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| Baby Steps | |
 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 |
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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 |
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.
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.
- ^ Green, Scott (November 13, 2013). "Tennis Manga "Baby Steps" To be Adapted Into Anime". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on December 23, 2021. Retrieved December 23, 2021.