Baby Steps 2nd Season

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Synonyms: Baby Steps Second Season

Japanese: ベイビーステップ第2シリーズ

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Type: TV

Episodes: 25

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 5, 2015 to Sep 20, 2015

Premiered: Spring 2015

Broadcast: Sundays at 17:30 (JST)

Producers: NHK

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Studio Pierrot

Source: Manga

Genre: Sports

Theme: School

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.03¹ (scored by 51,298 users)

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Ranked: #518²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #1945

Members: 84,934

Favorites: 295

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After having decided to play tennis at the professional level, Eiichirou Maruo now needs to convince his parents to support his decision. To do so, he makes a wager: if he cannot win the All-Japan Junior Tennis Tournament, he will give up on his dream. However, he will need to improve his skills quickly if he wants to qualify for the tournament and have any chance of defeating the best players in the country. For this reason, his new coach Ryuuhei Aoi suggests that Eiichirou travel abroad to train at the Florida Tennis Academy.

Baby Steps 2nd Season takes the action to America as Eiichirou begins his two-week training program, getting a taste of what tennis is like outside of Japan. With this exciting experience awaiting him, Eiichirou hopes that his training will get him closer to his goal of becoming a professional player.

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Adaptation:	Baby Steps
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Characters & Voice Actors

Maruo, Eiichirou

Main

Murata, Taishi
Japanese

Takasaki, Natsu

Main

Kotobuki, Minako
Japanese

Ike, Souji

Supporting

Hosoya, Yoshimasa
Japanese

Egawa, Takuma

Supporting

Namikawa, Daisuke
Japanese

Nabae, Yuu

Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

Fukazawa, Yukichi

Supporting

Shimono, Hiro
Japanese

Miyagawa, Takuya

Supporting

Kakihara, Tetsuya
Japanese

O'Brian, Marcia

Supporting

Han, Megumi
Japanese

Oobayashi, Ryou

Supporting

Maeno, Tomoaki
Japanese

Miura

Supporting

Kusunoki, Taiten
Japanese

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Murata, Masahiko

Director

Takakuwa, Hajime

Sound Director

Abe, Mao

Theme Song Performance

Ganbare! Victory

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Opening Theme

"Believe in yourself" by Mao Abe (阿部真央)

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Ending Theme

"Yume no Tsuzuki (夢のつづき)" by Ganbare! Victory (がんばれ！Victory)

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Oct 17, 2015

25 of 25 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

ittou_shura (All reviews)

59 people found this review helpful

"I used to think Maruo was the insecure type who isn't capable of having big dreams. But that's not right. He's the type to have countless smaller dreams that he can achieve perfectly, one by one. They may be small individually, but as they keep coming true, they quickly become one huge dream."

Baby Steps is a realistic, mentally engaging sports anime. It's well paced and subtle in its delivery of drama and romance, preferring to focus on the physical and mental aspects of playing tennis. The show has a good use of inner-monologues to display realistic and intriguing thought processes of each character throughout the read more

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Jan 27, 2016

25 of 25 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

MAND4 (All reviews)

40 people found this review helpful

Baby Steps oftentimes gets praised for being one of the most realistic sport anime out there. This point stems from the fact that all the moves MC pulls out are thought out and explained in a rather elaborate manner, and we see everyone, not just main character, struggle to get better match after match. Yet, everyone seems to forget that Eichiro - as talented and as gifted as he may be - has only been playing tennis for so long. If you wish to thread the line of realism, it's impossible for him to beat people who have been playing tennis their whole lives.

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Sep 20, 2015

25 of 25 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

Revenir (All reviews)

18 people found this review helpful

I've only done review for poor shows so now here's a good one. After the experiencing the incredibly strange and very disappointing Prince of Tennis, I was hesitant to pick up another tennis series. But after marathoning a slightly slow but promising first season, I continue into the even better second season of Baby Steps

Story and Characters:
Maruo Eiichiro continues on his path to professional tennis, having only just started playing 2 years previously. Maruo goes to THE LAND OF THE FREE, to do some training and improve. The show keeps things interesting and continues to show how he grows and improves at the sport. In this aspect it may be the best sports anime. It details Maruo's training regimen and the numerous hours he spends while being believable. Along with that it shows different strategies and techniques needed to win matches, making viewers interested in the show and the sport itself.

This importantly comes together so that at no point does Maruo have a strange or illogical jump in skill and neither does it make his opponents look weak. You continue to see just how difficult MC's training is and how hard he works with weight training, jogging, drills, and all the other crap no one wants to do. The show doesn't preaching about working hard though. Maruo works in the most effective way possible. MC then goes onward to reach the All Japan Junior tournament, competing to be the best young player in Japan and eventually go pro

All the players represent different playing styles and personalities that are interesting and believable. In sports and shonen anime at times characters can be ridiculous exaggerations of certain personalities and archetypes found in real life but that isn't the case here.

A few things I did like was after MC played someone who used various "dirty" tricks, the lesson at the end wasn't that you can't use tricks to win, you have to use them in the right way. In the end the player need to use the tricks to back his tennis, rather than making them the center of the play.

Animation:
The animation does it's job. Though there are sports anime with better animation at certain moments, Baby Steps never has issues with poor animation or episodes where time and money is clearly being saved for later. That being said this is a case of you'll find the best of the animation in the OP.

Overall: 8/10
Everything makes it truly interesting to see how far the MC can go. Though matches don't create the same excitement and some other sports anime, they're still interesting and moments in between are never dull

Season 2 steps up from last season and I eagerly await a third. Baby Steps is one of the best sports anime out and it's well worth watching

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Oct 20, 2015

25 of 25 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

Shiro_shi (All reviews)

14 people found this review helpful

An Almost Too Deep Vision of Tennis Hinders Character Development.

Story - 8
Story and characters go hand in hand. What helps or hurts one can also help or hurt the other. This story follows a "I must get better to win" concept that is at the competitive heart of most sports anime.

What it tries to do, it does well, but it doesn't try to do enough. The knowledge of tennis I gained from watching is really incredible. I went from knowing almost nothing to really understanding on a deep level what actual pros might think about during a match.

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