#Wandance Dance Manga Inspires 2025 Anime

Coffee‘s Wandance manga is receiving a TV anime adaptation that will premiere in 2025. 

The anime is a co-production between Madhouse and Typhoon Graphics. Dancer RIEHATA is on board as dance producer.

A celebratory illustration by Coffee was released with the announcement.

Wandance has been serialized since January 2019 in Afternoon and Magazine Pocket and will release its 13th tankoubon volume on August 22, 2024 JST. Kodansha USA describes as:

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!

A SHY TEENAGER HAPPENS ON A CLASSMATE DANCING ALONE, AND HER JOY TURNS A KEY, UNLOCKING SOMETHING IN HIS HEART…

Kaboku Kotani is starting high school, and he plans to do what he’s always done: go along with his friends, keep quiet, and not to draw too much attention to himself. After all, it’s hard enough to get by with a stutter like his—why make things worse by standing out from the crowd? But then he sees another first-year, Hikari Wanda, dancing like no one is watching—or like she doesn’t care who sees her. It makes Kaboku wonder: Could he reach that same freedom? To find his way to Wanda, he does something he never thought he could: He joins the dance club. After all, every routine begins with a single step, right?

Join Kaboku and Wanda as they freestyle their way to life and love!

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Source: @wandance_info (via Comic Natalie)