A high school club plays ping pong. It’s serious business.
Welp, I’ve been living under a rock, and I didn’t know Yuasa was going to be directing this. It puts things in a different perspective when I’ve actually seen someone in staff in person before (I saw his Kick Heart debut at Anime Expo last year). But honestly, I’ve never been a big fan of his style. I think it’s rather ugly.
It does work quite well for the fluid action scenes though. The final ping pong match in particular was pretty amazing.
Somehow before watching this I thought it was supposed to be a comedy. Was there some other ping pong manga that’s a comedy?
FYI I have some friends staying at my house since last night so everything is going to be falling behind schedule.
The VA’s Mandarin was spot on, quite impressive.
Yea – the “actual” Chinese was excellent! I was really impressed by that extra touch.
The random Japanese English by the old teacher also cracked me up.
Wish they could figure out how to get people who actually speak English too…
The voice actor playing him is actually Chinese.
Nice! I don’t speak a word of Chinese so I had no idea.
What’d you think of the backgrounds though? Most of the scenery (and the cinematography for the matter) looked absolutely gorgeous to me!
The whole thing looked absolutely gorgeous to me. I understand that the character art is not pretty, but it’s so fluid and expressive, and also raw in a way that really fits the overall mood.
Yep! Even if the character art isn’t pretty, the fluidity and motion is impressive.
Backgrounds and cinematography looked great! The characters take some getting used to though. I feel the same way about all of Yuasa’s shows…
There’s Ping Pong Club which is a low-brow comedy anime (maybe based on a manga, I dunno). It’s pretty old, though.
Oh, I bet that’s what I was thinking of.