Wandance (2025) s01e09 Episode Script
The Style Wall
09 THE STYLE WALL
The open-style Endless Battle,
the main event, is about to begin!
-Whoa, Kadoma's next opponent is a B-Boy!
-[Kabe] Huh?
B-Boys have such sloppy musicality.
They kinda suck.
Yeah, it's all about throwing out
loads of flashy moves.
Okay, we're ready to go.
Both dancers come to center stage, please.
Huh? Is that the B-Boy?
Oh, crap…
-It's Kadoma vs B-Boy Kabe. Let's go!
-["SE4 2SH" playing]
[audience member] Go for it, Kadoma!
[audience member 2] Show 'em
what you've got, Kadoma!
[audience cheering]
[audience cheers]
[MC] Nice feeling!
Next on the battle stage is B-Boy,
Kabe! Let's go!
[Kabe] So B-Boy
can't win an open-style battle?
B-Boy
sucks because of sloppy musicality?
If that's what you all think,
how about I show you a dance
that blows your minds?
[cheers]
If all you do is follow the beat,
you'll still be second-rate.
I'm going to control the beat instead.
WANDANCE
["Samurai 2022 ver." playing]
The way Iori dances house…
Man, it's so cool.
When I danced just the way On wanted,
I won.
When I danced following Iori's suggestion,
I lost.
But the one that made me feel the best…
[stutters] It's like the pieces…
are all jumbled…
[Iori] Oh, you mean
from one step to the next?
Link them like a word game chain.
[stutters] A word game?
Like, try repeating only the final step
of the Charleston
then link it to another step
that starts with that move.
Got it…
Put simply,
your hands and feet
are the body's endpoints
and the energy only really reaches
those points in the last moment.
The first thing that moves is the trunk.
The neck, chest, hips…
Everything begins with the trunk, and
the hands and feet follow slightly behind.
It's the flow of these movements
in sequence that creates a dance.
I feel like dancing back and forth
to the same beat
is a better way to connect
with someone than using words.
That's how I started dancing with Iori
every day during lunch.
-I-Iori.
-Mmm?
I want to dance house.
Oh. You're an unusual guy.
People say house is a dance
that you only start to get how fun it is
after you've danced for a while.
To be honest,
I had zero interest in it at first.
I got into it through breaking.
B-Breaking.
[Iori] To be honest, at the B-Boy
training place I occasionally hit up,
most of them are okay dancers, I guess.
But there's this one guy who's insane.
This guy's reached a level
that regular power movers can't touch.
He really gets dance… I think.
So, you… you guys vibe.
Nah.
I'm not sure about that.
[sighs]
I went up against Kabe
in a breaking battle
back in my second year, and he beat me.
After that, I gave up on breaking
and switched to house.
It must have clicked with me,
because I started flourishing
around my third year.
When I run into him at practice spots
or events, on the surface we get along,
but I heard a rumor that he says stuff
behind people's backs.
[Kabe] Anyone who does toprock is
just someone who bailed on breaking.
A judge who gives someone like that
any credit is finished.
Still, the stuff he says
isn't entirely wrong, either.
He'll be participating, by the way.
At the next event,
the Inter-High Dance Battle.
So that's why Iori wanted to compete
as part of the dance club.
Oh. Kabo.
Oh.
I probably shouldn't have
left her waiting all by herself…
Oh…
[stutters] Yo.
Yo!
So, no more dance practice
outside the club, huh?
Yeah.
I-Iori told me about
a B-Boy practice spot…
[Wanda] I'm nervous.
[hip-hop music playing]
Nice, Chun.
-Huh?
-Huh?
[grunts]
-Oh? Iori's not here. [grunts]
-[phone buzzes]
IORI
SORRY, I'LL BE LATE.
START DANCING WITHOUT ME.
[gasps]
I guess we have no choice.
Kabo, let's go say hello.
Oh. Iori's friends?
You're Hikari Wanda
from Ichirin High School. I've seen you.
That thing that was trending?
-She's famous?
-She was in the video…
[whispering] That girl. So, I guess those
two… Is that what's going on? Go ask them.
On the way home from school…
alone together…
[Kabo] Oh… Oh…
-Is she your girlfriend?
-Huh?
[grunts] No…
-[all grunt]
-[music starts playing]
Whoa!
Huh? Those guys seem
way more enthusiastic than usual.
They really are all B-Boys.
They're all working on their own stuff.
Iori told me to start without him,
but what do I do?
[hip-hop music playing through speaker]
Wow.
That's hitting.
