Anime based on Mai Matsuda’s manga was announced in March 2025.
Back in March 2025, it was announced that Mai Matsuda’s romcom manga “Walking Home with You” is getting an anime adaptation. An official website and X (formerly Twitter) account have finally been opened for the project. It was announced in a new key visual that the anime will premiere sometime in April 2027.
Walking Home with You
Premiere window: April 2027
Animation studio: TBA
Streaming platform: TBA
What do we know about the “Walking Home with You” anime so far?
The new visual announced the anime’s April 2027 premiere. It also has the tagline “The requirement for joining the club is walking home with me.”
No other details, such as the series’ cast or staff have been announced.
Manga creator Mai Matsuda also revealed a celebratory illustration for the anime:
Matsuda began serialising the manga in August 2023 in Futabasha’s Manga Action magazine. The seventh volume of the manga will ship in Japan on 8 October, 2026.
Omoi publishes an English-version of the manga series and describes the story as:
Shun was the star of his middle school's soccer team, until an injury forced him to give up on his dream. Now in high school, he's adrift, with no real interests or passions … until he meets his oddball upperclassman Naoki. She ropes him into joining her unofficial “Hyper-Epic Heading Home Club,” a club with only one member dedicated to turning every walk home into an adventure. As Shun follows Naoki through her flights of fancy in search of elaborate detours, secret treasures, and anything else that catches her attention, can the Heading Home Club bring color back to his drab everyday life?
Matsuda’s previous manga Hikaru in the Light was serialised in Manga Action from May 2021 to August 2022. Omoi also publishes all four volumes of the manga in English.