Baby Steps (2014)

04/06/2014 (JP) • 25m

Animation, Comedy

Overview

Eiichirō Maruo (nicknamed "Ei-chan" for his grades being straight "A") is an honor student, bookworm, and is not interested in anything other than studying. In order to solve his problem of lacking physical strength, he enrolled a tennis school and soon found the fascinating side of tennis. Being a tennis newbie lacking physical strength, he supplement his shortcomings with his excellent observing and analyzing skills.

Top Billed Cast

Taishi Murata

Eiichiro Maruo (voice)

50 Episodes

Minako Kotobuki

Natsu Takasaki (voice)

50 Episodes

Daisuke Namikawa

Takuma Egawa (voice)

50 Episodes

Asami Seto

Himeko Sasami (voice)

50 Episodes

Hiro Shimono

Yukichi Fukasawa (voice)

50 Episodes

Taiten Kusunoki

Coach Yusaku Miura (voice)

50 Episodes

Takuma Terashima

Kojirou Kageyama (voice)

50 Episodes

Tetsuya Kakihara

Takuya Miyagawa (voice)

50 Episodes

Chisa Yuuki

Yuuki Tajima (voice)

50 Episodes


Last Season

Season 2

2015 | 25 Episodes

The stage of the second series is the Florida Tennis Academy. There, rivals aiming for the top of the world competed every day to raise the world rank even one. How will Eiichiro overcome the world barrier by studying abroad for the first time in his life ... A hot and realistic story of the boys, depicting the behind-the-scenes behind-the-scenes tennis scene in an easy-to-understand manner.

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Status

Ended

Network

networknetwork

Type

Scripted

Original Language

Japanese

Keywords

tennis

sports

anime

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