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| The individual-tactics lacking Aoi is put on the wayside, and other players like Asari Marches Jun take the spotlight. But despite Aoi's massive handicap, others like forwarder Yuma and defender Togashi are able to express their positions well. And it takes a mindset to recoup from someone whom has always had a self-centered way of playing to become dispensible, which to get selected into Tokyo Esperion's A Team, is almost next to impossible. Aoi's worst nightmare Akutsu reappears again, and from the tryouts, absolutely NOTHING has changed from the last he saw of Aoi, the same that Coach Date Nozomi has already surmised that Aoi won't last long in Tokyo Esperion. Akutsu may sound nasty, but it's for Aoi to truly realize his standing and resolve if he was to make this a long-lasting career. And going straight to Coach Nozomi for help, certainly is the only way that Aoi'd break out of his dilemma spell. Kaido Electric's daughter Anri certainly is interested in Fukuda, and that may be why Hana has such a good recollection of the once brother-in-law being young and an up-and-coming player before being a coach. But the problem now is Aoi and how to get him to accept the most basic of basics, and Hana will not relinquish her being his first fan, still full of support. Aoi's awakening to call back home to discuss the total cost for his 3 years in Tokyo Esperion, Aoi's prepared to give it all back within the duration both in cost and willpower to get through his lackluster performance to train the basics day in, night out. But he can't do this alone, and both Ohtomo and Tachibana provided help while remaining covert as much as possible, and Togashi (at first) ain't gonna care about anybody's business. It's high time that Aoi actually learns how to balance both training and rest so that he can work to his best, and there's none other than his roommate Togashi to refuel Aoi's spirit to push himself. Hopefully, he would turn out to be Aoi's first big break. Looking forward to a new and refreshed Aoi with Togashi's much-needed help. |
KANLen09May 28, 2022 7:30 AM
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| aoiii oh my god😭😭 my heart sank when the game ended. but its rly refreshing to see how he's actually struggling and working hard for it. he's seriously doing his best. asking for advice, where to improve, How to improve, doing it, getting extra practice, etc. im liking yuuma motoki more and more and remembering how he's voiced by enoki junya just made me even more biased lmaoo😭 and roomate guy is pretty cool. cant wait to see his practice session with aoi |
| Just a quick note to those who're not very familiar with football about Ashito's issue here. Receiving a pass when you're just standing and waiting for the ball is easy and it's what Ashito has been doing for the most part in high school, he waited until his team mates delivered the ball and then he went on his monster runs. But receiving the ball when you're in motion is a completely different game and requires a lot of practice and experience, yet this is something that's counted as something basic in the professional/semi pro world for obvious reasons. The youth players have had all the basics drilled into them since their early academy days, which is why it's a nonsense matter to them. Normally a player of Ashitos caliber would've been able to do this without any problems, but his unique surroundings and how they all relied on Ashito has lead to this particular predicament. |
| Looking at Kid Hana backstory, she actually was so lucky back there. His father married her soccer idol mother and there they become a new sibling. Yeah, a lucky and easy way for her to have coach Tatsuya as the whole just for herself, or that's how she might be thinking xd. Then, oh look, how the genius forwarding dude manage to take all the end praise after he successfully leading the last instruction into a nice result. Feels bad for Aoi. But what can he do there? He's lacking the basic of the basic, so ofc he need to working very hard from the very beginning again to catch up those people. Aoi even begging up to those stone-faced coach and trying hard every night. Still that's how him, his eyes showing a lively determination after receiving all those bad mouth. Especially from those jerky senpai, bringing parents into the hate. Smh. The other trio tryouts also helping him too. Then for the final person to support Aoi development, its none other than his intriguing roommate. Heck yeah. Let's see how the pompadour dude shape Aoi into a better player. Next! |
