The World is Dancing Director and Producer on Adapting Zeami's Nohgaku
The interview frames the series as a rare depiction of Muromachi-era Nohgaku as a live, ongoing creative act rather than a fixed classic, a distinction the producer ties directly to the work of making anime.
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Director Toshimasa Kuroyanagi and producer Kan Mizoguchi discussed the anime adaptation of Kazuto Mihara's historical drama manga The World is Dancing at Studio Cypic. Mizoguchi, a Nohgaku practitioner himself, explained the work's unique focus on Zeami actively creating Nohgaku rather than interpreting it, and how that creative process parallels modern anime production.
Producer Kan Mizoguchi practices Nohgaku himself, and that background shaped why he pushed to adapt Kazuto Mihara's manga. Where earlier Nohgaku stories centered on how to interpret the art form, this one shows Zeami trying to create it in the present tense, as a player putting it into practice.
Mizoguchi draws a line from that 600-year-old creative experiment to modern anime production, arguing the flow of making something new is the same. He also notes that the manga's lack of movement makes its choreography and dance scenes especially suited to animation.
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