Anime debuts on HIDIVE on June 29 with world premiere of 2nd episode at Anime Expo on July 2
The Anime Corner website reported on Monday that HIDIVE will stream the television anime of Kazuto Mihara’s The World Is Dancing manga for the summer 2026 season. Update: The first episode will debut on June 29, ahead of the Japanese release. Then, the world premiere of the second episode will screen at this year’s Anime Expo event on July 2 at 6:45 p.m. PDT. HIDIVE shared an English-subtitled trailer and visual:
Image courtesy of HIDIVE
© Kazuto Mihara, KODANSHA/”The World Is Dancing” Production Committee.
Image courtesy of Shochiku
©Kazuto Mihara, KODANSHA/”The World Is Dancing” Production Committee.
The anime will debut on Tokyo MX and KBS Kyoto in Japan on July 2 at 10:00 p.m. JST, then on Sun TV at 24:00 JST (effectively, July 3 at 12 midnight). The anime will air on BS Asahi and TVQ Kyushu starting on July 3.
The anime stars:
Toshimasa Kuroyanagi (Shōnen Hollywood, The Great Passage, Backflip!! series and film) is directing the anime at Cygames Pictures. Keigo Sasaki (Blue Exorcist series and film, ERASED, Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray two seasons) is designing the characters, and Satoshi Nemoto is credited for calligraphy and title lettering. Macaroni Empitsu are performing the film’s opening theme song “shusho.”
Shochiku describes the story:
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.
Mihara launched the manga in Kodansha’s Morning magazine in March 2021, and the series ended in October 2022. Kodansha published six compiled book volumes of the manga. Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga and published the manga’s six volumes digitally.
Update: Added premiere dates. Source: Press release
Sources: Anime Corner, HIDIVE’s YouTube channel
