Beginners!
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Season 1
55 min
S1 · E1 · Jul 12, 2012
Freedom...Youth...Romance...all that is not allowed!! Turns out, police academy is hell Episode 1
55 min
S1 · E2 · Jul 19, 2012
The day that the no-good scaredy cat becomes the hero Episode 2
55 min
S1 · E3 · Jul 26, 2012
You're only young once!! The sudden crush... Episode 3
55 min
S1 · E4 · Aug 9, 2012
Not wanting to give up Episode 4
S1 · E5 · Aug 16, 2012
Becoming one Episode 5
S1 · E6 · Aug 23, 2012
First kiss Episode 6
S1 · E7 · Aug 30, 2012
I don't wanna lose Episode 7
S1 · E8 · Sep 6, 2012
My dream becomes my goal Episode 8
S1 · E9 · Sep 13, 2012
The prequel to the finale. Towards the future you hope for! Episode 9
S1 · E10 · Sep 20, 2012
Tonight, the finale. Farewell, police academy! Episode 10
10 episodes in Season 1
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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 … …
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Taisuke Fujigaya
Teppei Shimura
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Yuji Nakamae Director · Daisuke Yamamuro Director Tsuyoshi Sakurai Writer
Total runtime 9h 0m · Episode length 54 min · Country Japan
Show info
Premiered
July 12, 2012
Final episode
September 20, 2012
Status
Ended
Network
TBS
Country
Japan
Type
Scripted
Episode length
54 min
Total runtime
9h 0m
Original language
Japanese
Production
Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original title
ビギナーズ！
Spoken on screen
Japanese
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Some details come from TheTVDB.