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Ace wo Nerae! (live-action TV [2004])

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Alternative title:
Aim for the Ace!
エースをねらえ! (Japanese)
網球甜心 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Themes: tennis
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: On her first day at Nishi High School, 16-year-old Hiromi Oka watches star tennis player Reika Ryuuzaki practicing in the court, prompting her to join the Tennis Club in hopes of befriending Reika. One day, a man named Jin Munakata enters the court and addresses himself as the Tennis Club's new coach and has the club undergo rigorous training. Despite her inexperience, Hiromi's perseverance prompts Munakata to select her as one of the club's five regular players. She receives peer pressure from her seniors at first, but shortly proves them wrong by using her full potential to defeat her opponents and become a top tennis player.
Running time: 46 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 9
Episode titles: We have 9
Vintage: 2004-01-15 to 2004-03-11
Release dates: We have 1
Opening Theme:
"エースをねらえ!(Ace wo Nerae! [Aim for the Ace!])" by Hiromi
Ending Theme:
"Ai no Tame ni" by Aya Ueto
Trivia: We have 2
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Original creator: Sumika Yamamoto

Theme Song Performance:
Aya Ueto (ED)
HIROMI (OP)
Aya Ueto as Hiromi Oka
Rio Matsumoto as Reika "Ochoufujin" Ryuuzaki

Ayana Sakai as Ranko Midorikawa
Masaaki Uchino as Coach Jin Munakata
Yuu Yoshizawa as Takayuki Todou

Ayaka Morita as Maki Aikawa
Ayano Ōkubo as Ayumi Watanabe
Becky as Saeko Hōriki
Emi Hasegawa as Yuka Yoshida
Haruka Mizuno as Megumi Nakamura
Hiroko Sakuragawa as Hitomi Itō
Hitomi Takahashi as Michiko Oka
Isao Natsuyagi as Soichiro Ryuzaki
Kami Hiraiwa as Mariko Shima
Katsumi Takahashi as Shuzo Oka
Maaya Ono as Saori Tanaka
Maki Mizuno as Todou's sister
Masahiro Kōmoto as Kensaku Ōta
Misako Shioyama as Miho Hoshino
Sayaka Kaneko as Kyoko Otowa
Seira as Mai Takahashi
Shiori Kanzaki as Ai Satō
Shūji Kashiwabara as Takashi Chiba
Yasufumi Terawaki as Coach Daigo Katsura
Yuna Wakaba as Aoi Wakatsuki
Yuri Saitō as Aya Suzuki
Yuuma Ishigaki as Yu Ozaki

Japanese companies
Broadcaster: TV Asahi
Music Production:
Nippon Crown (OP)
Pony Canyon (ED)
TV Asahi Music

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