It makes you flinch every time Munakata opens his mouth, and then it makes you understand why Hiromi keeps coming back to the court. This is the 1978 retelling under Osamu Dezaki, so the tennis lands in freeze-frame pastel harmonies, hard zooms and split screens that turn a single serve into an execution. The premise is cruelty as pedagogy: a coach points at an ordinary first-year, the entire club turns on her, and the girl who only picked up a racket because she idolized Reika, the Madame Butterfly of the team, has to survive being chosen. Maki being her best friend is exactly what makes the promotion hurt, and the show never pretends that's a small thing. Twenty-five episodes of a teenager being broken down into something better, and the sweat still looks like it costs her something.}</response>Sorry, I need to output valid JSON. Let me redo that.

Hiromi Oka enters a high school known for its tennis club, having taken up the sport out of admiration for Madam Butterfly. She expects to spend her time playing alongside her best friend Maki, but everything shifts when the new coach, Mr. Munakata, abruptly chooses Hiromi as one of the players for an upcoming tournament. He then puts her through demanding lessons. Hiromi keeps pushing forward no matter what she faces, and the harder Munakata trains her, the more she seems to improve. In the end she earns a place as a representative in the junior tournament. The series is a sports drama centered on tennis and hard training.