Francesca, Idol Character from Hokkaido, Gets TV Anime Adaptation for Summer 2014 [Update 6/9]

It was announced this past January that a TV anime adaptation will be released for Summer 2014 based on the "undead" idol character "Francesca" to promote Hokkaido, Japan. More information will be announced later.

Cast
Francesca: Yui Makino
Exorcist: Asami Tano

First PV
Francesca's character song
Character song club mix with introduction of Hokkaido

Source: Official site (includes links to News Blog, Facebook, Google+, and Twitter with updates), Yui Makino official site, Yui Makino blog, Seventh Style


Update March 26
According to ANN, it was confirmed from a flyer during AnimeJapan that the title will be Francesca: Girls be Ambitious.

Edit (June 23, 2014): "Girls be Ambitious" is not part of the title, but rather a catch phrase to Francesca (the character).

Source: Flyer via ANN


Update April 18
It has been announced that the series will be 15 minutes per episode, with a total of 24 episodes. In addition, the cast is being announced one-by-one every Thursday on Francesca's Facebook page.

Additional cast announced thus far:
Takuboku Ishikawa: Noriaki Sugiyama
Chieko Tachibana: Kanomi Izawa
Kazue Souma: Tarusuke Shingaki
Toshizou Hijikata: Hiroki Takahashi
Noboru Nakajima: Daisuke Nagumo
Tetsunisuke Ichimura: Ami Naitou
Kai Shimada: Katsuya Miyamoto
Dr. Clark: Jin Urayama

Source: Facebook page


Update April 26
The final cast member was announced two days ago.

Inazou Nitobe: Kenji Hamada

Source: Facebook page

Update June 9
Another cast member was announced.

Fran Dog: Tomofumi Ikezoe

Source: Facebook page

Fran♥cesca on MAL