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| This was pretty enjoyable, animation is very nice and krisp and the art style reminds me alot of Dr katz, it wasnt anything amazing but this could be an enjoyable ride I loved the ED, its rough rotoscoped movements were very pretty |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
| Wow people are seriously complaining about how "shitty" and "sloppy" the artstyle and the animation is? Great first episode, surprisingly laid-back, the art style is pretty unique. OP song is kickass, the characters are a bit bland, but other than that 9/10 episode! |
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| The animation is good for what it's trying to do. The voice actors are great, especially the Chinese dialogues that sound natural and not choppy. The story sounds interesting and exceeds my expectations of this anime. |
| - I know Chinese. - I can play ping pong. Liking this already. Smile seems to be hiding his talent for whatever purpose. Chinese player seems cool. I don't know if 11 episodes could cover 55 chapters, but I hope so. |
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| Wow. I thought it would be a joke because of the drawing but NO. They are speaking OLYMPICS :)) I played simple ping pong but I'm no expert that's why my jaw drops every time they talk about hand grips, slice or chops etc. It's fantastic! |
| I'm surprised no one mentioned the movie version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwFVc2NAt94 |
| Good first episode. I'd like to see Smile beat China. |
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| Brilliant stuff this. I'm glad I've read a couple of bloggers take on this show, because as usual the MAL score doesn't reflect how good this is. Must be the lack of little girls with big eyes. The humor, the voice acting, the soundtrack. Just spot on. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
Solkiskey said: Not bad, seems interesting so far. Not a big fan of the sloppy animation, though. The animation isn't sloppy. It's nice and smooth, it just has a very "special" style. |
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Marzan said: Brilliant stuff this. I'm glad I've read a couple of bloggers take on this show, because as usual the MAL score doesn't reflect how good this is. Must be the lack of little girls with big eyes. That's... pretty much spot on. |
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| Great start. I feel like they've nailed Koizumi, seems Sori's adaptation was a point of reference, too, and the art style evokes well that of Matsumoto, but I'm a little underwhelmed by the editing and animation. The ping pong rallies are phenomenal in the manga, but nothing really of note thus far in the anime. But I guess they're saving the best 'til later. Can't wait for Dragon. |
| First time watching a sports anime, and about ping pong? I always thought that sports anime is shit, but this has proven me utterly wrong. Who would've known that something like ping pong could be this intense. I'm really glad that I found a review of this series at Kotaku, else I would've missed this piece of art. I agree with the post above me that the Chinese guy speaking actual Chinese is rare in anime and makes this show that much better. About the art style, I got used to it in the first five minutes, but that was thanks to having had watched other anime with a similar "odd" art style. The art is different and that's one of the things that makes Ping Pong unique. |
| I love sport's animes. 2 of my top anime's are sport which are kuroko no basket and prince of tennis 2. I've been waiting for a table tennis anime for ages but this anime just made me cry. It's one of those anime's you'll see on like cartoon network - childish. Can someone please tell me if it actually gets better because right now, i have no motivation to watch another minute of it |
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PhsychicEnigma said: I love sport's animes. 2 of my top anime's are sport which are kuroko no basket and prince of tennis 2. I've been waiting for a table tennis anime for ages but this anime just made me cry. It's one of those anime's you'll see on like cartoon network - childish. Can someone please tell me if it actually gets better because right now, i have no motivation to watch another minute of it Childish? Ping Pong is pretty much the most mature anime this season. |
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PhsychicEnigma said: I love sport's animes. 2 of my top anime's are sport which are kuroko no basket and prince of tennis 2. I've been waiting for a table tennis anime for ages but this anime just made me cry. It's one of those anime's you'll see on like cartoon network - childish. Can someone please tell me if it actually gets better because right now, i have no motivation to watch another minute of it Come back when you understand what is childish and what isn't. This couldn't be further from a Cartoon Network show. Your comment really made me chuckle a bit. |
