The World Is Dancing Anime Unveils Final Trailer, Ending Song Artist, More Cast Members
Shochiku revealed on Monday the official final trailer, additional cast members, and the ending theme song for the television anime of Kazuto Mihara's The World Is Dancing manga. The final trailer reveals and previews the ending theme song "Unnamed Flower" (Namonai Hana) by three-piece band hockrockb.
The newly announced cast members are:
Kenichirō Matsuda as Yoriyuki Hosokawa, the Deputy Shogun (Kanrei) of the Muromachi Shogunate, who also possesses a vast knowledge of the performing arts
Kanze Troupe members (image above from top left to bottom right):
- Katsuhisa Hōki as Chōrō (Elder)
- Haruo Yamagishi as Samanosuke
- Sōshirō Hori as Mantarō
- Kōsuke Echigoya as Senri
- Kaito Udagawa as Toshigo
- Reiō Tsuchida as Hifumi
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
- Takahiro Sakurai as Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
- Nobuo Tobita as Nijo Yoshimoto
- Mamiko Noto as Nariko
- Inori Minase as Chiharu
- Hazuki Seto as Satsuki
- Yōji Matsuda as Inuo
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Shirabyoshi
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. Macaroni Empitsu are performing the film's opening theme song "shusho."
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
