The World Is Dancing Anime's Main Trailer Reveals More Cast, Opening Song, July 2 Debut

Takahiro Sakurai, Nobuo Tobita, Mamiko Noto, Inori Minase, Hazuki Seto join anime's cast

The staff for the television anime of Kazuto Mihara's The World Is Dancing manga revealed on Thursday the anime's main trailer, key visual, additional cast members, and July 2 debut. The trailer also reveals and previews the opening theme song "shusho" by Macaroni Empitsu.

Newly announced cast members are:

Takahiro Sakurai as Ashikaga Yoshimitsu

Nobuo Tobita as Nijo Yoshimoto

Mamiko Noto as Nariko

Inori Minase as Chiharu

Hazuki Seto as Satsuki

The anime will debut on Tokyo MX and KBS Kyoto on July 2 at 10:00 p.m. JST, then on Sun TV at 24:00 JST (effectively July 3 at 12 midnight). The anime will air on BS Asahi and TVQ Kyushu starting on July 3.

The anime stars:

• Yumiri Hanamori stars as Oniyasha

• Shimba Tsuchiya as Ishiya

• Maaya Uchida as Kogane

• Romi Park as Zōjirō

• Katsuyuki Konishi as Kan'ami

• Haruki Ishiya as Jūnigorō

Toshimasa Kuroyanagi (Shōnen Hollywood, The Great Passage, Backflip!! series and film) is directing the anime at Cygames Pictures. Keigo Sasaki (Blue Exorcist series and film, ERASED, Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray two seasons) is designing the characters, and Satoshi Nemoto is credited for calligraphy and title lettering.

Additional staff members include:

• Series Composition/Script: Sawako Kawamitsu

• Assistant Director: Shūhei Fuchimoto

• Sub-Character Designer: Iori Hisatake

• Prop Design: Odashi

• Art Setting: Mamio Ogawa

• Art Directors: Hiromasa Ogura, Kazuhiro Inoue

• Color Key Artist: Naoko Satō, Kumiko Naruke

• 3D Supervisor: Yoshinori Nakano

• Compositing Director of Photography: Yūtarō Kikuchi

• Editing: Daisuke Hiraki

• Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki

• Music: Daisuke Shinoda

• Noh Choreography: Tsumura Reijiro

• Choreography: Kaiji Moriyama, Mikiko Kawamura

• Noh Supervision: Kōhei Kawaguchi

• History Supervision: Katsuyuki Shimizu

• Animation Producer: Mizoguchi Kan (Tadashi Mizoguchi)

Shochiku describes the story:

In 1374, amid the turmoil of the Northern and Southern Courts' long running conflict, a boy named Oniyasha is born into a family of sarugaku theater performers. He spends his days in a kind of quiet gloom, haunted by a simple but persistent question: Why do people dance? Then, one day, he witnesses a dance that he feels to be “good”—and everything begins to change. This is the story of the beautiful young boy who would one day shape the art of Noh and be remembered as Zeami.

Mihara launched the manga in Kodansha's Morning magazine in March 2021, and the series ended in October 2022. Kodansha published six compiled book volumes of the manga. Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga and published the manga's six volumes digitally.

Source: Press release