1996年在日本初版的《乒乓》,2002年改編成同名真人電影,由曾利文彥執導、鬼才宮藤官九郎編劇,窪塚洋介、ARATA、李燦森、中村獅童主演。2014年,日本天才動畫師湯淺政明改拍成電視動畫《乒乓 THE ANIMATION》,勇奪2015年東京動畫獎(TAAF)年度最佳電視動畫大賞,也是許多人「跪著看完」的經典。
《航海王》作者尾田栄一郎視松本大洋為偶像,在畫集《ONE PIECE COLOR WALK 5~SHARK~》中邀松本對談時說:「我一直認為『這世上沒有天才』。而且認為不管是哪個成功的人,都是因為比別人更加努力的關係。但是在看到《乒乓》這部作品時,很吃驚的感覺到『這世上有天才』,而且還覺得光靠努力是無法畫出那種作品呢。」盛讚的同時,也呼應了書中情節。
Although Taiyo Matsumoto desired a career as a professional soccerplayer at first, he eventually chose an artistic profession. He gained his first success through the Comic Open contest, held by the magazine Comic Morning, which allowed him to make his professional debut. He started out with 'Straight', a comic about basketball players. Sports remain his main influence in his next comic, 'Zéro', a story about a boxer.
In 1993 Matsumoto started the 'Tekkonkinkurito' trilogy in Big Spirits magazine, which was even adapted to a theatre play. He continued his comics exploits with several short stories for the Comic Aré magazine, which are collected in the book 'Nihon no Kyodai'. Again for Big Spirits, Taiyo Matsumoto started the series 'Ping Pong' in 1996. 'Number Five' followed in 2001, published by Shogakukan.
Al leer el manga lo primero que resalta es el estilo de dibujo. No me extraña que para muchos resulte feo. Aunque para mí eran atractivamente feos. XD No sé si será por la novedad o por el mucho uso del negro en algunas escenas, pero me gustó. En cuanto a los personajes principales, los de la imagen. Debo decir que... ¡me gustaron todos!😆 Cada uno a su manera obvio. El autor logra que nos interesemos por ellos y así emocionarnos cuando estos se van a enfrentar.
También el desarrollo de la historia me gustó, pese a que esta se vuelve desesperanzadora y triste en un momento, tiene una finalidad.
Lo que sí no me gustó fueron los últimos capítulos y el final de la historia. Sentí que mucho por lo que se trabajó al final fue en vano. Pero juzguen por ustedes mismos amigos. Por mí parte les recomiendo esta historia. 😆
'Ping Pong Vol. 1' en el que se presentan los personajes, conocemos a Tsukimoto (Smile) y a Hoshino (Peko). Se conoce la relación de amistad entre ellos (desde la infancia). Se presenta al rival a batir Kong (el Chino). Se habla del ping pong como una disciplina filosófica. El entrenador Koizumi ve bueno ojos a Smile y quiere entrenarlo. Se presenta Kazama (Dragón) rival de nuestros protagonistas y vigente campeón de Kaio. Y del enfrentamiento del entrenador Koizumi contra Smile.
Loved it, first thing which hit me was the art. It's so intense and at the same time beautiful. The art's different from normal manga, very rough but still gives us beautiful sketches.
The story is about Ping Pong, Rivalry and Growing up. The intensity in sports and the physiological difference between the two main guys and how they cope with situation is just great.
The only complains are -the manga is too short at 5 volumes.It's good wanted more of it. Also at times there was too much of ping pong. A little break in between would have been good.
Honestly what put me off first is the art like it isn't personally that great BUT I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN AND WHEN OPPONENTS WERE FACING OFF EACH OTHER, THE SCENES WERE LIT AF MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahem anyways I was very surprised that I thought this was a very moving manga since I'm not really a "Ping Pong " fan and the art was rather off (no offense to the artist). I really liked how we get to know each characters (Smile, Dragon, Peko, Granny, Wenga, and the old dude who I can't remember his name lol) like the character development in this was very good. I do wish it was expanded out more than 55 chapters so we get to know each character more on their backstories as to why they ended up doing Ping Pong in the first place. However it gave a nice touching ending so can't necessarily complain that it was too rushed tbh!
Just read this guys, wtf are you waiting for??!!!!!!!!!
I think Taiyo Matsumoto is my favorite manga writer/artist. So far the story is nothing really special– at its core, it's pretty predictable, but I enjoy Matsumoto's pacing and drifts into more abstract sequences. Before this, I had only read Tekkon Kinkreet, but now I see that he has a thing for duo characters that offset one another. It's clear that Smile and Peko are Black and White (the two protagonists from Tekkon Kinkreet, although less developed. It's a fun read so far. I'd give the story 3 stars, but the art pushes it to 4, as Matsumoto conveys so much with his wobbly lines and loose expressions/postures. He has beautiful depictions of the ping pong matches that I don't think many other artists could pull off. This series isn't of the caliber that some of his other works are, but it's still a great read.
Volume five, five people who love ping pong. The cinematography in this volume is incredible. I especially loved the parts with Ah Bian and Ah Long. When the bird spread its wings and flew, I almost cried, because I've always been afraid to take flight—right now, I really want to overcome that fear and try my best to soar.