Series based on animal toys which already inspired 3 animated series

TV Tokyo announced on Wednesday that it will begin airing a new anime series based on the Sylvanian Families toy line on October 7. The 12-episode show will also stream on TV Tokyo's Net mo Teletō site, as well as on TVer and TV Tokyo's AniTele service. The series will debut a new six-minute episode every Saturday. Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment is animating the series.

The cast includes:

Atsumi Tanezaki as Chocolate Usagi-chan (rabbit) Nozomi Furuki as Kurumi ("walnut") Risu-kun (squirrel) Arisa Date as Silk Neko-chan (cat) Shiho Kawaragi as Toy Poodle-chan Rei Shimoda as Kuma-kun (bear) Hibiku Yamamura as Shima ("striped") Neko-kun Sumire Uesaka as Shima Neko-chan Yū Serizawa as Chocolate Usagi no Danshi Tokuyoshi Kawashima as Chocolate Usagi's father Kana Asumi as Chocolate Usagi's mother Hidenari Ugaki as Kuma's father Kiyonobu Suzuki as Chocolate Usagi's grandfather Kei Kobayashi as Chocolate Usagi's grandmother

The story takes place in a village called Sylvania, and centers on Chocolate Usagi-chan, Kurumi Risu-kun, and their friends and families.

Japanese company Epoch created the original toy line in 1985. The franchise inspired a 1987 American animated series, as well as 1998 British stop-motion animated series. It also inspired a three-episode Japanese CG anime video series (with a different voice cast from the upcoming series) in 2007. In the United States, the franchise is also known as Calico Critters.

Source: Animate Times via Otasuke