In a novel kind of announcement
spotted today at the 2012 Anime Contents Expo (ACE), the production company Aniplex was displaying a
T-shirt with the title of the fourth TV anime series in the Hidamari Sketch franchise, along with its release timeframe: it will be called
Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb, and it's planned for an October 2012 debut in Japan.

Like the
previous three TV series and last year's
TV special, this latest Hidamari Sketch anime is again based on Ume Aoki's popular 4-koma manga. Studio Shaft animated all the previous adaptations, so presumably they will return for this fourth season.