GKIDS has announced that it has acquired the license for the upcoming 100 Meters anime film for North American screening in October 2025. The film’s Japanese title is Hyakuemu or 100M and will premiere in Japanese theaters on September 19, 2025.
GKIDS also released an English-subtitled version of a trailer unveiled earlier today.
Kenji Iwaisawa (On–Gaku: Our Sound) is directing the anime film, with Keisuke Kojima (My Isekai Life: I Gained a Second Character Class and Became the Strongest Sage in the World! character designer et al.) as character designer and animation director, Keikankun Yamaguchi as art director, and Hiroaki Tsutsumi (Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian) as music composer. ROCK’N ROLL MOUNTAIN is handling the animation production.
Yusuke Terada, Yuki Katayama, and Akane Taketsugu are credited as the film’s producers. The film is a co-production between Pony Canyon, TBS, and Asmik Ace.
Meanwhile, the film’s main voice cast stars Tori Matsuzaka as Togashi and Shota Sometani as Komiya.
The original track and field manga series by Uoto (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth creator) was serialized in Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket website and app from November 6, 2018 to August 6, 2019. Five total tankobon volumes were released during its publication.
A preview of the film was unveiled as part of the Annecy International Film Festival’s Work in Progress lineup in May 2024, where it was screened the following June.
GKIDS describes the main synopsis of 100 Meters as:
100 METERS follows Togashi, a track star who is born to run. As a kid, he is naturally gifted and wins every 100-meter race without effort. But in sixth grade, he meets Komiya, a transfer student who is full of determination but lacks technique. In teaching him, Togashi gives Komiya a new purpose: to win no matter what. Years pass by, and Togashi and Komiya meet again as rivals on the track and reveal their true selves.
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