The Ping Pong Club
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.
Cast: Kousuke Okano, Michael Shitanda, Sakura Uehara
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Season 1
26 episodes
- 1. The Six School Boys/An Evil PlotThis 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.MCC25minApr 6, 1995
- 2. The Half-Baked Men/The WormsThe 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.MCC25minApr 13, 1995
- 3. The Maeno Germ/A Seductive SnobThe 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.MCC25minApr 20, 1995
- 4. The Purchase/Hot SummerAfter 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.MCC25minApr 27, 1995
- 5. Training Camp/Curse of TakedaA 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.MCC25minMay 4, 1995
- 6. Sixty Years/Flaming SpiritMr 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.MCC25minMay 11, 1995
- 7. Inachu Vs./Sex TicketThe 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.MCC25minMay 18, 1995
- 8. Love & Comedy (Part 1)/Love & Comedy (Part 2)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.MCC25minMay 25, 1995
- 9. First Love/Loser's CommunityThe 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.MCC25minJun 1, 1995
- 10. Dress Up Dolls/Ultra TanabeWhile 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.MCC25minJun 8, 1995
- 11. Winning the Lottery! (Part 1)/Winning the Lottery! (Part 2)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.MCC25minJun 15, 1995
- 12. Shibizaki's Plan/SurvivalThe 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.MCC25minJun 22, 1995
- 13. Friendship/TsutomuNo synopsis available yet.MCC25minJun 29, 1995
- 14. Saturday Hare/The WimpNo synopsis available yet.MCC25minJul 6, 1995
- 15. The Outcast/ShortyNo synopsis available yet.MCC25minJul 13, 1995
- 16. Dr. Maeno (Part 1)/Dr. Maeno (Part 2)No synopsis available yet.MCC25minJul 20, 1995
- 17. Find Happiness/Sheds His SkinNo synopsis available yet.MCC25minJul 27, 1995
- 18. Partner? (Part 1)/Partner? (Part 2)No synopsis available yet.MCC25minAug 3, 1995
- 19. The Unfortunates/May I Have It?No synopsis available yet.MCC25minAug 10, 1995
- 20. A River/RetirementNo synopsis available yet.MCC25minAug 17, 1995
- 21. Loan King/Flaming PervertsNo synopsis available yet.MCC25minAug 24, 1995
- 22. The Invasion/Into the Big SkyNo synopsis available yet.MCC25minAug 31, 1995
- 23. I've Got Guts/A Dramatic Photo!No synopsis available yet.MCC25minSep 7, 1995
- 24. Fake Drunkard/Takeda FondlesNo synopsis available yet.MCC25minSep 14, 1995
- 25. Wanted (Part 1)/Wanted (Part 2)No synopsis available yet.MCC25minSep 21, 1995
- 26. Dandy Principal/The DriftersNo synopsis available yet.MCC25minSep 28, 1995
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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.
