A brand new official web site was launched on Wednesday to disclose that Espresso‘S Wandance Hip-hop dance manga is getting a tv anime adaptation in 2025. Espresso drew an illustration to rejoice the announcement:
© Espresso
Madhouse And Cyclone Graphics Inc. are answerable for the manufacturing of the anime. Dancer, choreographer and singer RIEHATA, who has created choreographies for Japanese teams comparable to BANISHED and KAT-TUN, and Korean teams comparable to BTS, EXO and Pink Velvet, would be the dance producer of the anime.
© Espresso, Kodansha
Kodansha USA Writer releases the manga and describes the story:
A boy named Kaboku sees a woman named Wanda dancing, and all of the sudden feels the necessity to take part. With its thrilling scenes of Japanese hip-hop dance and quirky, charming characters, it is a new, inspiring manga for followers of coming-of-age tales like Blue Interval And Your lie in AprilArise and be a part of the Wandance!
Kaboku has at all times simply gone with the stream, marching to the beat of the expectations of these round him: mother and father, college, plans for the longer term. It feels predictable, protected, and… empty. However one evening, Kaboku is late for varsity and stumbles upon a woman who’s alone, transferring wildly, turning an empty concrete house right into a canvas. That is Hikari Wanda, a member of the hip-hop dance membership. Kaboku is immediately smitten, however the street to popping out of his shell is a protracted one. The membership consists virtually solely of women, and they’re all, nicely, a lot better than he’s. What lies forward is unknown, and that’s terrifying, nevertheless it additionally means, for the primary time in Kaboku’s life… a style of freedom.
Espresso launched the manga in Afternoon journal in 2019, and is on the similar time printed in Kodansha‘S Journal pocket software Kodansha will publish the thirteenth quantity of the manga on Thursday. Kodansha USA Writer launched the tenth quantity of the manga in English on August 13.
Sources: Wandance animes web site and X/Twitter account, Sketch Natalie
