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Smile Down the Runway Anime's Character Video Streamed

posted on by Jennifer Sherman
January 10 premiere, opening theme song revealed

The official website for the television anime adaptation of Kotoba Inoya's Smile Down the Runway (Runway de Waratte) manga began streaming a character video on Friday. The video previews the character Chiyuki Fujito and reveals that the anime will premiere on January 10 on MBS, TBS, and BS-TBS on the Animeism programming block.

The website also revealed that Ami Sakaguchi will perform the opening theme song "Lion."

The cast includes:

Yumiri Hanamori as Chiyuki Fujito

Natsuki Hanae as Ikuto Tsumura

Nobuyoshi Nagayama (Happy Sugar Life, My Girlfriend is Shobitch, Are You Lost?) is directing the anime at Ezo'la (Happy Sugar Life, Are You Lost?). Touko Machida (A Centaur's Life, Lucky Star) is in charge of series composition, and Misaki Kaneko (chief animation director for Fruits Basket, animation director for Classroom of the Elite) is designing the characters.

Kodansha Comics publishes the manga digitally, and it describes the story:

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!

The manga launched in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in May 2017 as INOYA's debut work. Kodansha published the manga's 12th compiled book volume on September 17. Kodansha Comics published the second volume digitally on October 1.

Sources: Smile Down the Runway anime's website, DMM Pictures' YouTube channel


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