The television anime adaptation of Tomo Takeuchi’s Welcome to the Ballroom original manga will premiere in July, Kodansha revealed in its Monthly Shounen Magazine April issue.
Kodansha also revealed the main cast for the upcoming series:
• Tatara Fujita
Voiced by: Shimba Tsuchiya
• Kiyoharu Hyodo
Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto
• Shizuku Hanaoka
Voiced by: Ayane Sakura
• Kaname Sengoku
Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa
The anime will be directed by Yoshimi Itazu under Production I.G. A new trailer of the anime is also expected to stream on March 22.
Monthly Shonen Magazine first published Welcome to the Ballroom manga in 2011. Kodansha Comics also localized the manga in English.
Story Synopsis (by Kodansha Comics)
“Feckless high school student Tatara Fujita wants to be good at something – anything. Unfortunately, he’s about as average as a slouchy teen can be. The local bullies know this, and make it a habit to hit him up for cash, but all that changes when the debonair Kaname Sengoku sends them packing. Sengoku’s not the neighborhood watch, though. He’s a professional ballroom dancer. And once Tatara Fujita gets pulled into the world of the ballroom, his life will never be the same.”
With reports from Anime News Network