Recently, I stumbled upon the entire series of the anime 行け!稲中卓球部 (Go! Inachuu Ping Pong Club) on Youtube and immediately got hooked. I'm currently watching episode 28.
Inachuu Ping Pong club by Furuya Minoru is a 1995 anime about a six member Ping Pong Club in Inachuu High School. The first time I learnt about the anime was through the Japanese Popular Culture module I was taking during my university days. Then, the series was unavailable in it's entirety. After so many years, thanks to P2P technology like You Tube, it was refreshing to be seeing it again and this time finally I get to watch the entire series on demand.
It is an extremely hilarious anime that gained immense popularity in Japan during the 90s and the manga version went on to win the prestigious Kodansha Manga Award. In fact, the series has very few equals. As one You-Tuber puts it, it is like South Park on Crack!
A bit of warning though, the stories contain a lot of perverse hentai humor that only the Japanese can come up with. There are a lot of reference to crap and sexual organs. Characters often exhibit anti-social and eccentric behavior, like dressing up in animal clothings, peeping into women showers, SM bodily acts, body odor attacks and public stripping. (Warning: female nudity in some episodes). Although the depraved acts were done in a light-hearted manner to elicit laughter, there will be others who object to this kind of humor.
The entire series can be viewed on You-Tube (uploaded by a guy called fanofpingpong). You can search Ping Pong Club 1 (1 for episode 1; 2 for episode 2 and so on), or follow this link to fanofpingpong page. English sub-titles are available.
Maeno pulling down his team-mate, Kinoshita's pants
The losers SM club
Maeno and Izawa in animal clothing. A meaningless act that defies logic.
Tanaka going under his teacher's skirt....
And got what he deserves..... hahaha
