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Oni-riginal WIT Studio Produced TV Anime ‘Onipan!’ Announced for 2022

  The tale of love, friendship, and pantsu come to ahead in the new original TV anime from Gabriel DropOut and YuruYuri director Masahiko Ota and WIT Studio, Onipan! The first teaser trailer was released alongside the first visual of the three main oni-kids, as well as the lead cast and staff members for the series.

      Onipan! is the story of three oni-kids who, through the power of the onipan (a portmanteau of “oni” and “pantsu”) become human to help fix the relationship between humans and oni. The three girls transfer into a normal Tokyo high school to aid in their task and help fix their image by revitalizing the town, sometimes jumping headfirst into school events, and other times … becoming idols!

  Junichiro Hashiguchi (Bananafish episode director) is the assistant director of Onipan! alongside director Ota, with Ryuta Yanagi (Sword Art Online animation director) adapting Tomari’s original character designs into animation and acting as chiefs animation director, and Takashi Aoshima (Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!) writing the series composition based on the original story from The Ancient Magus' Bride director Norihiro Naganuma. The animation will be produced at WIT Studio.

  Other staff members include:

  Art Director - Shunsuke Suzuki

3DCG Director - Shigenori Hirosumi

Color Designer - Arisa Komatsu

Director of Photography - Shinji Tonsho

Editing - Emi Onodera

Sound Director - Yasunori Ebina

Sound Effects - Naoto Yamatani

Audio Recording - Keisuke Tsurumaki

Music - Yasuhiro Misawa

  The lead voice cast includes Sakura Gakuin idol group members:

  Yume Nozaki as Tsutsuji (Japanese for azalea)

  Mika Negishi as Himawari (Japanese for sunflower)

  Kokona Nonaka as Tsuyukusa (Japanese for Asiatic dayflower)

  The cast also includes Kaori Maeda (Shizuku Osaka in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club) as Momozono-Momo, Miyu Tomita (Gabriel White Tenma in Gabriel DropOut) as Issun-Boko, and Kikuko Inoue (Lust in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) as Kuma.

  Onipan! is scheduled to begin sometime in 2022.

  Source: Comic Natalie

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.

By: Daryl Harding