Ping Pong: The Animation

Ping Pong: The Animation
Original Title	ピンポン (Pin Pon)
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio	FUNimation Entertainment
Voice Director	Christopher Bevins
Translation & Adaptation	Joel Bergen Jared Hedges John Burgmeier (Head Writer) Sarah Alys Lindholm (Translation)
ADR Production
Recorded	2015
Dub Country	United States
Original Country	Japan
Episodes	11
Year	2014

Ping Pong: The Animation (ピンポン Pin Pon) is a 2014 anime series based on the manga series with the same name written and illustrated by Taiyō Matsumoto. It was serialized and published in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits Seinen magazine from 1996 to 1997, with a total of 5 volumes.

The anime series was animated/produced by Tatsunoko Production, directed by Masaaki Yuasa (Devilman Crybaby), and aired in Japan from April 11, 2014 to June 20, 2014, consisting of 11 episodes. Funimation licensed and produced an English Dub of the series, which was included in the DVD & Blu-Ray release of the series on June 23, 2015.

Synopsis Childhood friends Makoto "Smile" Tsukimoto and Yukata "Peco" Hoshino are capable and aspiring table tennis players of Katase High School. Coach Jō "Butterfly" Koizumi has high expectation to both of them, but when Peco gets decisively defeated by a Chinese student he becomes so devastated and stops practicing. Meanwhile, Koizumi discovers Smile's potential and tries to motivate him to overcome his psychological obstacle.

Cast

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
	Yutaka Hoshino / Peco	Fukujūrō Katayama	Aaron Dismuke
		Mitsuki Nishida (child)	Maxey Whitehead (child)
	Makoto Tsukimoto / Smile	Kōki Uchiyama	Micah Solusod
		Hiroshi Satomura (child)	Apphia Yu (child)
	Jō Koizumi / Butterfly Joe	Yūsaku Yara	Mark Stoddard
	Ryūichi Kazama / Dragon	Shunsuke Sakuya	Marcus D. Stimac
		Waku Sakaguchi (child)	Terri Doty (child)
	Manabu Sakuma / Demon	Subaru Kimura	Anthony Bowling
		Takumi Ikezawa (child)	Alison Viktorin (child)
	Kong Wenge / China	Yosei Bun	Alan Chow
	Obaba Tamura	Masako Nozawa	Pam Dougherty
	Ota	Takanori Hoshino	Tyson Rinehart
	Masayuki Sanada	Kenji Hamada	Ian Sinclair
	Shuji Nekota	Kenta Ōkuma	Clifford Chapin
	Ryū Kazama	Shinji Ogawa	R. Bruce Elliott
	Taku Kazama	Akihiko Ishizumi	Bill Jenkins
	Yurie	Ayako Kawasumi	Lindsay Seidel
	Michio Tamura	Takahiro Shimada	Jeremy Inman
	Takamura	Mitsuaki Hoshi	Christopher Bevins
	Yamada	Shōhei Shimada	Jessie James Grelle
	Egami	Kenjirō Tsuda	Eric Vale
	Kong's Coach	Tei Ha	Tze Yep

Additional Voices

Maeghan Albach Quinn Angell Felecia Angelle Ian Bailon Zach Bolton Morgan Berry Duncan Brannan Brandon Bristow Ben Bryant Chris Burnett Chris Cason Ben Charlson Angela Chase Eric Cherry Ally Chow Chad Cline Cynthia Cranz Justin Duncan Kara Edwards R. Bruce Elliott Juli Erickson Scott Frerichs Morgan Garrett Andy Gay Kenny Green Jarrod Greene Christopher Guerrero Nick Haley Kyle Hebert Jean-Luc Hester Scott Hinze Chris Hury

Jerry Jewell Jeremy Jimenez Jeff Johnson Trenton Jons Daniel Katsük Nick Landis Comona Lewin Gregory Lush Josh Martin Brian Mathis Robert McCollum Ian Mead Moore Mary Morgan Sean O'Connor Alex Organ Justin Pate Ben Phillips Orion Pitts Brandon Potter Dallas Reid Aaron Roberts Jad Saxton Greg Silva Sonny Strait Sam Swanson J. Michael Tatum Sean Michael Teague Austin Tindle David Trosko Philip Weber Lara Woodhull Jeff Yale

Multimedia

Trailers

Ping Pong- "The Beginning" - Coming to BD-DVD on 6-23!

Notes

• Maxey Whitehead voicing young Yutaka is seemingly an in-reference to Whitehead replacing Aaron Dismuke as Alphonse in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

Transmission

Date(s)	Channel	Country
—	Funimation Channel	United States

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Contents	Region	Country
FUNimation Entertainment	2015	+	The Complete Series	1 NTSC A DVB-T	United States
			4 Discs

External Links

• Ping Pong: The Animation at the Internet Movie Database.
• Ping Pong: The Animation (anime) on the Anime News Network's encyclopedia.
• Ping Pong: The Animation on Behind The Voice Actors.