Inachu Ping Pong Club

This is an EXTREMELY funny anime! Maybe the funniest one I've ever seen, many may find this anime to be of bad taste since many of the jokes are quite explicit in sexual nature so if you're offended by jokes about both male and female private parts you may want to steer away.

If you're ok with that stuff I definetely recommend this, most of the episodes are self-contained naratives but this series is just great fun. Wouldn't mind watching it again.

I dub was great, which in my opinion aided the humour since Tanaka's voice was just hilarious suiting his stupid look and Maeno and even the other characters are more foul mouthed!

"Here comes a fart...Here comes a FART!!!"

Even the opening sequence of this show has me laughing out loud, and asking myself what the hell was going through the minds of the people who designed it. This is the sort of show which is extremely difficult to assign a rating to, because half of those who watch it will consider it vile and disgusting, while the other half think it's the best thing since sliced bread. So reviewers tend to combine the grades and give it something like 5 out of 10--but I doubt if anyone has ever watched an episode and said "Oh, that seemed about average". You just can't do that when you are dealing with the Ping Pong Club. Since the team is ultimately too pathetic to do much harm to anybody but themselves, I have no objections about their unique style of humor. Besides, not even Slayers makes me laugh as hard as this show does. Only a handful of anime series leave me laughing so hard that tears come to my eyes, and this is one of them. One of the best things about this series is the way it employs bizarre charicatures of the trouble making club members. They are constantly appearing out of the blue in weird costumes--a strange form of SD, you might say, and totally unpredictable and unexpected. I have read other reviews which warn that once the initial shock wears off, the jokes lose their edge; as for me, I have watched all of the episodes and never noticed the show getting repetitive (Initially the episodes consist of a single storyline, later they are composed of two short ones). Perhaps it's the fact that this show jokes about things which you would never expect any show to mention which makes the humor so funny the first time around. This is one series that just doesn't work in dubbed form--slang expressions like "dude" fall flat, and the faithful translations of strange figures of speech are half the fun. I am long overdue to rewatch The Ping Pong Club!

My favorite line:

Maeno: "You're the hairless Izawa, now called Hyosube, the fantastic creature!"
Narrator: Let me explain. Hyosube is a mythical goblin said to sicken those who come in contact with it, and to kill them if they laugh with it. Also, it hates monkeys."

4/03 #2

Drama : Low
Comedy : High
Action : Low
SciFi : None
Ecchi : Med / High (Both kinds)

Damn can I review this any different than the other 2 reviews? Nope. Just see it..beware, lots of penises and a small amount of breasts adore this.

BTW I was laughing so hard they probably heard me down the street. :)

Edit : Did I say small amount of breasts? Then do not watch Episode 30 I think (The doctor one). Or did I just FORCE everyone to watch that one? :p