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surf78987898 said: Just a quick note to those who're not very familiar with football about Ashito's issue here. Receiving a pass when you're just standing and waiting for the ball is easy and it's what Ashito has been doing for the most part in high school, he waited until his team mates delivered the ball and then he went on his monster runs. But receiving the ball when you're in motion is a completely different game and requires a lot of practice and experience, yet this is something that's counted as something basic in the professional/semi pro world for obvious reasons. The youth players have had all the basics drilled into them since their early academy days, which is why it's a nonsense matter to them. Normally a player of Ashitos caliber would've been able to do this without any problems, but his unique surroundings and how they all relied on Ashito has lead to this particular predicament. Is he really in motion when receiving the ball? I thought the issue is Aoi is not efficient enough when receiving the ball. When you see his teammates, the ball stucks like a glue to their feet when receiving the ball, but in Aoi case it keeps bouncing up from his feet, so it kills the momentum when they practice passing, |
KyouKaiTenMay 28, 2022 8:44 AM
| “You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.” |
We_Ka said: I really like sports anime and had high hopes for this one after the first few episodes. But i cant stand to watch it anymore. In the first few episodes they foreshadowed that he has a great sense of the position of his teammates yet he doesnt understand the basic tactics of soccer and only plays like an egoist. Now he cant even stop the ball properly. Sorry but how did this guy even get signed? I dont have problems with struggle and hard training, its actually the best thing about sports anime, but they just overdid it. I dont want to watch a sports anime where the mc cant do shit while being seen as a genius. Still waiting for a single enjoyable match. It's hard to appreciate what the author trying to show if you're not familiar with football. It might look easy in your eyes, but the reality it's not. There is even a lot of pro player out there who still struggle with first touch and receiving the ball, but they compensate it with other skills, the famous one of course is Inzaghi if you know. Aoi's unique skill has nothing to do with the basic of football. So it's understandable if he still struggles with the basics. Keep in mind that he is the only one who never have proper football education in this youth team. If you wonder why he got signed. It's coach Fukuda. The other coaches never consider Aoi to pass the selection. But coach Fukuda see his potential. It's pretty rare to have a player who can see the whole pitch and remember his own teammates position. This is a skill that a player like Xavi, Iniesta, and Ozil have. But this is not the sole reason. Coach Fukuda went even further asking if Aoi was aware on what he's doing during the last minutes of the match against their senior. If Aoi didn't explain properly at that time I'm pretty sure he won't get signed. |
| “You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.” |
| Aoi comes to terms with reality. He's not some super special player. He still lacks basic skills. So the sponsor's girl is a big fan of Fukuda. Huh so Hana did have a crush on Fukuda when she was a kid lol Man, Tachibana and Ohtomo are true homies. Togashi might be rough but he seems like a good guy deep down. Great episode! |
DeonXMay 28, 2022 9:54 AM
 ◑ ━━━━━ ▣ ━━━━━ ◐ "Everything I've witnessed... This whole system you have built has always rejected me. Now I'm ready to reject it. That's why I destroy. That's why I took this power for myself. Simple enough, yeah? I don't care if you don't understand... That's what makes us... Heroes and Villains." ◑ ━━━━━ ▣ ━━━━━ ◐ |
| Its great to see him build things from the ground-up after being shown reality. Correcting mistakes picked up during the days of playing in an unprofessional team is crucial as well. |
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| I really could do without some of the extreme edge drama they add either by making unlikeable characters including coaches and some of the reactions from Aoi himself. It just makes me cringe and brings me out of it. The unrealistic nonsense thrown in keeps this show from being one of the better sports shows I've seen. That said the show does balance it out a little with some likeable characters and moments. I'm interested to see how Togashi helps Aoi next episode. |
| Getting help from his teammate will give him a boost. |
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| Aoi learned the hard way that he's not as good as he think he is and its having a negative effect on Aoi's psyche and confidence football/soccer player. Passing and ball control is one of the basic skill sets he needs to master if he wants to be considered for the A-Team like Yuma. Morcombe1990 said: so the coaches were literally just gonna ignore Aoi and then the big dude says no one's going to hold his hand and show him the way...........thats EXACTLY what a coach is supposed to do. These coach's aren't very good at their job. Those coaches work for a professional football club. It's not their job to hold Aoi's hand when Aoi himself doesn't have the basic fundamentals down. The rest of the youth players already have the basics covered already so there is no reason the coaching staff to give Aoi special treatment. That is something that Aoi has to figure out himself in the three years he's with Tokyo Esperion. |
