Rainy Day Serenade Anime Confirms April 2027 Premiere at Tezuka Production
Bandai Namco Filmworks released a teaser video and key visual for the television anime of Haruka Kawachi's Rainy Day Serenade on Friday, confirming an April 2027 premiere. Yume Miyamoto plays Hina Katagiri and Takeo Otsuka plays Takaaki Hongo.
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Why it matters
The April 2027 premiere lands after the manga ended in November 2025 and after Kodansha USA's omnibus release begins in fall 2026, so the English volumes reach readers before the anime airs.
Key Facts
- Takashi Fujii directs Rainy Day Serenade at Tezuka Production, and the anime premieres in April 2027.
- Yume Miyamoto plays Hina Katagiri and Takeo Otsuka plays Takaaki Hongo.
- Haruka Kawachi's Rainy Day Serenade manga ran in Kodansha's Kiss from 2014 to November 2025.
- Kodansha shipped the manga's 14th and final compiled volume on February 13.
- A spinoff manga, Rainy Day Serenade Side Story, starts in Kiss on November 25.
Takashi Fujii directs at Tezuka Production, with Yoko Yonaiyama on series scripts and Nobuteru Yuki designing characters. Kodansha USA Publishing will release the manga in two-in-one omnibus volumes starting in fall 2026.
Rainy Day Serenade starts with Hina dreaming, on rainy days, of a garden she has never seen, until she finds the place and a young man named Takaaki mistakes her for his fiancee, Hinako. The house he takes her to holds Hina's double, and the city outside is Japan in 1907.
Kawachi ran the manga in Kodansha's Kiss from 2014 to November 2025. The 14th and final compiled volume shipped on February 13, and a spinoff, Rainy Day Serenade Side Story, begins in Kiss on November 25.
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- Anime News Network Rainy Day Serenade Anime's Teaser Reveals Cast, Staff, April 2027 Debut