| In the 50th issue of Weekly Shonen Magazine, an announcement will be made that manga "Baby Steps" will be receiving an anime adaptation that will air spring 2014 on NHK E. The series will be produced by Kenji Saito, most known for his role as executive producer for the first and second seasons of "Bakuman." Manga Synopsis: "Maruo Eiitirou (E-Chan), a first year honor student, one day decides he's unhappy with the way things are and lacks exercise. He finds a flyer for the Tennis Club and decides to check it out. He's instantly captivated by it. With no prior experience and poor physical conditioning, join E-Chan as he embarks on a tennis journey using his smarts, dedication, and work ethic." (Source: One Manga) Source: Scan via ANN, Clearer Scan via otanews Baby Steps on MAL |
NaruleachNov 12, 2013 3:36 PM
| “News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.” ― Charles Bukowski |
| Whoa, did not expect this! The manga is on my plan to read since ages... I better hurry and read it, and then watch the anime °-° |
| Finally! |
| Sports series are always welcomed by me. A little skeptical by the Romance tag but I'm in. |
SpiritualState said: Sports series are always welcomed by me. A little skeptical by the Romance tag but I'm in. I'm the opposite actually. Romance? Let's go. |
| “News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.” ― Charles Bukowski |
| Finally! My Body is ready *__* |
| This is great, I always thought this one would get an adaptation. Finally another tennis anime, sports anime in general are doing good lately and I like it. |
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| Wouldn't it be better for the title to be worded as "Tennis Manga 'Baby Steps' to Receive Anime Adaptation"?" Just saying... This will get compared heavily to Prince of Tennis for sure, but this time the MC is an underdog. At least I see a Romance tag which I'm not opposed with. Will watch out for this. Spring has 2 sports anime now, this and Haikyuu. Should be fun. |
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Wind_Sr said: SpiritualState said: Sports series are always welcomed by me. A little skeptical by the Romance tag but I'm in. I'm the opposite actually. Romance? Let's go. Agreed. Finally, a female who's not a support in a sports anime. Count me in. |
| Hell yea, was hoping for this! |
| Just when I thought they weren't gonna make one and it happened |
| Cool news I wonder what kind of quality we can expect. I haven't read Baby Steps in awhile I need to catch up. |
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belatkuro said: Wouldn't it be better for the title to be worded as "Tennis Manga 'Baby Steps' to Receive Anime Adaptation"?" Just saying... *puts on reading glasses* I think it's fine either way to be honest, but since someone actually brought it up maybe it's worded weird. I'll change it. |
| “News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.” ― Charles Bukowski |
| ehh... not really interested in this one to be honest I don't like those character design orz |
- I only draw freestyle! - |
| So the rumor was true after all. And the most important thing to note is that it is a NHK ANIME. This could mean that the anime getting 2 or more cour. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Wow that makes for two sports anime in spring. Can't say I'm not looking forward to this~ |
| wow more spots anime! I've been so much into these lately :) and I love tennis so yaay :D |
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| good news.~ |
| 講廢話,被撞到. |
| woah, i didn't see this coming. One of better sports (which had romance in it) manga sports anime in demand eh ? |
| Also, there's hardly any romance in this. Just so you guys know, lol. |
Solkiskey said: Also, there's hardly any romance in this. Just so you guys know, lol. it has better love story than twilight, thats for sure. |
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| Hmm....I've been wanting to read the manga for this. Now that it got an anime adaptation, I'm definitely interested in it~ |
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| It's a nice manga, so I'll be looking forward to the anime adaption. Even the romance wasn't bad. |
| "Your argument is like a naked banana--it simply lacks appeal." |
Solkiskey said: Also, there's hardly any romance in this. Just so you guys know, lol. Don't ruin my hopes :'( |
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Baphomet said: He's right. It can hardly be called romantic, tennis gets much more focus. It's probably best this way, though. The manga manages to stay interesting and that's all that counts. I'd still want the main focus to be about tennis, but a decent amount of romance would be a plus for me. Sounds like I'm not going to get that though. I'll still watch this for sure since I love tennis. |
| “News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.” ― Charles Bukowski |
| Yes YES YEEES! I'm waited for this news for so long! |
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| I never thought this would happen. Extremely happy right now. One of my favorite manga. |
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| Generally, I don't like sport animes but this' an exception.I'll watch it :) |
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Baphomet said: Wind_Sr said: Don't ruin my hopes :'( He's right. It can hardly be called romantic, tennis gets much more focus. It's probably best this way, though. The manga manages to stay interesting and that's all that counts. That's great to hear. I'm no romance "hater" but it's indeed better that the respective sport gets most of the attention in this kind of series. Looking forward to this. |
| 2 sports anime already announced for Spring , fawk yeah :D |
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Wind_Sr said: Solkiskey said: Also, there's hardly any romance in this. Just so you guys know, lol. Don't ruin my hopes :'( The romance is scarce, but pretty great actually. You will be satisfied with it (as I and many others were), rest assured. |
| Whoa I didn't see this coming. Great news, I love the main character, I hope it's 24 eps. |
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| Oh yay! I've been reading it and never would I have imagined it getting an anime adaptation. Great news :) I love tennis and I would love to see Ei-chan and Natsu in animated form. |
| If the romance is handled well and not overpowering the sport like you guys said, then I'm looking forward to this. More sports anime is never a bad thing. |
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| About time. I'm so hyped about this ^_^ Love Baby Steps :D |
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| More sports is win, I'm always in. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| Always open to new sports anime, the manga's been on my PTW for a long time, so we'll see what happens with this one. |
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| I'm glad that this was finally adapted :) |
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| Great News been reading it recently :D |
SpiritualState said: Sports series are always welcomed by me. A little skeptical by the Romance tag but I'm in. Thisthisthis. And "using his smarts, dedication, and work ethic" sounds interesting too. >:D Instant PTW. Only thing that will bug me is his hair. What is that thing. >> |
| yay for more sport anime! :) |
| Happy to see this get adapted. For those wanting romance there is hope, depending on how many episodes will be adapted, you may or may not see romance. It also may or may not be much romance depending on what is considered romantic to you. But i can say IMO it is very tennis focus with every once in a while small romantic progress, even without the romance, the manga is awesome to me. |
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Genres: Romance, School, Shounen, Sports Romance AND Sports? I'm so in! Love sports anime. :) |
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