Is Ping Pong the Animation good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Ping Pong the Animation is a TV series from Spring 2014 by Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd.: 11 episodes, about 4.2 hours in total, finished, 8.34/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged psychological and not comedy: this wants attention and the right mood, not background chatter. Rule: heavy drama or psychological tags without comedy → quiet night.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 11
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 4.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2014
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 8.34/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, coming of age, drama, friendship, school, psychological, seinen, slice of life, sports, tournament, gaming
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale.
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More like this: manga adaptation · coming of age · drama · friendship · school · psychological · seinen · slice of life · sports · tournament · gaming.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Ping Pong the Animation?
- About 4.2 hours for all 11 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Ping Pong the Animation have?
- 11 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Ping Pong the Animation finished?
- Yes, Ping Pong the Animation is finished (11 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Ping Pong the Animation good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Ping Pong the Animation is tagged drama, psychological; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Ping Pong the Animation listed?
- Ping Pong the Animation is on AniList (id 20607) and MyAnimeList (id 22135); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists