The Rainy Day Serenade television anime is confirmed for an April 2027 premiere, with Yume Miyamoto and Takeo Otsuka leading the cast and Tezuka Production animating. The original manga ended in November 2025 at 14 volumes, and a side story, Rainy Day Serenade: Gaiden, begins in Kiss on November 25.
The Rainy Day Serenade anime has a premiere window and a cast. Bandai Namco Filmworks confirmed an April 2027 premiere and released a teaser video and first key visual. Yume Miyamoto voices Hina Katagiri, a high school girl who slips back in time to Meiji 40 (1907), and Takeo Otsuka voices Takaaki Hongo, the heir of Hongo Trading who mistakes Hina for his fiancee Hinako. Tezuka Production animates, with Yoko Yonaiyama on series composition and Nobuteru Yuki on character designs.
The source manga is finished. Haruka Kawachi serialized Rainy Day Serenade in Kodansha's Kiss from 2014 and ended it in November 2025, with a final 14th volume shipped in February. Kodansha USA Publishing plans two-in-one omnibus editions in English. The property continues in Kiss: the December issue announced a spinoff, Rainy Day Serenade: Gaiden, starting in the next issue on November 25. The side story follows a heartbroken Kikunoshin at the Fuji Sakura cafe.
The two stories line up on the essentials. The anime is set for 2027, the main serialization is closed, and the side story keeps the Fuji Sakura setting running in Kiss while the adaptation is in production. The later story adds the April window, the cast, the studio, and the key staff; the earlier one establishes the manga's end and the Gaiden launch.
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Bandai Namco Filmworks unveiled a teaser video and first key visual for the television anime of Haruka Kawachi's Rainy Day Serenade on Friday and confirmed an April 2027 premiere. Yume Miyamoto voices Hina Katagiri, a high school girl who slips back in time to Meiji 40 (1907), and Takeo Otsuka voices Takaaki Hongo, the heir of Hongo Trading who mistakes Hina for his fiancee Hinako. Tezuka Production animates, with Yoko Yonaiyama on series composition and Nobuteru Yuki on character designs. Hiroshi Kato of Totonyan is art director, Kunio Tsujita is color designer and Yoshie Ito is director of photography. The key visual shows Hina and Takaaki in a Meiji-era townscape, with water spreading at their feet and a garden and small children visible in it. Kawachi serialized the manga in Kodansha's Kiss, and Kodansha USA Publishing plans two-in-one omnibus editions in English.
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The December issue of Kodansha's Kiss magazine announced on Friday that Haruka Kawachi's Rainy Day Serenade will receive a spinoff manga titled Namidaame to Serenade: Gaiden in the next issue on November 25. The side story follows a heartbroken Kikunoshin at the Fuji Sakura cafe. The original manga ran in Kiss from 2014 and ended in November 2025, with a final 14th volume shipped in February. An anime adaptation is planned for 2027.