Waiting in the Summer (Ano Natsu de Matteru), the original anime that aired from January to March of 2012, has production on a new anime green-lit. The cast and staff will reassemble from the television series. The story and other details will be announced in the future.

The returning staff include:

Original Story: I*Chi*Ka

Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai

Screenplay: Yousuke Kuroda

Original Character Design: Taraku Uon

Character Design: Masayoshi Tanaka

Mechanical design: Kanetake Ebikawa

Art Director: Ayu Kawamoto

Art design: Nobuhito Sue

Color design: Maya Muranaga

Director of Photography: Yoshio Ookouchi

Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama

Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa

Sound Production: Magic Capsule

Music: I've sound/Maiko Iuchi

Music Production: NBC Universal Entertainment Japan

Opening: Ray

Ending: Nagi Yanagi

Produce: Genco

Animation Production: J.C. Staff

Presented by: Natsumachi Production Committee

The cast is also returning:

Haruka Tomatsu as Ichika Takatsuki

Nobunaga Shimazaki as Kaito Kirishima

Kaori Ishihara as Kanna Tanigawa

Hideki Ogihara as Tetsurō Ishigaki

Kana Asumi as Mio Kitahara

Yukari Tamura as Remon Yamano

Rina Hidaka as Rinon

Onegai Teacher/Onegai Twins story creator Yousuke Kuroda and Onegai franchise's original character designer Taraku Uon had already reunited for the first Waiting in the Summer project. The first Ano Natsu de Matteru anime featured another reunion: after working on the Toradora! and Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Boku-tachi wa Mada Shiranai. anime together, director Tatsuyuki Nagai and character designer Masayoshi Tanaka collaborated for the first anime.

Crunchyroll streamed the first anime as it aired in Japan, and Sentai Filmworks released on subtitled DVD in North America last year. Sentai Filmworks describes the story:

When a group of friends decide to make a movie over a long summer holiday, they end up learning a little about filmmaking and a lot more about each other and themselves. What begins as a simple way to avoid the summer doldrums quickly turns into something much more complex, intimate, and downright revealing. As the summer heats up, so do the maturing relationships between the young cast members, taking some new, and sometimes unexpected, turns.

Source: MoCA News

Image © I*Chi*Ka/Natsumachi Production Committee