A new trailer has been revealed for the upcoming series.
Kazuto Mihara’s Noh theatre themed manga “The World is Dancing” is getting an anime adaptation this year. The news came with a new trailer and key visual, as well as details about the staff and main cast. The artistic series is set to premiere sometime in Summer 2026, likely in July.
The World is Dancing anime cast, staff, and other details
Yugiri Hanamori will be voicing the main character Zeami Motokiyo / Oniyasha in the anime. Other cast details haven’t been revealed yet.
Toshimasa Kuroyanagi is directing the anime adaptation at CygamesPictures. Keigo Sasaki designs the characters while the calligraphy and title lettering are done by Satoshi Nemoto.
Kazuto Mihara made a celebratory post about the anime with an illustration of the protagonist Oniyasha.
The manga was published in Kodansha’s Morning magazine from March 2021 to October 2022. The story is a fictional account of the life of Zaemi Motokiyo/ Oniyasha, a pivotal figure in the Japanese Noh drama form’s development in the 14th century. Kodansha publishes the series in English and describes the plot as:
Born into a life of acting and dance with a traveling theatre troupe in 14th-century Japan, 12-year old Oniyasha has one problem-he doesn’t know what the point of any of it is. Why must I step with the left foot here instead of the right? Why is one performance good and another, bad? Why do people dance at all? It all seems perfectly arbitrary, until a chance encounter in a run-down shack sets him down a path to revolutionizing the art form and influencing much of Japanese culture to come.