Jun Endō’s Pon no Michi: Ryūkyoku Shānyū-hen manga launches on Monday
Kodoani.com – Kodansha’s YanMaga website has just launched a new manga titled “Pon no Michi: Ryūkyoku Shānyū-hen” (The Way of Pon: Ryūkyoku Shānyū Arc), a spinoff of the popular mahjong anime series Pon no Michi. The spinoff was posted on Monday on the site.
The image’s caption said: “Official ‘unauthorized’ extravaganza of the Pon no Michi anime!”
The anime is about five high school girls living in a mahjong shop in Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture. Jun Endō’s spin-off manga depicts a different perspective:
“This is NOT the ‘What If’ story of high school girls 10 years later. The title and characters are the same, but it’s different! So please forgive me! An unofficial spin-off tells about the situation of adults starting.”
Tsukasa Unohana (Anima Yell!) also adapted the manga from the anime, which was published in Kodansha’s Nakayoshi magazine on September 1. The manga’s compilation volume will be released on January 12.
The anime Pon no Michi has been airing since January 5 in the “Animeism” programming block on TBS, MBS, and BS-TBS. Below is the list of main voice actors:
Kaori Maeda vai Nashiko Jippensha Iori Saeki vai Pai Kawahigashi Shion Wakayama vào vai Izumi Tokutomi Yui Kondou vai Riche Hayashi Akio Ōtsuka vai nhân vật linh hồn mạt chược, Chonbo Hibiku Yamamura vào vai Haneru Emi
The anime is set in Hiroshima Prefecture’s Onomichi city, where Nashiko Jippensha, a high school student, is kicked out of her home. With no place to play with her friends, she decides to renovate her father’s mahjong shop into a place to hang out, cook, drink tea and even play mahjong.
IIS-P was credited for the main story. Tatsuma Minamikawa is an anime director and screenwriter at OLM. Negi Haruba handled the original character designs and Kenji Ōta adapted the animation. The soundtrack was composed by Yūko Takahashi, Takuma Sogi, hisakuni, Rico Ohashi, Kanji Eguchi and Shari. The opening theme “Ponpopopon” will be performed by Pon no Michi All Stars, while halca will perform the ending theme “Good Luck Waker”.
