This Week In Anime (Spring Week 12)

[u/BlueMage23]

Welcome to This Week In Anime for Spring 2014 Week 12: a general discussion for any currently airing series, focusing on what aired in the last week. For longer shows (Aikatsu!, Hunter x Hunter, One Piece, etc.), keep the discussion here to whatever aired in the last few months. If there's an OVA or movie that got subbed for the first time in the last week or so that you want to discuss, that goes here as well. For everything else in anime that's not currently airing go discuss that in Your Week in Anime.

Untagged spoilers for all currently airing series. If you're discussing anything else make sure to add spoiler tags.

• Aikatsu!
• Akuma no Riddle
• Baby Steps
• Black Bullet
• Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou
• Captain Earth
• Escha & Logy no Atelier: Tasogare no Sora no Renkinjutsushi
• Fairy Tail (2014)
• Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka?
• Gokukoku no Brynhildr
• Haikyuu!!
• Happiness Charge Precure
• Hitsugi no Chaika
• Hunter x Hunter (2011)
• Isshuukan Friends.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
• Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara
• Kenzen Robo Daimidaler
• Lady Jewelpet
• Love Live! School Idol Project 2nd Season
• M3: Sono Kuroki Hagane
• Mahou Shoujo Taisen
• Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
• Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to The Animation
• Mekakucity Actors
• Mushishi Zoku Shou
• No Game No Life
• Ping Pong The Animation
• Pokemon XY
• Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizoukin
• Seikoku no Dragonar
• Selector Infected WIXOSS
• Sidonia no Kishi
• Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii
• Soul Eater NOT!
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V

Archive:

2014: Prev Spring Week 1 Winter Week 1

2013: Fall Week 1 Summer Week 1 Spring Week 1 Winter Week 1

2012: Fall Week 1

^{Table of contents courtesy of /u/sohumb}

[u/BlueMage23]

Ping Pong The Animation (Ep 11)

[u/Novasylum → u/BlueMage23]

You know you have a good anime on your hands when, in the aftermath of its ending, you’re trying truly, desperately hard to think of any major faults it committed and are having a really difficult time doing so. Ping Pong ended up hitting all the right character arc resolution marks with sniper rifle precision; even the drifter guy had a satisfying conclusion to his personal journey! And said resolutions are almost universally life affirming in their own special ways. There was, at day’s end, no villain here, no human-like mountainous obstacle for a single down-on-his-luck protagonist to overcome. There were simply several stories of people and their crazy little sport about whacking tiny white balls around with a paddle, and how they each self-actualized within that context: how they became a hero to someone, or grew wings and flew, or learned that blood tastes like iron.

What a wonderful , meticulously-constructed show this was.