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World Is Dancing

ワールド イズ ダンシング

✍️ REVIEWED★★★☆☆

Tokyo Anime Take

The production is on another level. However, the story itself isn't particularly captivating. Since Noh theater is a part of Japanese culture, you can tell that a lot of effort went into it.

— A first-hand take from Tokyo

Born into a life of acting and dance with a traveling theater troupe in 14th-century Japan, 12-year old Oniyasha has one problem—he doesn't know what the point of any of it is. "Why must I step with the left foot here instead of the right? Why is one performance good and another, bad? Why do people dance at all?" It all seems perfectly arbitrary, until a chance encounter in a run-down shack sets him down a path to revolutionizing the art form and influencing much of Japanese culture to come. A f