Baby Steps
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Baby Steps (Japanese: ベイビーステップ, Hepburn: Beibī Suteppu) is a Japanese manga series by Hikaru Katsuki. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from October 2007 to November 2017, with its chapters collected in forty-seven tankōbon volumes. The story is centered on Eiichirō Maruo, a first year honor student who one day decides that he is lacking exercise. He then joins the Southern Tennis Club (STC) where he begins his tennis journey.
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![]() First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Eiichirō Maruo and Natsu Takasaki | |
ベイビーステップ (Beibī Suteppu) | |
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Genre | Sports[1] |
Manga | |
Written by | Hikaru Katsuki |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher |
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Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | October 17, 2007 – November 1, 2017 |
Volumes | 47 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Masahiko Murata |
Produced by | Kenji Saito |
Written by | Katsuhiko Chiba |
Music by |
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Studio | Pierrot |
Original network | NHK-E |
Original run | April 6, 2014 – September 20, 2015 |
Episodes | 50 (List of episodes) |
The manga was adapted into a twenty-five episode anime television series by studio Pierrot, which was broadcast on NHK-E from April to September 2014. A twenty-five episode second season was broadcast from April to September 2015.
In 2014, Baby Steps won the 38th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category.