Baby Steps

Baby Steps

2014
★★★★☆ 7.6/10
📺 2 Seasons
🎬 50 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 JA
⏱️ 25 min/episode
AnimationComedy
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

Season 1
2014 • 25 Episodes
Maruo Eiichiro is an honor student in his first year of high school. He's a very methodical person who keeps two sets of notes for class and focuses entirely on his studies. One day, Eiichiro decides to participate in a free trial at South Tennis Club (STC) because he needs some exercise. There, he meets school idol and sweetheart Takasaki Natsu. Eiichiro has taken his first step into the world of tennis
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.

Crew

Producer
Izumi Nakazawa

Network

NHK Educational TV

Production

Pierrot, NHK, NHK Enterprises

Keywords

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