The winter 2020 anime adaptation of Kotoba Inoya’s manga series Smile Down the Runway has revealed some new material. This comes in the form of a great new key visual that definitely highlights the fashion aspect of the series that is going to be a big draw for a lot of people as it’s not an area that gets covered often.
Set for a January 10th, 2020 debut, Funimation will be handling a simulcast for the series. Additionally, a simuldub will be coming with a date to be announced later. Availability for the show is set to the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. 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, Ryohei Kimura as Toh Ayano, Junichi Suwabe as Hazime Yanagida, Ayaka Fukuhara as Kaoru Kizaki, Kōhei Amasaki as Ryūnosuke Eda, Keiko Han as Yōko Takaoka, Yui Makino as Seira, and Mayumi Asano as Mai Ayano.
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!
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