'Jantama Pong☆' Sequel 'Jantama Kan!!' Announced for April 2024

by Vindstot
Jan 6, 2024 4:23 PM | 2 Comments

Video game developer Yostar Co, LTD. launched an official website for a sequel to the Jantama Pong☆ (Mahjong Soul Pon☆) anime on Saturday, revealing the staff, cast, a key visual (pictured), and teaser promo. The net anime, Jantama Kan!! (Mahjong Soul Kan!!), will stream on the franchise's official YouTube channel beginning April 2024.

Staff
Director, Series Composition: Kazuomi Koga (Temple)
Character Design: Ayumi Kurokawa (Rilu Rilu Fairilu: Yousei no Door sub-character design)
Art Director, Art Design: Noriko Tsutsui (Studio Aqua) (Jantama Pong☆)
Color Design: Yuusuke Watanabe (Studio Elle) (Isekai Shoukan wa Nidome desu)
Director of Photography: Tetsuya Nishimura (Studio Elle) (Tensei Kizoku no Isekai Boukenroku)
Editing: Junichi Masunaga (Imagica EMS) (Kizuna no Allele)
Sound Director: Chikako Yokota (Good Night World)
Music: Hinako Tsubakiyama (Dream Monster) (Shy)
Studio: Alke
Production: Yostar

Cast
Ichihime: Maaya Uchida (Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta...)
Wanjirou: Yuuki Ono (Beastars)
Miki Nikaidou: Chiwa Saitou (Bakemonogatari) NEW
Ein: Tetsuya Kakihara (Fairy Tail) NEW
Osamu Saitou: Hiroki Yasumoto (Hoozuki no Reitetsu)
Kana Fujita: Maaya Uchida NEW
Kaguyahime: Mariya Ise (Kakegurui)
Fukuhime: Kana Ueda (Fate/stay night) NEW
Hibiki Himekawa: Akari Kitou (Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun) NEW
Curvy: Mai Nakahara (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni) NEW
Reina Nanami: Yui Horie (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!) NEW
A-37: Makoto Furukawa (Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen) NEW
Yuzu: Maria Naganawa (Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon) NEW
Yui Yagi: Ami Koshimizu (Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru.)

Note: New cast joining with the sequel are denoted with the legend NEW.

Produced by Scooter Films, the first anime short aired in 11 episodes in Spring 2022. A side story web special premiered ahead of the television broadcast in March 2022. The physical release of the game included a special episode in October that year.

Cat Food Studio published the multiplayer browser game in China in June 2018. Yostar released the game in Japan and internationally the following April and subsequently on iOS and Android platforms.

Teaser PV

Official site: https://mahjongsoul-kang.jp/
Official X (Twitter): @MahjongSoul_JP

Source: Famitsu

Jantama Kan!! on MAL