Beginners! — Season 1, Episode 1: Freedom...Youth...Romance...all that is not allowed!! Turns out, police academy is hell

About Beginners!

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 … …

More episodes from Season 1

• E2The day that the no-good scaredy cat becomes the hero
• E3You're only young once!! The sudden crush...
• E4Not wanting to give up
• E5Becoming one
• E6First kiss
• E7I don't wanna lose
• E8My dream becomes my goal
• E9The prequel to the finale. Towards the future you hope for!
• E10Tonight, the finale. Farewell, police academy!