Ao Ashi Season 2 Episode 3 Review: Ashito Faces the Reality of Elite Football

Ashito gets a chance to prove himself in the U-18 Premier League as Esperion faces the formidable Kashiwa Dai. Kazuki Yokoyama returns as the director of Aoashi Season 2 (アオアシ Season2), with TMS Entertainment handling the animation production.

Ao Ashi Season 2 Episode 3 Review Ao Ashi Season 2 Episode 3 Review Ashito Gets His Big Chance in the U-18 Premier League The time for the U-18 Premier League football match is here, and Ashito is exceptionally excited for it. He goes to a game where Tachibana plays flawlessly and realises how the B team is also on a roll.

However, others in the B team make Ashito understand that it will be difficult to actually be selected to play as a regular on the A team. They tell him that most likely, he will spend his time on the bench.

Ao Ashi Season 2 Episode 3 Review They also add that even though he might end up becoming a benchwarmer, he could still learn a lot from just observing his teammates. However, this doesn't mean that Ashito will not have any chance to play.

And that exactly happens in the match. He does get called, and the rest is history.

One must understand that the match is literally considered the top competition for high school-aged players. So the stakes were already extremely high.

Ao Ashi Season 2 Episode 3 Review Ashito's Team Takes On Three-Time Inter-High Champions The opponent Ashito and others had to face were Kashiwa Dai Business School. This was such a fabulous school for football that even Ashito knew about them.

We are told that the school has a championship title, and they have become three-time inter-high champions. They even have 200 team members, making them one of Japan's leading powerhouse schools when it comes to football.

Esperion's A-Team Proves Its Dominance Even Without Kuribayashi Ao Ashi Season 2 Episode 3 Review When the match begins, the episode dives right into the tension, and we see an intense matchup happening right off the bat. It is apparent to the newly promoted B-Team members that this game is being played on a completely different standard.