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Baby Steps

2014 – 2015 · NHK Educational TV

2 seasons · 50 episodes

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Comedy

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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.

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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.

SERIES CAST

Eiichiro Maruo (voice)

Minako Kotobuki

Natsu Takasaki (voice)

Daisuke Namikawa

Takuma Egawa (voice)

Himeko Sasami (voice)

Yukichi Fukasawa (voice)

Taiten Kusunoki

Coach Yusaku Miura (voice)

Takuma Terashima

Kojirou Kageyama (voice)

Tetsuya Kakihara

Takuya Miyagawa (voice)

DETAILS

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

First aired

Apr 6, 2014

Original language

JA

Production

Pierrot, NHK, NHK Enterprises

Country

JP

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