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Wandance Hip-Hop Anime's New Video Reveals Songs, More Cast & Staff, October 8 Debut

The official website for the anime of Coffee's Wandance hip-hop dance manga debuted its second full promotional video for the anime on Thursday. The video reveals and previews an insert song for anime, the opening and ending theme song artists, additional cast and staff members, and the October 8 premiere date for the anime.

The video above previews the insert song "Kujira" by Yaffle feat. Sahnya, as well as the opening theme song "Stare In Wonder" by the boy band BE:FIRST. The video also reveals that the ELSEE female dance group will perform the ending theme song "Wondrous."

The anime will premiere on TV Asahi and affiliated channels on October 8, on AT-X on October 10, and on BS Asahi on October 11. The anime will debut streaming in Japan on Disney+ Star on October 9. The anime will also stream on Amazon Prime Video, d Anime Store, DMM TV, J:COM STREAM, milplus, TELASA, Lemino, Fuji TV On Demand, Bandai Channel, Nico Nico Channel, Google TV, YouTube, Happy! Douga, OnGen Movie, MOVIEFULL, MOVIEFULL Plus, Video Market, music.jp, and Kantele Doga.

The additional cast members include (Note: Character name romanizations not official):

• Daiki Kobayashi as Hoto, Uyo, and Macchin
• Junpei Baba as Seiya
• Haruka Satō as Shiki Kanno
• Haruka Terui as Aika Naitō
• Rumi Ōkubo as Anna Itami
• Keiko Manaka as Rame Tokiwa
• Yui Watanabe as Hitomi Shimoda
• Ayaka Nanase as Kona Ōkōuchi
• Hana Tamegai as Sakura Kami
• Rin Kusumi as Monme Hirai
• Konomi Inagaki as Moa Mukogawa
• Honoka Inoue as Miru Ōmori
• Momoko Miyashiro as Yura NIkami
• Kana Ogino as Aoi Date
• Miyuki Wakayama as Kokoro Shimoda
• Tsukino Chikasada as Rin Ishikawa
• Momoka Ogizono as Sayaka Takada
• Kanon Yulduz as Mora Kuroe
• Masahiro Yamanaka as Ren
• Tatsumaru Tachibana as Ogi
• Shoma Uno as Chun
• Toshiharu Yajima as Tatsuya
• Junpei Baba as Uria
• Seiyū Fujiwara as Kokoro

The newly announced staff members include:

• Character Designer, Chief Animation Director: Satoshi Tasaki, Taiki Imamura
• 3D CG Director: Yūki Akiyama, Tomohisa Shitara
• Motion Capture Supervisor: Rei Sugimoto
• Art Director: Youichi Watanabe
• Art Design: Hideki Satō
• Color Key Artist: Manami Sasa
• Video Production: Kanna Iida
• Compositing Director of Photography: Daichi Iseki
• Editing: Kashiko Kimura
• Sound Director: Shōji Hata
• Sound Effects: Noriko Izumo
• Background Music: Naoki Chiba (naotyu-)
• Music Producer: Kōhei Chida, Sayaka Konno

Michiya Katō (Okko's Inn) is directing the anime at Madhouse and Cyclone Graphics, and is also credited as scriptwriter and for visual effects. Dancer, choreographer, and singer RIEHATA, who created choreographies for Japanese groups such as EXILE and KAT-TUN, and Korean groups such as BTS, EXO, and Red Velvet, is the anime's dance producer.

Disney+ will stream the anime. Anime acquired by Disney+ typically stream on Hulu in the United States.

The anime's voice cast include:

• Kōki Uchiyama as Kaboku Kotani
• Hina Yomiya as Hikari Wanda
• Ayaka Suwa as On Miyao
• Toshiki Masuda as Iori Itsukushima
• Yūma Uchida as Gaku Kabeya
• Yuu Hayashi as Usen Takumi
• Chikahiro Kobayashi as Assei

• KAITA as Kaboku Kotani
• KANATA as Hikari Wanda
• ReiNa as On Miyao
• YOUTEE as Iori Itsukushima
• YU-KI as Gaku Kabeya

The music artists participating in the anime are (in alphabetical order):

• Yūjin Aramaki
• Alisa
• Black Boboi
• Daigo Sakuragi
• FUNI
• GZO
• Hidetake Takayama
• Jazztronik
• JiN,Seann Bowe
• Jua
• Kaztake Takeuchi
• Marcello Jonno
• Michael Yano a.k.a ARK
• MONJOE
• RIEHATA
• RIKKI
• Sahnya
• Scatman John
• Shinichi Osawa
• Shinichiro Murayama
• Toru Ishikawa
• URU
• Weauxmaque
• Wez Atras
• Yaffle

Kodansha USA Publishing releases the manga and describes the story:

A boy named Kaboku sees a girl named Wanda dance, and suddenly burns with a need to join in. With its thrilling scenes of Japanese hip-hop dance and quirky, charming characters, this is a new, inspirational manga for fans of coming-of-age stories like Blue Period and Your Lie in April. Get up and join the Wandance!

Kaboku has always just gone with the flow, marching in step to the drumbeat of the expectations of those around him: parents, school, plans for the future. It feels predictable, safe, and… empty. But one night, Kaboku's at school late, and he happens on a girl alone, moving wildly, turning a blank space of concrete into a canvas. This is Hikari Wanda, a member of the hip-hop dance club. Kaboku is immediately smitten, but the road to stepping out of his shell is a long one. The club is almost entirely girls, and they're all, well, way better than him. What's ahead is unknown, and that's terrifying, but it also means, for the first time in Kaboku's life… a taste of freedom.

Coffee launched the manga in Afternoon magazine in 2019, and is simultaneously published in Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app. Kodansha published the manga's 13th compiled book volume in August 2024. Kodansha USA Publishing released the 13th volume in English on August 12.

Sources: Wandance anime's website, Comic Natalie