{"rewrite":{"id":"r_a57366c26207ec1dada0e55a","clusterId":"c_aaf2d216a7beb050cf562237","slug":"rainy-day-serenade-anime-confirms-april-2027-premiere-at-tezuka-production","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Rainy Day Serenade Anime Casts Yume Miyamoto and Takeo Otsuka","summary":"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.","whyItMatters":"The adaptation arrives with the source already complete: Kawachi ended Rainy Day Serenade in November 2025 at 14 volumes, and a side story, Rainy Day Serenade: Gaiden, starts in Kiss on November 25.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe director credit is Takashi Kamei on the official staff list and Takashi Fujii in Anime News Network\u0026#39;s account.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHina Katagiri: Yume Miyamoto. Hina has seen the same dream since childhood.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTakaaki Hongo: Takeo Otsuka. He still remembers a girl he met as a child.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeries composition is Yoko Yonaiyama, whose credits include Ya Boy Kongming! and mono. Nobuteru Yuki designs the characters after work on Record of Lodoss War and The Vision of Escaflowne.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Kodansha USA start date for the two-in-one omnibus editions is fall 2026 in Anime News Network\u0026#39;s report and January 2027 in Anime Corner\u0026#39;s report.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaruka Kawachi drew a congratulatory illustration of a man and a woman turning around in front of a recording microphone and a script. Kawachi\u0026#39;s comment expresses expectations for the Meiji era\u0026#39;s light and shadow, the rain, and the music.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe teaser is the first footage from the anime, and it includes the first character voices for Hina and Takaaki. Miyamoto said she wants to play Hina with care for the character\u0026#39;s straightforwardness and purity of heart. Otsuka said he will stay close to Takaaki\u0026#39;s words and the feelings behind them.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKawachi\u0026#39;s Natsuyuki Rendezvous was adapted for Fuji TV\u0026#39;s Noitamina block in 2012, the same year that manga ended.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Rainy Day Serenade's time slip hinges on a name collision: Yume Miyamoto's Hina lands in Meiji 40 and Takeo Otsuka's Takaaki mistakes her for his fiancee Hinako.","twitterPost":"Rainy Day Serenade sends Yume Miyamoto's Hina to Meiji 40, where Takeo Otsuka's Takaaki mistakes her for his fiancee Hinako.","threadsPost":"Tezuka Production's Rainy Day Serenade builds its time slip on a name collision: Yume Miyamoto's Hina lands in Meiji 40, and Takeo Otsuka's Takaaki mistakes her for his fiancee Hinako. The first key visual puts them in a Meiji-era townscape with water spreading at their feet.","newsletterBlurb":"Haruka Kawachi's time-slip romance Rainy Day Serenade has a teaser, a key visual and an April 2027 broadcast, with Tezuka Production animating and Yume Miyamoto and Takeo Otsuka in the leads. The manga ended in November 2025 at 14 volumes, and a side story, Rainy Day Serenade: Gaiden, starts in Kodansha's Kiss on November 25. 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