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| Why is this rated so low??? Its pure genius...second only to Mushishi this season... |
| has a very relaxing atmosphere and the second half of the episode was good imo. I'll let myself be surprised by this series :) |
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| Just want to throw this out there: If you are liking the art style, Taiyo Matsumoto is probably more deserving of your praise than Yuasa here. Matsumoto has a very particular, expressive style and this is a fairly accurate adaptation of it, if maybe a bit less... textured. Really, If you look at Yuasa's work, there isn't much continuity in terms of art direction. Kaiba looks nothing like Kemonozume. Tatami Galaxy looks nothing like Mind Game. Sure, he has a certain signature flair to his direction, but it's more in the way things move and their atypical gait than anything. On the other hand, Yuasa is largely successful at putting this particular art style in motion, so maybe that's what people are referring too. I don't want to give the impression that I'm knocking Yuasa here--he's probably my favorite director in anime--I just think praise should go where praise is due. New fans of Ping Pong owe it to themselves to check out some of Matsumoto's other works. Gogo Monster in particular is outstanding. |
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| I don't know how people can watch stuff like Air without problem, but drop this because the art is too weird. Anyway, good start, the beginning was kinda slow, but it got really intense when they introduced China. Very interesting character. I'm sure I will have a lot of fun with the sports anime this season. |
| I liked the realistic voice acting. I didn't like the artstyle at all, it's better than the manga but it's still not that good. Some shots at the scenery looked good, but that the only thing I can praise about the art. I hoped it would be closer to The Tatami Galaxy's artstyle but it's closer to Kemonozume's. Well keep watching, it's fairly interesting. |
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| Great! Very nice start. First thing first... I really like the art. I think it perfectly reflects the quirkiness of the characters. And I also like that there's a character fully voiced in a foreign language (and by a native speaker). 5/5 |
| The second part was intense and the mc annoying friend got taught a lesson. China VA sounded so good. And loved the ED. Now Ping pong joins Jojo and Mushishi for the best anime of the season. Now waiting 4 you, Sidonia no Kishi. |
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| Loved it. Not the biggest fan of sports anime, but I guess I have a soft spot for ping pong. |
| Great first episode. Love the art and animation. It's especially great with the sceneries/setting, and the characters while they are playing. Voice actors are very Yuasa Masakish. And I'm liking the characters and story, main character is the nice sort of apathetic, I can't wait to see what he does later. Not surprised this isn't that accepted that much here. Anything with a different art style usually isn't. |
AversaApr 13, 2014 12:20 PM
     Short of the day: Monotonous Purgatory(MAL) ✰Public Domain Club | One Piece Club✰ |
SetsukoHara said: I don't know how people can watch stuff like Air without problem, but drop this because the art is too weird. Like with most things entertainment wise, the majority usually prefer homogeneity rather than a mix of different stuff / anything ambitious enough to try and break the mold. Animes like Air are all dolled up, makes everyone cute and beautiful, while Ping Pong goes with the original artist's unique art style. I think both have their aesthetic charms, but what it comes down to in the end is that people are shallow and/or narrow minded (waaahh it's too differeeennnttt). I don't think anybody has ever made a body pillow of an ugly, yet actually well developed character from an anime, have they? |
idontwannapostApr 10, 2014 4:57 PM
| Penciled out sloppy animation lol nothing like aku no hana.... Wait did a character have dreads lol enjoyed the chinese vs japanese battle off |
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| woow, this was even better than i expected dope as fuck |
| The animation, I don’t like it at all but I still like the anime. The last match was fun. It was also funny how the translator was saying completely opposite of what that Chinese guy said. |
Scorcher said: Why is this rated so low??? Its pure genius...second only to Mushishi this season... - no moe underage loli - no bewbz - no big eyes = can`t fap I'm assuming this is the anime people say they love when they want to try and look sophisticated, but even they themselves hate it. Damn feelin` like hipster now. Sophisticated wow. Really, its not even experimental that much art-wsie. Also mate you are bit late, cause Masaaki Yuasa has been doing anime since 1997. |
| I wish people would stop criticising the art when they evidently have zero knowledge of animation. I'm sorry that it hurt your poor mainstream eyes. We should all dial Yuasa and tell him that artistic creativity isn't allowed in anime. Everything must look cute and fluffy. Hell, we should get rid of people like David Lynch, too. He's destroying the film industry by being different. |
