With rain brings time travel and mistaken identities.
That’s the story of Rainy Day Serenade. The romance and sci-fi manga has been green-lit for an anime adaptation. A teaser video for the anime was dropped, revealing the designs for the main characters as well as the voice actors. In the video, a younger Hina plays with a young boy whom she has never met. An older Hina wakes up from her dream, unable to figure out who the boy is. Somehow, she manages to time travel to the Meiji era where she meets the boy from her dreams once again.
Tezuka Production will animate and produce the adaptation with Takashi Fujii taking the helm as director. Yoko Yonaiyama will work on the series scripts with Nobuteru Yuki designing the characters. Yume Miyamoto will portray Hina Katagiri and Takeo Otsuka will star alongside her as Takaaki Hongo.
Written and illustrated by Haruka Kawachi, Rainy Day Serenade was serialized in Kodansha’s Kiss magazine from November 2014 to November 2025. It contains 14 tankobon volumes. The manga will have a spinoff that will launch on November 25 this year. Kodansha holds the English license and will publish the series in a two-in-one omnibus.
Kodansha has the following synopsis:
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?
Rainy Day Serenade launches in April 2027 with the first omnibus releasing in January 2027.
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