The winter 2020 anime adaptation of Kotoba Inoya’s manga series Smile Down the Runway is underway and Funimation has some new promotion. With a couple of pieces out so far, they’ve now added a new clip focusing on the Ikuto Tsumura character as played by Natsuki Hanae! 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.
Funimation has the show coming out on Friday’s in both sub and dub for and availability for the show is set to the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
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.
The series features the opening sequence with “LION” by Ami Sakaguchi along with the ending sequence “Ray of Light” by Jae Joong.
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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!
