Spring. The Hatase High school gymnasium. Table tennis club adviser Koizumi Jo notices a cut-man with glasses on the team.
He is one of the up-and-comers who joined the team this year, Tsukimoto Makoto (Smile).
Meanwhile, the other up-and-comer Hoshino Yutaka (Peco) is swindling a man at Obaba's Tamura Table Tennis Hall.
Who knows? Isn't that how Japanese people are?
Ni idea. ¿No será que los japoneses son así?
Vai saber? Os japoneses 
têm dessas, às vezes.