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Jul 7, 2022
Preliminary (35/? chp)
Aside from sounding like a Drake song, Wondance is a criminally underrated series that I didn't expect to be so "not popular", per se.

(Yes there is a TL;DR)

The premise is essentially about a guy with anxiety and stuttering who becomes invested in dancing because as the book states "you don't need words to express yourself" (or something along those lines). Story progresses about how you would expect.

The book itself handles these issues and traits of the main character very well--as someone with social anxiety (and I'm sure a lot of you guys as well), seeing an MC in any entertainment medium with anxiety usually results in enough second-hand embarassment I want to crawl in a hole and die. But I don't get that. So that's good.

That being said, it's not flawless--it has the shounen/isekai issue of an MC that develops too hard, too fast, and the scapegoat of "paying attention to small details because of anxiety" can only be used so much. I don't know too much about dancing, but I've practiced a plethora of musical instruments and it did not take 3 months to play Csardas or Clair de Lune. Mostly ignorable, but it is noticeable.

The art is very well drawn, seriously 9/10 art, which was one of the most surprising things to me (given how unknown it is), and while no character SUPER stood out it's not like we had any unlikable/dull characters either. Overall, enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would've on a manga focused on dancing.

TL;DR (I don't think it's THAT long...): Underrated manga about dancing that tackles anxiety and stuttering, great art, perfectly fine characters, will probably enjoy it more than u think u will.

8-9/10 (so far)
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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