Season 1
The Ping Pong Club
26 EPISODES • 1995
Season 1 of The Ping Pong Club was released on April 5 and consists of 26 episodes.

Episodes

1: The Six School Boys/An Evil Plot
Apr 5, 1995
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.
2: The Half-Baked Men/The Worms
Apr 12, 1995
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.
3: The Maeno Germ/A Seductive Snob
Apr 19, 1995
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.
4: The Purchase/Hot Summer
Apr 26, 1995
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.
5: Training Camp/Curse of Takeda
May 3, 1995
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.
6: Sixty Years/Flaming Spirit
May 10, 1995
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.
7: Inachu Vs./Sex Ticket
May 17, 1995
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.
8: Love & Comedy (Part 1)/Love & Comedy (Part 2)
May 24, 1995
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.
9: First Love/Loser's Community
May 31, 1995
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.
10: Dress Up Dolls/Ultra Tanabe
Jun 7, 1995
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.
11: Winning the Lottery! (Part 1)/Winning the Lottery! (Part 2)
Jun 14, 1995
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.
12: Shibizaki's Plan/Survival
Jun 21, 1995
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.
13: Friendship/Tsutomu
Jun 28, 1995
14: Saturday Hare/The Wimp
Jul 5, 1995
15: The Outcast/Shorty
Jul 12, 1995
16: Dr. Maeno (Part 1)/Dr. Maeno (Part 2)
Jul 19, 1995
17: Find Happiness/Sheds His Skin
Jul 26, 1995
18: Partner? (Part 1)/Partner? (Part 2)
Aug 2, 1995
19: The Unfortunates/May I Have It?
Aug 9, 1995
20: A River/Retirement
Aug 16, 1995
21: Loan King/Flaming Perverts
Aug 23, 1995
22: The Invasion/Into the Big Sky
Aug 30, 1995
23: I've Got Guts/A Dramatic Photo!
Sep 6, 1995
24: Fake Drunkard/Takeda Fondles
Sep 13, 1995
25: Wanted (Part 1)/Wanted (Part 2)
Sep 20, 1995
26: Dandy Principal/The Drifters
Sep 27, 1995
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