A website and Twitter account launched on Monday to announce that a television anime adaptation of Yukiko Natsume 's Okoshiyasu, Chitose-chan manga has been green-lit.

The "soothing short" manga follows Chitose, a fluffy Emperor penguin chick living in Kyoto. The stories depict such familiar Kyoto locales as Togetsu-kyō bridge, Arashiyama Bamboo Grove, Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine, and Kiyomizu-dera temple from a penguin's perspective, as well as Kyoto cuisine.

Kyō Yatate ( Bananya , Sockie's Frontier Quest ) is directing the anime at the studio Gathering . Koguma is composing the music, and VAP is producing and presenting the project.

The series will premiere on October 5 at 25:35 (effectively, October 6 at 1:35 a.m.) on the Tokyo MX and KBS Kyoto stations.

Natsume has been serializing the manga in Kodansha 's Be-Love magazine, and Kodansha published the third compiled book volume on March 13.

