The official website for the live-action film of Coffee‘s Wandance manga revealed on Thursday the dance supervisors for each character, and the full list of music artists and song titles that will be used in the film. 

Runa Miura is supervising the dance of Kaboku Kotani (played by &TEAM boy band member JO), KANU (top right in above image) is in charge of Hikari Wanda (played by Anji Ikehata), akihic☆彡 (bottom center) is in charge of On Miyao (played by Kira Yamaguchi) and is also the choreographer for TEAM ON, and KEIN (bottom left) is in charge of Iori Itsukushima (played by Ran Mazzel). SEIYA (bottom right) is in charge of Usen Takumi (played by Aloha Takamatsu) and is also the choreographer for the SAKAYA CREW.

origami PRODUCTIONS and music producer GuruConnect are in charge of the film’s music. Below are all the participating artists and song titles that will be used in the film:

From origami PRODUCTIONS

Nenashi

• “Eyes on Me feat. GAPPER”
• “Future Heat feat. Kegan Raphael”
• “In This City”
• “Valentine’s Eve”

Michael Kaneko

• “Rolling”
• “Your Universe”

Kan Sano

• “DT pt.2”
• “Good Luck”
• “Monk’s Dance”

Shingo Sekiguchi

• “Deep Sea”
• “Funky Sunshine”
• “Lights”
• “The Friendship Of K&W”
• “The Friendship Of K&W(Acoustic version.)”

mabanua

• “Blessed feat. Daichi Yamamoto”
• “d.b fonk feat. Nenashi”
• “Step by Step feat. Sagiri Sól, Kenya Fujita”

Shingo Suzuki

• “Colors feat. KIKI”
• “Drift”
• “Drop”
• “SNAP!”

Ovall “Rush Current”

DJ Hiroking,45 “Latin Playboyz”

45 Watching You Watching Me

From GuruConnect

• “Boom Bang!!”
• “Ghost Dog”
• “Insight”
• “Juice”
• “Karma”
• “Light It Up”
• “New Steps”
• “Move feat. E.V.P“

From SWING-O

• “Pop To The Top feat. MARU”

The film will open in Japan on November 27.

Naoya Kusaba is directing the film, with a script by Keiichi Kobayashi. Dancer and entrepreneur Charisma Kantarō is supervising the film’s dances.

Kodansha USA Publishing releases the manga and describes the story:

A boy named Kaboku sees a girl named Wanda dance, and suddenly burns with a need to join in. With its thrilling scenes of Japanese hip-hop dance and quirky, charming characters, this is a new, inspirational manga for fans of coming-of-age stories like Blue Period and Your Lie in April. Get up and join the Wandance!

Kaboku has always just gone with the flow, marching in step to the drumbeat of the expectations of those around him: parents, school, plans for the future. It feels predictable, safe, and… empty. But one night, Kaboku’s at school late, and he happens on a girl alone, moving wildly, turning a blank space of concrete into a canvas. This is Hikari Wanda, a member of the hip-hop dance club. Kaboku is immediately smitten, but the road to stepping out of his shell is a long one. The club is almost entirely girls, and they’re all, well, way better than him. What’s ahead is unknown, and that’s terrifying, but it also means, for the first time in Kaboku’s life… a taste of freedom.

Coffee launched the manga in Afternoon magazine in 2019, and is simultaneously publishing the manga in Kodansha‘s Magazine Pocket app. Kodansha published the manga’s 15th compiled book volume in December 2025. Kodansha USA Publishing will release the 14th volume in English on November 2026.

A television anime adaptation debuted in Japan in October 2025. Disney+ streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.

Sources: Wandance live-action film’s website, Comic Natalie

Video highlights strained relationship between Navier, Sovieshu, Rashta, Heinrey as imperial romance develops into major political, personal conflict

Disney+ announced on Tuesday that its upcoming The Remarried Empress romance fantasy live-action series based on web novel and webtoon of the same name will premiere on November 4. The streaming service also released a teaser trailer and character posters for the series.

The first four episodes will debut on Disney+ and Hulu on November 4, and the services will release two new episodes every Wednesday through the series finale on November 25 (for a total of 10 episodes).

The Remarried Empress revolves around Navier, the perfect Empress of the Eastern Empire, who chooses divorce after discovering that her husband, Emperor Sovieshu, plans to replace her with his mistress. Determined to reclaim her status, Navier resolves to become an Empress in another land.

The teaser highlights the strained relationship between Navier (played by Min-A Shin), Sovieshu (Ji-Hoon Ju), Rashta (Se Young Lee), and Heinrey (Jong Suk Lee) as the imperial romance develops into a major political and personal conflict.

Suwon Cho is directing the series with scripts by Geena Yeoh and Choong-Yeol Hyun.

The webtoon has over 2.9 billion global views and has been translated into 10 languages. The series has a strong international following, particularly in Japan.

The webtoon ended in January after a seven-year run, but will return this fall for side stories.

The English version of the The Remarried Empress webtoon is available on WEBTOON. Ize Press is releasing the series in print.

Sources: Press release, Disney+ Korea’s X/Twitter account

Film’s theme song performer Nakagawa to also voice different aliens appearing in film

Kadokawa started streaming the first two minutes of the Uchū Nanchara Kotetsu-kun: Ukkari Detekita Uchūjin o Sagase! (Space Academy: Find the Aliens Who Accidentally Came Out!) film based on Yūji Nishimura‘s web manga Uchū Nanchara Kotetsu-kun (Space Academy) on Thursday. Kadokawa also revealed that Shōko Nakagawa is voicing the various aliens who appear in the film. 

The film will open in theaters on September 11.

Nakagawa also performs the film’s theme song “Uchū no Nanchara Nakama” (Space Friend).

The film’s story centers on space pilot trainee Kotetsu hearing about the possible existence of aliens and driving the whole academy to search for them.

The film will feature both anime footage, as well as real footage of space.

The cast from the television anime will reprise their roles in the film.

Yoshinori Tsutsui is directing the film. Yōichi Katō returns from the television anime to pen the film’s script. Kyō Nakanishi and Yuri Habuka are composing the music. Kōhei Chida is credited as the music producer. Kensuke Matsui is credited for sound design. Bit Grooove Promotion is credited for sound production. Fanworks is credited for animation assistance. Science Art, Inc. is credited for video production assistance, and NHK Educational is credited for video production. The Young Astronaut Club-Japan is credited for space supervision.

Nishimura launched the manga on August 6, 2019, just after the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, and has since posted a chapter every other Monday for free. The manga follows the daily life of Kotetsu-kun, who aspires to be an astronaut, and friends at the Animal Space Academy as they all pursue their dreams.

The weekly anime premiered its first season on NHK Educational in April 2021, and aired until March 2022. The second season premiered in April 2022, and ended in February 2023.

Source: Press release

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