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.
Let's ditch this second-rate club 
and go to Tsujido Academy instead.
Larguémonos de este estúpido club 
y vamos a la Academia Tsujido.
Vamos deixar este clube idiota pra 
lá, e vamos pra Academia Tsujido!