Last updated 2 September 2026.
The Aoashi Season 2 trailer went up on 1 September 2026, and it packs a lot into 1 minute 17 seconds. It confirms a 4 October premiere on NHK E-Tele, previews both theme songs and announces the A-Team arc. But the biggest news is tucked into the credits: animation production has moved from Production I.G to TMS Entertainment.
Trailer via ShoPro Anime Channel on YouTube, the official channel of Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions.
| Detail | What the trailer and credits confirm |
|---|---|
| Premiere | Sunday 4 October 2026 |
| Broadcast | NHK E-Tele, Sundays at 5:00 p.m. JST |
| Streaming | From 11:00 p.m. JST the same day, rolling out across services |
| Episodes | 24 planned; the first cour covers 12, per Anime Corner |
| Animation production | TMS Entertainment (Season 1: Production I.G) |
| Director | Kazuki Yokoyama (Season 1: Akira Satō) |
| Series composition | Masahiro Yokotani (returning from Season 1) |
| Music | Masaru Yokoyama (returning from Season 1) |
| Football supervision | Kenji Iizuka |
| Opening theme | 10-FEET, “Fortress Defense” |
| Ending theme | Ai Higuchi, “Triangle” |
| Source | Yugo Kobayashi’s Aoashi, Shogakukan’s Weekly Big Comic Spirits |
| This trailer | 1 minute 17 seconds, posted 1 September 2026 on ShoPro’s official anime channel |
Ashito’s Headed to the Premier League (Not That One)
The first real news comes early, on a plain white card: 「舞台はプレミアリーグへ Aチーム編 開幕！」 — ‘the stage moves to the Premier League: the A-Team arc begins.’
Heads-up: this isn’t the English Premier League. It’s the Prince Takamado Trophy JFA U-18 Premier League, the top division of Japanese youth club football, where Tokyo City Esperion’s A-Team plays once Ashito is promoted out of the youth side. Nobody’s going to England. The jump is from a youth team to a senior-facing A-Team inside the same club, and that’s the whole point of the arc.
A corner flag later shows ‘Tokyo City’ above ‘ESPERION’, in the club’s yellow.
The Real Headline: Production I.G Is Out
Right at the end comes a full cast-and-staff card. The line that matters is アニメーション制作：トムス・エンタテインメント — animation production by TMS Entertainment.
Season 1 was made by Production I.G, so this is a studio handover, tucked into small type on a credits card rather than a press release headline.
Here’s who made the move (Season 1 details come from the show’s Wikipedia entry):
| Role | Season 1 (2022) | Season 2 (2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Animation production | Production I.G | TMS Entertainment |
| Director | Akira Satō | Kazuki Yokoyama |
| Series composition | Masahiro Yokotani | Masahiro Yokotani — unchanged |
| Music | Masaru Yokoyama | Masaru Yokoyama — unchanged |
| Network | NHK E-Tele | NHK E-Tele — unchanged |
| Episodes | 24 | 24 planned |
So the writing and the score carry over, but the animation and direction don’t. If you love the way Aoashi shoots football, with its long holds and its sense of where every player is standing, that’s the part now in new hands. One good sign: a dedicated football-supervision credit (Kenji Iizuka) survives the move. Whether the new studio can match the old look is the open question.
New Timeslot, Plus a Six-Hour Wait for Streaming
Two scheduling cards close the trailer: NHK E-Tele from 4 October, every Sunday at 5:00 p.m., and streaming from 11:00 p.m. on Sunday 4 October, rolling out across services one after another. Both are marked as planned, not locked.
That’s a new slot. Season 1’s second-cour PV, posted to this same channel on 29 June 2022, lists Saturday at 6:25 p.m. Sunday at 5:00 p.m. is a family-viewing window on Japan’s educational channel, which makes sense for a sports show about a teenager.
Outside Japan, plan around the six-hour gap: episodes appear when streaming opens, not when they air, and services come online in sequence, not all at once.
