GKIDS and Shout! Factory announced that they will release Masaaki Yuasa’s The Night is Short Walk On, Girl anime film on a Blu-ray Disc and DVD combo pack on January 29, 2019.
Fathom Events and GKIDS screened the film from August 21-22, and GKIDS kept the film screening after August 22.
The film, which adapts Tomihiko Morimi’s (The Eccentric Family, The Tatami Galaxy) novel of the same name, opened in Japan in April 2017.
The film won the Grand Prize for Features award at the Ottawa International Film Festival last September and the Animation of the Year award at the 41st annual Japan Academy Prizes in March.