Image via Kodansha An official website for a TV anime adaptation of Haruka Kawachi's Rainy Day Serenade time-travel romance manga opened today, revealing the series is scheduled to broadcast in 2027. Kawachi provided the illustration below (left) to commemorate the announcement. Additional details on the project, such as animation staff and cast, were not confirmed at the time of reporting. Anime announcement visual Volume 14 manga cover Rainy Day Serenade was serialized in Kodansha's Kiss manga magazine for a run of 73 chapters from November 2014 to November 2025, with the 14th and final compiled volume published today in Japan. Kawachi's Natsuyuki Rendezvous romance manga, which ran from June 2009 to December 2011, was adapted into an 11-episode anime by studio Doga Kobo in 2012. Kodansha USA announced in January that it will release the Rainy Day Serenade manga in English in fall 2026. Kodansha USA describes the series as such: One of the most-requested Kodansha manga of all time finally arrives in English! From the creator of Natsuyuki Rendezvous comes an exciting timeslip romance in which a modern high school girl masquerades as her lookalike in the early 20th century while navigating a complicated web of familial ties and intrigue. 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? Source: Comic Natalie