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Dasitmane said: tearofmankind said: Damn feelin` like hipster now. Sophisticated wow. Really, its not even experimental that much art-wsie. Also mate you are bit late, cause Masaaki Yuasa has been doing anime since 1997. I didn't say it's sophisticated I said people watch it to feel like they are sophisticated. This is like art where people smear there shit on a canvas and other people say how beautiful it is, but it is actually just poo smeared on something it isn't beautiful. Comparing this with shit on canvas. Tell me more about your art and animation knowledge, please. Also describing Mushishi as "pretentious". I`m done. |
Veronin said: I wish people would stop criticising the art when they evidently have zero knowledge of animation. I'm sorry that it hurt your poor mainstream eyes. We should all dial Yuasa and tell him that artistic creativity isn't allowed in anime. Everything must look cute and fluffy. Hell, we should get rid of people like David Lynch, too. He's destroying the film industry by being different. Being creative or 'different' doesn't make something good, komeiji-kun. I haven't watched this, so I'm not saying you're wrong to keep defending the art and animation style - but if you want to defend it please try to explain why it is good instead of just saying "because it is different". I know you're capable of a much better explanation than that mixed with pulling that stupid card about how 'everything has to look the same or its shit hurp durp must b cute n fluffy or u dont like it durp durp'. Stop strawmanning and turning to fallacies and non-points. |
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TallonKarrde23 said: Veronin said: I wish people would stop criticising the art when they evidently have zero knowledge of animation. I'm sorry that it hurt your poor mainstream eyes. We should all dial Yuasa and tell him that artistic creativity isn't allowed in anime. Everything must look cute and fluffy. Hell, we should get rid of people like David Lynch, too. He's destroying the film industry by being different. Being creative or 'different' doesn't make something good, komeiji-kun. I haven't watched this, so I'm not saying you're wrong to keep defending the art and animation style - but if you want to defend it please try to explain why it is good instead of just saying "because it is different". I know you're capable of a much better explanation than that mixed with pulling that stupid card about how 'everything has to look the same or its shit hurp durp must b cute n fluffy or u dont like it durp durp'. Stop strawmanning and turning to fallacies and non-points. Actually, my argument is the opposite: 'being different doesn't make it bad'. I've said nowhere that I even like this show. I would just rather not hear people with <100 anime on their list crying about the art when they have zero knowledge of Yuasa's style. Tatami Galaxy won the 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival's for animation and it looks exactly the same as this. |
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| i understand why people complaining the animation much, but for me it's kinda unique and epic love the ED btw, though the animation is a little bit unfinished 9/10 |
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| The OP is probably the most fun and catchy song I've heard this season. The kind of song you listen to when you're running late to school haha ^^ The art style didn't bother me at all. True, it's unique and it took me a couple of minutes to get past it but I thought the writing was brilliant and Smile's stoic nature piqued my interest. Looks like Smile's actually the real ace, not Peco. I wonder why he intentionally loses when playing him. I'm glad Peco got thrashed by Wenge. He's so arrogant, he definitely needed to be knocked down a couple of notches. |
"May those who accept their fate be granted happiness." "May those who defy their fate be granted glory." |
| ED is really nice and calming. I like! At first, I was like the haters who instantly compared this to Aku no Hana's art (nothing against the show, but the art ehhh) and then after watching most of the episode to the match between China and Peco, I really enjoyed this. The style is really unique and interesting, the matches are wicked. Promising. Hope for more. |
| Love it! I was expecting something tedious like Fuuji Monogatari, but this actually had excitement. The ping-pong. :D Especially the Chinese, it was well done and sounds relatively native. Also, the realistic language barrier. Smile is an interesting character, and I want to see how he develops with his talent. Looking forward to the rest, and I'm glad I decided to pick this up. ^^ |
| Pretty good first episode. I really liked how the backgrounds looked. People need to stop complaining about the animation because the animation was actually good, it's the artstyle they don't like. This is almost as stupid when people call visuals "graphics". |
