&Team member JO plays protagonist Kaboku Kotani
The official website for the live-action film of Coffee’s Wandance manga unveiled a new teaser trailer and two key visuals for the film on Monday. The teaser announces the film’s lead actor, main staff, and November 27 opening. &Team boy band member JO plays the film’s protagonist Kaboku Kotani. Naoya Kusaba is directing the film, with a script by Keiichi Kobayashi. Dancer and entrepreneur Charisma Kantarō is supervising the film’s dances.
Image via Live-action Wandance film’s X/Twitter account
©珈琲／講談社 ©2026映画『ワンダンス』製作委員会
Image via Live-action Wandance film’s X/Twitter account
©珈琲／講談社 ©2026映画『ワンダンス』製作委員会
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 15th compiled book volume in December 2025. Kodansha USA Publishing released the 13th volume in English in August 2025.
A television anime adaptation debuted in Japan in October 2025. Disney+ streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
Sources: Wandance live-action film’s website, Comic Natalie
