Scorching Ping Pong Girls

• Ja Kanji — 灼熱の卓球娘 • Ja Romaji — Shakunetsu no Takkyū Musume • Genre — Sports

• Type — manga • Author — Yagura Asano • Publisher — Shueisha • Magazine — * Jump SQ.19 (December 19, 2013 – February 19, 2015) • Tonari no Young Jump (May 15, 2015 – February 1, 2019) • First — December 19, 2013 • Last — February 1, 2019 • Volumes — 7 • Volume List — #Volume list

• Type — TV series • Director — Yasuhiro Irie • Producer — * Hiroyuki Tanaka • Shoichi Hotta • Yoshikazu Beniya • Taro Iwahana • Mika Shimizu • Jun Fukuda • Takaya Ibira • Shunsuke Matsumura • Takeshi Ishigaki • Writer — Hideyuki Kurata • Music — Monaca • Keiichi Hirokawa • Kuniyuki Takahashi • Hidekazu Tanaka • Studio — Kinema Citrus • Network — TV Tokyo, AT-X, BS Japan • First — October 3, 2016 • Last — December 19, 2016 • Episodes — 12 • Episode List — #Episode list

• Type — manga • Title — Scorching Ping Pong Girls Reburn!! • Author — Yagura Asano • Publisher — Takeshobo • Magazine — Storia Dash • First — April 28, 2023 • Volumes — 3 Scorching Ping Pong Girls is a Japanese manga series by Yagura Asano about table tennis. The original run began serialization in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Jump SQ.19 in 2013. After Jump SQ.19 ended publication in February 2015, the manga moved to Shueisha's online platform Tonari no Young Jump in May 2015, and finished in February 2019. It has been collected in seven tankōbon volumes. A continuation, titled Scorching Ping Pong Girls Reburn!!, began serialization on Takeshobo's Storia Dash website from April 2023. An anime television series adaptation by Kinema Citrus aired in Japan between October and December 2016.

• Koyori Tsumujikaze • Yumiri Hanamori • A shy transfer student who joins Suzumegahara's table tennis club. She loves table tennis and was a prefectural semifinalist in her previous school. • Agari Kamiya • Minami Tanaka • A second year in the table tennis club and the ace prior to Koyori joining the club. • Hanabi Tenka • Marika Kōno • A second year table tennis club member who is classmates with Koyori and Agari. She is an energetic girl who possesses an offensive playstyle involving fast returns. • Hokuto Itsumo • Yūki Kuwahara • A second year table tennis club member who is friends with Hanabi. She generally uses a calculative playstyle, allowing her to manipulate how her opponents hit the ball, and can guess what type of underwear someone is wearing from their paddle. Her family runs a table tennis specialist store. • Mune Ōmune • Ayaka Imamura • A third year and the vice-captain of the table tennis club. Nicknamed Munemune due to her ample breasts. • Kiruka Ushirode • Hisako Tōjō • A third year and the captain of the table tennis club. She generally uses a playstyle that involves a backspin chop that forces her opponent to make errors when returning shots, and enjoys imposing penalties on her clubmates during practice.

• Kururi Futamaru • Shiori Izawa • A third year and the vice-captain of the table tennis club. She's the ace of the club, and along with Zakuro, lead their team to the Nationals. She has a pension for using the word "death" when speaking, and has a crush on Zakuro. She uses a playstyle that involves a curve drive that forces her opponents to return shots that miss the table and turn to the left. • Zakuro Zashikiwarashi • Nozomi Furuki • A third year and captain of the table tennis club. She started playing after witnessing Kururi defeating all of the seniors in their team and became inspired to play like her. She has a tendency to be clumsy and act like a klutz when speaking. • Sachiko Sasorida • Rika Tachibana • A second year table tennis club member who sees herself as the future captain but feel underappreciated by her teammates. She uses an off-rhythm playstyle that throws her opponents off from their usual playstyle. • Yura Yuragi • Yoshino Aoyama • A second year table tennis club member who's nicknamed Pendulum, due to her playstyle of forcing her opponents into rallies that drain their stamina and predicting what shots they'll deliver. • Mayuu Kanenashi • Ayumi Takeo • A second year table tennis club member who is friends with Kimiko. • Kimiko Hamu • Yuka Ōtsubo • A second year table tennis club member who is friends with Kanenashi. Nicknamed Nom-Nom due to her constant chowing down of food in her mouth.

Scorching Ping Pong Girls, written and illustrated by Yagura Asano, began its serialization in Shueisha's Jump SQ.19 on December 19, 2013. After Jump SQ.19 ceased its publication on February 19, 2015, the series was switched to the Tonari no Young Jump online platform starting on May 15, 2015. The original run ended on February 1, 2019. Shueisha compiled its chapters into seven tankōbon volumes, published between March 4, 2015, and April 4, 2016. On February 24, 2023, a one-shot manga titled Shakunetsu no Aidoru Musume was released on Takeshobo's Storia website, which announced that the original manga would be returning for a second season titled Scorching Ping Pong Girls Reburn!!, which began serialization from April 28, 2023.

An anime television adaptation of the series was announced in March 2016. The anime is produced by Kinema Citrus, directed by Yasuhiro Irie and written by Hideyuki Kurata, featuring character designs by Junko Sugimura and music by MONACA. The series aired on TV Tokyo between October 3, 2016, and December 19, 2016 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. The opening theme is lit. "Scorching Switch by Suzumegahara Chūgaku Takkyū-bu (Yumiri Hanamori, Minami Tanaka, Marika Kōno, Yūki Kuwahara, Ayaka Imamura, and Hisako Tōjō), while the ending theme is "Bokura no Frontier" by Wake Up, Girls!. The anime will be released across six Blu-ray & DVD volumes.