Midfielder/defender for the Tokyo City Esperion FC Youth A Team. He was promoted from the junior youth team and the Esperion B team. 2nd-year high schooler. 

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:__ 173 cm

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Japanese voice and stage actor. 

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Vinícius Moreira Barros Leite is a Brazilian actor and voice actor.

__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Mar Novu / Monitor / Anti-Monitor (Arrowverse series)
- Charles Smith (Riverdale)
- Jackson Whittemore (2nd voice; Teen Wolf)
- Hizdahr zo Loraq (Game of Thrones)
- Luis Roberto Guzmán (Lo Que la Vida me Robó [2nd dub], ¿Quién mató a Sara? and Cobra Kai)
- Tyler James Williams (Whiskey Cavalier, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders and Detroit [2nd dub])
- Nathan Parsons (The Originals and Roswell, New Mexico)
- Aethelwold (The Last Kingdom)
- Stanley "Stan" Bowes (Pose)
- Harold Copter / Phil Jones (WandaVision)
- Brion Markov / Geo-Force (Young Justice)
- Simon Grimault (Miraculous: Les aventures de Ladybug et Chat Noir)
- Delford "Iraq" Wade (Watch Dogs)
- Dr. Caio Durão (Super Drags)
!~

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)

Makoto Shimizu