In a panel held on Aug 10th at Otakon, director Watanabe Shinichiro, best known for directing Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, announced his new work, an original TV anime series named "Space☆Dandy", will premiere January next year. In the panel, a trailer video with key visuals and character designs was also showed. The anime is a comedy inspired by old school '70s SF and is about Dandy, "the dandiest man in universe", who went around the universe hunting aliens with his robot QT and a cat alien named Meow. It will be made by studio BONES and involves a number of key staff from Cowboy Bebop.

Staff information:

Studio: BONES
General Director: Watanabe Shinichiro
Director: Natsume Shingo
Scriptwriters: Satoh Dai, Nobumoto Keiko, and Ueno Kimiko
Character Design: Itoh Yoshiyuki
Spaceship Design: Thomas Romain
Theme Song: Okamura Yasuyuki

PV: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x12xcgm_trim-n9i0ym

Source: Anime PV shown at Otakon

Space☆Dandy on MAL