A main visual for the upcoming Aoashi Season 2‘s first cour has been released. Details about the theme song artists were also revealed.
10-FEET will perform the opening song, while Ai Higuchi is on the ending song.
Additionally, it was announced that footage from the new season will be shown for the first time at an Anime Expo panel, AOASHI Panel: Changing the Game of Sports Anime!, on July 3. There will also be a “special announcement for AOASHI fans.” The panel will take place at Room 408AB of the Los Angeles Convention Center from 10 AM to 10:50 AM PT with producer Junichi Katsutani in attendance.
Aoashi Season 2, which will have 24 episodes, is set to begin airing on October 4. The anime is based on the manga by Yugo Kobayashi. Titan Manga describes the manga’s synopsis as such:
To the world stage! Glory and ambition lie ahead of young Ashito Aoi as he takes the first steps to becoming a pro soccer player. But after being catapulted into a new harsh environment, can he hold onto his spider’s thread and climb his way to the top?
A fateful encounter on Futami Beach in Ehime, Japan leads to the meeting between Fukuda Tatsuya; once a rising star and a player on the cusp of greatness whose career ended all too soon, and Aoi Ashito; a brash and hot-headed striker who loves soccer despite his selfish tendencies.
After being selected to try out for the Tokyo City Esperion Youth club, Ashito Aoi stakes his future on the chance to create a better life for his single mother and older brother, all while realizing his own shortcomings and dealing with the highly competitive world of J-Youth Soccer.
The manga began serialization in Shogakukan’s Weekly Big Comic Spirits in January 2015 and released its 40th and final volume in 2025. The first season of the anime, which was directed by Akira Sato (Kinnikuman Perfect Origin Arc, Release the Spyce) at Production I.G, originally aired in 2022.
Production credits
• Director: Kazuki Yokoyama (new)
• Series composer: Masahiro Yokotani (reprising)
• Character designer: Manabu Nakatake (reprising)
• Character designer: Asami Taguchi (new, Lupin Zero)
• Character designer: Junko Yamanaka (new, Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life)
• Animation production: TMS Entertainment
Cast
• Koki Osuzu as Ashito Aoi
• Tatsumaru Tachibana as Eisaku Ohtomo
• Seiichiro Yamashita as Soichirou Tachibana
• Taku Yashiro as Keiji Togashi
• Shun Horie as Kanpei Kuroda
Source: Press release