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.

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)

The protagonist is Shun who lives in Ehime and is a year older than Ashito.
Shun was once devoted to football like his brother, but he's now distanced himself from the sport after a setback in the past.
That setback was his asthma.
Moreover, the first onset of his asthma was when he participated as a trainee for Ehime's J-club Football academy.
Through an unexpected reason, Shun will take up football once more?!
 
It is never too late to try again.
This is a comeback story that can give courage to anyone.

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)

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