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Questions tagged [ping-pong]

Ping Pong (also known as Ping Pong: The Animation) is a 1996-1997 manga that was later adapted into a live-action movie and an anime series.

Ping Pong was a 1996-1997 manga by Taiyo Matsumoto following the development of ping pong players Peco and Smile, and their interactions with players from other schools, such as Kaio's Ryuichi Kazama and Chinese transfer student Kong Wenge.

The manga was later adapted into a 2002 live-action film and a 2014 anime series by Tatsunoko Production.

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Why is Kong using a Japanese surname?

In the epilogue to Ping Pong, we see this newspaper headline. Five years after naturalization, finally a ticket to the Olympics for Tsujido Wenge Now, I don't know Japanese, but I can kind of read this at the very beginning of the Japanese…
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Why did Wenge get kicked off the Chinese national team?

In Ping Pong: The Animation, Wenge is a Chinese exchange student who came to Japan to work his way back up to the Chinese national team (he hopes to win nationals, etc.). However, what got him kicked off the Chinese national team to begin with? Is…
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What does it mean to be a poster child of type B blood?

In the first episode of Ping Pong the Animation, around 9 minutes in, Peco called Smile a poster child for B type blood. What does this mean, exactly? What significance does this have? How does this relate to his personality?
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