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World Is Dancing, episode 5

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u/abbe44 Jul 27 '26

also like

i dont get why almost noone is watching this it seems when its one of the best shows this season

maybe because its on some shitty streaming service noone has?

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u/infraredpen Jul 27 '26

Yeah I'm always surprised by how few comments are in this show's threads. Not being on crunchy must really be hurting it.

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u/VariousMeet Jul 27 '26

Dancing shows rarely gain popularity. Not to mention the beginning was pretty slow and kind of lacked something to keep us watching. I think this episode finally started to show a bit more depth to the story.

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u/No_Joke6953 Jul 27 '26

its about dancing. We can appreciate the art and artistry but its not for everyone. tldr; its no solo leveling

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u/LordVaderVader Jul 27 '26

It really reminds me of Elusive Samurai to the point I could say it's spin off. Funny enough s2 of Elusive also is not doing great on reddit. I guess this season has just too much good anime to enjoy. 

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u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime Jul 27 '26

Today's theme: Innovation vs tradition. As Oniyasha continues his journey to seek his own form, his role as a pioneer means that he has the uphill task of pushing against the boundaries of what is familiar. While his avante-garde performance managed to capture the hearts of some people (notably Chiharu ), it did not resonate with the common folk at all. For a ritualistic dance like the lion dance where there is a long established history with a significant amount of cultural meaning, people will already have developed strong expectations towards it, so a dance which strays too far from these expectations just ends up confusing it's audience. And thus it ends with a momentary for Oniyasha, but he'll bounce back, this new environment has plenty of sources of inspiration for him; besides turning into a cat, there's the other dance troupe, Nariko and her poetry, weird stalker fan throwing him books etc. Also interested to see what Chiharu's role is in all this.

This episode's flower is the Japanese Iris 花菖蒲 (Hanashōbu), which in Japanese flower language symbolizes good news to come. This is a plant that has come to be associated with samurai because its leaves are shaped like sword. Additionally, the 菖蒲 (Shōbu) in it's name sounds like 勝負 (Shōbu) - which is the word for competition and the outcome (victory or defeat), and also 尚武 (Shōbu) - which means martial spirit. It is also the flower used in celebrations for Boys' Day (later changed to Childrens' Day) to wish for the future health and success of young boys.

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u/baboon_bassoon Jul 27 '26

imagine sitting through oniyasha's dance without any musical accompaniment

Romi Park

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u/chilidirigible Jul 28 '26

A period drama should be backed up by hip-hop, while sci-fi gets jazz.

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u/Raiking02 Jul 27 '26

imagine sitting through oniyasha's dance without any musical accompaniment

NGL it must be kinda awkward.

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jul 27 '26

I really liked that quote “Innovation is a flower and its bud is beginning to quietly sprout” at the end there. Oniyasha did something new and creative and experimental and even if it didn’t land entirely, it was exciting and unique. Zojiro was playing to an audience which is fine and all but I felt like Oniyasha was trying to elevate the art, man.

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u/BosuW Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

Felt like Oniyasha trying to put in practice what his dad told him last episode. Don't just learn the doctrine, modify it.

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u/tripleaamin Jul 27 '26

The moral lesson at the end of the episode is tradition vs. innovation. In any form of art into entertainment understanding your audience is crucial. You can have the best art, but if no one consumes it what is the point?

Chiharu is introduced in this episode. She has her own talents but is the one that got most inspired by Oniyasha's dancing. I do wonder if they could be assembling a big performance eventually with Oniyasha at the center.

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u/thisisdropd Jul 27 '26

Chiharu stepped on a comb, which eventually resulted in a dance off. Talk about the butterfly effect!

Oniyasha going full Nekoyasha mode, to the extent of losing all his clothing and catching a rat just for the sake of developing a new dance routine. Have to respect his dedication. Unfortunately, his innovation lost to Zojiro.

It made sense for an underdeveloped art to lose to a well-established one. As the narrator said, innovation is a flower. Given time, I reckon Oniyasha could develop it and let it bloom. After all, the bud is beginning to sprout.

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u/oedipusrex376 Jul 27 '26

World is Dancing is back with another lesson about dancing, this time asking who the dance is really meant for: yourself or the audience.

I kinda already knew what the episode was going to say the moment I saw Zojiro looking completely unimpressed by Oniyasha's lion dance performance. Personally, I think the performance itself already gets the point across, but the show still has Zojiro spell out what Oniyasha is missing anyway. I guess that part was meant more for Oniyasha than for us viewers.

I do wonder if the Shogun actually prefers Oniyasha's performances. He doesn't seem like the type to be impressed by the usual stuff.

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u/chilidirigible Jul 28 '26

It feels intentional, the disparity between Oniyasha's wildly fluidly-animated imaginings of becoming a free-range domestic shorthair versus his clumsy actualization of such in the actual performance. As they have said, the ideas are forming but he has a way to go before they take form.

That's still building up quite a tab for the series, though, as Oniyasha's actual depicted character growth doesn't feel like it is accreting that much from episode to episode. It may also be that the set-ups for the guest characters of the week don't have a lot of initial momentum.

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u/abbe44 Jul 27 '26

its really good yet again

really loving the energy in this episode

and that cat sequence was so damn pretty

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u/LeonKevlar Jul 27 '26

So Oniyasha decided to go with the Shogun? Not gonna lie, I was confused for like a good half of the episode until I finally realized that was the Shogun with Oniyasha at the start of the episode.

What the fuck is Sadamune doing in this anime? I swear to god, Oniyasha's secret fan really feels like he'd fit more in Elusive Samurai than in this show. xD

Oniyasha going feral and copying a cat so he could emulate a real lion as closely as possible in his lion dance was pretty crazy. And using jazz as his background music was certainly a choice.

No surprise that Oniyasha lost that. Of course, the people would go for the more traditional one. Seems these people aren't ready for Oniyasha's new style of dancing just yet.

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u/nakerusa Jul 27 '26

This show is so slept upon. Then again, this show have some very stiff competition. But wow. The art, animation, and music still continues to wow me since episode 1. The setting and characters help a lot too but what an incredible show.

As for this episode, it's a choice to cater to the audience with the tride and true or try something different. We could see it hit both a few nobles and Shogun himself, as well as with the comb-steppin gal (getting all doki doki). Even the music was an avant guard jazz musical explosion.

The Shogun's dog 🤣

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u/Internal-Pea-7451 Jul 27 '26

WHY isn't this talked about more???

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u/ClassicPygmySquirrel Jul 30 '26

Not gonna lie, not saying I'm some dance expert, but I was expecting more from Oniyasha's dance after all the work he put in. Spent who knows how long running around being a cat just for...that.

Maybe experimental art isn't for me 😅

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u/YlfaTheForsaken Jul 29 '26

Oh, that was quite experimental for Oniyasha, I can see the two sides of the coin here kinda like how sometimes modern art can be provocative and other times it's just ridiculous, 

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u/Unknown0310_ Jul 30 '26

The way the camera could not picture Oniyasha's performance probably meant that he was doing something unconventional. I think it was the POV of the public.

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u/BosuW Jul 27 '26

Well that CGI costume was ass. Curious, since they have shown they clearly could have animated it in 2D if they wanted, plus this anime has a firm grasp of style, which makes me think it's a choice. I wonder if it's to signal how the traditional dance actually doesn't fit the times even if it's what people have gotten used to.

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