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Pon no Michi Original Anime Reveals New Cast Member, Visual

The official website for the original mahjong Hibiku Yamamura will play Haneru Emi, a female high school student who takes playing mahjong very seriously. The website also revealed a new key visual for the anime:

Hibiku Yamamura as Haneru Emi

The anime's main cast includes:

Kaori Maeda as Nashiko Jippensha

Iori Saeki as Pai Kawahigashi

Shion Wakayama as Izumi Tokutomi

Yui Kondō as Riche Hayashi

Akio Ōtsuka as Mahjong spirit character, Chonbo

The anime will premiere in January 2024 in the "Animeism" programming block on BS-TBS.

The anime is set in Hiroshima Prefecture's Onomichi City, where a high school student Nashiko Jippensha was kicked out of her house. Without a place to play with her friends, she learns that the mahjong parlor that her father used to run is now vacant. She fixes the mahjong parlor and turns it into a place where she and her friends can have fun, cook, have tea, and sometimes play mahjong.

IIS-P is credited for the original story. Pokémon XY) is adapting the designs for animation.

Other staff include:

• Color Key Artist: Emi Kadono
• Art Director: Scott MacDonald
• Compositing Director of Photography: Miyabi Amada
• Editing: Yoshiaki Kimura
• Sound Director: Tsuyoshi Takahashi
• Sound Production: Bit Grooove Promotion
• Music: Kanji Eguchi, Shari
• Music Production: SUPA LOVE
• Production Cooperation: Mahjong Soul, Taiyo Giken Co., Ltd.

Nakayoshi magazine on Friday .

Sources: Pon no Michi anime's website, Comic Natalie