Ping Pong
FUNimation continues to slide shows over to Hulu once they get past their EVS program on their own site and the latest one to make the leap is Ping Pong. This season has a few sports show and we haven’t had a ping pong show in quite a few years, and that one being a show a lot of people are wishing they could forget, unlike this one. The show on Hulu is available for Hulu Plus members to watch on their TV and mobile devices. The series is based on the manga that ran for five volumes between 1996 and 1997. The original manga came from Taiyou Matsumoto, which spawned a 2002 live action film as well, and now Tatsunoko Productions will be bringing this to anime form in the spring with Masaaki Yuasa directing it.
Plot concept: Despite having drastically different personalities, high school boys Peco and Smile have been friends since childhood. Now, they’re both talented members of a table tennis club – but what happens when these sports lovers go up against each other in matches?