New visual also unveiled for anime about West African god helping Japanese high school girls

The official website for the upcoming 3DCG "dance" anime Onyankopon unveiled a new promotional video, visual, cast, and October 6 premiere for the anime on Friday. The video describes the anime's story premise.

The anime will premiere on October 6 on the MixChannel online streaming site, and will premiere on October 9 on Tokyo MX.

The new cast includes:

Mako as Hamster Minami as Ryūjirō Ririri as Tamago Sadao Shimura as Otter Haruka Yoshimura as Rabbit Risa Watanabe as Rikuo Mika Kato as Nagiko Rika as Slothful Person 1 Riko as Slothful Person 2 Ari Ozawa as Rina Maria Naganawa as Ichika Saori Murakita as Moko Moa Tsukino as Seri

Maaya Uchida will star as Onyankopon, a West African sky god who appears as a cat in the show, and Shunya Ōhira will play Axolotl, Onyankopon's subordinate.

The anime's "Onyankopon" watched over people long ago, but one day an old woman accidentally hit Onyankopon in the head with a mallet while mashing yams. Since then, Onyankopon has been nervous about greeting people directly, and so sends subordinates to speak to them and solve their problems. In the show, Onyankopon will use Afrobeat and dance to help Japanese high school girls with problems such as dieting, love, and cramming for exams.

Sōta Sugahara (gdgd Fairies, Hi-sCool! Seha Girls) is directing the series and Takeshi Onaka (Lights of the Clione) is writing the scripts. Hikaru Suemasa is designing the characters.

Music duo Makomina is serving as the chief producer for the anime and twin models Rikariko are listed as the producer.

[Via Otasuke]