Makoto 'Smile' Tsukimoto and his friend Yutaka 'Peco' Hoshino have been playing table tennis together since they were kids, but as they enter high school, they find that the game, and how they see it, has changed. Peco, brimming with confidence and energy, wants to be the best in the world, but the reserved Smile has little fighting spirit and doesn't want to sacrifice others' happiness just to win, despite his innate talent. As the two grow, and experience the ups and downs of the sport – and life – they try to figure out exactly who they really are and what drives them to play.
You can now watch Ping Pong the Animation online on the following streaming providers in the United States.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | The Wind Makes It Too Hard to Hear | 2014-04-11 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Smile's a Robot | 2014-04-18 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Staking Your Life on Table Tennis is Revolting | 2014-04-25 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | The Only Way to Not Lose is to Not Fight | 2014-05-02 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Where Did It All Go Wrong? | 2014-05-09 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | You Love Table Tennis More Than Anyone Else!! | 2014-05-16 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | Yes My Coach | 2014-05-23 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Enter the Hero | 2014-05-30 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | A Little Cry | 2014-06-06 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | You're a Hero, for Cryin' Out Loud! | 2014-06-13 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Blood Tastes Like Iron | 2014-06-20 | 25 min |
| Visual Effects | Kunio Tsujita | Color Designer |
| Production | Yohei Shintaku | Producer |
| Production | Yuka Okayasu | Producer |
| Editing | Kashiko Kimura | Editor |
| Writing | Taiyō Matsumoto | Comic Book |
| Visual Effects | Nobutake Ito | Character Designer |
| Sound | Eriko Kimura | Sound Director |
| Camera | Shunsuke Nakamura | Director of Photography |
| Art | Aymeric Kevin | Art Direction |
| Visual Effects | Shinji Hashimoto | Opening/Ending Animation |
| Visual Effects | Tomoyuki Niho | Opening/Ending Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shinya Ohira | Opening/Ending Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hakuyu Go | Opening/Ending Animation |
| Directing | Masaaki Yuasa | Series Director |
| Sound | Kensuke Ushio | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Koji Yamamoto | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Masaaki Yuasa | Series Composition |
| Sound | Hiroaki Sano | Music Producer |
| Sound | Etsuko Chiba | Music Producer |
| Production | Masuo Ueda | Executive Producer |
| Directing | Eunyoung Choi | Assistant Director |
| Production | Yutaka Ishikawa | Executive Producer |
| Production | Yuichi Nakao | Executive Producer |
| Production | Yoko Matsuzaki | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Katsuhiro Nakano | Sound Effects |
| Production | Tsutomu Fujio | Line Producer |
| Visual Effects | Yasunori Miyazawa | Opening/Ending Animation |
| Visual Effects | Ryosuke Nishii | Opening/Ending Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hokuto Sakiyama | Opening/Ending Animation |
| Visual Effects | Eunyoung Choi | Opening/Ending Animation |
| Sound | Kazutoshi Yamamoto | Sound Mixer |
| Art | Hisako Saitou | Art Designer |
| Art | Eriko Shibayama | Art Designer |
