Shochiku has announced that a TV anime adaptation of Kazuto Mihara’s The World Is Dancing manga series will premiere in summer 2026. A new promotional video for the anime was released alongside a teaser visual by character designer Keigo Sasaki and calligraphy artist by Satoshi Nemoto, and Yumiri Hanamori has been cast as protagonist Oniyasha. Mihara also drew a new illustration to celebrate the anime’s announcement.
Toshimasa Kuroyanagi directs the anime adaptation of The World Is Dancing at Cygames Pictures. Keigo Sasaki is the character designer, and Satoshi Nemoto handles calligraphy and title lettering.
Lastly, Shochiku describes the anime series as follows, via the official website:
One does not need dance to live.
In 1374, during the turbulent age when the Northern and Southern Courts were locked in conflict, the Northern Court’s shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, was becoming an increasingly dominant force.
Born the son of Kan’ami, head of the Kanze troupe of sarugaku performers, Oniyasha drifts through his days with a hazy question lodged in his heart: Why do people dance? His spirit remains clouded, until the day he encounters a dance that is truly “good.”
Curious, sensitive, and strikingly beautiful, the boy meets people, laughs, cries, confronts his own weaknesses, and slowly begins to shape a new form of dance for a world steeped in impermanence.
