I'm not a fan of sports anime, but Ping Pong is legitimately great. Despite the rushed animation, it has great direction, style, and writing. It's probably the best anime of the season so far (though Mushishi comes very close).
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I'm not a fan of sports anime, but Ping Pong is legitimately great. Despite the rushed animation, it has great direction, style, and writing. It's probably the best anime of the season so far (though Mushishi comes very close).
BassForever
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I owned a ping pong table, it was a pretty great place to put my drinks and snacks on when I had friends come over to have game nights and I didn't want the dog to knock things over
What kind of game is it? a idol management sim?
best news i've heard all day
firehawk12
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All shounen heroes should be like Jack Bauer. Sadly, Gintoki is the only one who even comes close.
Sounds like the two years I put my PS3 in the middle of my room to keep dust off everything else since it attracted it all.
ZachDeKoromaru
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They should all at least be voiced by Sugita.
nintendoman58
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Let's hope it doesn't end up getting pricey like that $50 ios Idolm@ster game.
EDIT: Nevermind, it's free. Should have checked, but I was reminded of the fiasco with the Idolm@ster game's pricing, lol.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
That works for me!
I actually really enjoy ping pong.
Onii-sama not enough for you?
God, I remember that - insanely stupid. I think that was the first crack I saw in the show. Who knew it'd get worse from there.
Ugh that chrismas card thing was complete nonsense too.
Didn't he try? Like, didn't he yell out to them not to touch it? Honest question, I don't recall.
Eh this didn't bother me that much, childhood crush, whatever.
I don't know why I'm replying to each of these, you're pretty much entirely right at how stupid this all is.[/quote]
Which was weird cause he says why in the first episode, though it was an equally shitty explanation.
Ping pong is an Olympic sport.
Anyone could describe any game they didn't care about this way.
So is curling.
Curling is pretty fun to watch.
AquaWateria
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I don't know but I feel like Baby steps to me is better than Ping Pong and it also has a better budget than Ping pong. Maybe because I prefer tennis than to Ping pong and since it has a bit of romance too. But ideally it has to do with Takasaki because she is the best and beats every character in Ping Pong. Just my opinion though.
KuwabaraTheMan
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.hack//SIGN is actually really good. There's pretty much no need for any other trapped in a game shows (and they've pretty much all been terrible).
Uh.. can't say I agree. At all.
.hack//SIGN was slow, boring and cheesy.
Log Horizon is solid. Shame about the low budget though.
BassForever
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Curling is fucking awesome where the hell is my curling anime?
Curling would lend itself really well to a sports anime where everyone has ridiculous curling gimmick powers.
thanks for the heads up, gonna download it now and see whats it about
There's shonen protags, then there's Gintoki. Firehawk, you know this isn't fair.
AquaWateria
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You know they should make a sports anime about Cricket. That would be funny though.
Aint easy livin in the database. Whoah oh.
Thug life in the database, yo.
Save 'N Quit
Banned
We talking desired sports anime?
Because I want some oil wrestling anime.
Because I want some oil wrestling anime.
I would watch.
edit: It was a Canadian test pilot who dies and spirit is with a japanese figure skater.
Ginban Kaleidoscope
MetroidPrimeRib
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Admiral Woofington
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Gintoki IS pretty top tier Shonen protag. Hilarious, voiced by Sugita and a believable badass. Most importantly he doesn't need some OP power or fool this isn't even my final for to keep going for so long.
Okay, I couldn't help myself. Even against Haly's warnings, I have to see Gundam Unicorn through the end.
Ep 4
More annoying than Banaghers uselessness, is the fact that everyone's cool with him flip-flopping sides like it ain't nothing. Maybe that's thematic reinforcement--maybe not. It's silly as all hell, non.the.less.
Ep 4
More annoying than Banaghers uselessness, is the fact that everyone's cool with him flip-flopping sides like it ain't nothing. Maybe that's thematic reinforcement--maybe not. It's silly as all hell, non.the.less.
ZachDeKoromaru
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Save 'N Quit
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NAh, he's got the whole Kenshin 'he was a devil with mad strength in his past life with his past life never really explained so you never really see the full extent of how strong he is thing so he can match up against even stronger and stronger enemies without needing gimmicks' thing going for him. Which is textbook, but I still love him.
AquaWateria
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Best girl no matter what.
KirbYuuYuu
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Suddenly contender for best girl of Nisekoi because wide face
ZachDeKoromaru
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A better reason than any, as expected of Ume-sensei.
Everyone has the most mature (or maybe poorly written) attitudes toward warfare in all of fiction.
"You killed my friends and allies, but this is okay. We are soldiers, it is our job. No hard feeling."
YEAH OKAY BUDDY
Eeeeeeeeeeeee!
*bounces bounces bounces bounces bounces
You present a strong argument but if she draws Onodera or Tsugumi in wideface I seriously might die.
Admiral Woofington
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Yeah but it never went past being a good swordsman or having wit. Which I appreciate.
Seriously.
'Oh you just killed my friend, but it's cool cause he was a pilot and knew what he was getting into the moment in got into his mobile suit. Don't morn him. Here have something to eat.'
Which would be cool if it was one character maintaining this over-mechanical mindset, but, like you say, it's everybody on every ship but banagher. Cause he has HEART.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
HeartCatch Precure 15
I really do like how the show isn't forgetting the side-characters, as well. It's pretty fun when focus characters from several episodes ago pop back up.
Even if I didn't know already, it would be painfully obvious by this point that Itsuki is going to be the third Precure.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Japan.
That's true.
lol
Onii-sama is Jack and Chloe merged into one sucky person.
Admiral Woofington
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There's no hockey anime because it'd double as a seinen where after every win a bunch of drunks burn down the town. Also no strong female characters.
chickdigger802
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how is jack bauer like gintoki at all?
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