The Ping Pong Club(1995)
Overview
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.
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26 episodes • 1995Avg: 1.0Golden Era
Season 1
26 episodes • 1995Avg: 1.0Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Six School Boys/An Evil Plot | Apr 6, 1995 | 1.0 |
| 2 | The Half-Baked Men/The Worms | Apr 13, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 3 | The Maeno Germ/A Seductive Snob | Apr 20, 1995 | 1.0 |
| 4 | The Purchase/Hot Summer | Apr 27, 1995 | 1.0 |
| 5 | Training Camp/Curse of Takeda | May 4, 1995 | 1.0 |
| 6 | Sixty Years/Flaming Spirit | May 11, 1995 | 1.0 |
| 7 | Inachu Vs./Sex Ticket | May 18, 1995 | 1.0 |
| 8 | Love & Comedy (Part 1)/Love & Comedy (Part 2) | May 25, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 9 | First Love/Loser's Community | Jun 1, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Dress Up Dolls/Ultra Tanabe | Jun 8, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Winning the Lottery! (Part 1)/Winning the Lottery! (Part 2) | Jun 15, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Shibizaki's Plan/Survival | Jun 22, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Friendship/Tsutomu | Jun 29, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Saturday Hare/The Wimp | Jul 6, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 15 | The Outcast/Shorty | Jul 13, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Dr. Maeno (Part 1)/Dr. Maeno (Part 2) | Jul 20, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Find Happiness/Sheds His Skin | Jul 27, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Partner? (Part 1)/Partner? (Part 2) | Aug 3, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 19 | The Unfortunates/May I Have It? | Aug 10, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 20 | A River/Retirement | Aug 17, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Loan King/Flaming Perverts | Aug 24, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 22 | The Invasion/Into the Big Sky | Aug 31, 1995 | 1.0 |
| 23 | I've Got Guts/A Dramatic Photo! | Sep 7, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 24 | Fake Drunkard/Takeda Fondles | Sep 14, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 25 | Wanted (Part 1)/Wanted (Part 2) | Sep 21, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 26 | Dandy Principal/The Drifters | Sep 28, 1995 | 0.0 |
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