Pon no Michi — Season 1, Episode 9: Let's Betcha!
Animation, Comedy • 24 min • 1 season, 12 episodes • ★ 6.0/10
Episode synopsis
The Becher Festival is a festival where parishioners dressed as demons chase children. One day, as the festival, which represents Onomichi City, draws near, Nashiko and Riche suggest that everyone go around the festival together. However, when Izumi hears this, she collapses. Worried by Nashiko and her friends, Izumi reveals that she was chased by a parishioner as a child and has been traumatized by demons ever since. So, Nashiko and her friends impose a certain training on Izumi in order to help her overcome her demon fears...
About Pon no Michi
The story is set in Hiroshima Prefecture's Onomichi City, where a high school student Nashiko Jippensha was kicked out of her house. Without a place to play with her friends, she learns that the mahjong parlor that her father used to run is now vacant. She fixes the mahjong parlor and turns it into a place where she and her friends can have fun, cook, have tea, and sometimes play mahjong.