Series synopsis
Let's Make a Mug Too, also known as やくならマグカップも is a Japanese animation comedy television series that premiered on CBC on April 3, 2021. It ended on December 18, 2021. It stars Haru Miyachi, Nendo Tsumura, Minami Tanaka and Yu Serizawa.
Together with her father, who had quit his salaryman job, Toyokawa Himeno moves to Gifu prefecture's Tajimi city. That's the city where her mother is from, whom she had lost when she was still young. Himeno is now attending her mother's alma mater, where her classmate Kukuri Mika invites her to tag along to a special place. That place turns out to be the pottery club! There, she learns for the first time that her mother was a legendary potter, and is consequently pulled into the world of pottery ...
Premise
Together with her father, who had quit his salaryman job, Toyokawa Himeno moves to Gifu prefecture's Tajimi city. That's the city where her mother is from, whom she had lost when she was still young. Himeno is now attending her mother's alma mater, where her classmate Kukuri Mika invites her to tag along to a special place. That place turns out to be the pottery club! There, she learns for the first time that her mother was a legendary potter, and is consequently pulled into the world of pottery.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Haru Miyachi as Yuzuna (voice)
- Nendo Tsumura as Noa (voice)
- Minami Tanaka as Himeno Toyokawa (voice)
- Yu Serizawa as Mika Kukuri (voice)
- Yuuki Wakai as Naoko Naruse (voice)
- Rina Honnizumi as Toko Aoki (voice)
- Kaito Ishikawa as Tokishirō Toyokawa (voice)
- Mana Ogawa as Mami Koizumi (voice)
Supporting cast
- Ako Mayama as Sachie Tokikawa (voice)
- Aya Uchida as Rio Matsuse (voice)
- Sally Amaki as Jimena Valdez (voice)
- Ari Ozawa as Himena Tokikawa (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 3 seasons with 61 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 37 | April 5, 2021 | September 3, 2024 |
| Season 1 | 12 | April 3, 2021 | June 19, 2021 |
| Season 2 | 12 | October 2, 2021 | December 18, 2021 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Live Action #1 The four voice actresses go to Let's Make a Mug Too's stage, Gifu prefectures Tajimi City. While strolling through the town where Himeno lives, they talk about their memories with their own fathers. |
April 5, 2021 |
| 2 |
The Pottery Club is Paradise The first hands-on pottery experience in Tajimi is to make mugs. Not used to the electric pottery wheel, they struggle, but in the end produce pieces sparkling with personality. |
April 12, 2021 |
| 3 |
Because We're Childhood Friends... Right? Tiles are also a Tajimi specialty. Accessories are also made with these tiles. The four quietly focus on the detail work that reveals their individual character traits. |
April 19, 2021 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Welcome to the Pottery Club! On her first day in high school, Himeno introduces herself to the class by lining up the mugs her late mother made. Her classmate Mika knows her mothers works, so she takes her to the pottery club. Taken in by the smell of the clay she shouldn't know yet, Himeno goes in for her first attempt at pottery. |
April 3, 2021 |
| 2 |
The Pottery Club Is Paradise After joining the pottery club, Himeno is uncertain if she can make pottery. Touko and Mika then show the novice Himeno that pottery and ceramics are widely used in all sorts of manners all over town. She realizes that pottery is not that forbidding, and that she's always surrounded by it! |
April 10, 2021 |
| 3 |
Because We're Childhood Friends... Right? While Himeno is engrossed in pottery, Touko yells at Mika for loudly playing with Naoko. Mika then rushes out of the clubhouse, and in her absence, Touko confesses that she admires Mika for having such a free-spirited imagination, something she herself lacks... |
April 17, 2021 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Let's Go! Down the Path of Pottery With the Mino ware contest under her belt, Himeno finally feels like she's arrived at the starting line for the path of pottery. While she is talking to her friends from the pottery club about the next, even more wonderful thing to make, a visitor with a typhoon-like energy bursts into their club room... |
October 2, 2021 |
| 2 |
My Paradise While cleaning her room, Himeno discovers a New Year's greeting card she got from Naoko when they were kids. When she tries to get Naoko to explain the message on the card, somehow they end up going out to find Chinese bellflowers even though they're no longer in season? |
October 9, 2021 |
| 3 |
My Mom Really Is Amazing! On the way home, a girl from Mexico talks to Himano, Mika, and Nao. It turns out she's a pottery student who was so impressed by a certain piece of pottery, she travelled all the way to Japan just to see it. Which piece could that be? |
October 16, 2021 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | CBC |
|---|---|
| First aired | April 3, 2021 |
| Last aired | December 18, 2021 |
| Runtime | 15 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Friday at 00:55:00 |