Baby Steps

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2014-04-06

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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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.

First Aired

2014-04-06

Last Aired

2015-09-20

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Ended

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Animation

Comedy

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日本語

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NHK Educational TV

NHK

Production

Pierrot

NHK

NHK Enterprises

Baby Steps

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Taishi Murata

Minako Kotobuki

Daisuke Namikawa

Asami Seto

Hiro Shimono

Taiten Kusunoki

Takuma Terashima

Tetsuya Kakihara

Chisa Yuuki

Kohsuke Toriumi

KENN

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Shintaro Asanuma

Yoshiyuki Shimozuma

Kenyu Horiuchi

Takahiro Sakurai

Hiroshi Kamiya

Megumi Han

Natsuki Hanae

Kaori Ishihara

Takuya Eguchi

Akio Kato

Masakazu Morita

Tomoaki Maeno

Wataru Hatano

Yuko Kato