I just finished this show. What did I think of it, Yea Forums?

It's amazing, and one of the few OSTs I still keep with me.

>thinks smile threw the match
Fucking speed watchers.

All that buildup with Butterfly Joe’s story and not being able to take advantage of his friends injury, and then for Smile to do the same thing was utterly moronic.

I have to rewatch to remember what I think of it

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>okaeri, hero..
KINO

Did you actually watch the show? There's no way you could and come to the conclusion that smile took advantage of peco's knee. Literally the whole thing was that Peco was having too much fun to care.

Even if Peco was better than Smile (He wasn’t). All Smile had to do to win was take advantage of Peco’s knee injury. Not to mention how many times it was said that Smile has zero drive to win.

>and all the time he spent trying to be more serious in competition was wasted.
But the whole message at the end was the ultimate goal was to have fun playing the game.

>Literally the whole thing was that Peco was having too much fun to care.
Yeah until he loses and almost commits suicide again.
Smile is to good of a friend to let that happen, so he threw the match.

>implying he would've if he lost.
The whole point of a character arc is for a character to progress.
Even if he did lose, he had learned by the end that ping pong is more than just a competition, so he would have been fine.