Dance like you mean it! We want to see your best moves as the Dance Dance Danseur anime spins its way to the Crunchyroll Spring 2022 Lineup today. The MAPPA production adapts the manga of the same name by George Asakura, and you can tip-toe your way toward full ballet brilliance in our spotlight below.
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Launch Time: April 9
Territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS
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Danseur noble–a ballet dancer qualified to dance the role of the prince. Second-year junior high school student Murao Junpei was fascinated by ballet as a boy, but gave up on dancing after his father’s death, as he had to become a man. However, one day, a beautiful transfer student named Godai Miyako appears before him. Miyako takes notice in Junpei’s love of ballet and invites him to dance with her. Along with Miyako’s cousin Mori Ruou, he begins his career as a full-fledged ballet dancer, with the aim of becoming the world’s best dancer–the Danseur noble! Only those who have sacrificed everything are permitted to stand in the beautiful and harsh world of classical ballet. What will be the fate of a total beginner like Junpei?! Popular manga artist Asakura George’s first TV anime adaptation is the story of the passionate adolescence of a group of ballet dancers by MAPPA (production) and Sakai Munehisa (director)!!
Junpei Murao
VA: Daiki Yamashita (Izuku Midoriya in My Hero Academia)
Ruō Mori
VA: Kouki Uchiyama (Kei Tsukishima in Haikyu!!)
Miyako Godai
VA: Kaede Hondo (Yasuko Nawashiro in Akebi’s Sailor Uniform)
Natsuki Oikawa
VA: Misato Fukuen (Himiko Toga in My Hero Academia)
Misaki Yasuda
VA: Kohei Amasaki (Otto Suwen in Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-)
Yamato Takura
VA: Kotaro Nishiyama (Frate Vanetti in 91 Days)
Kotobuki Himenokouji
VA: Jun Inoue (Suu Gen in Kingdom)
Staff
Original Creator
George Asakura
Director
Munehisa Sakai (One Piece Film Strong World)
Series Composition
Yoshimi Narita (My Senpai is Annoying)
Character Designer
Hitomi Hasegawa (assistant character design on Kimi ni Todoke – From Me to You)
Chief Animation Director
Hitomi Hasegawa
Masahiko Komino
Yumi Kuroiwa
Art Director
Mari Fujino
3D Director
Tomoko Washida
Choreography
Naoya Homan
Ballet Supervision
Sayako Abe
Ballet Director
Hajime Ohtani
Ballet Animation Director
Atsushi Ogasawara
Tsuyoshi Kuwahara
Director of Photography
Madoka Yagi
Color Design
Kana Tanabe
Editor
Tomoki Nagasaka
Music
MICHIRU
Opening Theme Song Performer
YUKI
Ending Theme Song Performer
Hitorie
Animation Production
MAPPA
Additional Info
The manga has been serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine since 2015, and received the Jury Selection award of the Manga Division at the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2020.
The covers for volume 1 and volume 20:
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