Ping Pong the Animation

ピンポン THE ANIMATION · ピンポン THE ANIMATION · PPTA

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Popular Love
8
Signal Breakdown
Social Sentiment
Cross Platform Breadth Reach
Fan Works
Audience Score Reach
Sentiment Consistency
90-Day Trend
True Feel
97
Cult Favourite
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Rising
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Recommend
29
Reach Meter
15
Reach Breakdown
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1Core Metadata

Title & Origin
Canonical title
Ping Pong the Animation
Original title
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Country
JP
Language
ja
Territory
JP
Release & Format
Format
tv
Release status
finished airing
Release date
2014
Duration (min)
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Episodes
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Rights & Rating
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Licensing
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Distribution
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Volume count
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Creator
Masaaki YuasaDirector
Koji YamamotoExecutive Producer
Masuo UedaExecutive Producer
Yutaka IshikawaExecutive Producer
Yuichi NakaoExecutive Producer
Yoko MatsuzakiExecutive Producer
Network
Tatsunoko ProductionStudio
NetflixDistributor
CrunchyrollDistributor
Alternate Titles
ピンポン THE ANIMATION
jaOriginal
ピンポン THE ANIMATION
jaOriginal
PPTA

2Content

Synopsis

Despite being polar opposites, Makoto "Smile" Tsukimoto and Yutaka "Peco" Hoshino have been best friends since childhood. Although the overly confident Peco strives to be the best ping-pong player in the world, he often skips practice, earning the ire of his fellow teammates on the Katase High School ping-pong team. Meanwhile, Smile—in spite of his innate talent for the sport—cannot...

Tags & Format

Themes

Award WinningDramaSports

Tone

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Target age rating
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Content format
tv
Awards

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3Commercial Metrics

Box Office
Box office
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Original
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Revenue
Total revenue
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Revenue tier
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Awards
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Sales & Streams
Units sold
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4Audience Intelligence

myanimelist
Score
8.6
Score count
Not yet measured
Rank
50
Audience size
441,129
Last updated
5/22/2026
reddit
Score
94.3
Score count
375
Rank
224
Audience size
2,738,859
Last updated
6/11/2026

5Industry Links

TMDB tv/60811

tmdb

MyAnimeList

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IMDb

imdb

TVDB

tvdb

TVmaze

tvmaze

AniList

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6Community Sentiment

How people are talking about this IP — each row is a different signal: reviews, ratings or comments from one source.

Positive ≥0.6Mixed 0.4–0.6Negative <0.4
Animebased on community signals
Very Positive0.86
MyAnimeListbased on anime community ratings
Very Positive8.63
TVmazebased on TV airing & listing status
Very Positive0.82
How sentiment scores are calculated