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Rainy Day Serenade Anime's Teaser Reveals Cast, Staff, April 2027 Debut
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Bandai Namco Filmworks unveiled a new teaser promotional video and first key visual for the television anime of Haruka Kawachi's Rainy Day Serenade (Namidaame to Serenade) manga on Friday. The teaser reveals the anime's main cast, staff, and April 2027 premiere date for the anime.
Kawachi also drew the below illustration to celebrate the anime:
The cast includes:
Yume Miyamoto as Hina Katagiri
Takeo Ōtsuka as Takaaki Hongō
Takashi Fujii is directing the anime at Tezuka Production. Yōko Yonaiyama (Ya Boy Kongming!, mono, Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk) is in charge of series scripts. Nobuteru Yūki (Record of Lodoss War, The Vision of Escaflowne, Star Blazers 2199) is designing the characters. Hiroshi Katō (Totonyan) is directing the art, and Kunio Tsujita is the color key artist. Yoshie Itō is the compositing director of photography.
Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga, and will begin releasing the manga in two-in-one omnibus volumes in fall 2026. Kodansha USA describes the story:
On rainy days, Hina has dreams about her younger self playing with a mysterious boy in a garden she's never seen before—until, by chance, she stumbles upon the place. There's a young man there, Takaaki, who mistakes Hina for his fiancée Hinako. He whisks her back to what he thinks is her home, where Hina's doppelganger is waiting, and Hina realizes this isn't the Tokyo she left behind but Japan in the year 1907! Is this all a dream or something much stranger?
Kawachi launched the manga in Kodansha's Kiss magazine in 2014, and ended it in November 2025. Kodansha shipped the manga's 14th and final compiled book volume on February 13.
The manga is getting a spinoff manga Namidaame to Serenade: Gaiden (Rainy Day Serenade Side Story) in Kodansha's Kiss magazine on November 25.
Kawachi's Natsuyuki Rendezvous manga received an anime adaptation on Fuji TV's Noitamina block in 2012, the same year the manga ended.
Kawachi launched the Request o Yoroshiku (Welcome Your Request) manga in Feel Young in September 2014 and ended it in 2019. Shodensha published the manga's fifth and final volume in 2020.
JManga published Kawachi's Sekine's Love manga in English.
Source: Press release
