Ping Pong the Animation

Spring. The Hatase High school gymnasium. Table tennis club adviser Koizumi Jo notices a cut-man with glasses on the team. He is one of the up-and-comers who joined the team this year, Tsukimoto Makoto (Smile). Meanwhile, the other up-and-comer Hoshino Yutaka (Peco) is swindling a man at Obaba's Tamura Table Tennis Hall.

Peco is shocked when he gets skunked by ""China"" a.k.a. Kong Wenge. Meanwhile, Koizumi tells Smile not to play with Peco anymore. Koizumi instructs Smile to overcome his lack of competitive spirit by the Inter High.

The Inter-High preliminaries begin as though swallowing the hopes of every player. If Peco defeats his noisy quarterfinal opponent, he'll remain in the top 4 and advance to nationals. Peco's quarterfinal opponent is Sakuma AKA ""Akuma"".

Peco learns a hard lesson from someone he never took seriously enough, and then we finally see how Dragon earned his name.

Dragon's obsession with Smile prompts Akuma to do something rash.

Five athletes have five very different Christmas Eves, and Peco gets a wake-up call.

Players, coaches, captains, and their families.

Smile, Peco, Dragon, and China begin another prefectural qualifier. Will the results be different this year?

In the third round, Dragon has an unexpected visitor, Sanada questions himself, and Peco scares lots of people in lots of ways.

Peco and Dragon tackle the question of whether only birds can fly.

The final match is on.