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Dance Dance Danseur Ballet Anime Adds 4 More Cast
posted on by Egan Loo
The official website for the television Dance Dance Danseur manga announced four more cast on Friday.
Kōtarō Nishiyama as Yamato Takura, the Shiga-born third-year middle school student in the boys' summer school of the Oikawa Haruka Ballet School
Misato Fukuen as Natsuki Oikawa, a sixth-grade elemenary school student in the ballet school of Oikawa Haruka Ballet Company (run by her mother)
Jun Inoue as Kotobuki Himenokōji, a student in the boys' summer school of the Oikawa Haruka Ballet School
Kaede Hondo plays Miyako Godai.
MICHIRU is composing the music.
Hitorie will perform the ending theme song "Kaze, Hana" (Wind, Flower).
The anime will premiere in the Super Animeism programming block on Disney+'s Star content hub. The project marks the first time a manga by Asakura is getting an anime.
The manga centers on Junpei Murao, who was fascinated with ballet as a child, but in his second year of middle school, his father ed away and he decided he needed to become more "masculine," and he gave up on his aspirations. While still having an attachment to ballet, he takes up the martial art of Jeet Kune Do, and becomes popular in his class. Then one day, a new transfer student named Miyako Godai arrives in Junpei's class, and her mother runs a ballet studio. Miyako realizes that Junpei is interested in ballet, and invites him to do ballet together.
Asakura (Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine in 2015, and is ongoing.
Sources: Dance Dance Danseur anime's website, Comic Natalie
