GKIDS will release the anime film of Uoto’s 100 Meters on Blu-ray Disc on December 1. The distributor announced the home video date on Wednesday, and pre-orders are open only through the GKIDS online store.
What is in the release
The Collector’s Edition comes with five art cards and a mini-poster. The disc includes an interview with director Kenji Iwaisawa, a rotoscoping workshop and scene breakdowns. There is no word yet on a standard edition or a digital release date.
The film’s box office and festival run
100 Meters opened in Japan in September 2025 and placed eighth in its opening weekend. It earned 102,666,040 yen, about US$694,700, over its first three days.
The film had a long festival build-up. A preview screened at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2024 as part of its Work in Progress lineup, and the finished film held its world premiere at Annecy in June 2025. GKIDS screened it across North America in October 2025 in both Japanese with English subtitles and an English dub, and the Japan Society hosted the East Coast premiere in New York that month with Iwaisawa in attendance. It took the runner-up prize for Best Animated Film at the Florida Film Critics Circle Awards in 2025.
Cast, crew and source material
Tori Matsuzaka voices Togashi, the gifted runner, and Shōta Sometani voices Komiya, a hard worker whose fixation on the 100-meter dash starts when he meets Togashi.
Kenji Iwaisawa, who made ON-GAKU: Our Sound, directed at Rock ‘n’ Roll Mountain. Yasuyuki Mutō (Tokyo Revengers) wrote the script, Keisuke Kojima handled character design and served as chief animation director, and Keikankun Yamaguchi was the art director. Yūsuke Terada, Yūki Katayama and Akane Taketsugu produced, and Hiroaki Tsutsumi composed the score. Pony Canyon, TBS TV and ASMIK Ace handled production. The band Official HiGE DANdism performed the theme song “Rashisa”.
Uoto, also known for Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, launched the Hyakuemu manga in Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket app in November 2018. It was Uoto’s first series, and Kodansha shipped the fifth and final collected volume in October 2019.
A director with a feel for motion
Iwaisawa’s earlier feature, ON-GAKU: Our Sound, was built around music and timing rather than a conventional plot, and 100 Meters shares that interest in rhythm. Here the subject is sprinting, and the film uses rotoscoped footage to keep the races grounded in real bodies. That approach is a large part of why the title built an audience on the festival circuit before it reached general cinemas.
Why it matters
100 Meters is a short manga, and its film is the kind of release that leans on word of mouth rather than a large marketing push. A Blu-ray from GKIDS is how many viewers outside Japan finally get to see it, so the extras carry weight. The rotoscoping workshop is a smart inclusion for anyone curious about how Iwaisawa built the film’s running scenes.
It also lands in a run of anime films getting Western home video, alongside titles like Witch on the Holy Night. For collectors, a December 1 date lands well before the holidays. For everyone else, it is a sign that smaller, director-driven anime films can still earn a proper physical release.
Source: Anime News Network, citing GKIDS.
Featured image: Promotional video still from the 100 Meters anime film, via Anime News Network / GKIDS.
