I ♥ Aoyama
Team Aoyama
Damn it!
Clean! Clean! A-o-ya-ma!
C-Captain, what are you doing?
Clean! Clean! A-o-ya-ma!
Nice shot! Good job, Aoyama!
Th-Thanks.
I never expected our captain to join Aoyama's fan club: Team Aoyama.
Oh.
Here it comes!
There, there, there, there!
And there it is!
The time-honored treasure in four eyes' arsenal, butt keepie-uppie!
There, there, there, there!
It's working! It's working!
This'll work tomorrow, too.
I'm all about scoring laughs, not goals!
#05
Tsukamoto-kun's Life Is All About Laughs
Gotcha!
Four eyes!
Yeah!
The three stooges are combining nicely.
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Go!
Oops!
Hey!
Um...
Hi-yah!
Ow!
You're taking it too far.
But it's great that you put the team in a good mood.
Do the same in tomorrow's match, too.
Leave it to me.
Go!
There!
Go!
There!
Go!
You're goofing off too much!
It's fine. Tsukamoto's our "good vibes" officer.
This is just another day for him.
Another!
Oops.
Dodge! Dodge! Dodge! Dodge! Dodge!
He dodged it! Aoyama dodged it!
Captain, what are you doing?!
You didn't know, Zaizen? His girlfriend's an Aoyama fan.
I've gained a newfound respect for our captain.
Gaku-kun...
Yurippe...
Good luck!
Thanks!
Yuri—
I ♥ Aoyama
I only love you, Gaku.
I ♥ Aoyama
I didn't think he'd choose the life of being an Aoyama fan with his girlfriend.
I see.
He's a member of the Aoyama fan club and the soccer team captain.
I'll get going now.
Yeah, do your best!
Curse
This team is rotten to the core.
Good morning!
Yes, good morni—
A-o-ya-ma! A-o-ya-ma!
I totally didn't eat enough yesterday.
Are you kidding me?
Feed us our post-match meal again.
My treat again?
Get lost!
I never thought the day would come when the statue wouldn't be useless.
Today's field is grass! Woo!
Random diving!
We didn't come here to fool around!
I-I don't see Aoyama-kun anywhere!
Not again!
Hi.
Damn you! Where have you been?!
A-o-ya-ma! A-o-ya-ma!
I'm going now, Yurippe.
Okay. Good luck, Gaku.
Gather round!
Hell no! What's wrong with you?!
Four eyes! Do that thing you always do!
Y-Yeah, I got it!
It's what we've all been waiting for!
Ow!
I'm sorry! My ball flew over this way!
Are you okay?
Hi, I'm the captain of Minamida Fuzoku High School, Kadomatsu Ryou.
Nice to meet you.
What's wrong, four eyes? You've gone pale.
Have you got a stomachache?
What? Haha, no, I'm fine!
Let's go warm up!
Fujimi
1st
2nd
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Minamida Fuzoku
Don't let him through! Force him to the wings!
Here it comes!
Aoyama's really something.
He's playing on a whole other level.
You know, in the high school soccer world,
Fujimi High School may very well become the eye of the storm.
I don't know about that.
I've shot high school soccer for 20 years now.
And Aoyama, with his exceptional talent, is certainly the real deal.
But that's what's so damning.
This isn't the kind of team he should be playing for.
As long as they win, it's all good.
But what happens if they lose a preliminary match like this?
In this game, results are everything.
You may have a world-beater, but if the team loses, that's it.
Even a player like Aoyama won't get picked for the national team if they lose so early.
And then, he won't have any choice but to leave Fujimi High School.
If this team wants to keep their dream alive, they must keep winning for him.
However, high school soccer crushes thousands of similar dreams every year.
It's no walk in the park.
Shige, pass it!
Gotcha!
This team only has Aoyama going for it.
In my eyes, this team has a major weakness.
And that weakness...
Don't give him any space, four eyes!
...is you.
What? He got into the box with ease!
All right!
Nice pass, Kadomatsu!
Now, we're tied!
What are you doing?! Stop sleepwalking and play!
Sorry...
Anyway, we're still in the first half.
L-Let's get back into the game.
Down the right wing again? This time, he put it in himself!
Hey, four eyes!
Same old, same old, huh, Tsukamoto?
You haven't changed one bit since the old days.
You really are just a statue.
Did something happen between them?
Fujimi
1st
2nd
Total
Minamida Fuzoku
I guess the first half's ending 2-1.
Minamida Fuzoku's parked the bus ever since they took the lead.
But yeah, looking at Fujimi High School...
Their number 4 has destroyed their game plan.
Captain, where's four eyes?
He walked off toward the school, so maybe he went to the bathroom?
Dammit.
Aoyama's something else, but it looks like we've got the better of Fujimi.
Thanks to that specky slow-mo.
I heard their number 4 was in the same team as Kadomatsu-san in middle school.
I heard that, too.
He used to act all high and mighty despite being younger,
so he got bullied constantly until he graduated, right?
So that's why he's still terrified of Kadomatsu-san.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be such a liability in defense.
Well, after screwing up that much,
he probably won't play the second half.
Man, that idiot. Why didn't he tell us?
Right?
I need to get going, or the second half will start without me.
Whoa! Aoyama, you were in here, too?!