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PhsychicEnigma said: I love sport's animes. 2 of my top anime's are sport which are kuroko no basket and prince of tennis 2. I've been waiting for a table tennis anime for ages but this anime just made me cry. It's one of those anime's you'll see on like cartoon network - childish. Can someone please tell me if it actually gets better because right now, i have no motivation to watch another minute of it LOL bro, this is way more mature than your top 2 sports, Kuroko and PoT. Suggestions: 1) Learn the definition of "childish". 2) Then come back and we will see whats childish and what isn't. |
| The sequence where they commented the play from just the sounds of the ball was perfect. Excellent first episode: characters and situations are set in a quick yet efficient manner. Plus the gorgeous animation (especially the key animation). Will probably be another 10. |
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| Only good things to say about this episode really : the soundtrack was great, the comedy was good without actually needing to be in your face, and while the artstyle is very unusual and kind of unsettling at first, it somehow works perfectly well with the very dynamic animation. Man, that Peko v. China sequence was awesome. I also really appreciated the fact that a foreigner actually speaks in his mother tongue: really helps with the immersion. I sense a lot of potential there. This shall be fun. |
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Sapewloth said: Only good things to say about this episode really : the soundtrack was great, the comedy was good without actually needing to be in your face, and while the artstyle is very unusual and kind of unsettling at first, it somehow works perfectly well with the very dynamic animation. Man, that Peko v. China sequence was awesome. I also really appreciated the fact that a foreigner actually speaks in his mother tongue: really helps with the immersion. I sense a lot of potential there. This shall be fun. Youre gonna love the series |
| SHOW ME A MASTERPIECE. Intense OP and mellow/charming ED. Surprisingly the art isn't that hard to get use to. Already want to see China vs Peco in an official match and see China lose. Sure hope this won't disappoint. |
VanishingKiraJun 28, 2014 6:03 PM
| Fuck, why didn't I start watching this earlier. Well now I have the pleasure of marathoning it :3 I don't know what to say other than it's completely awesome and will probably one of my all-time favorites. The humor, the characters, the animation, the music... I mean even freakin chinese speaking people (awesome lol) |
| I dig the art, the animation, the pace, the story... everything! ♥ |
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| To describe that in one word, wacky. The art is far out there and has intrigued me. It's unique but doesn't seem like it's trying too hard to be different. The characters kept me laughing a good deal through this episode, Peco's smartass remarks cracked me up. I'm still chuckling at the irony of Smile. The matches are very engaging, wow who knew you could make watching ping pong fun? The opening song captures the nuttiness of this show well with those screams. |
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SaintD4nny said: Sapewloth said: Only good things to say about this episode really : the soundtrack was great, the comedy was good without actually needing to be in your face, and while the artstyle is very unusual and kind of unsettling at first, it somehow works perfectly well with the very dynamic animation. Man, that Peko v. China sequence was awesome. I also really appreciated the fact that a foreigner actually speaks in his mother tongue: really helps with the immersion. I sense a lot of potential there. This shall be fun. Youre gonna love the series How right you were. |
| Proud founder of The Official Anti-Ging Freecss Fan Club Join now! Kellhus said: GuusWayne said: there is a limit to the suspension of disbelief And it's the fan that did it. Not the smoking porn reading rubik cube genius rape ape with a magic boat. |
| It was incredibly refreshing to watch. |
| I remember watching the live-action movie for this not too long ago. Was intrigued by the art style and decided to watch this. I'm glad I did. The movie was great, but the anime gives off a different feel. Its not different in a bad way. Its refreshing and unique imo. Liking the ost so far. Will watch more. |
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| - An introduction episode. Potential, potential and potential. - I won't worship nor bash the art and animation. It heavily reminds of The Tatami Galaxy. I really don't mind it thou, in fact, it is refreshing. - The pace is quite fast which is nice. - The opening and ending songs are glorious. Let's see if it lives the hype. |
| Got use to the animation style and it's not bad at all. It just works. Though the opening animation was really half-assed just reused looping scenes. The characters are really interesting especially the Chinese player. It's pretty cool how they actually have him speaking Chinese. Definitely interesting 1st episode. |
