Ping Pong #3 was published by Shogakukan on April 1, 1997, as part of a series that began in 1996. Taiyo Matsumoto writes. It features Makoto Tsukimoto, Yutaka Hoshino, Jō Koizumi, Kong Wenge and Manabu Sakuma, among 7 characters catalogued on VerseDB.