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Beginners!

2012 · 1 season · 54m per episode · Comedy, Drama

Shimura Teppei (Fujigaya Taisuke) grew up watching his policeman father who would ride side-by-side in marathons because he was a motorcycle cop, and dreamt of being a marathon runner as a child. But Teppei’s father lost his job and disappeared. Teppei ruined himself by becoming a well-known delinquent in the area. Under the influence of his childhood friend, Yuichi, Teppei chose to become a policeman after graduating from high school. He miraculously passed the recruitment exam and entered the police academy. However, he has been assigned to a “class of reserves” (Goriki Ayame, Koyanagi Yu, Okamoto Azusa, Mizusawa Erina, Ishii Tomoya, Mori Ren) which is a gathering of odds and ends. There are eight of them and each day they are only instructed by the assistant teacher, Ryuzaki Misaki, to sweep the academy grounds … …

Seasons

• Season 01 — 10 episodes (July 12, 2012)

Cast

• Taisuke Fujigaya as Teppei Shimura
• Hiromitsu Kitayama as Danji Tachibana
• Ayame Goriki as Hiro Momoe
• Tokio Emoto
• Yu Koyanagi
• Tomoya Ishii
• Ren Mori
• Azusa Okamoto as Chiaki Niijima
• Erena Mizusawa as Yoko Fukuhara
• Noriko Aoyama as Yuri Mine
• Satoru Date
• Reiko Matsunaga

Details

First aired

July 12, 2012

Episodes

10

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Network

TBS

Status

Ended

TMDB score

7.3 / 10 from 3 votes