A beautiful story from the sarugaku theater world unfolds in the highly anticipated anime adaptation of Kazuto Mihara’s The World Is Dancing manga! Final Weapon has everything you need to know about The World Is Dancing, including the weekly schedule, release dates and timing for new episodes, and much more.
The story of The World Is Dancing takes place in the year 1374 as turmoil between the Northern and Southern Courts’ continues. Oniyasha, a boy named born into a family of sarugaku theater performs, questions the very existence of dancing. He witnesses a dance that captivates him, and the result is a bond and story that becomes legendary.
The World Is Dancing Release Dates, Exact Premiere Time and Schedule
New episodes of The World Is Dancing will release on Mondays at 7:30 a.m. PT / 10:30 a.m. ET on HIDIVE. Episodes will be released with English subs. The World Is Dancing will feature 13 episodes in total.
Here are the release dates and schedule for The World Is Dancing (subject to change):
- Episode 1 – June 29 – OUT NOW
- Episode 2 – July 6 – OUT NOW
- Episode 3 – July 13 – OUT NOW
- Episode 4 – July 20 – OUT NOW
- Episode 5 – July 27 – OUT NOW
- Episode 6 – August 3 – OUT NOW
- Episode 7 – August 10
- Episode 8 – August 17
- Episode 9 – August 24
- Episode 10 – August 31
- Episode 11 – September 7
- Episode 12 – September 14
- Episode 13 – September 21
New episodes of The World Is Dancing will premiere at the following times (subject to change):
- Pacific Daylight Time: 5:30 a.m. PDT
- Mountain Daylight Time: 6:30 a.m. MDT
- Central Daylight Time: 7:30 a.m. CDT
- Eastern Daylight Time: 8:30 a.m. EDT
- Greenwich Mean Time: 12:30 p.m. GMT
OP/ED, Cast and Staff
Macaroni Empitsu performs the opening theme song “shusho.” Oniyasha (VA: Yumiri Hanamori) and Zojiro (VA: Romi Park) will perform insert songs for the series. hockrockb performs the ending theme song “Unnamed Flower.”
The cast of the anime includes:
- Yumiri Hanamori as Oniyasha
- Simba Tsuchiya as Ishiya
- Maaya Uchida as Kogane
- Romi Park as Zojiro
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Kan’ami
- Haruki Ishiya as Junigoro
- Takahiro Sakurai as Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
- Nobuo Tobita as Nijo Yoshimoto
- Mamiko Noto as Nariko
- Inori Minase as Chiharu
- Hazuki Seto as Satsuki
- Youji Matsuda as Inuo
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Shirabyoshi
- Kenichiro Matsuda as Yoriyuki Hosokawa
- Katsuhisa Houki as Choro
- Haruo Yamagishi as Samanosuke
- Soshiro Hori as Mantaro
- Kosuke Echigoya as Senri
- Kaito Udagawa as Toshigo
- Reiou Tsuchida as Hifumi
Toshimasa Kuroyanagi directs the anime at Cygames Pictures. Keigo Sasaki is the character designer, and Satoshi Nemoto handles calligraphy and title lettering.
Additional staff members include:
- 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)
Where Can I Watch The World Is Dancing?
HIDIVE is streaming The World Is Dancing in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other key overseas markets. In Japan, the anime is streaming on Amazon Prime Video and airing on Tokyo MX and KBS Kyoto, along with other select channels.
What is The World Is Dancing About?
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.
