New 'Etotama' Series Announced

An event commemorating the Blu-ray box release of Etotama, Shin Etoryouran-sai (New Zodiac Festival) held on Sunday at the Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall in Tokyo, has announced that a new series based on the anime is underway. More information regarding the series will be revealed at a later date.

Etotama is a 12-episode fantasy comedy TV anime produced by studio Shirogumi and Encourage Films, which aired in Spring 2015. Six unaired short special episodes were also bundled with the releases of second to fifth Blu-ray volume of the anime.

Prior to the broadcast of the anime, Tooru Zekuu and Takashi Hoshi drew a three-volume manga with illustrations by Hiroma Hino from November 2013 to 2015. Additionally, during the broadcast of the anime in May 2015, Pony Canyon published a side-story novel penned by Masateru Fujise. The story depicts the rise and fall of Nyaa-tan in becoming a prospective cat zodiac-sign with the "help" of a human named Takeru Amato.

Ponycan USA has licensed the series for North American distribution and released it in three Blu-ray and DVD combo sets between October 2015 and March 2016.

Source: Official Twitter