Earlier today, the staff for the upcoming anime adaptation of Kazuto Mihara’s The World Is Dancing manga revealed the promotional video, additional cast and staff members, and the anime’s July premiere.
Newly announced cast members include:
- Simba Tsuchiya as Ishiya
- Maaya Uchida as Kogane
- Romi Park as Zojiro
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Kan’ami
- Haruki Ishiya as Junigoro
As previously announced, Yumiri Hanamori stars as protagonist Oniyasha.
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.
Newly announced staff members:
- Series Script Supervisor/Scripts: 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: Kohei Kawaguchi
- History Supervision: Katsuyuki Shimizu
- Animation Producer: Mizoguchi Kan (Tadashi Mizoguchi)
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.
