Episodes
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1. The Six School Boys/An Evil Plot
6 Apr 1995 · 25 min · 1.0/10
This episode introduces the members of the Ping Pong Club. The teacher in charge of the girls ping pong club tries to take over the boys training room.
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2. The Half-Baked Men/The Worms
13 Apr 1995 · 25 min
The teacher of the girls ping pong club (Mr. Tachikawa) tricks the teacher of the boys club (Mr. Shibazaki) into giving the training room to the girls. The boys are not happy with this and fight back to reclaim the training room with some devious tricks of their own.
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3. The Maeno Germ/A Seductive Snob
20 Apr 1995 · 25 min · 1.0/10
The boys without a training room of their own, end up picking up trash in the schoolyard. Takeda and Kinoshita get invited to play with the girls but the other boys are left out. In the end Mr Tachikawa takes pity on them and lets the boys club play a match against the girl to win back their training room.
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4. The Purchase/Hot Summer
27 Apr 1995 · 25 min · 1.0/10
After losing the game to win back their training room, the boys go about to find Mr. Tachikawa's weakness. After finding out that he has a crush on Miss Tachibana, the boys plan to make a sexy video of her so they can strike a deal with Mr. Tachikawa.
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5. Training Camp/Curse of Takeda
4 May 1995 · 25 min · 1.0/10
A girl suddenly comes to the training room asking for Maeno. She tells him that she likes him but Izawa, jealous of Maeno, ruins any hope of a relationship. Maeno vows revenge on Izawa. The next time a girl comes to the training room asking for Izawa, Maeno is ready for some revenge.
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6. Sixty Years/Flaming Spirit
11 May 1995 · 25 min · 1.0/10
Mr Shibazaki get a new manager for the club. It turns out to be a girl that Takeda knows from his childhood, Kyoko Iwashita. A few days later they get the news that they have to play against the favorite in the coming championship. Kyoko thinks of a plan to motivate the club.
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7. Inachu Vs./Sex Ticket
18 May 1995 · 25 min · 1.0/10
The team discovers that Maeno has used the remainder of the club's new ping pong balls for a very non-ping-pong-related purpose. The team pools money to purchase new balls and uses paper-rock-scissors to select who will actually go and make the purchase. However, Izawa expresses concern as Maeno was the one randomly selected.
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8. Love & Comedy (Part 1)/Love & Comedy (Part 2)
25 May 1995 · 25 min
It's the height of summer, and very hot. The club decides to go for a swim in the school pool. The captain of the girls swimming team lets them in, but has ulterior motives.
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9. First Love/Loser's Community
1 Jun 1995 · 25 min
The underfunded ping pong club was forced to join the baseball team's training camp last year, but ended up being ball boys. This year, Mr. Shibazaki tries to make amends by bringing the boys to an inn in the mountains for their training camp. The inn is owned by Mr. Shibazaki's friend, Mr. Uehara, who happens to be a monkey. However, the inn seems to have more facilities for baths than ping pong.
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10. Dress Up Dolls/Ultra Tanabe
8 Jun 1995 · 25 min
While at the inn, Takeda wakes up in the middle of the night from a nightmare only to come face to face with the ghost of a woman confuses Takeda with her former lover, Yaguchi. According to Uehara, Takeda is the spitting image of Yaguchi, a man who had intended to commit double suicide with the woman, but chickened out. Takeda decides to make a trip up the mountain and offer incense to the ghost.
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11. Winning the Lottery! (Part 1)/Winning the Lottery! (Part 2)
15 Jun 1995 · 25 min
The club decides to have some fun watching college girls at a public swimming pool when Mr. Shibazaki arrives on a bicycle and offers the boys a chance to play ping pong against ""grown-up girls"". The boys happily accept, but the Beauty Mamas are not quite the ping pong club the boys expected.
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12. Shibizaki's Plan/Survival
22 Jun 1995 · 25 min
The boys seem to have lost hope of winning their upcoming tournament, but Kyoko offers them an incentive they can't ignore. Reinvigorated, the boys practice harder than ever. But when Maeno plays poorly against Kyoko, who is just a ping pong beginner, Kyoko accuses him of dragging the rest of the team down. Humiliated, Maeno decides to enlist the help of Mrs. Kishimoto.
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13. Friendship/Tsutomu
29 Jun 1995 · 25 min
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14. Saturday Hare/The Wimp
6 Jul 1995 · 25 min
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15. The Outcast/Shorty
13 Jul 1995 · 25 min
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16. Dr. Maeno (Part 1)/Dr. Maeno (Part 2)
20 Jul 1995 · 25 min
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17. Find Happiness/Sheds His Skin
27 Jul 1995 · 25 min
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18. Partner? (Part 1)/Partner? (Part 2)
3 Aug 1995 · 25 min
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19. The Unfortunates/May I Have It?
10 Aug 1995 · 25 min
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20. A River/Retirement
17 Aug 1995 · 25 min
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21. Loan King/Flaming Perverts
24 Aug 1995 · 25 min
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22. The Invasion/Into the Big Sky
31 Aug 1995 · 25 min · 1.0/10
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23. I've Got Guts/A Dramatic Photo!
7 Sept 1995 · 25 min
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24. Fake Drunkard/Takeda Fondles
14 Sept 1995 · 25 min
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25. Wanted (Part 1)/Wanted (Part 2)
21 Sept 1995 · 25 min
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26. Dandy Principal/The Drifters
28 Sept 1995 · 25 min
The Ping Pong Club Season 1: quick answers
How many episodes are in The Ping Pong Club Season 1?
Season 1 of The Ping Pong Club has 26 episodes, about 11 hours in total.
When did The Ping Pong Club Season 1 come out?
Season 1 premiered on 6 Apr 1995.