Baby Steps (2014)

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 (26)CrewGenresDetailsMediaAwards

Taishi Murata

Eiichiro Maruo (voice)

Minako Kotobuki

Natsu Takasaki (voice)

Daisuke Namikawa

Takuma Egawa (voice)

Asami Seto

Himeko Sasami (voice)

Hiro Shimono

Yukichi Fukasawa (voice)

Taiten Kusunoki

Coach Yusaku Miura (voice)

Takuma Terashima

Kojirou Kageyama (voice)

Tetsuya Kakihara

Takuya Miyagawa (voice)

Chisa Yuuki

Yuuki Tajima (voice)

Kohsuke Toriumi

Coach Ryuuhei Aoi (voice)

KENN

Yoshiaki Ide (voice)

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Souji Ike (voice)

Shintaro Asanuma

Hiromi Iwasa (voice)

Yoshiyuki Shimozuma

Nariyuki Koshimizu (voice)

Kenyu Horiuchi

Magure Mike (voice)

Takahiro Sakurai

Yuu Nabae (voice)

Hiroshi Kamiya

Alex O' Brien (voice)

Megumi Han

Marsha O'Brien (voice)

Natsuki Hanae

Krishna Rames (voice)

Kaori Ishihara

Shimizu Aki (voice)

Takuya Eguchi

Atsushi Taira (voice)

Akio Kato

Kevin Morland (voice)

Masakazu Morita

Sakuya Takagi (voice)

Tomoaki Maeno

Ryou Oobayashi (voice)

Wataru Hatano

Hiroshi Araya (voice)

Yuko Kato

Sanae Maruo (voice)

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