Manga 'Ao Ashi' Receives TV Anime for Spring 2022

by Vindstot
May 27, 2021 9:34 PM | 13 Comments

Publisher Shogakukan announced a television anime adaptation of Yuugo Kobayashi's Ao Ashi (Aoashi) on Friday. The anime series is scheduled for premiere in Spring 2022.

Synopsis
Ashito Aoi is a young, aspiring soccer player from a backwater town in Japan. His hopes of getting into a high school with a good soccer club are dashed when he 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 happened to be visiting from Tokyo. How will things turn out for Ashito? (Source: Shogakukan Asia)

Kobayashi began drawing the soccer manga based on Naohiko Ueno's original draft in Big Comic Spirits in January 2015. Shogakukan published the 24th volume on Friday. The manga has a cumulative 7.5 million copies of its volumes in print.

Ao Ashi won the 65th Shogakukan Manga Awards in the General category last year and was nominated for the 10th Manga Taisho awards in 2017.

Manga official page: https://bigcomicbros.net/comic/aoashi/
Manga official Twitter: @aoashiofficial

Source: Oricon News

Ao Ashi on MAL

13 Comments Recent Comments

samashi20 said:

FMmatron said:
Surprised to see this manga getting an adaptation. That said, I'm looking forward to it. At last another good sports series and not one of these half-assed anime originals.

*Flashback to Sk8*

Agreeeeeed!!!! We need less original and more adaptation.

Or you can have both originals & adaptions, there's room for both. 🙄

May 29, 2021 10:51 PM by Old_School_Akira

Nice news, which studio.

May 29, 2021 7:00 AM by crotaku15

FMmatron said:
Surprised to see this manga getting an adaptation. That said, I'm looking forward to it. At last another good sports series and not one of these half-assed anime originals.

*Flashback to Sk8*

Agreeeeeed!!!! We need less original and more adaptation.

May 28, 2021 11:45 AM by samashi20

Surprised to see this manga getting an adaptation. That said, I'm looking forward to it. At last another good sports series and not one of these half-assed anime originals.

May 28, 2021 9:05 AM by FMmatron

huh... typical shounen sports manga.

..... wait.... serialized in Big Comic Spirits? Won the Shogakukan Manga Awards in the General category, and nominated for the 10th Manga Taisho awards?! You have my attention.

May 28, 2021 8:56 AM by Hannatach

but... I wanted another soccer

May 28, 2021 7:10 AM by dokugamine

Glad about more footy series getting adapted, but not really much a fan of this one.

May 28, 2021 5:37 AM by Ramkec

Damn!

Where is my Blue Lock?

May 28, 2021 2:12 AM by Ciezul

Nice another sports anime, hope it'll be good.

May 28, 2021 1:48 AM by MegamiRem

soccer anime lets goooo !!

have heard good things abt this manga, excited for the adaptation ! hope they do it well

May 28, 2021 12:35 AM by lizzziziz

Very exciting! Loving the manga, very stoked to see how this will turn out.

May 27, 2021 11:22 PM by AngeloMC21

This is one of the best ongoing sports manga and generally one of the best sports series I've ever come across. I'm glad to see it's finally getting an anime.

May 27, 2021 10:13 PM by alpha_shadow

I can't remember the last time I watched a soccer anime. I'm really stoked about this!!! I hope the studio producing this is a good one.

May 27, 2021 9:53 PM by samashi20