GET READY TO THROW OUT YOUR CGI: Netflix Adds 100 Meters, The Next Hand-Drawn Masterpiece from On-Gaku’s Kenji Iwaisawa Starting December 31st

Stop the presses! Put down your brightly colored, overly detailed manga adaptations! We have a genuine auteur alert, and the destination is Netflix.

The one and only Kenji Iwaisawa , the creative genius behind the brilliantly minimalist and deeply weird On-Gaku: Our Sound, has a new animated feature film titled 100 Meters, and it’s set to hit Netflix starting 12/31.

The film follows a gifted runner that trains a determined but unskilled classmate, unaware he’s creating a rival on the track that will challenge him for years to come.

The Return of the Hand-Drawn God

If you’ve seen On-Gaku, you know Iwaisawa doesn’t just animate—he creates texture. His style is raw, often rotoscoped, and feels like a beautifully scribbled dream brought to life. In a world increasingly saturated with clean, hyper-slick digital animation, Iwaisawa is the punk rock artist dragging a pencil across the paper and forcing you to look at the beautiful chaos.

100 Meters is being produced by Rock ‘n’ Roll Mountain and was licensed here for the United States by GKids which included an English dubbed adaptation that you can read our review for here.