Aoashi Season 2

Last updated: 1 November 2026

About Aoashi Season 2

Ashito Aoi is a talented but selfish young footballer from a small town in Ehime who gets scouted by Tatsuya Fukuda, youth director of Tokyo City Esperion, one of Japan's best academies. Season 1 turned him from a ball-hogging forward into a full-back learning to see the whole pitch. Season 2, which premiered on 4 October 2026 on NHK Educational TV with streaming on Crunchyroll, promotes him to Esperion's A team. That promotion is the whole story: the A team plays in the youth Premier League, against the best young players in the country, and its senior stars, playmaker Haruhisa Kuribayashi and defender Nagisa Akutsu, set a standard Ashito is nowhere near yet. The season runs 24 episodes across two cours, with the first cour covering his brutal education at the higher level. Production has changed hands: TMS Entertainment replaces Production I.G, and Kazuki Yokoyama directs, while series composer Masahiro Yokotani and composer Masaru Yokoyama return. The thinking football that made Season 1 a cult favourite among real football fans is very much intact.

Aoashi Season 2 is a TV anime from 2026, first released in Fall 2026. It belongs to the Sports and Drama genres and is listed as currently airing. The summary above is written by the AnimeYug team in our own words.

Official Trailer

▶Aoashi Season 2 Main PV · ShoPro

Story & Plot

Aoashi is a football story about vision. Ashito Aoi could always score goals, but Fukuda saw something rarer in him: the instinct to watch the whole field. Rebuilt as a full-back in Season 1, Ashito learned that the best players decide what to do before the ball arrives, and that his selfish streak was the only thing holding him back.

Season 2 begins at the 'Start Line', as the anime's first episode is titled: Ashito and several fellow first-years are promoted to the A team, where Esperion's best prospects play Premier League football. The gap is humiliating at first. The seniors are faster, stronger and, worst of all for Ashito, they think faster too. Kuribayashi, the academy's generational talent, shows him what true playmaking looks like, while Akutsu's defending shows him the physical standard the top level demands.

Across the season Ashito has to rebuild his game a second time, now against players his own age who are simply better than him, and find the one thing he can offer that even they cannot. It is a story about intelligence, humility and the long road from talent to professional.

Story Arcs & Episode Guide

The Aoashi Season 2 anime is split into story sagas. Here is every saga in order, with its episodes and years.

Why Watch Aoashi Season 2

• Football with real tactics: positioning, vision and decision-making matter more than super-shots.
• The A team step-up is honestly brutal. Ashito starts Season 2 out of his depth and has to earn everything again.
• Kuribayashi and Akutsu set a believable 'next level' for the first-years to chase.
• 10-FEET's opening "Fortress Defense" and Ai Higuchi's ending give the season a driving rock sound.
• The source manga is complete at 40 volumes, so the story being adapted has a real ending.

Who Is It For?

Aimed at teens and adults, and especially rewarding for real football fans, coaches and players praise its accuracy about youth development. There is no fan service or graphic content; the drama is all on the pitch and in the dressing room.

Ashito Aoi

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Eisaku Otomo

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Soichiro Tachibana

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Keiji Togashi

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Kanpei Kuroda

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Jun Martis Asari

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Yuma Motoki

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Ryuichi Takeshima

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Nagisa Akutsu

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Haruhisa Kuribayashi

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Taira Nakamura

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Yoichi Kiriki

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Tatsuya Fukuda

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Hana Ichijo

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Voice Actors

The Japanese voices behind the main characters of Aoashi Season 2.

• Ashito AoiMain character: a small-town talent reinventing himself as a thinking full-back
  Japanese voiceKoki Osuzu
• Eisaku OtomoAshito's cheerful roommate and fellow first-year at Esperion
  Japanese voiceTatsumaru Tachibana
• Soichiro TachibanaA hardworking first-year defender and Otomo's twin brother
  Japanese voiceSeiichiro Yamashita
• Keiji TogashiA fiery, delinquent-styled defender with real quality
  Japanese voiceTaku Yashiro
• Kanpei KurodaA calm, analytical midfielder among the first-years
  Japanese voiceShun Horie
• Jun Martis AsariA graceful half-Japanese winger raised in England
  Japanese voiceWataru Kato
• Yuma MotokiA cheerful, hungry forward in the first-year group
  Japanese voiceJunya Enoki
• Ryuichi TakeshimaA physical defender and one of Ashito's rivals for a place
  Japanese voiceKentaro Kumagai
• Nagisa AkutsuThe A team's intimidating senior defender, who sets its standard
  Japanese voiceShunsuke Takeuchi
• Haruhisa KuribayashiEsperion's generational talent, the youth team's creative heartbeat
  Japanese voiceYuichiro Umehara
• Taira NakamuraAn A team regular who tests the promoted first-years
  Japanese voiceKensho Ono
• Yoichi KirikiA senior playmaker in the A team squad
  Japanese voiceKoki Uchiyama
• Tatsuya FukudaEsperion's youth director: the scout who found Ashito and plans his growth
  Japanese voiceChikahiro Kobayashi
• Hana IchijoAshito's blunt, football-mad supporter from his hometown
  Japanese voiceMaki Kawase

Staff & Production

Original Creator

Yugo Kobayashi

Animation Studio

TMS Entertainment (Season 2; Production I.G on Season 1)

Director

Kazuki Yokoyama (Season 2); Akira Sato (Season 1)

Series Composition

Masahiro Yokotani

Character Design

Manabu Nakatake, Asami Taguchi and Junko Yamanaka

Music

Masaru Yokoyama

Manga & Source Material

Aoashi is Yugo Kobayashi's football manga from Weekly Big Comic Spirits, built on a concept by Naohiko Ueno, whose research collaboration shaped its famously realistic picture of Japanese youth football.

• Written and illustrated by Yugo Kobayashi, based on a concept by Naohiko Ueno
• Serialised in Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits from January 2015 to June 2025
• Complete at 40 volumes and 410 chapters; the final volume was released in August 2025
• Won the general category of the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in 2020
• Passed 25 million copies in circulation, and a spin-off, Aoashi: Brotherfoot, follows Ashito's brother Shun

Music

Season 2's first cour pairs rock band 10-FEET: famous for the ending theme of THE FIRST SLAM DUNK film, with singer-songwriter Ai Higuchi; both wrote their songs for the series. Masaru Yokoyama's score returns from Season 1.

Opening Themes

• “Fortress Defense”by 10-FEETCurrentSeason 2, first cour opening (2026): this season

Ending Themes

• “Triangle”by Ai HiguchiCurrentSeason 2, first cour ending (2026): this season

Series Timeline

1. 2015

   Yugo Kobayashi's Aoashi manga begins in Weekly Big Comic Spirits.

2. 2020

   The manga wins the general category of the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award.

3. 2022

   Season 1 of the anime, by Production I.G, airs from April to September with 24 episodes.

4. 2025

   The manga ends in June; the 40th and final volume follows in August.

5. 2026

   Season 2 by TMS Entertainment premieres on 4 October, running 24 episodes in two cours.

Release Schedule

Japanese broadcast

Sundays at 5:00 p.m. on NHK Educational TV

Premiere

Sunday 4 October 2026, with episode 1, "Start Line"

Latest episode

Episode 5, aired Sunday 1 November 2026

Next episode

Episode 6 is due Sunday 8 November 2026

Streaming

Crunchyroll streams new episodes the same day as Japan; the English dub began on 18 October 2026

Episode count

24 episodes across two cours of 12

Schedule information as of 2 November 2026. Dates can change, check the official announcements for the latest news.

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