The official website for the anime adaptation of Chikyu no Sakana Ponchan’s Kirio Fan Club manga revealed three additional cast members. The new cast members of Kirio Fan Club include Yōko Hikasa as young Kirio, Yui Kanari as Nozomi, and Yū Serizawa as Yua. The characters will all be making their appearance in episode 8, which airs on Thursday.
The cast members include:
- Yūya Hirose as Mitsuru Manda
- Jin Ogasawara as Hayato Momose
- Ayasa Itō as Satsuki Muraoka
- Fūka Izumi as Seira Tashiro
- Nene Hieda as Aimi Miyoshi
- Shion Wakayama as Nami Sometani
- Gakuto Kajiwara as Ken Kirio
Sō Toyama directs the Kirio Fan Club anime at SATELIGHT. Aya Satsuki oversees and writes the series scripts, and Nami Hayashi is the character designer.
Additional staff members include:
- Main Key Animation: Kikuko Sadakata
- Art Settings: Katsuhisa Takiguchi (Studio Tulip)
- Art Director: Daisuke Suzuki (Studio Tulip)
- Color Design: Haruko Nobori (Hiyori)
- Director of Photography: Tsuyoshi Shimura
- Editing: Shūji Matsumoto
- Sound Director: Toshiki Kameyama
- Sound Production: Studio Sound Bee
- Music: Tomoki Kikuya
- Music Production: PONY CANYON
Chikyu no Sakana Ponchan launched the manga on Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha’s Comic Ruelle service in 2022, and the manga ran until August 2024. Kodansha USA Publishing will begin to release the manga in English starting in spring 2026. The anime premiered on April 2nd.
Lastly, here’s a synopsis of the story, via Kodansha:
What would you do if your crush had ear-splitting farts? For Aimi and Nami, the answer is to cry tears of joy for being able to pinpoint at a distance the object of their affections, Kirio, from a single toot. These are the kinds of deep, philosophical questions the two friends/rivals in romance pose to each other to prove their love for this boy who hardly seems to know they exist. That won’t stop them from conducting nightly rituals to entice him into their dreams, though, or listing out what exactly they like about him, down to the very last organ. But when push comes to shove, will they choose their hilarious friendship over a shot at love?
