TV Anime of Russian Character Cheburashka Announced [Update Oct 4]

TV Tokyo announced a new TV anime featuring a Russian character Cheburashka. "Cheburashka Arere?" will be aired from October 7th.

Cheburashka TV official website

Staff
Director: Kudo Susumu ("Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de")
Series Organizer: Shimada Michiru ("Shugo Chara!")
Character Designer: Kishida Takahiro ("Baccano!")
Supervisor: Nakamura Makoto (producer of "Tales of Phantasia - The Animation")
Production Studio: GoHands
3 min x 26 episodes

Cast
Cheburashka: Ohashi Nozomi (profile, singer of Ponyo theme song)
Gena: Tsuchida Hiroshi
Shapoklyak: Cho

Source: Yahoo Netallica

Updated on Oct 4th
An anime movie of Cheburashka was announced to be premiered in 2010.

Source: Anime!Anime!