Real-life wheelchair tennis athlete Shingo Kunieda is entering the world of animation to challenge Eiichiro Maruo, the hero of Hikaru Katsuki’s tennis manga Baby Steps, to a match in a short TV special animation promoting the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games.
The animation is approximately 5 minutes in length, and it will debut as part of a special program promoting the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games that will broadcast on NHK BS1 on March 25, 2018, at 2PM JST.