J Youth Anime “Aoashi” will start broadcasting on April 9th. Shunsuke Takeuchi will play the role of DF Akutsu Nagisa, and Yuichiro Umehara will play the role of genius midfielder Haruhisa Kuribayashi.

News Thursday, February 10, 2022 22:00

J Youth Anime “Aoashi” will start broadcasting on April 9th. Shunsuke Takeuchi will play the role of DF Akutsu Nagisa, and Yuichiro Umehara will play the role of genius midfielder Haruhisa Kuribayashi.

It has been decided that the soccer animation “Aoashi” will start broadcasting on NHK E-Tele on April 9th ​​at 6:25 pm. The appearances of Shunsuke Takeuchi and Yuichiro Umehara have also been revealed, and the first key visual has been released.

This work is an animated manga by Yugo Kobayashi, who is serializing in “Weekly Big Comic Spirits” (published by Shogakukan). The main character, Aoi Aoi (Ashit / CV: Kouki Osuzu), who lives in Ehime, has a special feature in Tatsuya Fukuda (Chikahiro Kobayashi), who is the director of the youth team of the J League’s leading club “Tokyo City Esperion FC”. After discovering his talent, he goes to Tokyo and works hard with his friends and rivals. Animation production will be done by Production I.G of “Haikyu !!”, “Kuroko’s Basketball” and “Ace of Diamond”.

Takeuchi is one grade higher than Ashito, and is in charge of the role of Akutsu Nagisa, a talented defender who stands in front of Ashito from the time of joining selection. Umehara will play Haruhisa Kuribayashi, a genius midfielder who is also a senior in the first grade and made his J-League debut in the top team at the age of 16. In the first key visual, where the members of “Esperion Youth” gathered with Ashito at the head, Akutsu and Kuribayashi are drawn on both sides of the director Fukuda.

Below are comments from Takeuchi and Umehara.

[Shunsuke Takeuchi (role of Nagisa Akutsu)]
Q1. Please tell us your impression of this work.
It’s a very realistic view of the world, and I think it’s a work that has a lot of sympathy for people who are playing soccer as well as those who are aiming for something.
It’s a story that makes you feel something like the blue fighting spirit of boys.
All the cast members are really doing their best, and especially Osuzu-san’s reeds are impressed every time they record.

Q2. Please tell us your impression of the character you play and your enthusiasm for the role.
I think he has a very strong impression as the first wall to stand against the reeds.
I want to infuse my voice so as not to lose the power of the character.

[Yuichiro Umehara (role of Haruhisa Kuribayashi)]
Q1. Please tell us your impression of this work.
I thought that the passion for soccer between the reeds and the people around them was very hot. It was the first time for me to read a work about J Youth, which is neither a professional league nor high school soccer, so I read it with great interest.
The appearance of the adults supporting the boys who are absorbed in soccer was very impressive.

Q2. Please tell us your impression of the character you play and your enthusiasm for the role.
Kuribayashi, who I will play, is a big wall and a goal for the reeds. I wish I could express that unfathomable strength. I would like to cherish the elusive and mysterious atmosphere of Kuribayashi, the intensity of the game, and the gap between them.
I will do my best to play Kuribayashi who has a passion.

Work information

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Aoashi

Broadcast time 2022 spring animation

Production company
Production I.G
Staff information
[Original] Yugo Kobayashi (“Big Comic Spirits” published by Shogakukan) [Director] Yo Sato [Series composition] Masahiro Yokotani [Soccer supervision] Kenichi Takeshita, Jun Soga, Kenji Iizuka [Character design] Manabu Nakatake, Toshie Kawamura, Yamaguchi Asuka, Saki Hasegawa [Sub-character design] Naho Kiyoike, Yukiko Watanabe, Miho Daidoji, Eisuke Shirai [Director] Nakatake Manabu, Asuka Yamaguchi [Prop design] Arisa Ito, Miori Tsusaka [Color design] Emiko Ueno [Art Director] Tsukasa Kaki, Yusuke Takeda
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Synopsis
Aoi Ashito, a junior high school student living in Ehime, is the ace of the weak soccer club. On the day he lost at the last tournament in junior high school, Ashito, who was running at the beach to hit his regrets, meets a man who was watching the game. The man-Tatsuya Fukuda was the director of the “Youth Team”, an organization that fosters high school age, at the J-League’s leading club “Tokyo City Esperion FC”. Roughly, Fukuda discovers infinite possibilities for Ashito, who has a special talent, and begins to talk about his ambitions. “I have ambitions. The club I created keeps the world in my hands. It’s not a stepping stone to the world. My club is the world. It’s the youth that bears all of that ambition. “. At the invitation of Fukuda, Ashit decided to go to Tokyo to take the entrance examination .
cast
Aoi Ashito: Osuzu Koki Otomo Eisaku: Tatsumaru Tachibana Soichiro Tachibana: Seiichiro Yamashita Keiji Togashi: Taku Yashiro Kanpei Kuroda: Shun Horie Atsushi Martis: Wataru Kato Yuma Motoki: Junya Enoki Ryuichi Takeshima: Kentaro Kumagai: Chikahiro Kobayashi Ichijo Hana: Maki Kawase
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Related Links
[Official site] https://aoashi-pr.com