Ao Ashi (Anime)

Ao Ashi (アオアシ) is an upcoming TV anime series based on the manga of the same name by Naohiko Ueno and Yuugo Kobayashi. It is set to air in Spring 2022. The studio and pv were first released on October 29, 2021.

Synopsis
Ashito Aoi is a young, aspiring football player from a backwater town in Japan. His hopes of getting into a high school with a good football club are dashed when causes an incident during a critical match for his team, which results in their loss and elimination from the tournament. Nevertheless, he catches the eye of someone important who happens to be visiting from Tokyo. How will things turn out for Ashito? - (Source: Shogakukan Asia).

Cast

 * Kouki Osuzu as Ashito Aoi
 * Tatsumaru Tachibana as Eisaku Otomo
 * Seiichiro Yamashita as Soichiro Tachibana
 * Taku Yashiro as Keiji Togashi
 * Shun Horie as Kanpei Kuroda
 * Kato Wataru as Jun Marchs Asari
 * Junya Enoki as Yuma Motoki
 * Kentaro Kumagai as Ryuichi Takeshima
 * Maki Kawase as Hana Ichijo
 * Chikahiro Kobayashi as Tatsuya Fukuda
 * Yuichiro Umehara as Haruhisa Kuribayashi
 * Shunsuke Takeuchi as Nagisa Akutsu

Staff

 * Original Creator: Yuugo Kobayashi, Naohiko Ueno
 * Director: Akira Sato
 * Series Composition: Masahiro Yokotani
 * Character design: Toshie Kawamura, Saki Hasegawa, Manabu Nakatake, Asuka Yamaguchi
 * Sub Character Design: Yukiko Watabe, Naho Kiyoike, Eisuke Shirai, Miho Daidouji
 * Prop Design: Miori Tsusaka, Arisa Itou
 * Art Director: Yuusuke Takeda, Tsukasa Kakizakai
 * Art Design: Kazushige Kanehira, Osamu Ii
 * Color Design: Emiko Ueno
 * Director of Photography: Maiko Imazeki
 * Editing: Yoshinori Murakami
 * Sound Director: Shoji Hata
 * Music Score: Masaru Yokoyama
 * Chief Animation Director: Manabu Nakatake, Asuka Yamaguchi
 * CG Director: Shiguma Morimoto
 * 2D Works: Akiko Hamanaka
 * Soccer Supervisor: Jun Soga, Kenichi Takeshita, Kenji Iizuka

Episode List
TBA