Anime Herald Anime Herald - We'll talk nerdy to you. The game of ping pong is not to be taken lightly. Earlier today, FUNimation announced the English dub cast for Ping Pong The Animation. As of press [...]
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Album Title: PING PONG SOUNDTRACK Standard Edition Anime Title: Ping Pong the Animation Artist: Kensuke Ushio, Oorutaichi Catalog Number: ANXX-00570 Release Type: Soundtrack Release Date: November 26, [...]
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One Week Friends – Episode 3 You know what I really love about this series? It never wastes my time. We learned about Fujimiya’s memory loss before the first episode was over. She started keeping a [...]
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Text version and links: Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw6UBKuaMyFAxI1scBKFw_KEvKLzh-EaR #7. Barakamon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RMaxFEKD0Q #6. Shirobako: [...]
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With all the talk about bad shows, and great shows that surprise us, where’s talk of actual workmanship? Of a show that tells a story without surprising you, actually taking it through all of the [...]
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Cinematography is perhaps the ultimate challenge for a TV anime to overcome. Inherent of television anime are limited budgets and tight schedules, meaning that the resources and time provided are not [...]
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Ping Pong the Animation – Episode 2 It feels strange to say it, given how superficially ugly the show can be, but everything about this episode of Ping Pong was beautiful. Its simultaneous exploration [...]
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Ping Pong the Animation Barring an episode of Space Dandy, the first episode of Ping Pong is also my first exposure to the work of Masaaki Yuasa. And what a great entry point it makes: this was a [...]
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This is review number two hundred and ninety one. Holy sh*t. Is this real? I’m close to three hundred? Anyways, this is part of the Spring 2014 lineup in the noitaminA block. It’s called Ping Pong The [...]
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Spring season’s Ping Pong is the only anime that has made or will make a serious attempt this year at dislodging Hunter x Hunter from being the best anime of 2014. (Psycho-Pass 2 looks like the only [...]
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Leave it to a series from 1996 to blow everything else out of the water. I had a thought to myself that Slam Dunk is pretty much the cream of the crop when it comes down to sports manga. Even in [...]
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Even though I didn't get far on my reviews for last season, I still liked the format, so I'm doing it again for the Spring shows! The first two up are the "artsy" shows, Mushishi Zoku Shou and Ping [...]
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“Maybe there’s no job I’m the only man for, but am I going to fade away without doing anything? Like hell, I’m going to fade away without doing anything!” -”Tada Hitori” by Bakudan Johnny, Ping Pong [...]
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“A new age has come, but I still can’t get out of this rut And it’s too straight and narrow, no escape routes around…” Tadahitori “Staking your life on ping pong is revolting,” says Smile, the [...]
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That was gorgeous, okay? Everyone’s arc concluded with poignancy and grace, Smile was able to regain his own love of the game (MY BLOOD TASTES LIKE IRON!), and the very necessary epilogue demonstrated [...]
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It’s an insult to other sports shows when I say Ping Pong is more than a sports show. But look at the final match. Sure we get some great action. We see Peco scoring a couple points and then Smile [...]
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Butterfly Joe: “Question for you, Mr. Tsukimoto. What happens when someone goes after a hero’s weak point?” Smile: “Heroes don’t have weak points.” Both Obaba and Butterfly Joe know that Peco’s knee [...]
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There are some shows that I consider “moments” shows. They’re shows you watch for the few seconds or few shots of brilliant beauty interspersed between a lot of reasonably good, but not great [...]
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I've said it before and I'll say it again - in anime, pedigree almost always wins out.My headline for this post was going to be something along the lines of "Another wonderful NoitaminA anime [...]
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(Note: Episodic notes are still mostly to be found on the Episodics Notes’ page, but up to a couple every week will have their write-up appear on the main page, when I think they warrant it. For those [...]
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