| Loved it, really like the animation too. |
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| Even when an anime had unique animation, people would complaint on how bad it turned out. The manga itself dated back in 1995 and the animation are made like that to represented the manga. Since ever do people need to limited themselves and not trying to enjoyed something extremely different? |
Arisa_LucifiriaApr 10, 2014 7:24 PM
| Loved every second of it. |
| [25/04/14 4:04:39 PM] Skitzo: doujins have deep psychological undertones about the sexual intrigue of human behavior |
| I generally prefer good (read: standard) character design/artstyle too but it didn't bother me here, simply because the premise and execution were good. Also, Wenge was epic. |
| I don't even care about how the scenes were reused in that OP. It was sequenced well and not only are the scenes in sync with the melody, but the back and forth repetition captures the fun of the upbeat song. The sketchy ED is also nice, similarly using a limited amount of frames in beginning, but also making the best of it. Visually, this show is plentiful in dynamic, well composed scenes, just oozing with color. As for the characters, count me interested and I look forward to how they will play off of each other, particularly the contrast between Smile's apathy and China's aggressiveness. Then, Koizumi's "There's always someone better than you" is a nice lead in into Peco's overconfidence in his ability against China. Not to mention, how the show is multilingual, instead of assuming everyone automatically knows how to speak Japanese lol. Another noteworthy line is when Peco says "only people with no talent exert effort", which plays into Smile's apathy. I also enjoy little things like the episode title slide being shown in the middle of the episode, just after its relevance is introduced. |
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L2 said: Mirorin said: Love it! I was expecting something tedious like Fuuji Monogatari, but this actually had excitement. The ping-pong. :D Especially the Chinese, it was well done and sounds relatively native. Also, the realistic language barrier. Smile is an interesting character, and I want to see how he develops with his talent. Looking forward to the rest, and I'm glad I decided to pick this up. ^^ Actually that's another aspect I like about it: the Mandarin sounds pretty legit(although their accent makes me think they're from northern China). Yeah. The mandarin is fabulously done coming from a Chinese person myself LOL unlike the one from Diamond no Ace omg |
| The chinese guy saved episode. i liked megane guy tough |
| EL PSY KONGROO!!! |
| so far liking the animation and OMG that wenge VA is so god damn good loving the animation is one of the uniquest in this season |
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| good, I got used to the animation by the end of the ep. Will continue watching this, it makes me curious about how Smile is strong. mayukachan said: And not like Senkou no Night Raid. XDL2 said: Mirorin said: Love it! I was expecting something tedious like Fuuji Monogatari, but this actually had excitement. The ping-pong. :D Especially the Chinese, it was well done and sounds relatively native. Also, the realistic language barrier. Smile is an interesting character, and I want to see how he develops with his talent. Looking forward to the rest, and I'm glad I decided to pick this up. ^^ Actually that's another aspect I like about it: the Mandarin sounds pretty legit(although their accent makes me think they're from northern China). Yeah. The mandarin is fabulously done coming from a Chinese person myself LOL unlike the one from Diamond no Ace omg |
KuriniApr 10, 2014 8:24 PM
| Opening song is good! Unique characters designs and animation. Not bad. "Smile"; what a fitting nickname for a guy who hardly put on any emotions. XD Though, he plays pretty well. Wenge and his coach/translator were analyzing Yoshino vs. Tsukimoto just by the sound of them playing?! That was quite amazing! Wenge was badass; defeating Peco without letting him score a single point. Too bad for him; as he's stuck with them just for making one mistake.. China must be very strict about losing.. Looking forward to "Smile" vs Wenge. That'll be a good game! Good ending song. It may become a decent sport anime of this season. |
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| AMAZING, just as i thought it'd be. People complaining about the visuals are funny. I'm not saying you "must" force yourself to enjoy it, but it's something different and relevantly unique. Don't criticize an attempt to bring up originality and creativity. Btw, i loved the visuals. |
| Wow, this totally exceeded my expectations. I'm really looking forward to episode 2 now. |
| “Suppose, gentlemen, that man is not stupid.” |
| So good I can't believe it's anime. |
MaxVdub said: peco's voice sounded familiar, but there's no va listed for him on mal. anyone know who it is? http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=126790 LOL |
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