The official website for the anime Pon no Michi (The Way of Pon) revealed this Friday (01) that Hibiku Yamamura will play Haneru Emi, a high school student who takes the game of mahjong very seriously. Additionally, the website also revealed new promotional art for the anime.
Pon no Michi – Promotional art and new information about the anime
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The anime's main cast includes:
- Kaori Maeda as Nashiko Jippensha
- Iori Saeki as Father Kawahigashi
- Shion Wakayama as Izumi Tokutomi
- Yui Kondou as Riche Hayashi
Tatsuma Minamikawa (Fire Force, Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry) is directing and writing the anime's scripts at OLM. Negi Haruba (original creator of The Quintessential Quintuplets) is sketching the original character designs, and Kenji Ōta is adapting the designs for animation.
Other team members include:
Color Artist: Emi Kadono
Art Direction: Scott MacDonald
Director of Photography: Miyabi Amada
Editing: Yoshiaki Kimura
Sound Director: Tsuyoshi Takahashi
Sound Production: Bit Grooove Promotion
Music: Yūko Takahashi, Takuma Sogi, hisakuni, Rico Ohashi, Kanji Eguchi , Shari
Music Production: SUPA LOVE
Production cooperation: Mahjong Soul, Taiyo Giken Co., Ltd.
Synopsis
The anime takes place in the city of Onomichi in Hiroshima Prefecture, where a high school student Nashiko Jippensha has been expelled from her home. Without a place to play with her friends, she discovers that the mahjong room her father ran is empty. She fixes up the mahjong room and turns it into a place where she and her friends can have fun, cook, drink tea, and sometimes play mahjong.
Source: Official website
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