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| Agree that the coaches are coming across as incompetent. They knew exactly what Aoi's problem was but weren't going to tell him anything till he came in and begged? That only makes sense if they've decided he's worth zero resources, which would mean they've got no trust at all in the head coach's judgement. Not to mention all the bullying that apparently goes on in the team. The discipline here is all messed up. |
| Them coaches looking all surprised when he asked them to teach him/ tell him what he lacked.......like bruh isn't it their job to do that? He has to go to them himself before they realize what they should have done from the start instead of straight out giving up on him on his first day.. sigh... it was a nice episode tho |
misprout said: Them coaches looking all surprised when he asked them to teach him/ tell him what he lacked.......like bruh isn't it their job to do that? He has to go to them himself before they realize what they should have done from the start instead of straight out giving up on him on his first day.. sigh... it was a nice episode tho Even though I agree that the coaches are really harsh on Aoi, I somewhat understand where they are coming from. First, they are so hesitant of letting Aoi pass the tryout in the first place due to his performance. They can see it right away that he is playing soccer without knowing the basics and that's a big no for them. They have try outs to filter those players specifically. Second, Fukuda insisted to let Aoi pass because he see his unique potential (but it seems so unique that only Fukuda can see it), and because the other coaches trust Fukuda so much, they agreed with him. Despite all of that, you cant deny the fact that they are agaisnt the idea of letting someone who lack basic skills pass. Lastly, as everyone mentioned here, they are coaching future professionals here, not just soccer player wannabee. The point of the tryouts and selection is to literally skip wasting time on teaching their players the basics and now they have to do it with Aoi(which as I've mentioned, they can't even see why the fck Fukuda is so interested on him)? No wonder why they'll get pissed on Aoi. |
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izaya_c137 said: Thanks for your explanation,I kind of understand their point of view now :) but I still believe that their approach to his issue is wrong. They don't have to teach him, but atleast tell him what he lacks. The issue of whether they see his potential or not shouldn't matter in this aspect, because at the end of the day they gave in to Fukuda and he was selected..now he is one of the players they should coach.misprout said: Them coaches looking all surprised when he asked them to teach him/ tell him what he lacked.......like bruh isn't it their job to do that? He has to go to them himself before they realize what they should have done from the start instead of straight out giving up on him on his first day.. sigh... it was a nice episode tho Even though I agree that the coaches are really harsh on Aoi, I somewhat understand where they are coming from. First, they are so hesitant of letting Aoi pass the tryout in the first place due to his performance. They can see it right away that he is playing soccer without knowing the basics and that's a big no for them. They have try outs to filter those players specifically. Second, Fukuda insisted to let Aoi pass because he see his unique potential (but it seems so unique that only Fukuda can see it), and because the other coaches trust Fukuda so much, they agreed with him. Despite all of that, you cant deny the fact that they are agaisnt the idea of letting someone who lack basic skills pass. Lastly, as everyone mentioned here, they are coaching future professionals here, not just soccer player wannabee. The point of the tryouts and selection is to literally skip wasting time on teaching their players the basics and now they have to do it with Aoi(which as I've mentioned, they can't even see why the fck Fukuda is so interested on him)? No wonder why they'll get pissed on Aoi. |
| If he really is this bad why was he accepted? |
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MegamiRem said: If he really is this bad why was he accepted? Because Coach Fukuda gave him a pass in they tryouts because he sees raw potential despite the rest of the coaching staff not seeing it, but they trust his judgement to let it slide for now. |
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| That Akutsu dude is such a clown. Such a shame they are in Japan because in places like Brazil or Argentina (places where football is almost a religion), he wouldn't be trash-talking about one's skills and parents just like that. Anyways, I gotta say this episode was... "okay". For an establishment whose purpose is to raise and advise future stars, its coaches sure leave a lot to be desired and as for the discipline aspect, I don't know if they are all blind or just don't care about the fact of Akutsu going around intimidating younger players from the same institution. sigh* and here I was expecting for him to get at least a warning for almost breaking Ashito's ribs last time they played... But well, leaving that aside, it was nice to see Ashito taking things more seriously and now I can't wait to see what he will learn from Togashi. |
