Ao Ashi

In a quiet rural town, the spotlight of a local junior high school football team rests on one player: Ashito Aoi. Known for his unpredictable moves and self-centered playing style, Ashito is the sole powerhouse pushing his team through an important high school preliminary tournament. However, their win streak is short-lived—an opponent causes Ashito to lose his temper and act violently, resulting in his removal from the rest of the game.

Without their star player, the team is quickly eliminated from the tournament. Just as he believes all hope is lost, Ashito is approached by a youth team coach named Tatsuya Fukuda who senses potential in him, and Fukuda invites him for tryouts in Tokyo. In an unfamiliar setting surrounded by talent, Ashito must bring out the best of his ability to prove himself and secure what could be a life-changing career.

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Aoi, Ashito Main

Oosuzu, Kouki Japanese

Ichijou, Hana Main

Kawase, Maki Japanese

Fukuda, Tatsuya Main

Kobayashi, Chikahiro Japanese

Akutsu, Nagisa Supporting

Takeuchi, Shunsuke Japanese

Ootomo, Eisaku Supporting

Tachibana, Tatsumaru Japanese

Asari, Marchis Jun Supporting

Katou, Wataru Japanese

Togashi, Keiji Supporting

Yashiro, Taku Japanese

Kuribayashi, Haruhisa Supporting

Umehara, Yuuichirou Japanese

Kaidou, Anri Supporting

Ueda, Reina Japanese

Aoi, Noriko Supporting

Sonozaki, Mie Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Morihiro, Fumi Producer

Kuroki, Rui Producer

Naeshiro, Kenichirou Producer

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Aug 25, 2025

fien012

Recommended

A new fresh for me. Ao Ashi focuses on character's thoughts instead of showing smooth animation, with someone this will make them bored, but with me anime clearly presented the improvement of characters mindsets when playing, changing of playstyles, making them understand each other and play better.

Art style really fit, detailed on every character's emotion, movement. Every character have their flaws, no one perfect, everyone still need to training, practicing, and learning through matches. I especially like ability of main character: Aoi. His wide-vision and memorize skills making him not just attacking but controlling everything on the match.

Beside, BGM plays an vital role, it ... maybe not too fire but enough to make me feel the excitement when it come to climax of every goals or everytime characters realized something important.

Overall, this is good sports anime, focusing on inner improvement for characters. I think animation could be done better.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Oct 10, 2024

mmm56311555

Mixed Feelings

Good anime story wise.In 19 episode there is a head kick which is the only funny moment in this anime.
I gave it a 10 because putting pieces together overall this anime is like a chess trainer so you can learn a lot
Art style is very modern
Characters are okay
Series is for learners not for amusement seakers
It seems i need at least 105 words for this review so exclude things that arent interesant to you me personally think that there is Blue Lock too to be watched,it's completely(100%) different than this anime so you can try that there is only one lesson there though and that is ... to be fast fast if you wanna be successfull playing football

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jul 16, 2023

OneTrueNep

Not Recommended

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This anime is what would happen if Kuroko no Basuke and Haikyuu had a child, but the mother drank heavily, overdosed on crack daily and threw herself down every flight of stairs she saw for the whole pregnancy.

I haven't used this account in years but I had to dig up the password and log back in just to write a review for this absolute pile of trash. Morbid curiosity was the only thing keeping me going throughout because lord knows the most boring cast, basic plot and impossibly generic main character weren't nearly good enough for something rated above 8/10 here. The animation is ... a slideshow at best, the voice acting is uninspired, the art is dull and most of all the football on display is just beyond bad.

If you're from a country where football is popular, you probably know more than the protagonist of this show. If you've watched football more than once you're probably top 10% of all characters in the show. If you've played it then you're top 1%. I get suspension of disbelief for the sake of the narrative, but I can't believe a professional club's youth academy would sign someone who doesn't know what a diagonal run is, how defending works, what passing triangles are and much more. I half expected the offside rule to be explained to our mentally challenged MC at some point.

It gets a 2 instead of a 1 because Hana is a cute and likeable character.
That aside, if you are thinking of watching this sludge, take my recommendation: Ronaldon't.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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