Genres: psychological, slice of life, tournament Themes: coming of age, ping pong, sports Objectionable content: Mild Plot Summary: Childhood friends Makoto “Smile” Tsukimoto (ironically, he seldom smiles) 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. Number of episodes: 11 Vintage: 2014-04-10
If only this show would take the musical element seriously, and give it (at least) a rock level of “hardness” and/or have tongue-in-cheek parodic elements as Detroit Metal City did…
Well, that’s interesting.
I like Joel, but after hearing the greatness that Jerry Jewel brought to the raunchy fanservice scenes of We Without Wings, I was hoping that he would end up with it. Though he, despite his “batting average” dropping off in recent history, still has the ability to hit this dub out of the park.
