Aoashi Season 2 Is Live Today — Ashito Enters the Premier League on Crunchyroll

One of the most respected sports anime of the decade is back on the pitch. Aoashi Season 2 premiered October 4, 2026, airing in Japan on NHK E-Tele, the NHK Educational channel, while Crunchyroll simulcasts new subtitled episodes weekly for international viewers. Ani-One Asia has also licensed the season for Southeast Asia, making this a genuinely global launch for one of anime's most grounded sports stories.

The new season runs for 24 episodes, and the story picks up at a pivotal moment for its protagonist. Ashito Aoi joins the Esperion youth A Team and steps into the Premier League, the top competition of youth football — a stage where the level of play, and the pressure, are higher than anything he has faced before. The first season was about earning a place; this season is about surviving among the best.

The team behind the return

Animation comes once again from TMS Entertainment, with Kazuki Yokoyama directing. Series composition is by Masahiro Yokotani, and the character designs are handled by Manabu Nakatake, Asami Taguchi, and Junko Yamanaka. It is a veteran lineup for a season that fans have been anticipating since the first season aired in 2022 — a four-year wait that made this premiere one of the fall's most anticipated returns.

The source material remains one of manga's great sports sagas. Yugo Kobayashi's football manga ran in Weekly Big Comic Spirits from 2015 to 2025 and stands at 40 volumes, giving the anime a deep well of story to draw from as Ashito's journey continues at the highest level of the youth game. Sports anime live or die on their understanding of the sport, and Aoashi's reputation for tactical, realistic football is exactly what the manga is famous for.

One note for international viewers: no English dub has been announced for the premiere window, so the season launches with subtitled episodes. That is worth knowing before you dive in — but for a series this visually driven, the subs are more than enough to carry the experience.

With 24 episodes ahead and the Premier League arc underway, Aoashi fans have a full season of football drama to look forward to. The whistle has blown, the season is live, and Ashito's hardest test yet starts today.