The winter 2020 anime adaptation of Kotoba Inoya’s manga series Smile Down the Runway is getting its home video releases handled by DMM Pictures. They’re going for an interesting route where the Blu-ray is being done as two sets while the DVDs are being done in four. The Blu-ray sets begins its release on March 25th, 2020 with each part coming in at 15,000 yen. We had the cover artwork previously but now the full packaging spread has landed that shows off a far more layered release that looks fantastic.
The DVDs are all coming out at once, four of them, on May 27th, 2020 when the last Blu-ray set arrives. They’re priced at 5,000 yen each. We’ll be focusing on the Blu-ray side mostly.
Nobuyoshi Nagayama directed based on the series composition by Touko Machida. Misaki Kaneko worked 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 and they’re now streaming an energetic one with “LION” by Ami Sakaguchi along with the ending sequence “Ray of Light” by Jae Joong.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
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!
| Volume | Date | Extras |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 03/25/20 | Booklet |
| 2 | 05/27/20 | Booklet |
[Source: Smile at the Runway]
