GKIDS has announced that it will release a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray of CITY The Animation, based on Keiichi Awari’s CITY manga. The CITY The Animation Collector’s Edition Blu-ray will be available on December 15 through the GKIDS online store and can be pre-ordered now.
The package features the disc, 4 art cards, an A3 poster, and a 72 page booklet. Digital bonuses include creditless opening and ending movies, cut-out movies 1-13, and trailers.
The anime began airing on July 6, 2025. It was featured as one of Final Weapon’s most underrated anime of 2025.
Riho Furui performs the opening theme song “Hello,” and TOMOO performs the ending theme song “Lucky.” Piranhans will compose the anime’s music, and Pony Canyon is producing the music.
The staff and cast of CITY The Animation include:
Staff
- Director: Taichi Ishidate
- Studio: Kyoto Animation
- Chief Animation Director: Tamami Tokuyama
- Art Director: Shiori Yamazaki
- Color Designer: Kana Miyata
- Director of Photography: Hiroki Ueda
- 3D Director: Tatsunori Kase
- Sound Director: Yōta Tsuruoka
Cast
- Mikako Komatsu as Midori Nagumo
- Aki Toyosaki as Niikura
- Yui Ishikawa as Wako Izumi
- Yoshihisa Kawahara as Tsurubishi Makabe
- Miyu Irino as Tatewaku Makabe
- Ayaka Nanase as Matsuri Makabe
- Azusa Tadokoro as Eri Amakazari
- Yū Wakui as Riko Izumi
- Takehito Koyasu as Dr. Adatara/Adatara’s father
- Mayumi Asano as Adatara’s mother
- KENN as Tatsuta Adatara
- Satoshi Inomata as Ryōta Adatara
- Coco Hayashi as Kamome Adatara
- Haruna Fukushima as Umi Adatara
- Yūki Tenma as Sora Adatara
- Yū Miyazaki as Kamaboko Oni
- Ryōta Suzuki as Todoroki
- Kazutomi Yamamoto as Obaba
- Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi as Ii Hito (the Good Guy)
- Yūko Gotō as Sumire Sakurakomi Tanabe
- Jin Domon as Hotaka
- Makoto Kaneko as Rindō Obina
- Atsushi Kousaka as Yamato Kurogane
- Jun Fukuyama as Nobuteru Tekaridake
- Hōchū Ōtsuka as Narrator
Keiichi Arawi launched the manga in Kodansha’s Morning magazine in 2016. The series ended in 2021. Kodansha published the 13th and final compiled book volume in April 2021.
