Wandance Vol. 09

Wandance Vol. 09

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!

As the dust from the individual and team competitions settle, Kaboku, Wanda, and Iori will have to look back and see how far they’ve come in order to take their dancing to new heights…

Kabo and Kabe show up for their B-Boy battle, where figuring out a team name is only the first of their problems. They soon find themselves running into old friends, old antagonists—and at least one fearsome dancer who seems to have it out for Kabe… If he and Kabo are going to make it to the top of the contest, they’ll have to figure out how to understand each other on the fly, or they might just get buried in the first round!

Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Wanda is turning heads at Assay’s showcase practice, and earning more than a little jealousy along the way. But when her fellow dancers see how devoted she is to her craft, they begin to open up to her, and new friendships seem like they could start to bloom…

Biographical Notes:

Coffee’s debut was the bouldering manga Kotera-san Climbs. The author’s new series about hip-hop dance, Wandance, is now being published in English by Kodansha. It is Coffee’s first manga to be translated into English.

Coffee Kizoku is best known for being the author & artist of Wandance, Sittaka Brillia, and Noboru Kotera-san.

Title Notes:

An introvert joining the dance, In the vein of Blue Period and Your Lie in April, this is a story of an introverted teenager finding his passion, this time in hip-hop dance.

Hip-hop dance is a major component of Japanese youth culture, intertwined with street fashion and music, and fans of these subcultures will enjoy this realistic depiction.

More details on Coffee:

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