Deconstructing Comics #706: ‘Ping Pong’
by Erik Amaya
Prolific manga creator Taiyo Matsumoto‘s Ping Pong is, nominally, a sports manga, but it doesn’t stick to the tropes. It presents table tennis matches that take place in a small town, not at a major tournament in Tokyo; often it doesn’t even show the end of a match! In some ways it functions as a parody of the genre. Kumar and Dana discuss this fun and unpredictable manga.
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