Review of Baby Steps

I am going to try and keep my review short yet informative. This anime has come and replaced Prince of Tennis as the no. 1 tennis anime out there. For those of you who haven't watched PoT it's an anime that focuses on turning tennis into something supernatural in order to make it more entertaining to obviously watch. While it did excel in that area is wasn't realistic. If it didn't have that element it would have the popularity it has today. This anime on the other hand makes normal tennis extremely enjoyable to watch. Yes it is slightly exaggerated but not in a bad wayat all and not on the same wavelength as PoT. This has become one of my all time favourite anime and I will explain briefly below.

[b]Story 10[/b]

Honour student wants to get some exercise and chooses tennis as a hobby. Great storyline, very original (sarcasm in case your dense). Nevertheless it is very good at it. Nothing is unique here but it makes so enjoyable to watch and to this day I still am not sure what it is. Another great point is that the matches are also equally if not more entertaining to watch.

[b]Art 9[/b]

Pretty standard nothing special. Has its odd moments where the proportioning is a little iffy but nothing major. Not its best quality.

[b]Sound 9[/b]

I will confess that this score is based a lot on the opening. When I first heard it I rewatched it about 6 times before actually starting the series. Apart from that nothing really sticks out. Has good music during matches but because of how tense theya re you kind of forget about it as you are on the edge of your seat.

[b]Character 10[/b]

Again nothing unique about the characters but what I really like is that they actually progress through the series. It isn't 25 episodes of people who are exactly the same (excluding looks) form beginning to end. There is actual character development, nothing crazy but enough for to not pull my hair out from frustration and that makes me happy.

[b]Enjoyment 10[/b]

Had my eyes glued to the monitor for 2 days and have had to wear glasses ever since...

[b]Overall[/b]

Had to buy glasses.