The Ping Pong Club

1995

Seasons & Episodes

  • 1

EP1 The Six School Boys/An Evil Plot Apr 05, 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.

EP2 The Half-Baked Men/The Worms Apr 12, 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.

EP3 The Maeno Germ/A Seductive Snob Apr 19, 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.

EP4 The Purchase/Hot Summer Apr 26, 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.

EP5 Training Camp/Curse of Takeda May 03, 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.

EP6 Sixty Years/Flaming Spirit May 10, 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.

EP7 Inachu Vs./Sex Ticket May 17, 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.

EP8 Love & Comedy (Part 1)/Love & Comedy (Part 2) May 24, 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.

EP9 First Love/Loser's Community May 31, 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.

EP10 Dress Up Dolls/Ultra Tanabe Jun 07, 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.

EP11 Winning the Lottery! (Part 1)/Winning the Lottery! (Part 2) Jun 14, 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.

EP12 Shibizaki's Plan/Survival Jun 21, 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.

EP13 Friendship/Tsutomu Jun 28, 1995

EP14 Saturday Hare/The Wimp Jul 05, 1995

EP15 The Outcast/Shorty Jul 12, 1995

EP16 Dr. Maeno (Part 1)/Dr. Maeno (Part 2) Jul 19, 1995

EP17 Find Happiness/Sheds His Skin Jul 26, 1995

EP18 Partner? (Part 1)/Partner? (Part 2) Aug 02, 1995

EP19 The Unfortunates/May I Have It? Aug 09, 1995

EP20 A River/Retirement Aug 16, 1995

EP21 Loan King/Flaming Perverts Aug 23, 1995

EP22 The Invasion/Into the Big Sky Aug 30, 1995

EP23 I've Got Guts/A Dramatic Photo! Sep 06, 1995

EP24 Fake Drunkard/Takeda Fondles Sep 13, 1995

EP25 Wanted (Part 1)/Wanted (Part 2) Sep 20, 1995

EP26 Dandy Principal/The Drifters Sep 27, 1995

Synopsis

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.

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Kousuke Okano as Maeno
Yasuhiro Takato as Tanaka
Sakura Uehara as Kyoko
Chafurin as Kaoru Suematsu
Hidetoshi Nakamura as Morio Tachikawa
Cho as Shibazaki
Yuko Nagashima as Tachibana

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