccentric that i can't talk shit about. The soundtracks were just fine to me, nothing great, still no shit at all. My enjoyment? Its the difficulty on this kind of show. It suit on 10, honestly. But somehow, the last thing had some decreasing momentum. I knew its had some deep meaning. Not to mention how their deep relations kinda had a massive impact at their end life of school too. But, still, its had some void that left it without any better terms to closed it. So, yeah, its just 9 for me. Thats it. Its surely had everything that defines a too good to be true intentions. Overall, this show was just insane. If only they could span it more longer than its end, i shall be granted and become a priest. Lol. |
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| Honestly, this anime was a pleasant surprise for me, I already knew it had a lot of people praising it but to think it did so well on the characterization despite the art choice ... absolutely amazing. Speaking of art, yes it did feel weird going into the anime but the more you watched, the more it didn't matter and at times it even helped the anime for the better. 9/10 |
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| Freaking masterpiece. 10/10 I love this a lot. A lot of the characters are likeable, great ending and time skip too |
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