Aoashi Season 2 Episode 4: Episode 4

amelia664

8d

Verified

This episode and last have genuinely gone by too quickly. It's literally, like, two problems happen and get resolved, and then it's the episode done. I don't say this as a necessarily bad thing, it's just that it happens so quickly and I want it to last longer. Watching this felt like ten minutes had gone by rather than almost thirty, which is absolutely insane because I don't feel like this very often. Ashito had a complete(?) arc this episode, going from completely lost to actually understanding what was going on - which only happened due to the help of Akutsu, where Akutsu only started helping because of Fukuda (Fukuda was really cool this episode). It's probably going to take a long time for Ashito to actually get as good as those around him but he's learning to adapt for now, and that's more than enough. The introduction of Kuribayashi onto the field at the end was crazy to see, and it'll only continue to get crazier in the next episode.

Fukuda pulling Akutsu aside and telling him he'll drop him to Team B if he doesn't actually coach Ashito on the field was the moment this episode clicked for me. The guy spent the whole first half playing two positions while acting like Ashito didn't exist. Watching that ego get squeezed was worth the wait

kitsune_kouhai

14d

Some of those wide shots looked rough. The CGI crowd and the field at a distance pulled me out a bit. Character animation carried it though