So Wanda's a popper.
["DOGS WILL BE DOGS" playing]
He's doing house.
He can dance like that
when making it up on the spot?
Cool, right?
[Kabo] Wanda is incredible.
There's something only I know.
She's aiming to be
the best dancer in the world.
I'll do my own dance.
Not often you see Kabe super absorbed
in something like that, huh?
Yeah, seriously.
I thought he was just another guy
who does flashy moves.
Just some wannabe
who turned up at this spot to hang out…
Turns out I was wrong.
I like it.
Oh.
This guy must be Kabe…
Yo.
Sorry I'm late. Let's do this?
These two are my elite dancers.
Yeah?
You guys can actually dance.
You should join the cypher.
Cypher?
A "cypher" is a circle of dancers.
One person dances at a time in the middle.
We usually end our sessions here
with a cypher.
With breaking, right?
These two don't have much experience.
Well, they've got an hour
to figure it out.
-Wha…
-Since they're elite.
[gasps]
Huh? I gotta teach these two?
Well then,
shall I teach mushroom boy over there?
[grunts]
So we'll see who can pull off
the best move after an hour, or something?
Love it.
Thank you…
So I guess…
For now, how about toprock?
[music playing]
This kind of thing.
Got it? How to explain?
Just try doing what I did.
I thought she'd get it. She's grasped that
bouncy, driving feel of the breakbeats.
Thank goodness.
Okay! Let's leave toprock there for a bit.
[Wanda] Huh…
[Iori] Let's go straight into footwork.
The movement's gotta flow
so you end up on the floor like this.
[grunting, gasps]
[chuckles] It's hard, right?
-[Wanda] Yeah.
-Really? Iori goes to the dance club too?
Seriously?
Do you like the dance club?
What is that?
Iori first and now this guy…
When they hear about the dance club,
it's like they look down on it.
Winning contests and all that is amazing,
but does Ichirin High School
ever enter battles?
[Kabo] We're going to.
I want to win.
-I like it.
-Huh?
I like it, I like it.
Um…
[audience cheering]
[Kabe] All the more reason
to practice the cypher.
The next battle is in a circle format too.
Well, I won't make you look bad.
["Break Down" playing]
[Iori] The basic flow of breaking
starts with toprock. This is toprock.
Then floor moves.
Footwork and power moves
performed on the floor, and so on.
Then finally, you finish it off
with a freeze.
That's the gist of it.
[B-Boy 1] The way she got down
on the floor was awesome.
Huh?
Nicely done, nicely done.
I bet On would be really good
at teaching this.
[B-Boys exclaim, laugh]
I never thought someone trying breaking
for the first time
would bust out uprock like that.
UPROCK… ON 1, 2,
HIT 'EM WITH ATTACK MOVES,
THEN DROP DOWN ON 3 & 4
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[chuckling]
Go, Kabe!
Whoo!
Iori, I still haven't forgotten.
Yeah! Yeah!
[B-Boy 2] That was insane.
-Nice.
-So good. Sick. Cool, man.
You're breaking out in a cold sweat.
Are you okay?
Now I think about it,
I guess there's a chance
I'll run into Kabe in a battle setting
sometime in the future.
-Yo.
-Oh. Hey.
Seriously, if I lose my daytime
practice spot, I'll have nowhere to go.
M… Me too.
Kabo.
Kabe made you drop a set yesterday, right?
A… A set?
Your dance looked totally choreographed
from beginning to end.
[grunts] I kind of had a feeling…
It's fine. I'll prepare a routine,
so all you have to do is dance it.
I was relieved, but at the same time,
I felt like I was doing something wrong.
But I couldn't find the right words.
You know those toys?
The ones that wiggle
when you make a sound?
What we're doing is likely just like that.
The competition is basically
who can wiggle the most stylishly.
Things like performing synchronized
choreography with a large group,
or creating set routines
for a solo performance
are the total opposite to street dance.
[Kabo] That's why up until now…
You remember the other day
when I had a battle with On
in the club room, don't you?
Before that, we, like, had
a small clash or something… [sighs]
Iori, I think you're wrong.
You have no idea what kind of practice
the dance club is doing right now
or what kind of ideas everyone has.
[gasps]
I know, if I beat you at a battle,
you have to join the club again.
You wanna do a battle, right?
Are you serious?
So I ended up coming to the club,
and then I understood.
It's different to when I was a first year,
because On is the president.
She's amazing.
She gets everyone to naturally start
with the core parts of street dance.
It forces you to get better,
whether you like it or not.
