Teaser for Dance Dance Danseur Ballet Anime Reveals Cast and More Staff

Dance Dance Danseur Ballet Preview

On Tuesday, the official website for George Asakura's Dance Dance Danseur television anime debuted a new visual and teaser video for the anime. The first cast member of the anime, as well as several crew members, are revealed in the teaser.

Daiki Yamashita plays protagonist Junpei Murao.

The additional staff members include:

• Chief Animation Directors: Hitomi Hasegawa, Masahiko Komino, Yumi Kuroiwa

• Assistant Director: Hisatoshi Shimizu

• Ballet Technical Director: Hajime Ohtani

• Ballet Animation Directors: Tsuyoshi Kuwahara, Atsushi Ogasawara

• Art Director: Mari Fujino

• Compositing Director of Photography: Madoka Yagi

• CG Director: Tomoko Washida

• Color Key Artist: Kana Tanabe

• Editing: Tomoki Nagasaka

• Sound Production: dugout

• Music: MICHIRU

• Dance Choreography: Naoya Homan

The animation is directed by Munehisa Sakai (Zombie Land Saga), and the series scripts are written by Yoshimi Narita (My Senpai Is Annoying, Our love has always been 10 centimeters apart.). The characters are being designed by Hitomi Hasegawa (animation director of Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather).

This April, the anime will launch on MBS, TBS, and 26 additional channels as part of the Super Animeism programming block.

This is the first time an Asakura manga has been adapted into an anime.

Junpei Murao was a child who was enthralled with dance, but when his father died in his second year of middle school, he thought that he needed to become more "masculine," and he gave up his dreams. He takes up the martial art of Jeet Kune Do while still having a passion for dance, and quickly becomes famous in his class. Then, one day, a new transfer student called Miyako Godai, whose mother owns a ballet studio, enters Junpei's class. Miyako notices Junpei's interest in dance and encourages him to join her in a ballet class.

The manga was first published in Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine in 2015 by Asakura (A Perfect Day for Love Letters, Piece of Cake, Drowning Love). On December 28, the manga's 22nd volume was released.