The official website for the Pon no Michi revealed a second promotional image this Friday (06), as well as a promotional video for the character Nashiko.
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Tatsuma Minamikawa (Fire Force, Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry) is directing and writing the scripts for the anime 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.
Synopsis
The anime takes place in the city of Onomichi, in Hiroshima Prefecture, where high school student Nashiko Jippensha has been kicked out of her home. Without a place to play with her friends, she discovers that the mahjong parlor her father used to run is empty. She fixes up the mahjong parlor and transforms it into a place where she and her friends can have fun, cook, drink tea, and sometimes play mahjong.
The main cast of the anime includes:
- Kaori Maeda as Nashiko Jippensha
- Iori Saeki as Father Kawahigashi
- Shion Wakayama as Izumi Tokutomi
- Yui Kondou as Riche Hayashi
Other team members include:
- Color artist: Emi Kadono
- Art Direction: Scott MacDonald
- Director of Photography: Miyabi Amada
- Edited by: Yoshiaki Kimura
- Sound Director: Tsuyoshi Takahashi
- Sound Production: Bit Grooove Promotion
- Music: Yūko Takahashi, Takuma Sogi, hisakuni, Rico Ohashi, Kanji Eguchi, Shari
- Musical Production: SUPA LOVE
- Production cooperation: Mahjong Soul, Taiyo Giken Co., Ltd.
Tsukasa Unohana, known for her work on "Anima Yell!", began a manga adaptation of Pon no Michi on September 1st in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine.
Source: Official website
