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* TalentVsTraining: The main premise of the series is how each character balances their natural talent for ping pong with how hard they work to actually master it. On one end is Smile who is TheAce at table tennis without having to ever try and often loses intentionally due to not feeling a need to prove himself. On the opposite end is Sakuma who struggles relentlessly to excel at the sport but can never overcome his natural limit no matter how hard he works. Peco acts as the Golden Mean between the two, having innate talent but also a sense of complacency and laziness to never really try to push or improve himself, especially since Smile continues to let him win matches. It's only after he's beaten by Sakuma and goes through a depressive stage that he finally reignites his drive to actually work towards honing his talents and pushes past his physical limits to achieve what he previously couldn't be bothered to.
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* TactfulTranslation: In episode one Kong contemptuously compares his teammates' practice session to a folk dance. The translator diplomatically relays that as "watching Japanese gameplay is very enlightening"
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* TactfulTranslation: In episode one one, Kong contemptuously compares his teammates' practice session to a folk dance. The translator diplomatically relays that as "watching Japanese gameplay is very enlightening"enlightening".
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** OpposingSportTeam: Keiou. Strong, intimidating to the point of bullying, very rich.
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** OpposingSportTeam: OpposingSportsTeam: Keiou. Strong, intimidating to the point of bullying, very rich.
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''Ping Pong'' is a Japanese sports series that had its humble origins with a manga by surrealist Taiyo Matsumoto, best known for ''Manga/{{Tekkonkinkreet}}'' and ''Sunny''. The series ran between 1996-7 in the magazine Big Comic Spirits. Time passed and, lo and behold, an adaptation came to fruition. The 2002 live-action film, directed by Fumihiko Sori, was considered widely successful. The film was important in establishing Shidō Nakamura II as a bankable star, who won a Japanese Academy Award for the role of Dragon. Over a decade later, the series would resurface again as an anime called ''Ping Pong: The Animation''. Directed by Creator/MasaakiYuasa, often considered to be Matsumoto's anime equal, the series premiered in the spring season of 2014, quickly becoming a sleeper hit over an eleven-episode run.
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''Ping Pong'' is a Japanese sports series that had its humble origins with a manga by surrealist Taiyo Matsumoto, best known for ''Manga/{{Tekkonkinkreet}}'' and ''Sunny''. The series ran between 1996-7 in the magazine Big ''Big Comic Spirits.Spirits''. Time passed and, lo and behold, an adaptation came to fruition. The 2002 live-action film, directed by Fumihiko Sori, was considered widely successful. The film was important in establishing Shidō Nakamura II as a bankable star, who won a Japanese Academy Award for the role of Dragon. Over a decade later, the series would resurface again as an anime called ''Ping Pong: The Animation''. Directed by Creator/MasaakiYuasa, often considered to be Matsumoto's anime equal, the series premiered in the spring season of 2014, quickly becoming a sleeper hit over an eleven-episode run.