A dance club like that is good.
[Kabo sighs]
Huh?
I MAY NOT SPEAK SMOOTHLY,
BUT I WILL SPEAK SLOWLY
"Stutter card?"
I'm making this my phone background
so next time I can't say what I want to,
I can just whip it out.
Yeah? Yeah.
Wh… What I'm saying is that if you're open
with On about changing your opinion,
I think she would be really happy.
Oh, really? You think so?
[chuckling]
I GOT THE SOUND EQUIPMEN
I'VE BEEN WANTING!
-["Body Language" playing]
-The new sound system is seriously good.
Yeah.
Wanda can do those hits
in sync with On perfectly now.
Wanda's pushing herself
to get further and further ahead.
I've gotta catch up quickly.
-[phone buzzes]
-Oh…
Even so,
since that practice the other day,
I've been getting invitations from Kabe
over and over.
…YOU WON'T LEARN PROPERLY.
IT'S BETTER TO FOCUS ON BREAKING
I guess, I'm happy he seems to have
taken a liking to my dancing.
I THINK YOU'LL BE
GOOD AT BREAKING
[On] Everyone who wants to enter
the solo division
of the upcoming Inter-High Dance Battle,
gather over here!
[chuckles]
[chuckles]
-Oh.
-Ah…
Well, nice group, huh?
I think so too!
[feet scuffing]
[grunting]
Were you watching?
I want to dance with you again,
and I thought I might fall behind you
if I don't work at my breaking.
Ah…What?
She's just the same as me.
[B-Boy 3] Seriously? Ichirin High School
is entering the battle too?
[B-Boy 4] The kids from Ichirin High
School who came to the park the other day
were pretty good at dancing,
especially the guy.
[B-Boy 2] That's Kabo.
Even though he's a beginner…
[B-Boy 3] When someone with
a physique like that does it,
even something simple
like uprock hits differently.
KABOKU
WHEN ARE YOU COMING NEXT?
SORRY! MY PRACTICE SESSIONS
FOR THE BATTLE INCREASED,
SO I MIGHT NOT BE ABLE
TO COME FOR A WHILE…
THANK YOU FOR THE INVITATION!!
Huh? Kabe, you're going home already?
Oh, have you got work?
Yeah. Anyway,
let's show 'em what we've got.
Subtitle translation by Daisy Savage
The open-style Endless Battle,
the main event, is about to begin!
-Whoa, Kadoma's next opponent is a B-Boy!
-[Kabe] Huh?
B-Boys have such sloppy musicality.
They kinda suck.
Yeah, it's all about throwing out
loads of flashy moves.
Okay, we're ready to go.
Both dancers come to center stage, please.
Huh? Is that the B-Boy?
Oh, crap…
-It's Kadoma vs B-Boy Kabe. Let's go!
-["SE4 2SH" playing]
[audience member] Go for it, Kadoma!
[audience member 2] Show 'em
what you've got, Kadoma!
[audience cheering]
[audience cheers]
[MC] Nice feeling!
Next on the battle stage is B-Boy,
Kabe! Let's go!
[Kabe] So B-Boy
can't win an open-style battle?
B-Boy
sucks because of sloppy musicality?
If that's what you all think,
how about I show you a dance
that blows your minds?
[cheers]
If all you do is follow the beat,
you'll still be second-rate.
I'm going to control the beat instead.
WANDANCE
["Samurai 2022 ver." playing]
The way Iori dances house…
Man, it's so cool.
When I danced just the way On wanted,
I won.
When I danced following Iori's suggestion,
I lost.
But the one that made me feel the best…
[stutters] It's like the pieces…
are all jumbled…
[Iori] Oh, you mean
from one step to the next?
Link them like a word game chain.
[stutters] A word game?
Like, try repeating only the final step
of the Charleston
then link it to another step
that starts with that move.
Got it…
Put simply,
your hands and feet
are the body's endpoints
and the energy only really reaches
those points in the last moment.
The first thing that moves is the trunk.
The neck, chest, hips…
Everything begins with the trunk, and
the hands and feet follow slightly behind.
It's the flow of these movements
in sequence that creates a dance.
I feel like dancing back and forth
to the same beat
is a better way to connect
with someone than using words.
That's how I started dancing with Iori
every day during lunch.
-I-Iori.
-Mmm?
I want to dance house.
Oh. You're an unusual guy.
People say house is a dance
that you only start to get how fun it is
after you've danced for a while.
To be honest,
I had zero interest in it at first.
I got into it through breaking.
B-Breaking.
