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Dance Dance Danseur Ballet Anime's Teaser Reveals Cast, More Staff

The official website for the television anime of George Asakura's Dance Dance Danseur manga unveiled a new visual and teaser trailer for the anime on Tuesday. The teaser reveals the anime's first cast member and additional staff members.

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

Munehisa Sakai (Zombie Land Saga) is directing the anime at MAPPA, and Yoshimi Narita (My Senpai Is Annoying, Our love has always been 10 centimeters apart.) is in charge of the series scripts. Hitomi Hasegawa (Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather animation director) is designing the characters.

The anime will premiere in the Super Animeism programming block on MBS, TBS, and 26 other channels this April.

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 passed 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 (A Perfect Day for Love Letters, Piece of Cake, Drowning Love) launched the manga in Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine in 2015. The manga's 22nd volume shipped on December 28.

Sources: Dance Dance Danseur anime's website, Comic Natalie