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Original TV Anime Pon no Michi Goes for the Win in January of 2024

Protagonist Nashiko Jippensha positively glows in excitement at the prospect of playing mahjong in a scene from the upcoming Pon no Michi TV anime.

 

Everyday life is a game of chance and skill in Pon no Michi, a newly announced girls-playing-mahjong-themed TV anime. The main staff and cast for the series has been revealed, including:

 

  • Original work: IIS-P
  • Director, screenplay: Tatsuma Minamikawa
  • Original character draft: Negi Haruba
  • Character design: Kenji Ota
  • Color design: Emi Kadano
  • Art director: Scott MacDonald
  • Director of photography: Miyabi Amada
  • Editor: Yoshiaki Kimura
  • Sound director: Goh Takahashi
  • Sound production: Bit Grooove Promotion
  • Music: Sachiko Takahashi, Takuma Sogi, hisakuni, Riko Ohashi, Kanji Eguchi, Shari
  • Music production: SUPA LOVE
  • Production cooperation: Mahjong Soul, Taiyo Giken Corporation
  • Animation production: OLM

 

Nashiko Jippensha voiced by Kaori Maeda (Shizuku Osaka in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club)

 

A character setting of Nashiko Jippensha from the upcoming Pon no Michi TV anime. Pai is a slender young lady with black hair with a prominent spit curl and blue eyes. She wears a white men's dress shirt, dark brown trousers, and light brown loafers.

 

Pai Kawahigashi voiced by Iori Saeki (Vivian in The tale of outcasts)

 

A character setting of Pai Kawahigashi from the upcoming Pon no Michi TV anime. Pai is a buxom young lady with blonde hair and amber eyes. She wears a frilly light blue dress, white stockings, and black boots.

 

Izumi Tokutomi voiced by Shion Wakayama (Takina Inoue in Lycoris Recoil)

 

A character setting of Izumi Tokutomi from the upcoming Pai no Michi TV anime. Izumi is a buxom young lady with short red hair and amber eyes. She wears hair barettes shaped like an X and an O, a white tanktop T-shirt, denim shorts, a yellow raincoat, and sandals.

 

Riche Hayashi voiced by Yui Kondou (Akane in Brynhildr in the Darkness)

 

A character setting of Rich Hayashi from the upcoming Pon no Michi TV anime. Riche is a buxom young woman with long lilac hair and green eyes. She wears a white blouse, a long green skirt, and brown boots.

 

 

A key visual for the upcoming Pon no Michi TV anime featuring the main cast of characters - Nashiko Jippensha, Pai Kawahigashi, Izumi Tokutomi, and Riche Hayashi - brandishing mahjong tiles and posing in front of a funicular outsde of  Onomichi city in Hiroshima Prefecture.

 

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An official website and Twitter feed (@ponnomichi_pr) have also been published for Pon no Michi. The story of Pon no Michi follows the everyday lives of four high school girls who live in Onomichi City in Hiroshima Prefecture and who hang out in a building that was previously a mahjong parlor. The series is scheduled to begin broadcasting in Japan in January of 2024.

 

Source: Comic Natalie

 

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