"Aoashi" TV Anime Reveals Cast, Staff, and Teaser Promo

On the official website of Yūgo Kobayashi's Aoashi manga, the first teaser promo video for the upcoming anime was released today. Additionally, the cast, staff, and the premiere in April 2022 were announced.



Aoashi depicts the youth of high school students striving to become professionals in the J-League youth soccer team. The manga is serialized continuously in Weekly Big Comic Spirits (Shogakukan) and won the first prize at the 65th Shogakukan Manga Awards. The 26th volume will be released on November 12.

The cast is as follows:

Kouki Osuzu as Ashito Aoi

Tatsumaru Tachibana as Eisaku Ootomo

Seiichirou Yamashita as Soichirou Tachibana

Taku Yashiro as Keiji Togashi

Shun Horie as Kanpei Kuroda

Wataru Katou as Asari Marchis Jun

Junya Enoki as Yuuma Motoki

Kentarou Kumagai as Ryuuichi Takeshima

Chikahiro Kobayashi as Tatsuya Fukuda

Maki Kawase as Hana Ichijou

Akira Sato will direct at Production I.G. Masahiro Yokotani is in charge of the series' script. Manabu Nakatake, Toshie Kawamura, Asuka Yamaguchi, and Saki Hasegawa are responsible for character design, while Nakatake and Yamaguchi are also appointed as animation directors. Naho Seike, Yukiko Watabe, Miho Daidouji, and Eisuke Shirai are assigned as sub-character designers. Kenichi Takeshita, Jun Soga, and Kenji Iizuka oversee the soccer elements. Masaru Yokoyama is the composer of the music.