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:__ 177 cm 
__Agency:__ Gekidan Himawari  
__Awards:__  Best New Actor at the 5th Annual Seiyuu Awards (2011)  
__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Lean (Final Fantasy Type 0)
- Ventus, Roxas (Kingdom Hearts series)
- Neku Sakuraba (The World Ends With You)
- Banagher Links (Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam Next)
- Rinne Rokudo (Kyoukai no Rinne trailer)
- Enma Kozato (Katekyo Hitman REBORN! Vomic)
- Razor (Genshin Impact)
- Rean Schwarzer (The Legend of Heroes Series)
- Protagonist (Persona 5: The Phantom X)
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Koki Uchiyama is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Saitama Prefecture affiliated with Himawari Theatre Group.

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Fabrício Vila Verde is a Brazilian actor, voice actor, dubbing director and streamer. He is the boyfriend of the also voice actress [Giovanna Calegaretti](https://anilist.co/staff/208481/).

__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Asa Butterfield, Tye Sheridan, Ludi Lin, Justin Bieber, Joe Cole, Israel Broussard, Dan Stevens and Leo Howard (Most of the productions)
- Adrien Agreste / Cat Noir (Miraculous: Les aventures de Ladybug et Chat Noir)
- Phineas Flynn (2nd voice; Phineas and Ferb)
- V (Male voice; Cyberpunk 2077)
- Neptr (1st voice; Adventure Time)
- Echo Echo (Ben 10 franchise)
- Huey Duck (DuckTales 2017)
- Forsythe Pendleton "Jughead" Jones III (Riverdale)
- Theodore Karl "Theo" Raeken (Netflix's dub; Teen Wolf)
- Daniel Thomas "Danny" Rand / Iron Fist (Marvel series)
- Adam Groff (Sex Education)
- Alphonso Hargreeves / Number 4 (The Umbrella Academy)
- Cody Fern (American Horror Story)
- Dick Grayson / Robin I (1st voice - S1&2; Young Justice)
- Tim Drake / Robin III (2nd voice - S3; Young Justice)
- Commander Nicholas "Nick" Blaine (The Handmaid's Tale)
- Ralph Dibny / Elongated Man (The Flash)
- Michael Holt / Mister Terrific (Arrow)
- Liu Kang (Mortal Kombat Legends movies)
- Raphael Santiago (Shadowhunters)
- Vincenzo Cassano (Vincenzo)
- Sir Lazlo (The Witcher)
- Chip (Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers)
- Lance (Voltron: Legendary Defender)
- Brandon Sampson / Paragon (Jupiter's Legacy)
- Moon Kang-Tae (It’s Okay to Not Be Okay)
- Nevel Papperman (iCarly)
- Rory Flanagan (Glee)
- Choi Mu-Jin (My Name)
- Evariste Lemarque / Faribanks (Dragon Age: Absolution)
- Eruptor (1st voice; Skylanders Academy)
- Marmaduke (Marmaduke)
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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)

Yoichi Kiriki