The Story of the Boy Who Would One Day Be Known as Zeami “The World Is Dancing” Episode II: “You Have a Body, Don’t You?” Synopsis, Next Episode Preview and Advance Cuts Revealed

Tokyo, Japan, 7th Jul 2026 – CyberAgent, Inc. announces The World Is Dancing, currently available to HIDIVE subscribers throughout the U.S. and Canada as well as in key overseas markets including Australia and New Zealand since June 29, has unveiled the synopsis, next episode preview, and advance cuts for Episode II.

Set in a turbulent era of constant conflict, this work follows the intensely curious and beautiful boy Oniyasha (CV: Yumiri Hanamori) as he meets people, laughs, cries, confronts his own weaknesses, and shapes a new form of dance in an impermanent world. It is a “dancing story” spanning 600 years, exploring what might have happened when the man who would later create Noh—Zeami—was still called Oniyasha.

The anime is produced by the animation studio Cypic (Umamusume: Cinderella Gray, The Summer Hikaru Died). The series is directed by Toshimasa Kuroyanagi, known for his work on the TV anime The Great Passage, the animated film Love Me, Love Me Not, and both the TV and theatrical versions of the Backflip!!  series. 
The series recently won a Special Award at the Short Shorts Film Festival, drawing immense attention.

Set in 1374 during the conflict between the Northern and Southern Courts, Act 1 introduced Oniyasha, a boy born to the Kanze troupe of sarugaku performers, who spends his days unable to find meaning in dance. One day, he encounters Shirabyoshi dancing in a barn, experiencing something truly “good” for the first time. Following the broadcast, social media was flooded with praise from viewers captivated by the passion ignited in Oniyasha’s heart and the breathtaking animation of the dance sequences.

Following the broadcast and streaming of Act 1, social media was flooded with high praise from viewers who were captivated by Oniyasha’s passion and the striking intensity of the dance. Enthusiastic comments poured in, with fans stating, “Act 1 of The World Is Dancing was amazing!” and “It was incredibly entertaining; I’m absolutely watching every single episode.” Viewers also expressed their awe at the production quality, noting, “The way the expression of Shirabyoshi’s dance changed alongside Oniyasha’s shifting heart was truly beautiful,” and “The dance scene in the second half was a masterpiece that showed just how far Japanese animation can go.” 

Anticipation for the rest of the series was evident in reactions like, “It exceeded my expectations! I can’t wait to see what the passion born within Oniyasha will go on to create.”

In Episode II, fascinated by Shirabyoshi’s “good” dance, Oniyasha wishes to be able to dance like that himself and begins visiting her along with his friends Kogane and Ishiya. However, the heart-pounding excitement he felt that day never returns no matter how long he waits, leaving Oniyasha with a growing sense of frustration.

Nevertheless, triggered by his encounter with the Shirabyoshi, Oniyasha’s dance slowly begins to change, even earning him praise from his father, Kan’ami, who had never acknowledged him before. But it was not only Oniyasha’s dance that had changed…

What kind of story will Oniyasha’s changing dance and heart weave from here on? Don’t miss Act II!

The World Is Dancing Episode II Title & Advance Cuts

Episode II: “You Have a Body, Don’t You?”

Fascinated by what he found “good”, Oniyasha makes visits to Shirabyoshi accompanied by his friends Kogane and Ishiya, who also want to be able to dance that well. Though Oniyasha’s dance changes due to their encounters, other things have changed as well.

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Streaming from June 29, will be available to all HIDIVE subscribers throughout the U.S. and Canada as well as in key overseas markets including Australia and New Zealand.
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STORY:

In 1374, amid the turmoil of the Northern and Southern Courts’ long running conflict, a boy named Oniyasha is born into a family of sarugaku theater performers. He spends his days in a kind of quiet gloom, haunted by a simple but persistent question: Why do people dance? Then, one day, he witnesses a dance that he feels to be “good”—and everything begins to change. This is the story of the beautiful young boy who would one day shape the art of Noh and be remembered as Zeami.

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WARSAW, Poland — July 2026 — Poland has officially entered Europe’s scale-up league. According to a new editorial ranking published by BNBN.pl, one of Poland’s fastest-growing business news portals, the country’s startup ecosystem is no longer an early-stage curiosity — it is producing companies valued in the billions and attracting record foreign capital. Venture funding in Poland reached PLN 3.4 billion in 2025 across roughly 180 deals, and the first months of 2026 have already brought an 84% year-on-year increase in invested capital.

Here are the ten Polish startups the portal’s editors believe deserve global attention in 2026:

1. ElevenLabs — The AI voice-generation phenomenon founded by Piotr Dąbkowski and Mateusz Staniszewski has become Poland’s most celebrated tech export. After a Sequoia-led Series D in early 2026, the company reported annual recurring revenue of around $500 million — up from $350 million just months earlier.

