GKIDS has announced that it will begin screening the upcoming sports anime film 100 Meters in North America on October 12, 2025. The film will premiere in Japan on September 19, 2025.
100 Meters will first premiere in Los Angeles, California on October 10, 2025, followed by a nationwide North American release from October 12, 2025 to October 14, 2025. A new English-subtitled trailer was also unveiled.
GKIDS will screen the film in North America with the original Japanese version and a new English dubbed version.
Kenji Iwaisawa (On–Gaku: Our Sound, the upcoming Hina is Beautiful) is directing 100 Meters, with Yasuyuki Muto (Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway) as scriptwriter, 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 overall is a co-production between Pony Canyon, TBS, and Asmik Ace.
Meanwhile, the film’s main voice cast stars:
- • Tori Matsuzaka as Togashi
- • Shota Sometani as Komiya
- • Jun Kasama as Nikami
- • Koki Uchiyama as Zaitsu
- • Kenjiro Tsuda as Kaido
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 published in Japan. The manga’s Japanese title is Hyakuemu (or shortened as 100M).
100 Meters was featured at Annecy 2024 as part of the Work-in-Progress lineup. It was also featured as part of the Official Selection category at this year’s festival event.
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.
Source: press release
