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

Aoi, Noriko Supporting

Sonozaki, Mie Japanese

Kuribayashi, Haruhisa Supporting

Umehara, Yuuichirou Japanese

Kaidou, Anri Supporting

Ueda, Reina Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Morihiro, Fumi Producer

Kuroki, Rui Producer

Danno, Yoshito Producer

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Nov 3, 2024

ladderboi123

Recommended

So Aoashi is the complete opposite of Blue Lock and I like it with better animation and character development. The romance aspect is good and the idea of a selfish player turning into a team based one. Blue lock is just unrealistic where people fire shots from 40 meters at full power and it manages to go in every single time or the can pull acrobatic shit after just 5 minutes of so called thinking and awakening. This aired nearly 2 cours before Blue Lock and is so much better but isn't getting a second season. While some of you all will say that anime ... is not supposed to be realistic and blah blah blah but even if it isn't realistic you need basic character character development for it to be good. Like in solo leveling, leveling up is not character development, hard work and letting the off game plot progress for 1 or 2 episodes is and that is why I like Aoashi better than Blue Lock.

AoAshi = 90% Sports 10% Slice of Life
Blue Lock = 99% Shonen 1% Sports

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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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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