Run with the Wind(2018)

series - first aired/released 2018-10-03 - audience 7.8

Animation, Drama

Directed by Asami Nakatani, Hitomi Ezoe, Juzo Nayuta, Kazuya Nomura, Masahiro Takata, Masako Sato, Rokou Ogiwara, Shintaro Itoga, Yoko Kanamori, Yoshiko Okuda, Yoshimi Itazu, Yusuke Kamata

Kakeru, a former elite runner at high school, is chased for stealing food. He is saved by Kansei University student Haiji, who is also a runner. Haiji persuades Kakeru to live in the old apartment "Chikuseisou" where he plans to team up with fellow residents to enter Hakone Ekiden Marathon, one of the most prominent university races in Japan. Kakeru soon finds out that all of the residents except for Haiji and himself are complete novices.