NHK’s Anime World blog announced today that a TV anime adaptation of Aiko Koyama’s Maiko-san chi no Makanai-san (A Caretaker at the Maiko Lodge) manga will be aired on NHK in the near future.
Further details of the anime including its staff and broadcast schedule will be announced at a later date.
Its story centers on 16-yea-old girl Kiyo, who left her hometown of Aomori after graduating from junior high school and came to Kyoto, originally to become a maiko (apprentice geisha).