A new anime adaptation was previously revealed for next year with Kotoba Inoya’s manga series Smile Down the Runway. Set for a January 10th, 2020 debut, a new promo has arrived that focuses on the Kokoro Hasegawa character as played by Ai Kayano as the cast expands beyond the first two previously revealed. Nobuyoshi Nagayama is directing based on the series composition by Touko Machida. Misaki Kaneko is working on the character designs with Ezoa’la handling the animation production.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Yumiri Hanamori as Chiyuki Fujito
- Natsuki Hanae as Ikuto Tsumura
- Ai Kayano as Kokoro Hasegawa
- Yui Ishikawa as Honoka Tsumura
- Hibiku Yamamura as Aoi Tsumura
- Hikaru Akao as Ichika Tsumura
The manga from Kotoba Inoya began in 2017 in Weekly Shonen Magazine and is their debut work. It has twelve volumes out as of this week and Kodansha Comics brings it out in North America digitally.
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Plot Concept: Chiyuki Fujito has a dream: to become a Paris Collection model. The problem is, she’s too short to be a model, and everyone around her tells her so! But no matter what they say, she won’t give up. Her classmate, a poor student named Ikuto Tsumura, also has a dream: to become a fashion designer. One day Chiyuki tells him that it’s “”probably impossible”” for him, causing him to consider giving it up … ?! This is the story of two individuals wholeheartedly chasing after their dreams in spite of all the negativity that comes after them!