2. ICEYE — The satellite radar-imaging company with Polish roots closed a €200 million Series E in December 2025 at a €2.4 billion valuation, cementing its position as a leader in Earth observation and defense-related monitoring.

3. Booksy — The Warsaw-born booking platform for beauty and wellness services keeps expanding in the US and Europe, with more than $200 million raised to date.

4. DocPlanner — The healthtech unicorn behind ZnanyLekarz secured a €80 million Series E and continues to digitize medical appointments across Europe and Latin America.

5. Brainly — The Kraków-founded learning platform, used by hundreds of millions of students worldwide, has doubled down on AI-powered tutoring after its $80 million Series D.

6. Ramp Network — The crypto-payments infrastructure startup remains one of Poland’s strongest fintech bets, powering fiat-to-crypto rails for global partners.

7. Sybilla Technologies — A rising star of Polish spacetech, the company raised over €8 million in 2026 for its global network of optical sensors tracking objects in orbit.

8. Infermedica — The Wrocław-based medtech develops AI-driven symptom-checking and triage technology used by insurers and healthcare providers in dozens of countries.

9. Nomagic — The Warsaw robotics company builds AI-powered robotic arms for e-commerce warehouses and is expanding rapidly across Western Europe.

10. Paymove — One of the freshest names on the list, this fintech raised €2.12 million in seed funding in 2026 to build payment systems designed for agentic AI — a category that barely existed a year ago.

“Poland’s startup scene has reached critical mass,” comments the editorial team at BNBN.pl. “AI, spacetech, healthtech and fintech built in Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław now compete globally — and international investors have taken notice. Moderna is considering a factory in Poland, Taiwanese investors are building a technology park near Wrocław, and Polish founders are raising some of the largest rounds in Europe.”

The full ranking, along with daily coverage of Polish and international business, finance and technology news, is available on the portal’s website.

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BNBN.pl is a Polish business news portal covering companies, finance, technology, ecology and business leaders in Poland and worldwide. Followed by more than 50,000 readers on Facebook, it has become one of the most dynamically growing business media outlets in the Polish market, offering market analyses, reports and interviews with industry leaders.

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New York City, United States, July 7th, 2026, FinanceWire

Octozi, an artificial intelligence company that automates clinical development workflows for pharmaceutical sponsors, has raised $3 million in seed funding. The round was led by Surface Ventures, with participation from Remarkable Ventures, and follows a prior investment from the venture arm of Debiopharm, a Swiss pharmaceutical company.

Clinical trials generate substantial volumes of data that must be cleaned, reconciled, and reviewed before a new treatment can gain a drug approval from regulators. Much of this work is performed manually by data managers, medical monitors, and safety teams, which adds time and cost to drug development.

Octozi’s platform integrates with existing clinical systems and uses a human-in-the-loop design in which clinical study teams retain oversight while AI automation accelerates data cleaning, data review, reconciliation, and reporting. The platform combines large language models with deterministic clinical algorithms and external medical knowledge so that outputs reflect clinical context, such as distinguishing an expected drop in platelet counts after chemotherapy from a discrepancy that requires review.

The platform already currently supports Phase III trials, a late stage of clinical development involving thousands of patients. In a controlled study described in a published research paper, Octozi’s artificial intelligence assistance increased data cleaning throughput approximately six-fold and reduced the reviewer error rate from 54.7 percent to 8.5 percent, while lowering false positive queries approximately fifteen-fold. An accompanying economic analysis of a representative Phase III oncology trial estimated savings of more than $5 million per trial.

“Most tools in this space put trial data on a dashboard and leave the analysis to clinical teams,” said Amit Patel, co-founder and chief executive officer of Octozi. “Octozi was built to perform that work alongside the people who own the data, with the human in control and the model handling tasks that previously took weeks of manual effort.”

“Octozi brings value to pharmaceutical companies in multiple ways,” said Gyan Kapur, managing partner at Surface Ventures. “It improves the quality of data submitted to regulatory bodies; it helps clinical development and data teams with their day to day work, allowing them to be less of a bottleneck in all the trials they may be managing; and it speeds up the time on specific tasks, which allow pharmaceutical companies to get data out faster to regulators, potentially speeding up time to market for life saving therapies.”

“Clinical development is one of the most expensive and time-consuming processes in any industry, and the data operations layer underneath it has barely changed in decades,” Patel said. “We think purpose-built AI, designed around how clinical teams actually work, can compress timelines, reduce risk, and bring down cost across the entire development cycle.”

About Octozi

Octozi is a New York-based artificial intelligence company that automates clinical trial data operations for pharmaceutical sponsors and contract research organizations. Its human-in-the-loop platform integrates with existing clinical systems to automate the cleaning, reconciliation, review, and reporting of trial data. More information is available at www.octozi.com.

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