How the Football Looks Now
Match footage gets about twenty seconds, mostly in the back half: players in black kit sprinting across a green pitch through speed lines, and a wide tactical shot showing both teams’ shape at once, the kind of framing Season 1 built its reputation on.
The boldest new choice: Ashito Aoi in close-up, teeth gritted, irises lit amber with a streak of light across both eyes. Aoashi has always shown his wide field of vision with an overhead, bird’s-eye view of the pitch, and that’s still here. The eye glow does the same job, pointed inward instead of outward.
Whether that works depends on how often they use it. Once an episode, it’s a signature. Once a scene, it’s a sign the new team doesn’t trust the old trick.
One more card stands out: a white screen reading 「その衝動を、信じろ」 — ‘believe in that impulse.’ It’s the only card selling a feeling instead of a fact.
Both Theme Songs, and Where They Land
Both songs are credited on screen over footage. Ai Higuchi’s ending theme, ‘Triangle’, plays over night-time shots, including two players sitting outdoors. 10-FEET’s opening theme, ‘Fortress Defense’, plays over a fair-haired girl at sunset, then a dark-haired girl crying.
So the loudest song goes over the quietest, most character-driven moments. And 10-FEET also wrote and performed the songs for the 2022 basketball film The First Slam Dunk, which is a pretty clear signal about the tone this show is going for.
What’s New, and What’s Missing
Compared with the teaser that came before it on the same channel, this main PV adds the premiere date, both theme songs, the full cast and staff card and the A-Team arc announcement. Here’s what it doesn’t show:
- No episode count on screen. The 24-episode, two-cour plan comes from trade coverage, not from the trailer.
- No named opponent. Teams show up in black, white and light blue kits, but Esperion is the only club named on screen.
- No international streaming partner. The card says services roll out in sequence but doesn’t name any of them.
- No dub news of any kind.
Why Season 2 Has It a Little Easier
Season 2 gets to adapt a finished story, which Season 1 didn’t. Kobayashi ended Aoashi with chapter 410 in the 30th issue of Weekly Big Comic Spirits, published on 23 June 2025. The run began in January 2015 and filled 40 volumes, and the manga had passed 25 million copies in circulation by March 2026.
That helps. An anime that catches up to an ongoing manga has to stall or invent, while one adapting a finished run can plan its ending from the start. Whatever the studio change costs in visual continuity, the show gets some certainty back.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When does Aoashi Season 2 come out?
Aoashi Season 2 premieres on Sunday 4 October 2026. It airs on NHK E-Tele at 5:00 p.m. JST, with streaming starting at 11:00 p.m. JST the same day and rolling out across services in sequence.
Is Aoashi Season 2 made by a different studio?
Yes. The trailer’s staff card credits animation production to TMS Entertainment. Season 1 was animated by Production I.G. The director has also changed, from Akira Satō to Kazuki Yokoyama, but series composition (Masahiro Yokotani) and music (Masaru Yokoyama) both return.
What are the Aoashi Season 2 theme songs?
The opening is 10-FEET’s “Fortress Defense” and the ending is Ai Higuchi’s “Triangle”. Both are credited on screen and previewed in the trailer.
What is the A-Team arc, and which Premier League is it?
The A-Team arc follows Ashito’s promotion out of Tokyo City Esperion’s youth side into the senior-facing A-Team. The ‘Premier League’ on the trailer’s card is the Prince Takamado Trophy JFA U-18 Premier League, the top tier of Japanese youth club football — not the English Premier League.
How many episodes is Aoashi Season 2?
Twenty-four episodes are planned across two cours, with the first cour covering 12, according to Anime Corner. The trailer itself doesn’t show an episode count.
Sources: the Season 2 main PV press release via Anime News Network, Anime Corner on the premiere date and cour structure, and Oricon on the manga’s conclusion.
