UPDATE: The anime adaptation will air in 2022, author's celebratory art added.
Following the story of third-year soccer player Aoi Ashito—who has immense potential but deals with his own unique setbacks—Yugo Kobayashi's Aoashi manga has been running in the pages of Big Comic Spirits magazine since 2015. Now the award-winning series is getting its own TV anime, with the series set to kick off sometime in 2022.
24 volumes have been collected so far, with over 7.5 million copies in circulation.
The announcement on a poster for volume 24:
Volume 24:
Yugo Kobayashi shared some celebratory art:
アオアシはアニメになります。
— 【アオアシ】公式／2022年春アニメ化！24集発売中！ (@aoashiofficial) May 28, 2021
去年の2月に伝わってこの間、脚本やキャラデザ、声優さんのアフレコが届くたびにアオアシに新しい命が吹き込まれている感覚です。
今日ようやく言えます！
制作の皆さん頑張ってください！
(写真の散らかってる1枚は、懐かしい2014年第1話のネームです。)
小林有吾 pic.twitter.com/wJxie3XalE
To mark the occasion of the announcement, the newly-released 24th volume is available with some special bonus items, including a series of clear stand bookmarks, pictured below.
Sources: Big Comic website, Comic Natalie
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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his comics at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.
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