Kotowari announced on Friday that Haruka Kawachi’s Rainy Day Serenade (Namidaame to Serenade) manga is inspiring a television anime in 2027. Kawachi drew the below visual to celebrate the anime’s announcement.
Image via Rainy Day Serenade anime’s website
©河内遙・講談社／「涙雨とセレナーデ」製作委員会
Image via Amazon Japan
© Haruka Kawachi, Kodansha
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 Friday.
Kawachi launched the Musashino Rondo manga in Shodensha’s Feel Young magazine in 2020. Shodensha published the manga’s first compiled book volume in September 2021, and the fifth volume in July 2025. The series inspired a live-action series in April 2025.
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.
Sources: PR TImes, Rainy Day Serenade anime’s website, Comic Natalie
