__Height:__ 181 cm

Captain of the Tokyo City Esperion FC Youth A team. He is a forward and last year's top scorer in the U-18 Premier League. His soccer skills are overwhelming, but he has an elusive personality, speaking in a peculiar tone of voice and losing the end of words.

Ashito Aoi is a young, aspiring soccer player from a backwater town in Japan. His hopes of getting into a high school with a good soccer club are dashed when he causes an incident during a critical match for his team, which results in their loss and elimination from the tournament. Nevertheless, he catches the eye of someone important who happened to be visiting from Tokyo. How will things turn out for Ashito? (Source: Shogakukan Asia)

**Height:** 175cm

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Kazuyuki Okitsu is a Japanese voice actor and narrator. After he graduated from the Osaka University of Arts he was initially represented by the REM talent agency but from May, 2007 he has been affiliated with Kekke Corporation. When he was a 3rd year high school student he was the moderator for the 79th Japanese High School Baseball Championship opening ceremony. 

__Non-Anime Roles:__ 
- Lúcio (Overwatch)
- Horropedia (Reverse: 1999)

David Anthony Matranga is an American voice actor from Houston, Texas. He works primarily for English dubbed anime for Funimation and Sentai Filmworks.

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Carlos Felipe Soares Balloussier, better known as Cafi Balloussier, is a Brazilian actor and voice actor.

__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Andrew Glouberman (Big Mouth)
- Kris Tyson (MrBeast)
- Lie Ren (Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part One)
- Andy Barclay (Cult of Chucky and Chucky 2021 series)
- Dr. Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus (Marvel Spider-Man 2017)
- Juan Diego Covarrubias (Teresa [2nd dub] and Vencer el desamor [1st dub])
- Lars Loud (The Loud House)
- Kenny Everett (Bohemian Rhapsody)
!~

Ashito Aoi, a third year middle school student from Ehime, meets Fukuda Tatsuya, a J Youth League coach. Even though he's still rough around the edges, Ashito has such amazing potential that he gets invited by coach Fukuda to participate in his team's try-outs in Tokyo. The story of a boy who will revolutionize Japanese football begins to unfold. 
Notes: 
- Nominated for the 2017 Manga Taishou Award. 
- Winner of the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award for "Best General Manga" category in 2019.

The main character here is Taira Nakamura, a senior member on the same J Youth team as Ashito Aoi, the protagonist of Ao Ashi. 
Taira is popular with his teammates, but he retired in the middle of his second year of high school, saying he wanted to become a police officer like his father. In this long-awaited side story, we focus on a side of him that was not depicted in the main storyline.
 
(Source: PR Times, translated)

Kenta Yoshitsune