Kawa no Hikari Anime in Development

The NHK television network has announced an anime TV special adaptation of Hisaki Matsuura’s serialized novel Kawa no Hikari (River’s Light). The environmental awareness story about a family of rats that set off in search of a new home after losing their habitat to human construction has been serialized in the Yomiuri Newspaper since July 2006. The anime adaptation will air on the NHK network on June 20 as part of the network’s “Earth Ecology 2009 Save the Future” project.

Voice actress Aya Hirano (Haruhi Suzumiya) has stated on her blog that she will play the role of a puppy in the anime.

Source: Anime News Network