Wandance Live-Action Film Reveals Theme Song, Full Trailer

The Wandance live-action film has its full trailer, and it comes packaged with a new theme song. The official website for the film, based on Coffee’s dance manga, posted the complete trailer and teaser visual on July 30, along with the reveal that boy band &TEAM performs the theme song “For us.”

Here’s the quick rundown on what’s confirmed so far:

• The trailer and theme song dropped on the film’s official website on July 30, 2026.
• &Team’s JO plays protagonist Kaboku Kotani, with Anji Ikehata starring as Hikari Wanda.
• Naoya Kusaba is directing, with a script from Keiichi Kobayashi.
• The film opens in Japan on November 27, 2026.

What We Know About the Wandance Live-Action Film

Wandance follows Kaboku, a boy who has spent his life going along with what everyone else expects of him. Everything changes the night he stumbles on Hikari Wanda dancing alone at school and gets pulled toward the hip-hop dance club she belongs to. The club skews almost entirely female, and most of its members can already dance circles around him, which makes his decision to join that much bigger a leap.

&Team member JO takes on Kaboku for the film, and Anji Ikehata, known for Yano-kun no Futsu no Hibi and Lonely Castle in the Mirror, plays Wanda. The supporting cast includes Kira Yamaguchi as On Miyao, RAN Mazzel as Iori Itsukushima, TSUKKI as Gaku Kabeya, and Aloha Takamatsu as Usen Takumi. Dancer and entrepreneur Charisma Kantaro is supervising the film’s choreography, which matters for a story built around dance as its emotional core.

How the Film Connects to the Wandance Anime

The manga has been running in Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon since 2019, and Kodansha published its 15th collected volume in December 2025. A TV anime adaptation, produced by Madhouse and Cyclone Graphics under director Michiya Kato, debuted in Japan in October 2025 and streamed internationally through Disney+.

That anime run built enough momentum that a live-action adaptation was announced barely two months after the show wrapped its broadcast, and casting reveals have been rolling out steadily since. The full trailer marks the clearest look yet at how the production plans to translate the manga’s dance sequences to live action.

What’s Next for Wandance

The film opens in Japanese theaters on November 27, with no international release plans confirmed yet. Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga’s 14th English volume that same month, giving overseas readers a chance to catch up around the same window as the film’s domestic debut.

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