Baby Steps (2014)
Original title: ベイビーステップ
Baby Steps is a 2014 Japanese-language animation series. It stars Taishi Murata, Minako Kotobuki and Daisuke Namikawa.
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.
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)
Similar series
Explore Baby Steps guides
Baby Steps in our writing
- Companion guide: Sports Anime: The Complete Guide to the Genre of Effort and Victory