History Main / DancingTheme

** ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' went slightly disco with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKmexnug6pg Wonderful Powerful Music!!]] and then turned to the [[TastesLikeDiabetes stupidly saccharine]] with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA3Zze9lQXk #Rainbow of Hope#]]

* The ED of ''Manga/TokimekiTonight'' features the main character dancing wearing nothing but a cape, and was also one of the earlier anime to use this trope. The dance would be subject to MemeticMutation decades later.
* The ''Manga/{{Kakegurui}}'' anime adaptation's title sequence has the main character Yumeko Jabami pirouetting through dining tables with other member's of the cast laid out for her to "eat", climaxing with a tango between her and the series' BigBad.

* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': The theme song includes a short clip of characters dancing to the song.

* The opening of ''Series/{{Peacemaker}}'' where everybody is dancing in a straight face. Since the show is created by Creator/JamesGunn, you know what kind of show is it despite being set in the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse.

* The second opening for ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUzNLayMrJk dancing from the main characters]].

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'''s 8th op has a dancing Conan. He wears a completely serious face almost the entire time.

* The ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' franchise has been running on these for the past ''10 YEARS''.

* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire [=Capu2=]'''s OP, "DISCOTHEQUE". It is, yes, the six girls of the show disco dancing.

** ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'' appears to taking the idol route with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxfsmpwnXkM Beyond The Sky]].

* Done in a funky and incredibly catchy way via the ED of ''Manga/BloodBlockadeBattlefront'' to the beat of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3SlUmr_T4g "Sugar Song and Bitter Step" by Unison Square Park.]]

** The ED of ''Anime/JewelpetHappiness'' has EVERY Jewelpet getting a turn at dancing, plus all the humans, with the main PowerTrio dancing in maid outfits.

* ''Franchise/{{Jewelpet}}'':

* ''LightNovel/GoshuushouSamaNinomiyaKun'''s ED "Hooray, Hooray, Pom-Pom!" features dancing in both cheerleading outfits and towels. Can you ''feel'' the FanService?

** The tenth OP, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZpePoxgqk "Shoujo S"]], has Rukia and Orihime dancing throughout the song. Matsumoto is also shown with them, but mostly during the silhouetted parts.

* ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'', the GagSeries spinoff crossover between ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' really drives home how utterly different it is from its usually dead serious source material with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvbaM-URygs 'Super Affection']], an ultra-genki song which, as well as showing the main heroines of each game dancing like idol singers, also featured [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters about half the characters]] in the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} waving their arms in the air with huge smiles on their faces (except Hisui and Ren, [[TheStoic who don't smile]] and Assassin, [[RunningGag who's a cardboard cut-out]]).

%% * Both openings and at least one of the ending themes had this in the anime version of ''[[Anime/TheIdolmaster THE iDOLM@STER]]''

* ''LightNovel/NogizakaHarukaNoHimitsu'''s ED "Hitosashiyubi Quiet!", featuring the entire female cast in [[{{Meido}} maid outfits]] set to an actual dance done in Akihabara. Haruka's a secret {{otaku}} herself, so it was only fitting.

%% * The ''{{Ankh}}'' point-n-click adventure game.

* ''KwikSnax'' for the ZX Spectrum had an intro showing Dizzy and his egg-shaped pals playing in their band.
* The UpdatedRerelease for ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' (entitled ''Persona 4: The Golden'') was given a new opening sequence with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPAyiNrnFAM main characters dancing to upbeat j-pop]]. Pretty cheerful for a game centered around a bizarre, supernatural murder mystery.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' has the main characters performing figure skating jumps and spins through the city streets in the opening animation that plays before the title screen while the J-pop song "Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There" accompanies them.

* ''Manga/{{Kannagi}}'''s OP, "motto Hade ni ne!", primarily features Nagi singing and dancing on stage. It doesn't have much to do with the actual show, but it looks nice.

* ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' engages in a little of this during the second season's opening. True to its ReferenceOverdosed nature, one of the dance moves is [[Series/KamenRider Kamen Rider #1]]'s transformation pose.

* ''Anime/DaiMahouTouge'''s OP shows Punie performing an awfully cute little dance (including the [[Music/VillagePeople YMCA]] hand gestures at one point), against a background of several well-known Japanese buildings burning bright against the night sky.

* The first ending of ''Anime/FushigiboshiNoFutagohime'' is a rather more sedate ballroom dance.

Compare FiveManBandConcert. For the Dancing Theme where they're in kimonos, see {{Ondo}}.

* ''Manga/SoredemoMachiWaMawatteiru'''s OP, "DOWN TOWN", features pretty much the entire cast dancing. It makes a nice compliment to the FiveManBandConcert ending.

* ''LightNovel/WagayaNoOinariSama'''s second ending theme, "Shiawase no Kotodama", has the cast dancing at a festival in SuperDeformed style.

* ''Manga/YakitateJapan'' features [[FunnyAfro afro-clad]] mentor Ken Matsuhiro [[GratuitousDiscoSequence disco-dancing]] in its second ED, "To All Tha Dreamers".

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' has the main characters performing ice skate dance routines through the city streets in the opening animation that plays before the title screen while the j-pop song "Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There" accompanies them.

* Several of the [=EDs=] to ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' feature a small figure of Lum dancing in place as the credits roll past.

* Despite its serious, romantic themes, ''Manga/HanaYoriDango'' (''Boys Over Flowers'') starts with a peppy, upbeat, '50s-tinged dance number, "Ordinary Sunday (Steppin' Out)".