Anime · Tokyo MX
The World Is Dancing
One does not need dance to live.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Yumiri Hanamori
Oniyasha (voice)
13 eps
Shimba Tsuchiya
Ishiya (voice)
13 eps
Maaya Uchida
Kogane (voice)
13 eps
Romi Park
Zojiro (voice)
13 eps
Katsuyuki Konishi
Kan'ami (voice)
13 eps
Haruki Ishiya
Junigoro (voice)
13 eps
Takahiro Sakurai
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (voice)
13 eps
Nobuo Tobita
Nijo Yoshimoto (voice)
13 eps
Mamiko Noto
Nariko (voice)
13 eps
Inori Minase
Chiharu (voice)
13 eps
Hazuki Seto
Satsuki (voice)
13 eps
Yoji Matsuda
Inuo (voice)
13 eps
Miyuki Sawashiro
Shirabyoshi (voice)
13 eps
Kenichirou Matsuda
Yoriyuki Hosokawa (voice)
13 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The World Is Dancing actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The World Is Dancing reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
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.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E06
Episode 6
S01E05
A Budding Throb
S01E04
Differing Scales of Progress
S01E03
You Have Your Own Sense of "Good"
S01E02
You Have a Body
S01E01
Why Do People Dance?
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Cinematography
- Yutaro KikuchiDirector of Photography
Music
- Daisuke ShinodaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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