| I like the characters but it is starting to drag, hope it picks up in excitement over the next few eps. |
| I have a third testicle that gives me psychic powers |
| looks like pompadour dude will be MC's true bro! lolz 5/5. |
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| Kind of funny how people are complaining because it's not 'hype'. It's only 8 episodes in and this is a manga with over 250+ chapters that actually gives a shit about the development of the character's skills and attitude over the course of the story. If everything was as easy as Kuroko no Basket (it was fun to watch not realistic) almost everyone would be playing soccer or any sport for that matter at a high level with not much hard work. Also these are coaches working for a club. As someone who played for a club myself. Unless you're playing from a youth setup by that I mean like U-13 or even younger they're not gonna be holding your hand. You gotta work it out yourself and keep training. Aoi was essentially scouted for a certain skill, the only thing he was able to verbalize to Fukuda (which should be pretty obvious) and later on there is a major twist in the story for Aoi because of this skill. It's a seinen show. Just wait it out and let the story develop. It'll be a good watch over the long run. As for the episode itself. It was good, some interactions are a little over dramatic but it is a TV show after all but the pacing so far has been very good and is setting up nicely for major character and plot developments that is if they keep being as faithful to the manga. |
| It's like they're straight up harassing Aoi, clearly there's no need to go this extreme. Also it almost felt like an exaggeration when they were talking about Aoi's lack of skills, I mean he's got selected so atleast give him that much credit. |
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| hes not bad at all, he may still be a good/instinctual player, hes just not good enough when hes here with all the others who have received such elite training....why would you just completely miss out the whole point of the story lol i loved it when he realised he knows close to nothing, and went to so desperately ask for help/advice, that character development is so good, i didnt actually expect it from him actually that guy who is trash talking him is in the wrong genre, he shld be in a BL or manhwa lol i think his aggressiveness would be better received there taira♡♡♡♡♡♡♡ so cute and so kind♡√√ and yuuma too♡♡♡♡♡ i loved how they introduced more of yuuma's personality & skills hana was such a cute kid, i love her personality♡ usually these female characters in sports anime often feel like token characters but she doesnt to me, i love how natural the story is just flowing & everyone, whether subtly or not are playing a part in it, looking forward to togashi's development too seeing how hes observing the rest |
 ꕤ but i’ll probably remember over and over again you were there and everyone else was there — the day we all searched for just one thing ꕤ |
| There was something seriously wrong with the audio production this episode, voices were too quiet compared to the BGM, I even thought there was something wrong with my setup. Anyways, the story of the episode itself was great. |
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| Hey man, playing soccer ain't all about scoring goals...I mean it is but not always. What I mean is sometimes pulling a defender is the best you're gonna do all game. You're simply not going to be a rocks star every single time you step on the pitch and that's ok. It's a team sport and something our MC here simply cannot comprehend at this point. Hope he snaps out of it soon. Kinda surprised he doesn't know how to trap. As a forward thats like 50% of your skill set especially given that this guys entire high school career centered around other people passing the ball to him. Seems a little contrived to me. Anyway I know the short guy said not to trust the motorcycle dude but what other choice does our boy have? Interesting to see what sorts of training they go through in the next episode. |
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| What the hell is wrong with you, dude? The senior dude needs to calm down. None of the coaches are aware of his awful behaviour? It’s incredible that he doesn't even know the basics, there must be a reason for this. He must, however, refrain from yelling while practising in the middle of the night. I'm happy to see the trio helping one another, and Togashi appears to be the next to assist Aoi with his basics. |
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