GKIDS will be releasing a collector’s edition Blu-ray of CITY The Animation on December 15, 2026, with pre-orders now exclusively open on the company’s online store.
The collector’s edition Blu-ray for the anime series will include:
- • 72-page booklet
- • 4 art cards
- • Poster (A3)
- • Cut Out movies 1-13
- • Team preview
- • TV spot
- • Clean opening and ending
City The Animation aired in Japan from July 2025 to September 2025 and had 13 total episodes. Amazon Prime Video streamed the series worldwide.
Taichi Ishidate (Violet Evergarden and Violet Evergarden the Movie, Nichijou assistant director) directed the anime series, with Tamami Tokuyama (character designer and animation director on the 2021 “Souzou-hen” commercial) as character designer and chief animation director, Kana Miyata (Nichijou, Beyond the Boundary) as color designer, Shiori Yamazaki (“Souzou-hen” background art) as background art director, Hiroki Ueda (Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S) as composting director, Tatsunori Kase (Sound! Euphonium Season 3 assistant 3D director) as 3D director, and Yota Tsuruoka (Nichijou, MONOGATARI Series OFF & MONSTER Season) as sound director. Kyoto Animation was in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, some of the anime’s voice cast include:
- • Mikako Komatsu as Midori Nagumo
- • Aki Toyosaki as Nikura
- • 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
- • Yu Wakui as Riko Izumi
Keiichi Arawi’s City slice of life comedy manga series ran in Kodansha’s Morning magazine from September 29, 2016 to February 4, 2021. The manga then returned to serialization in the same magazine after three years in December 2024 and ended again in October 2025. Fifteen tankobon volumes were released in Japan as of December 2025. Kodansha USA publishes the manga in English, which was formerly released under its now-consolidated Vertical imprint.
GKIDS describes the synopsis of CITY The Animation as:
Welcome to CITY, where anything can happen! In this town full of laughter, love and emotional outbursts among its various colorful residents, university students Nagumo, Niikura and Izumi live ordinary lives full of not-so-ordinary situations – from the hilarious to the strange to the downright unpredictable.
Source: Press release