[Iori] To be honest, at the B-Boy
training place I occasionally hit up,
most of them are okay dancers, I guess.
But there's this one guy who's insane.
This guy's reached a level
that regular power movers can't touch.
He really gets dance… I think.
So, you… you guys vibe.
Nah.
I'm not sure about that.
[sighs]
I went up against Kabe
in a breaking battle
back in my second year, and he beat me.
After that, I gave up on breaking
and switched to house.
It must have clicked with me,
because I started flourishing
around my third year.
When I run into him at practice spots
or events, on the surface we get along,
but I heard a rumor that he says stuff
behind people's backs.
[Kabe] Anyone who does toprock is
just someone who bailed on breaking.
A judge who gives someone like that
any credit is finished.
Still, the stuff he says
isn't entirely wrong, either.
He'll be participating, by the way.
At the next event,
the Inter-High Dance Battle.
So that's why Iori wanted to compete
as part of the dance club.
Oh. Kabo.
Oh.
I probably shouldn't have
left her waiting all by herself…
Oh…
[stutters] Yo.
Yo!
So, no more dance practice
outside the club, huh?
Yeah.
I-Iori told me about
a B-Boy practice spot…
[Wanda] I'm nervous.
[hip-hop music playing]
Nice, Chun.
-Huh?
-Huh?
[grunts]
-Oh? Iori's not here. [grunts]
-[phone buzzes]
IORI
SORRY, I'LL BE LATE.
START DANCING WITHOUT ME.
[gasps]
I guess we have no choice.
Kabo, let's go say hello.
Oh. Iori's friends?
You're Hikari Wanda
from Ichirin High School. I've seen you.
That thing that was trending?
-She's famous?
-She was in the video…
[whispering] That girl. So, I guess those
two… Is that what's going on? Go ask them.
On the way home from school…
alone together…
[Kabo] Oh… Oh…
-Is she your girlfriend?
-Huh?
[grunts] No…
-[all grunt]
-[music starts playing]
Whoa!
Huh? Those guys seem
way more enthusiastic than usual.
They really are all B-Boys.
They're all working on their own stuff.
Iori told me to start without him,
but what do I do?
[hip-hop music playing through speaker]
Wow.
That's hitting.
So Wanda's a popper.
["DOGS WILL BE DOGS" playing]
He's doing house.
He can dance like that
when making it up on the spot?
Cool, right?
[Kabo] Wanda is incredible.
There's something only I know.
She's aiming to be
the best dancer in the world.
I'll do my own dance.
Not often you see Kabe super absorbed
in something like that, huh?
Yeah, seriously.
I thought he was just another guy
who does flashy moves.
Just some wannabe
who turned up at this spot to hang out…
Turns out I was wrong.
I like it.
Oh.
This guy must be Kabe…
Yo.
Sorry I'm late. Let's do this?
These two are my elite dancers.
Yeah?
You guys can actually dance.
You should join the cypher.
Cypher?
A "cypher" is a circle of dancers.
One person dances at a time in the middle.
We usually end our sessions here
with a cypher.
With breaking, right?
These two don't have much experience.
Well, they've got an hour
to figure it out.
-Wha…
-Since they're elite.
[gasps]
Huh? I gotta teach these two?
Well then,
shall I teach mushroom boy over there?
[grunts]
So we'll see who can pull off
the best move after an hour, or something?
Love it.
Thank you…
So I guess…
For now, how about toprock?
[music playing]
This kind of thing.
Got it? How to explain?
Just try doing what I did.
I thought she'd get it. She's grasped that
bouncy, driving feel of the breakbeats.
Thank goodness.
Okay! Let's leave toprock there for a bit.
[Wanda] Huh…
[Iori] Let's go straight into footwork.
The movement's gotta flow
so you end up on the floor like this.
[grunting, gasps]
[chuckles] It's hard, right?
-[Wanda] Yeah.
-Really? Iori goes to the dance club too?
Seriously?
Do you like the dance club?
What is that?
Iori first and now this guy…
When they hear about the dance club,
it's like they look down on it.
Winning contests and all that is amazing,
but does Ichirin High School
ever enter battles?
[Kabo] We're going to.
I want to win.
-I like it.
-Huh?
I like it, I like it.
Um…
[audience cheering]
[Kabe] All the more reason
to practice the cypher.
The next battle is in a circle format too.
Well, I won't make you look bad.
["Break Down" playing]
[Iori] The basic flow of breaking
starts with toprock. This is toprock.
Then floor moves.
Footwork and power moves
performed on the floor, and so on.
