Originally planned for a summer 2014 broadcast before production mostly went dark in terms of social media and news updates, Kantai Collection has had a good bit of new information revealed. The series has finally revealed the full staff for the production and made the announcement that it would debut in January 2015 as part of the winter 2015 anime season. The first key visual was also released, which you can see in larger form by clicking the image on the right.
The core cast was also finalized with Sumire Uesaka will star as Fubuki, Saki Fujita will star as Akagi, and Yuka Iguchi will star as Kaga. The series is being animated at studio Diomedea with Keizo Kusakawa directing based on scripts by Jukki Hanada.
Original Creators: DMM.com/Kadokawa Games
Planning: Takeshi Yasuda
Original Story Concept: Kensuke Tanaka
Chief Production Director: Shinichiro Inoue
Character Design/Chief Animation Directors: Naomi Ide, Mayuko Matsumoto
Character Design Cooperation: Yoshinori Shizuma, Shibafu, Konishi
Mechanical design: Tsutomu Miyazawa, Kōta Moroishi
Creature Design: Tsubasa Shimizu
Effects Director: Takashi Hashimoto
Art Director: Maho Takahashi
Color design: Shuji Kamimura
Cgi Director: Eiji Inomoto
CG Modeling Director: Hideki Kawabata
CG Production: Orange
Director of Photography: Yasuyuki Itou
Editor: Yuuji Oka
Sound Director: Toshiki Kameyama
Sound Production: Glovision
Music: Natsumi Kameoka
Music Production: Flying Dog
Production: Kan Colle Joint Fleet Headquarters
[Source: ANN]