Production company Shochiku opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Kazuto Mihara's World Is Dancing manga on Wednesday, revealing the lead cast, main staff, a teaser visual (pictured right), promotional video, and commemorative illustration (pictured above) drawn by Mihara. The anime is scheduled to premiere in Summer 2026.

Voice actress Yumiri Hanamori (Jigokuraku) is starring in the anime as Oniyasha (Zeami Motokiyo).

Staff
Director: Toshimasa Kuroyanagi (Fune wo Amu)
Character Design: Keigo Sasaki (Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray)
Calligraphy, Title Lettering: Satoshi Nemoto
Studio: CygamesPictures

Mihara began serializing historical manga in Morning magazine in March 2021. Kodansha published the sixth and the final volume in November 2022.

Kodansha USA licensed the manga in English and published all six volumes digitally from August 2023 to August 2024.

Introduction
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 Kanami, 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. (Source: Shochiku)

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Official site: https://sh-anime.shochiku.co.jp/worldisdancing-anime/
Official X: @wid_anime

Source: Comic Natalie

World Is Dancing on MAL