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Baby Steps

2014 · 2 seasons · 25m per episode · Animation, Comedy

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 — 25 episodes (April 6, 2014)
• Season 2 — 25 episodes (April 5, 2015)

Cast

• Taishi Murata as Eiichiro Maruo (voice)
• Minako Kotobuki as Natsu Takasaki (voice)
• Daisuke Namikawa as Takuma Egawa (voice)
• Asami Seto as Himeko Sasami (voice)
• Hiro Shimono as Yukichi Fukasawa (voice)
• Taiten Kusunoki as Coach Yusaku Miura (voice)
• Takuma Terashima as Kojirou Kageyama (voice)
• Tetsuya Kakihara as Takuya Miyagawa (voice)
• Chisa Yuuki as Yuuki Tajima (voice)
• Kohsuke Toriumi as Coach Ryuuhei Aoi (voice)
• KENN as Yoshiaki Ide (voice)
• Yoshimasa Hosoya as Souji Ike (voice)

Details

First aired

April 6, 2014

Episodes

50

Genres

Animation, Comedy

Network

NHK Educational TV

Status

Ended

TMDB score

7.5 / 10 from 22 votes