Then finally, you finish it off
with a freeze.
That's the gist of it.
[B-Boy 1] The way she got down
on the floor was awesome.
Huh?
Nicely done, nicely done.
I bet On would be really good
at teaching this.
[B-Boys exclaim, laugh]
I never thought someone trying breaking
for the first time
would bust out uprock like that.
UPROCK… ON 1, 2,
HIT 'EM WITH ATTACK MOVES,
THEN DROP DOWN ON 3 & 4
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[chuckling]
Go, Kabe!
Whoo!
Iori, I still haven't forgotten.
Yeah! Yeah!
[B-Boy 2] That was insane.
-Nice.
-So good. Sick. Cool, man.
You're breaking out in a cold sweat.
Are you okay?
Now I think about it,
I guess there's a chance
I'll run into Kabe in a battle setting
sometime in the future.
-Yo.
-Oh. Hey.
Seriously, if I lose my daytime
practice spot, I'll have nowhere to go.
M… Me too.
Kabo.
Kabe made you drop a set yesterday, right?
A… A set?
Your dance looked totally choreographed
from beginning to end.
[grunts] I kind of had a feeling…
It's fine. I'll prepare a routine,
so all you have to do is dance it.
I was relieved, but at the same time,
I felt like I was doing something wrong.
But I couldn't find the right words.
You know those toys?
The ones that wiggle
when you make a sound?
What we're doing is likely just like that.
The competition is basically
who can wiggle the most stylishly.
Things like performing synchronized
choreography with a large group,
or creating set routines
for a solo performance
are the total opposite to street dance.
[Kabo] That's why up until now…
You remember the other day
when I had a battle with On
in the club room, don't you?
Before that, we, like, had
a small clash or something… [sighs]
Iori, I think you're wrong.
You have no idea what kind of practice
the dance club is doing right now
or what kind of ideas everyone has.
[gasps]
I know, if I beat you at a battle,
you have to join the club again.
You wanna do a battle, right?
Are you serious?
So I ended up coming to the club,
and then I understood.
It's different to when I was a first year,
because On is the president.
She's amazing.
She gets everyone to naturally start
with the core parts of street dance.
It forces you to get better,
whether you like it or not.
A dance club like that is good.
[Kabo sighs]
Huh?
I MAY NOT SPEAK SMOOTHLY,
BUT I WILL SPEAK SLOWLY
"Stutter card?"
I'm making this my phone background
so next time I can't say what I want to,
I can just whip it out.
Yeah? Yeah.
Wh… What I'm saying is that if you're open
with On about changing your opinion,
I think she would be really happy.
Oh, really? You think so?
[chuckling]
I GOT THE SOUND EQUIPMEN
I'VE BEEN WANTING!
-["Body Language" playing]
-The new sound system is seriously good.
Yeah.
Wanda can do those hits
in sync with On perfectly now.
Wanda's pushing herself
to get further and further ahead.
I've gotta catch up quickly.
-[phone buzzes]
-Oh…
Even so,
since that practice the other day,
I've been getting invitations from Kabe
over and over.
…YOU WON'T LEARN PROPERLY.
IT'S BETTER TO FOCUS ON BREAKING
I guess, I'm happy he seems to have
taken a liking to my dancing.
I THINK YOU'LL BE
GOOD AT BREAKING
[On] Everyone who wants to enter
the solo division
of the upcoming Inter-High Dance Battle,
gather over here!
[chuckles]
[chuckles]
-Oh.
-Ah…
Well, nice group, huh?
I think so too!
[feet scuffing]
[grunting]
Were you watching?
I want to dance with you again,
and I thought I might fall behind you
if I don't work at my breaking.
Ah…What?
She's just the same as me.
[B-Boy 3] Seriously? Ichirin High School
is entering the battle too?
[B-Boy 4] The kids from Ichirin High
School who came to the park the other day
were pretty good at dancing,
especially the guy.
[B-Boy 2] That's Kabo.
Even though he's a beginner…
[B-Boy 3] When someone with
a physique like that does it,
even something simple
like uprock hits differently.
KABOKU
WHEN ARE YOU COMING NEXT?
SORRY! MY PRACTICE SESSIONS
FOR THE BATTLE INCREASED,
SO I MIGHT NOT BE ABLE
TO COME FOR A WHILE…
THANK YOU FOR THE INVITATION!!
Huh? Kabe, you're going home already?
Oh, have you got work?
Yeah. Anyway,
let's show 'em what we've got.
Subtitle translation by Daisy Savage