Aoashi Season 2 English Dub: Release Date and What We Know
Aoashi Season 2 premieres on Sunday October 4, 2026, and Crunchyroll has confirmed it is getting an English dub. What Crunchyroll has not done is say when. If you came here looking for the Aoashi Season 2 English dub release date, the plain answer is that there is not one yet, and anyone giving you a specific day is guessing.
Here is what is actually confirmed, what changed behind the scenes since Season 1, and how to catch up before the first episode drops.
Aoashi Season 2 English dub release date
On September 16, 2026 Crunchyroll published its Fall 2026 English dub slate. Twenty titles are on it, and Aoashi Season 2 is one of them, alongside returns like Black Clover Season 2 and The Apothecary Diaries Season 3. The same announcement said release dates and production staff for those dubs would be revealed at a later date.
So the dub is real. The date is not. Season 1’s dub arrived well after the subbed simulcast, and there is no sign yet that Season 2 will be a same week simuldub. Until Crunchyroll posts a date, treat every “Aoashi Season 2 English dub release date” headline as speculation.
When does Aoashi Season 2 start?
The subbed version is the one with a firm date.
- Premiere: October 4, 2026
- Japanese broadcast: NHK E TV, the same network that carried Season 1
- Streaming: Crunchyroll simulcast, subtitled
- Episode 1 title: Starting Line
- Opening theme: Fortress Defense by 10 FEET
- Ending theme: Triangle by Ai Higuchi
One correction worth making because it keeps getting repeated: the October 4 date is the Japanese TV premiere. Crunchyroll streams it, but Crunchyroll is not the broadcaster.
What changed behind the scenes for Aoashi Season 2
This is the part most previews skip, and it is the biggest change. Aoashi Season 2 is not made by Production I.G. The studio is now TMS Entertainment, and the director is Kazuki Yokoyama.
The continuity is on the writing and sound side. Masahiro Yokotani returns for series composition, Masaru Yokoyama returns as composer, and Koki Osuzu is back as Ashito Aoi. Character designs are handled by Asami Taguchi and Junko Yamanaka working alongside Manabu Nakatake from the first season.
A studio switch four years after Season 1 is a real risk for a sports anime, because so much of Aoashi’s appeal was how Production I.G animated movement and space on the pitch. Judge the first episode on that, not on the plot.
How many episodes is Aoashi Season 2?
Season 2 is listed at 24 episodes, split across two cours. The first cour starts on October 4. The second cour has no announced start date, so do not assume it runs straight through without a break.
That matches Season 1, which was also 24 episodes.
Aoashi Season 1 recap: how many episodes and what happened
Aoashi Season 1 ran for 24 episodes from April 9 to September 24, 2022, animated by Production I.G. All of it is on Crunchyroll, subbed and dubbed. If you want the short version before jumping in:
- Ashito Aoi is a prodigy with a problem. He grows up in rural Ehime with rare spatial awareness, the “bird’s eye view” that lets him read the whole pitch, but he is selfish on the ball and hot headed off it. He gets himself sent off in a decisive match and costs his team.
- Tatsuya Fukuda finds him. The coach of Tokyo City Esperion’s youth team is scouting that match. He sees the vision underneath the temper and invites Ashito to the academy’s tryouts.
- The tryouts nearly break him. The academy players know the system and play rough. Ashito struggles badly, but his reading of space keeps showing up at the right moments, and he earns a place.
- Fukuda moves him to full back. Instead of the striker role Ashito wants, Fukuda pushes him to the left side of defence, where his view of the pitch makes him a creator rather than a finisher. Ashito hates it at first.
- The B team and the Tokyo league. Most of the season is Ashito learning to play for the team, building trust with his teammates, and competing in the Tokyo Metropolitan league.
The season ends with Ashito on the verge of promotion. Season 2 picks up there, after the Musashino match, which is around chapter 118 of the manga.
What Aoashi Season 2 adapts
Season 2 follows Ashito’s promotion to the Esperion A team, where the technical gap from the B team is brutal and even basic drills expose him. That is the “next rung of the climb” the whole series is built on, and it is where the manga gets noticeably harder on its lead.
Worth knowing if you would rather not wait: the Aoashi manga by Yugo Kobayashi finished in June 2025 at 40 volumes. The whole story is done, so you can read past the anime all the way to the ending.
Where to watch Aoashi Season 2
| Version | Where | When |
|---|---|---|
| Season 2 subbed | Crunchyroll | From October 4, 2026 |
| Season 2 English dub | Crunchyroll | Confirmed, no date announced |
| Season 1 subbed and dubbed | Crunchyroll | All 24 episodes available now |
| Manga | Digital via official English channels | Complete at 40 volumes |
Aoashi is one of the Fall 2026 premieres on the same weekend as Black Clover. We keep both lists current: the Fall 2026 anime schedule with every Crunchyroll premiere date, and our breakdown of the Black Clover Season 2 English dub, which is in exactly the same no date yet situation.
Aoashi Season 2 FAQ
Is there an Aoashi Season 2 English dub?
Yes. Crunchyroll included Aoashi Season 2 in its Fall 2026 English dub lineup on September 16, 2026.
When is the Aoashi Season 2 English dub release date?
Not announced. Crunchyroll said dub release dates would be revealed later.
What studio is animating Aoashi Season 2?
TMS Entertainment, replacing Production I.G. Kazuki Yokoyama directs.
How many episodes are in Aoashi Season 1?
24 episodes, aired April to September 2022, all on Crunchyroll.
Is the Aoashi manga finished?
Yes. It ended in June 2025 with 40 volumes.
My take: The dub date is the wrong thing to be anxious about. Crunchyroll has put its name on the dub publicly, which is the strongest signal you get short of a date, and Season 1’s dub audience is exactly why it made the list. The thing I would actually watch for is the studio change. Production I.G’s Aoashi worked because the camera understood football. It sat in Ashito’s head when he scanned the pitch and it let a pass feel like a decision rather than a cut. TMS has real sports credentials, but sports anime live or die on that specific feel, and a four year gap plus a new director is where a series usually loses it. My prediction: episode 1 will look cleaner and slightly stiffer than Season 1, the A team arc will carry it anyway because the writing staff is intact and the source material is the strongest stretch of the manga, and the English dub will land somewhere in the middle of the first cour rather than at the start. If the movement holds up in the first two episodes, this is the best sports anime of the fall. If it does not, the dub date will not matter.
