Baby Steps Second Season Confirmed

This week’s final episode of Baby Steps concluded with an epilogue announcing that the series will continue next spring. Anime studio Pierrot (Naruto) produced the initial 25-episode adaptation of Hikaru Katsuki’s manga about a studious high school boy who takes up tennis as a hobby.

I’m very pleased and relieved to learn that the show will continue, but I’m a bit confused over why the show wasn’t planned as an ongoing production from the outset. Past tennis anime including Ace wo Narae and Tennis no Ouji have been long-running series.