Series synopsis
Beginners!, also known as ビギナーズ！ is a Japanese comedy drama television series that premiered on TBS on July 12, 2012. It ended on September 20, 2012. It stars Taisuke Fujigaya, Hiromitsu Kitayama, Ayame Goriki and Tokio Emoto.
Shimura Teppei (Fujigaya Taisuke) grew up watching his policeman father who would ride side-by-side in marathons because he was a motorcycle cop, and dreamt of being a marathon runner as a child. But Teppei’s father lost his job and disappeared. Teppei ruined himself by becoming a well-known delinquent in the area. Under the influence of his childhood friend, Yuichi, Teppei chose to become a policeman after graduating from high school. He miraculously passed the recruitment exam and entered the ...
Premise
Shimura Teppei (Fujigaya Taisuke) grew up watching his policeman father who would ride side-by-side in marathons because he was a motorcycle cop, and dreamt of being a marathon runner as a child. But Teppei’s father lost his job and disappeared. Teppei ruined himself by becoming a well-known delinquent in the area. Under the influence of his childhood friend, Yuichi, Teppei chose to become a policeman after graduating from high school. He miraculously passed the recruitment exam and entered the police academy. However, he has been assigned to a “class of reserves” (Goriki Ayame, Koyanagi Yu, Okamoto Azusa, Mizusawa Erina, Ishii Tomoya, Mori Ren) which is a gathering of odds and ends. There are eight of them and each day they are only instructed by the assistant teacher, Ryuzaki Misaki, to sweep the academy grounds … …
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Taisuke Fujigaya as Teppei Shimura
- Hiromitsu Kitayama as Danji Tachibana
- Ayame Goriki as Hiro Momoe
- Tokio Emoto
- Yu Koyanagi
- Tomoya Ishii
- Ren Mori
- Azusa Okamoto as Chiaki Niijima
Supporting cast
- Erena Mizusawa as Yoko Fukuhara
- Noriko Aoyama as Yuri Mine
- Satoru Date
- Reiko Matsunaga
- Keiko Horiuchi
- Ichirôta Miyakawa
- Michiko Kawai
- Ai Moritaka
- Takeshi Kaga
- Tomiyuki Kunihiro
- Shingo Yanagisawa
- Hikari Ishida as Misaki Ryuzaki
Episodes
This series spans 1 season with 10 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 10 | July 12, 2012 | September 20, 2012 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freedom...Youth...Romance...all that is not allowed!! Turns out, police academy is hell | July 12, 2012 |
| 2 | The day that the no-good scaredy cat becomes the hero | July 19, 2012 |
| 3 | You're only young once!! The sudden crush... | July 26, 2012 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | TBS |
|---|---|
| First aired | July 12, 2012 |
| Last aired | September 20, 2012 |
| Runtime | 54 minutes |
| Status | ended |