The Ping Pong Club

25min

Animation

Comedy

Inaho Jr. High's Boys Ping Pong Club has only 6 members, the club minimum. Takeda is your average nice guy. Kinoshita is good looking and popular with girls. Unfortunately, the rest are branded as losers. Tanabe is too foreign, while Tanaka is petite and perverse. Maena and Izawa are truly deviant, and their crazed antics have earned the team some powerful enemies. In spite of their differences, the team needs to work together to retain their practice room and club status.

Episodes

Cast

The Six School Boys/An Evil Plot

1. The Six School Boys/An Evil Plot

25min

6th Apr 1995

This episode introduces the members of the Ping Pong Club. The teacher in charge of the girls ping pong club tries to take over the boys training room.

The Half-Baked Men/The Worms

2. The Half-Baked Men/The Worms

25min

13th Apr 1995

The teacher of the girls ping pong club (Mr. Tachikawa) tricks the teacher of the boys club (Mr. Shibazaki) into giving the training room to the girls. The boys are not happy with this and fight back to reclaim the training room with some devious tricks of their own.

The Maeno Germ/A Seductive Snob

3. The Maeno Germ/A Seductive Snob

25min

20th Apr 1995

The boys without a training room of their own, end up picking up trash in the schoolyard. Takeda and Kinoshita get invited to play with the girls but the other boys are left out. In the end Mr Tachikawa takes pity on them and lets the boys club play a match against the girl to win back their training room.

The Purchase/Hot Summer

4. The Purchase/Hot Summer

25min

27th Apr 1995

After losing the game to win back their training room, the boys go about to find Mr. Tachikawa's weakness. After finding out that he has a crush on Miss Tachibana, the boys plan to make a sexy video of her so they can strike a deal with Mr. Tachikawa.

Training Camp/Curse of Takeda

5. Training Camp/Curse of Takeda

25min

4th May 1995

A girl suddenly comes to the training room asking for Maeno. She tells him that she likes him but Izawa, jealous of Maeno, ruins any hope of a relationship. Maeno vows revenge on Izawa. The next time a girl comes to the training room asking for Izawa, Maeno is ready for some revenge.

Sixty Years/Flaming Spirit

6. Sixty Years/Flaming Spirit

25min

11th May 1995

Mr Shibazaki get a new manager for the club. It turns out to be a girl that Takeda knows from his childhood, Kyoko Iwashita. A few days later they get the news that they have to play against the favorite in the coming championship. Kyoko thinks of a plan to motivate the club.

Inachu Vs./Sex Ticket

7. Inachu Vs./Sex Ticket

25min

18th May 1995

The team discovers that Maeno has used the remainder of the club's new ping pong balls for a very non-ping-pong-related purpose. The team pools money to purchase new balls and uses paper-rock-scissors to select who will actually go and make the purchase. However, Izawa expresses concern as Maeno was the one randomly selected.

Love & Comedy (Part 1)/Love & Comedy (Part 2)

8. Love & Comedy (Part 1)/Love & Comedy (Part 2)

25min

25th May 1995

It's the height of summer, and very hot. The club decides to go for a swim in the school pool. The captain of the girls swimming team lets them in, but has ulterior motives.

First Love/Loser's Community

9. First Love/Loser's Community

25min

1st Jun 1995

The underfunded ping pong club was forced to join the baseball team's training camp last year, but ended up being ball boys. This year, Mr. Shibazaki tries to make amends by bringing the boys to an inn in the mountains for their training camp. The inn is owned by Mr. Shibazaki's friend, Mr. Uehara, who happens to be a monkey. However, the inn seems to have more facilities for baths than ping pong.

Dress Up Dolls/Ultra Tanabe

10. Dress Up Dolls/Ultra Tanabe

25min

8th Jun 1995

While at the inn, Takeda wakes up in the middle of the night from a nightmare only to come face to face with the ghost of a woman confuses Takeda with her former lover, Yaguchi. According to Uehara, Takeda is the spitting image of Yaguchi, a man who had intended to commit double suicide with the woman, but chickened out. Takeda decides to make a trip up the mountain and offer incense to the ghost.

Winning the Lottery! (Part 1)/Winning the Lottery! (Part 2)

11. Winning the Lottery! (Part 1)/Winning the Lottery! (Part 2)

25min

15th Jun 1995

The club decides to have some fun watching college girls at a public swimming pool when Mr. Shibazaki arrives on a bicycle and offers the boys a chance to play ping pong against ""grown-up girls"". The boys happily accept, but the Beauty Mamas are not quite the ping pong club the boys expected.

Shibizaki's Plan/Survival

12. Shibizaki's Plan/Survival

25min

22nd Jun 1995

The boys seem to have lost hope of winning their upcoming tournament, but Kyoko offers them an incentive they can't ignore. Reinvigorated, the boys practice harder than ever. But when Maeno plays poorly against Kyoko, who is just a ping pong beginner, Kyoko accuses him of dragging the rest of the team down. Humiliated, Maeno decides to enlist the help of Mrs. Kishimoto.

Friendship/Tsutomu

13. Friendship/Tsutomu

25min

29th Jun 1995

Saturday Hare/The Wimp

14. Saturday Hare/The Wimp

25min

6th Jul 1995

The Outcast/Shorty

15. The Outcast/Shorty

25min

13th Jul 1995

Dr. Maeno (Part 1)/Dr. Maeno (Part 2)

16. Dr. Maeno (Part 1)/Dr. Maeno (Part 2)

25min

20th Jul 1995

Find Happiness/Sheds His Skin

17. Find Happiness/Sheds His Skin

25min

27th Jul 1995

Partner? (Part 1)/Partner? (Part 2)

18. Partner? (Part 1)/Partner? (Part 2)

25min

3rd Aug 1995

The Unfortunates/May I Have It?

19. The Unfortunates/May I Have It?

25min

10th Aug 1995

A River/Retirement

20. A River/Retirement

25min

17th Aug 1995

Loan King/Flaming Perverts

21. Loan King/Flaming Perverts

25min

24th Aug 1995

The Invasion/Into the Big Sky

22. The Invasion/Into the Big Sky

25min

31st Aug 1995

I've Got Guts/A Dramatic Photo!

23. I've Got Guts/A Dramatic Photo!

25min

7th Sep 1995

Fake Drunkard/Takeda Fondles

24. Fake Drunkard/Takeda Fondles

25min

14th Sep 1995

Wanted (Part 1)/Wanted (Part 2)

25. Wanted (Part 1)/Wanted (Part 2)

25min

21st Sep 1995

Dandy Principal/The Drifters

26. Dandy Principal/The Drifters

25min

28th Sep 1995

First air date

6th Apr 1995

Last air date

28th Sep 1995

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

ja

Networks