I've seen the disneys, the ghiblis, the chomets.
I don't like to use scores. They're pretty meaningless, since people are different and it's hard to put artistic value to anything. And yet, I did play along sometimes and scored things in my life.
If countless animated projects I've seen in my entire life had score cards from 1 to 10, just like MyAnimeList shows, I now have to rewrite every single animated 10 I have seen in my life into a 9.
Ping Pong is the only one to deserve a 10. I'd be giving it a disservice by putting in anything else.
Now I can only hope I'll ever see another 10. Please watch this series and understand it. The animation, the direction, the stylistic choices, the restraint with using music and everything else you can ever think of - it has all been honed to perfection.
If the last part of the series, showing the enjoyment of doing what you love for the sake of doing it for fun, no matter the injuries, is a metaphor - it'd be one about me, enjoying animation like I never did before.
