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Wandance Volumes 8-10 Manga Review

Kabo gets closer to the beat, but the distance between him and dance is growing.

Anime News Network - Views

What manga do I even purchase these days?

2/27/26 Update: I’m aware of the crimes committed by Ichiro Hajime, author of Ordinary Mask/Jyoshi Kamen. I do not condone his actions and would not directly support him…

Phoenix Talks Pop Culture Japan

The Wonder of Wandance

I just wanna dance!!! This week on The Wonder of Anime, we have TJ Ferentini! TJ (they/them he/him) is a senior Editor with Kodansha Comics, where they have…

The Wonder of Anime

Kaiseki Anime Podcast Episode 175 – Fall 2025 Anime Season Review

You can find Kaiseki Anime Podcast on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts. Subscribe to us now! Please also take a moment to rate and review us on Apple…

Anime B&B

Kaiseki Anime Podcast Episode 170 – Fall 2025 Anime Season First Impressions

You can find Kaiseki Anime Podcast on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts. Subscribe to us now! Please also take a moment to rate and review us on Apple…

Anime B&B

Wandance / Wondance (Volume 1) by Coffee

Because my wife is on the Board of the Friends of the Library and she’s not fond of driving, I sometimes get stuck in various local branches for…

MangaKast – A PodCast of All Things Manga

Anime Taste Testing: Everything Fall Anime 2025

I disappeared last season due to sudden travel reasons and found it a genuinely intimidating job catching up to roughly a month’s worth of anime. Mostly, I solved…

OTAKU LOUNGE

“WANDANCE” – Rhythm Is A Dancer*

Unravel the tale of a young street dancer, his mesmerizing muse, and a world where rhythm and beat become a language of its own. The dancers’ breathtaking moves…

Sports Baka

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Reader’s Corner: The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent (Vol. 2), Wandance (Vol. 6), and Jungle Juice (Vol. 1)

What setting most strikes your fancy? Would you love to inhabit an elegant but haunted mansion? Attend a school full of super-powered mutant students? Walk to and from…

Beneath the Tangles

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Reader’s Corner: True Beauty (Vol. 2), A Pale Moon Reverie (Vol. 1), and Me and My Beast Boss (Vol. 1)

In today’s column, we journey into a story from a long time ago in a galaxy far away, investigate folklore and myth while getting tangled in possibly supernatural…

Beneath the Tangles

446 – Triple Dip 72 – PANDORA, Mothers, A Favorable Wind on Full Sails

Seamus and Morgana are back as we try out another live recording this week! We discuss shonen manga, Free Comic Book Day, Skip and Loafer, The Prince of Tennis, and…

Manga Machinations

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Reader’s Corner: The Art of Demon Slayer, Wandance (Vol. 4), and Apparently, Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World (Vol. 2)

The theme this week for Reader’s Corner is adventure, headlined by two new Demon Slayer works, anticipating the upcoming season (and theatrical screening of its first episode next…

Beneath the Tangles

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Reader’s Corner: Wandance, Rooster Fighter, and Rainbow Days

This week’s reviews ask the question: Who’s the king of the roost? Is it the talented but unmotivated boxer, Yu? Kaboku’s high school dance club? Or is it…

Beneath the Tangles

Spiraken Manga Review Ep 504: Wandance

In this episode, Xan reviews a sports manga focusing on the joy of hip hop dancing. Is it good? Well, sit back and find out as he reviews…

Spiraken Review Podcast

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Best of 2022 Manga

As manga continues to become more and more accessible through legal means, English-reading audiences are being exposed to the wide variety of series (and one-shots) being created. While…

Beneath the Tangles

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Manga of the Month: Wandance

Wandance by Coffee Stories centering dance have a long history in manga especially when it comes to ballet, but Wandance takes us out of the formal theater and…

Reverse Thieves

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Wandance

By: Coffee Rated: Teen Publisher: Kodansha Disclaimer:  This review is based on volumes 1-3 (chapters 1-13). Summary:  Kaboku Kotani is starting high school, and he plans to do…

Underground Anime

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Reader’s Corner: Mission: Yozakura Family (Vol. 1), Wandance (Vol. 2), and I Will Forget This Feeling Someday

Among the offerings we cover this week are a couple of one-volume releases from the mangaka of Beastars and the author of I Want to Eat Your Pancrease,…

Beneath the Tangles

Pick of the Week: Dances and Houses

MICHELLE: I’m torn between Wandance and Burn the House Down this week. Sports-adjacent manga versus josei suspense/mystery. I think in the end, Burn the House Down has the…

Manga Bookshelf

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Reader’s Corner: Yashahime, A Nico-Colored Canvas, and Rapunzel of the Magic Item Shop

It’s double the Rumiko Takahashi this week as we review the newest release in the special edition of her classic, Maison Ikkoku, as well as the manga adaptation…

Beneath the Tangles

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12 More Manga I Want Adapted into Anime (and the Odds of That Happening)

With the announcement of anime Spirit Circle, it’s time to get back on that wishlist bandwagon!

The Animanga Spellbook