| So much respect for this series |
| I was expecting not to enjoy it, But damn I'm looking forward to the next one. |
| looking back on this thread and seeing alot of the nay sayers based solely off its art, man those guys deserved to miss out on a series as good as this ended up being for getting caught on something so small |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
| How can i put it...This was incredibly intriguing, the art style and animation itself, very, very intriguing... |
FragOutFire said: Why am I a Berserk fan? All I ever experience is pain. We are in the eclipse and Miura has sacrificed us |
| Pretty interesting start, the art style sure is unique and the atmosphere sure has a nice feel to it! So let's see what this anime will offer us next! |
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| That was great, and the art is much more consistent and clean than the manga's (at least the beginning of it). The Chinese sounds completely legit too. I don't usually watch adaptations of manga I've read before hand, but I think this is going to have to be the exception. sjack said: not really. Reading through this thread, the amount of mainstream artstyle bashing was rather irritating and flat out stupid. Ping pong's art is weird and it's definitely not unexpected for people to be thrown by it. I don't understand why people were so upset that others had a negative first impression.tsudecimo said: Lol, look at all these hipsters and pretentious fuckers ''lel these mainstream moefags kids can't handle this unique and brilliant artstyle, how close minded and stupid XDDDD''. I mean really? the hypocrisy here is astounding. These days people can't wait to get their hand on something that will make them superior and shit. Some people didn't like the art and animation, what's the big deal? I don't, it's not interesting and being unique and different is not an inherently good thing. I loved The Tatami Galaxy art and style of animation, but I didn't like this, everyone has different preferences, so take your wannabe elitist bullshit elsewhere. How wrong you turned out to be faggot |
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| This is fucking awesome. |
| The animation was good for the ping pong scenes but besides that everyone looked pretty ugly. The characters seem somewhat interesting. Smile seems like he's super badass at ping pong but he doesn't show his strength and the other kid who wanted people he beat to call him mister was kind of cool with his charismatic personality. I thought the dialogue with the Chinese player was an interesting perspective on ping pong in Asia. |
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| I have never seen a sports anime before this so I thought this would be a good place to start considering everyone has praised this anime to no end. It was okay. The artstyle I found really distracting and it made it a little hard to follow. I will admit that the ping pong match between Wenge and Peco was pretty fucking cool. Peco got rekt. Okay first episode. I expect it to get better for sure. 6.5/10 |
| Amazing ep. The match between Peco and Wenge was cool. |
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| Sucks that the opening was a repetitive recycle. |
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| That art lol. Animation is pretty lazy as well. Great OP. Very Kaiji-style OP. Smile you damn kuudere. Jk I like you. Damn, all the characters have potential. The use of the original Chinese dialogues is awesome. The match between Hoshino and Wenge gave me some One Outs vibes (I guess that's because it's my 3rd sports anime). Great first impression. I'm already sad it's only 11 episodes. |
| Used to play Ping Pong back in school so it's nice watching an anime about it. I had a feeling the fella with the glasses was holding back when the coach asked if he had a cold and from the chinese player's reaction it seems I was right. |
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| Interesting episode even though i dislike ping pong sport .lol first time i hear Chinese nice ending music |
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| I was really intrigued when I first watched this episode, I couldn't believe that an anime actually depicted Asian characters as looking like actual Asian people, complete with noses, small eyes, normal hair colors, etc. And given how the series turned out, I can't imagine it any other way. |
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| Solid start. The artstyle will definitely take some getting used to... Peco got owned! That chinese guy is pretty awesome. Amazing how they could deduce everything just by the sound of the game. |
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| I am not gonna lie, the art kinda bothered me at the beginning. Regardless, I am fascinated by this. I can't wait to find out more about Smile. |
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