With its premiere scheduled for January 5, 2024, you can see a new trailer for the original anime series above. Pon no Michi (The Way of Pon). in the video you can hear the opening theme “Pon-Popopon” by Kana Nakada feat. the Pon no Michi All-Stars.
The animation is from the studio OLM (Pokémon, Summer Time Rendering, ODD TAXI, Komi can't communicate), the direction and story is by Tatsuma Minamikawa (Fire Force, Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry) and the character design is by Kenji Ōta (key animation, Pokémon XY) based on the drawings of Negi Haruba (The Quintessential Quintuplets).
- Color Artist: Emi Kadono
- Art Direction: Scott MacDonald
- Photography composition direction: 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.
In the cast we have:
- Riche Hayashi by Yui Kondou (Akane in Brynhildr in the Darkness)
- Izumi Tokutomi by Shion Wakayama (Takina Inoue in Lycoris Recoil)
- Father Kawahigashi by Iori Saeki (Vivian in The tale of outcasts)
- Nashiko Jippensha by Kaori Maeda (Shizuku Osaka in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club)
- Haneru Emi by Hibiku Yamamura (Yuna in The Legendary Hero is Dead!)
Synopsis of Pon no Michi
The anime takes place in the city of Onomichi, in Hiroshima Prefecture, where a high school student Nashiko Jippensha was 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.