Don't tell me you've been here the whole time...
You use too much paper.
That's the main talking point for you?!
Wait, that means you heard everything!
Not that it matters.
I won't be playing the second half, anyway.
Tsukamoto-san.
What?
Team Aoyama Member and Soccer Team Captain!
Ishikawa Gaku
Tamura Yuri
Thinks too highly of himself!
Kadomatsu Ryou
The second half is starting!
Why didn't you sub me out, Miwa-chan?
It's true that you're currently a burden on the team, but...
Miwa-chan... No, Coach...
You can sub him out immediately if we concede another goal from his wing,
but can you please keep four eyes on the field for a bit longer?
Please!
Those two goof-offs always mess around, but they asked me so seriously.
I can't help but want to trust them.
Now's the time for you to fight, Tsukamoto.
For your friends. And for yourself.
Why didn't Fujimi sub out the number 4?
Beats me.
What I do know is that,
as long as he's out there,
he'll keep being targeted by the other team.
Another attack down the right wing!
Tsukamoto.
That's amazing, Tsukamoto!
You're not that good at soccer... How come you can do stuff like that?
That's so funny!
Talk about annoying.
What's the point of performing keepie-uppies with your butt?
Are you stupid?
It's annoying, so never do it again.
Come on, guys. It's time for practice.
Kadomatsu-san was a second-year, and as the star player,
he was the center of the team.
Ever since that day, whenever I drew attention to myself,
he'd fire a ball at me.
After that happened a few times,
I began to freeze up in front of him, unable to move.
You're so freaking boring. You're like a statue.
Guys, I'm sorry for being such a burden.
It's like I've traveled back in time!
I can't move!
Their number 4 let him run past like he wasn't there again!
Not on my watch!
If we know you're gonna ghost past him every time, we can stop you!
Nice, Sakai!
Don't let him go through you so easily.
I'll cover you, so be more aggressive.
Sakai, I'm sorry.
Get your head in the game, four eyes.
You're Fujimi High School's "good vibes" officer, after all.
Take it!
Shouldn't Aoyama be able to create more chances?
It's probably difficult right now.
Minamida Fuzoku is keeping more players behind the ball.
But, and I don't know how to explain this,
it feels like he's waiting for something.
At least, it does to me.
Either way, if they don't make something happen,
Fujimi High School will lose.
Fujimi
1st
2nd
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Minamida Fuzoku
Here of all places.
Ten minutes left.
They're going down the right again!
Dammit! Move!
You coward!
I won't let you!
Yocchi!
Sub out number 4!
He's useless!
Shut up!
Listen up, four eyes! You have me and Yocchi behind you!
We can't get going without you.
So stop running away!
Don't you realize you're turning into a total bore?
Sakai. Yocchi.
When I joined the soccer team here,
I was still depressed.
You're so funny, Yoshioka!
Coming your way!
But thanks to you, I was able to have fun playing soccer again.
I'm no longer...
They're holding on, but Fujimi can't get out of their own half!
I won't let you shoot!
It was a feint!
Crap! Kadomatsu's free!
A statue? Piss off.
That's...
...so freaking boring!
I'm not the old me anymore!
Four eyes!
Bastard!
Nice, Tsukamoto!
Aoyama!
Let's go! Time to counterattack!
Aoyama's heading down the right!
Is he going to cross it?
Who's the target?
I'm ready anytime, Aoyama!
Huh? He's not passing?
No! He waited too long, and now he's surrounded!
Are you really going to lose here?
Aoyama!
Their number 4's making an overlapping run?!
In the second half, try to come forward when you spot the chance.
No, like I just said...
I'm going to send a pass out to you.
Aoyama...
A rabona!
What am I supposed to do with this pass?!
Should I use my foot? No, it's definitely at head height.
You idiot!
I don't have the skills to deal with this cross!
Tsukamoto-san.
Please do that thing you do to lift our spirits.
There.
What?!
His butt?!
Yeah!
I accidentally used my... Wait, what?!
What was that?!
He scored a goal with his rump!
Seriously? No way!
I've never seen such godly buttock skills!
Just how I planned it!
That's what the great Tsukamoto Jin can do!
Phew!
You bastard, stealing the spotlight!
You made us worry, you little turd.
Bam.
You did it!
Bam.
Bam. Bam.
I-I can't breathe...
Hey!
Don't get ahead of yourselves! You only equalized!
In the end, it was an easy victory for Fujimi High School.
Fujimi
1st
2nd
Total
Minamida Fuzoku
After drawing level, they got two more goals to seal it.
You were amazing again today! Good work!
Aoyama really is a cut above.
In the final minutes, Minamida Fuzoku couldn't contain Aoyama.
His team may have won, but Aoyama was really terrible today.
Aoyama might have played for that shot by the number 4.
In order to restore his confidence after he'd made so many mistakes.
Victory dance!
If he loses in a place like this, he'd be throwing his entire career away.
If he really risked that much just to make that one play,
he's an idiot of epic proportions.
It is Weekly Gonz's hugely popular manga,
with over 10 million volumes in print!
And now, "I'm Going to Save This World" is getting an anime adaptation!
Guess I'll base my new character on him.
Next time
Ozaki-kun Has His Pride