The official synopsis and preview images for Aoashi Season 2 Episode 1, titled “Starting Line,” have been revealed ahead of the anime’s highly anticipated premiere.
The episode will follow Ashito Aoi as he begins his next challenge after earning a promotion to Tokyo City Esperion Youth’s A Team.
The premise of Aoashi season 2 episode 1 is as follows:
Tokyo City Esperion Youth is the academy division of a pro soccer club and said to be the best high school team. Ashito Aoi has finally been promoted to its A Team. What awaits him, though, is an overwhelming gap in technique, on a different plane entirely from the B Team. Here, even simple passing drills are a baptism by fire, and Ashito fights desperately to hold his spot on the team…
The preview images for the episode are as follows:
Aoashi Season 2 Episode 1 will release on Oct. 4, 2026, and will be streamed exclusively on Crunchyroll.
Aoashi season 2 cast includes:
- Ashito Aoi: Kouki Osuzu
- Eisaku Otomo: Tatsumaru Tachibana
- Soichiro Tachibana: Seiichiro Yamashita
- Keiji Togashi: Taku Yashiro
- Kanpei Kuroda: Shun Horie
- Jun Martis Asari: Wataru Kato
- Yuma Motoki: Junya Enoki
- Ryuichi Takeshima: Kentaro Kumagai
- Nagisa Akutsu: Shunsuke Takeuchi
- Haruhisa Kuribayashi: Yuichiro Umehara
- Taira Nakamura: Kensho Ono
- Yoichi Kiriki: Kouki Uchiyama
- Eita Takasugi: Makoto Furukawa
- Kenta Yoshitsune: Kazuyuki Okitsu
- Enshin Akiyama: Hiromichi Tezuka
- Hana Ichijo: Maki Kawase
- Anri Kaido: Reina Ueda
- Tatsuya Fukuda: Chikahiro Kobayashi
- Nozomi Date: Hiroki Yasumoto
Kazuki Yokoyama will serve as the director for the second season, with Asami Taguchi and Junko Yamanaka handling character designs alongside Manabu Nakatake. It will be produced by TMS Entertainment.
Other staff members include:
- Soccer Supervisor: Kenji Iizuka
- Action Animation Supervisor: Tadayoshi Okimura, Satoshi Kubo
- Art Director: Miki Higaki
- Art Design: Yuuki Omokawa
- Color Design: Hiromi Miyawaki
- CG Director: Kaito Iwata
- Composite Director: Jiro Tazawa
- Editor: Masato Yoshitake
- Sound Director: Shoji Hata
- Sound Effects: Kosuke Ogata
- Music: Masaru Yokoyama
- Original Work Cooperation: Takahito Yamazaki, Shingo Konno
- Producers: Junichi Katsutani, Yuuka Numakoshi, Shuho Kondo, Manabu Kado, Kohei Nehyo
- Production Manager: Koji Nozaki
- Animation Producer: Keiichi Tokumaru
Season 2’s opening theme song, “Fortress Defense,” will be performed by 10-FEET, while Ai Higuchi will perform the ending theme, “Triangle.”
Aoashi season 1, produced by Production I.G, aired from April 9 to Sep 24, 2022.
Source: Press Release
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