Aoharu Once More Reveals January 2027 Premiere in PV

The boys’ love light anime adaptation of Aoharu Once More will premiere next year.

Aoharu Once More has released a teaser PV where the main voice cast was announced. Fans also had a little taste of what the light anime would look like. As a light anime, the budget isn’t as great as a regular anime adaptation with the movements being more stilted and looking more like a “moving” manga. Aoharu Once More will launch in January 2027.

Aoharu Once More is the third BL project from BALLOON, a BL label launched with Dai Nippon Printing and BLUE RIGHTS in 2025. Tasuku Kaito will voice Hayato Kobayashi and Kazuki Ura will portray Ritsu Onishi. Imagica Infos/Imageworks Studio will animate and produce the adaptation with Rikako Machida directing. Morrigan (WAVE) will compose the music.

Written and illustrated by Toworu Miyata, Aoharu Once More was serialized in ShuCream’s from RED digital magazine from August 2024 to August 2025. A sequel, Aoharu Once More: The Lovers’ Arc began serialization in June 2026. TOKYOPOP has licensed the manga for an English release which released on September 22.

TOKYOPOP describes the manga:

Hayato Kobayashi is haunted by the memory of golden light, a quiet library, and Ritsu Onishi—beautiful, unreadable, always just out of reach.

Back then, when Hayato leaned in for stolen kisses, Ritsu simply accepted them without question… or definition. Then high school ended, before either of them could name what they were to each other.

Years later, they meet again at work. Ritsu is still effortlessly captivating, and everything Hayato buried comes rushing back. Only now, he finally knows the word for what he felt back then… but is it already too late?

So Hayato makes a reckless proposal:

“Let’s relive our youth—just one more time.”

Prior to Aoharu Once More, BALLOON previously released a light anime adaptation of In Order to Love My Most Beloved Brother-In-Law, I’ll Live a Long Life! on January 3. After that, their second project was an adaptation of Perfect Addiction which premiered on July 8.

Aoharu Once More premieres in January 2027.

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