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Baby Steps

Original title: ベイビーステップ

  • 2014 –2015
  • Ended
  • PG

★ 7.5 TMDB Rating · 22 votes

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.

Seasons
2
Episodes
50
Episode length
~25m
First aired
Apr 6, 2014
Networks
NHK Educational TV
Original language
Japanese
Origin
Japan

Cast of Baby Steps

  • Portrait of Taishi Murata

    Taishi Murata

    Eiichiro Maruo (voice)

  • Portrait of Minako Kotobuki

    Minako Kotobuki

    Natsu Takasaki (voice)

  • Portrait of Daisuke Namikawa

    Daisuke Namikawa

    Takuma Egawa (voice)

  • Portrait of Asami Seto

    Asami Seto

    Himeko Sasami (voice)

  • Portrait of Hiro Shimono

    Hiro Shimono

    Yukichi Fukasawa (voice)

  • Portrait of Taiten Kusunoki

    Taiten Kusunoki

    Coach Yusaku Miura (voice)

  • Portrait of Takuma Terashima

    Takuma Terashima

    Kojirou Kageyama (voice)

  • Portrait of Tetsuya Kakihara

    Tetsuya Kakihara

    Takuya Miyagawa (voice)

  • Portrait of Chisa Yuuki

    Chisa Yuuki

    Yuuki Tajima (voice)

  • Portrait of Kohsuke Toriumi

    Kohsuke Toriumi

    Coach Ryuuhei Aoi (voice)

  • Portrait of KENN

    KENN

    Yoshiaki Ide (voice)

  • Portrait of Yoshimasa Hosoya

    Yoshimasa Hosoya

    Souji Ike (voice)

Seasons

  • Poster for Season 1 of Baby Steps

    Season 1

    Apr 6, 2014

    25 episodes

  • Poster for Season 2 of Baby Steps

    Season 2

    Apr 5, 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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