Will this be the hidden gem of the season?

Source material eroticism: A ton of nudity

This series originally began under the name Konohanatei Kitan – it reached about eight chapters before it was put on hiatus due to the publishing magazine folding. The author returned to the series in 2014 under the new name Konohana Kitan. It is still running to this day and is presently at six volumes.

This manga is your classic case of moe slice of life with a healthy side of naked girls, similar to shows like Strike Witches, Centaur’s Worries, Unbreakable Machine Doll, Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou, and so on. The setting is a hot springs hotel located between the world of the living and the spirit world, and the story focuses on the fox spirit girls who live and work there.

The Konohana Kitan manga takes full advantage of the cute girl cast and hot springs setting. The initial eight chapter series had a bathing scene in every other chapter. And while these scenes were initially modest, showing just the outlines of nipples, by the end there was a direct full frontal reveal. And in the rebooted series, nipple sightings became very commonplace. If adapted faithfully, it’s conceivably possible that a majority of episodes will contain at least one bath scene.

And there’s more good news, as this series is being adapted by Lerche, who had previously done a great job with two comparable series (Unbreakable Machine Doll, Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou). Barring a letdown of epic proportions, you can pretty much pencil in this series as one of the year’s best ecchi anime, and maybe the best ecchi series in a couple years for loli fans.

As stated before, this series is technically based off of two manga.  It was originally released under the name Konohanatei Kitan and lasted a handful of chapters before the publishing magazine folded.  The manga returned several years later under the name Konohana Kitan, for which the anime is named.  The first three episodes adapted Konohanatei Kitan, and have now covered all its chapters.  Everything we have left should be from the Konohana Kitan manga.