When it comes to sports anime that is about more the sport rather than any other personal character drama, you can have Prince of Tennis-style or you can have Baby Steps-style. You can have extinction-level event meteor ball smashes or you you can have a detailed, realistic progression at the sport. As these two sort of sports anime styles are so different, it is what made people take to Baby Steps.
The series really details a realistic climb from nothing into a sport – and does so in a way that grabs you. There are a lot of reasons to enjoy sports anime, but the amount of sports anime that really focus on the sport in a realistic light is a surprisingly small pool, and Baby Steps helped pave the way for other series that do just that.
Alternative Titles:
- ベイビーステップ
Year Anime Premiered: 2014
Animation Studio: Pierrot
Number of Seasons: 2
Source Material Country of Origin: Japan
Source Material Available: Manga
Entry Last Updated: May 22nd, 2024
Where To Start The Baby Steps Manga After The Anime?
If you finished both seasons of the Baby Steps anime and want to continue the story in the manga, you can start after Season 2 at Chapter 182.
What to Expect From The Baby Steps Manga?
As Baby Steps is a sports manga, many chapters sort of draw out matches. This allowed them to adapt quite a few chapters as animated sports play goes faster than manga storytelling.
The anime does a great job adapting the manga, and there is no reason to read this series from the beginning unless you want to.
Is The Baby Steps Manga Over?
Unfortunately, while the Baby Steps manga is marked as complete, the truth that it was actually canceled in 2017 at Chapter 462.
This means you won’t get a particularly conclusive ending.
Will There Be A Baby Steps Season 3?
The sales for Baby Steps were never great. With the manga canceled and the anime never continuing past Season 2 in 2015, there will never be more Baby Steps anime.
