The official site for Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha has updated with some new supporting cast character information but also a look at the premiere for the series. The show, which was set for a winter 2014 debut for awhile, now has a formal date of January 15th, 2014. You can see the full broadcast network breakdown here for the show as it hits different dates on different networks. The series is based off of the 2010 manga series of the same name by Morohe Yoshida. It’s currently got six volumes published in Japan. The manga series is the first full ongoing title from the creator after doing the Star Ocean 2 Second Evolution adaptation. The series is being directed by Toru Takahashi, who has largely done just episode direction and storyboards over the years. Of note, he was an episode director on ten episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena and did some work on Azumanga Daioh as well. The series is being adapted and scripted by Touko Machida who has a very extensive list of credits across numerous shows from Karneval to Lucky Star and some Sayuki material. The animation is being done by Production IMS, marking htis as their first full on production after assisting on Fantasista Doll and Mushibugyo.
Cast:
Naomi Ozara – Inari Fushimi
Uka-no-Mitama-no-Kami – Houko Kuwashima
Kōji Tanbabashi – Hiroshi Okamoto
Akemi Sumizome – Inori Minase
Chika Marutamachi – Kaori Sadohara
Tōka Fushimi – Youji Ueda
Staff:
Director: Toru Takahashi
Assistant Director: Eiki Okamoto
Series Composition: Touko Machida
Character Designer & Chief AD: Yuka Takashina
Main Animator: Hong Shen
Prop design: Matsuri Okuda
Color scheme: Aya Ouchi
Art Director: Yutaka Onishi
Art setting: Ryū Sakamoto
Director of photography: Ryosuke Tsuda
Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama
Sound Director: Kazuya Tanaka
Sound effects: Noriko Izumo
Sound production: Dax Production
Music: Takeshi Senoo
Music Production: Flying Dog
Animation production: Production IMS
Plot Concept: Fushimi Inari has a hopeless crush on her classmate Tanbabashi. One day, while trying to interact with him, she accidentally humiliates him in front of the whole class. He refuses to accept her apologies, and, to make matters worse, she discovers that he probably has a crush on their incredibly cute classmate Sumizome.
She has all these things in mind when she is summoned by Uka-no-Mitama-no-kami, a pale fox goddess. In return for rescuing a little fox-spirit creature before school that day, the goddess offers to grant a single wish of Inari’s. Without thinking, she blurts out that she wants to be Sumizome. As one might expect, this wish does not go nearly as well as Inari had hoped, and the kindly goddess breaks a goddess-rule to give Inari the ability to change herself back. Now, Inari can change her own shape at will, and using her new skill is very tempting as she keeps trying to win Tanbabashi’s heart. But if Inari flaunts her ability, both she and the goddess might end up in trouble with Amaterasu!
