![poster of Ping Pong the Animation](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/frgVn3ww547TVQH8vS2bWKZnEBu.jpg)
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You Love This Sport More Than Anyone!!
Five athletes have five very different Christmas Eves, and Peco gets a wake-up call.
Writing:
Release Date:
Fri, Apr 11, 2014
Country: JP
Language: Zh | Ja
Runtime: 23
Country: JP
Language: Zh | Ja
Runtime: 23
Koki Uchiyama
Makoto 'Smile' Tsukimoto (voice)
Fukujuro Katayama
Yutaka 'Peco' Hoshino (voice)
Yousei Bun
Wenge 'China' Kong (voice)
Shunsuke Sakuya
Ryuuichi 'Dragon' Kazama (voice)
Subaru Kimura
Manabu 'Demon' Sakuma (voice)
Yusaku Yara
Jou Koizumi (voice)
Masako Nozawa
Obaba Tamura (voice)
Season 1:
![The Wind Makes It Too Hard to Hear](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/fez2QneBokXDE1TI3cIMls5mxRX.jpg)
Two old friends go to spy on a new table tennis champ at a rival high school, but meanwhile their own team is falling apart.
![Smile Is a Robot](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/4MdIFcj90fR5yrvo8T9gdq0UUkX.jpg)
Coach Koizumi has started working Smile hard, and he definitely doesn't appreciate the extra attention.
![Staking Your Life on Table Tennis Is Revolting](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/lemhxJfgtpK6kcH73DkRzeEp8Tx.jpg)
All the teams gather at the prefectural qualifiers, and China gets to play Smile at last.
![The Only Way to Be Sure You Won't Lose Is to Not Fight](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/A8AzplmG0zMEzKbnwn43EiJWmhs.jpg)
Peco learns a hard lesson from someone he never took seriously enough, and then we finally see how Dragon earned his name.
![Where Did I Go Wrong?](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/rkxrdIyDFEv4DRB24k9hg2NY0Qu.jpg)
Dragon's obsession with Smile prompts Akuma to do something rash.
![You Love This Sport More Than Anyone!!](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/pnImNwIZjZyQfpnUX73VBjtrNIS.jpg)
Five athletes have five very different Christmas Eves, and Peco gets a wake-up call.
![The Hero Appears](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/aIN1M5RJs8DO0PtXtav3xrMIEMP.jpg)
Smile, Peco, Dragon, and China begin another prefectural qualifier. Will the results be different this year?
![Gonna Cry a Bit](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/fKmLyXLlhfymlwDTXEJgT2Kb61p.jpg)
In the third round, Dragon has an unexpected visitor, Sanada questions himself, and Peco scares lots of people in lots of ways.
![I Thought You Were the Hero!!](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/l3ZPwGsHM9tLyRPKPP35U9y0dMx.jpg)
Peco and Dragon tackle the question of whether only birds can fly.