It’s been announced that Kawachi Haruka’s Namidaame to Serenade (Rainy Day Serenade/ 涙雨とセレナーデ ) manga has been green-lit for a TV anime in 2027. Kawachi has released the following visual, which depicts Hina and Takaaki laughing together as children, in celebration of the anime news.
Manga author Kawachi (Musashino Rondo, Natsuyuki Rendezvous) started the romance manga in November 2014 in Kodansha’s Kiss magazine, and Kodansha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in October 2015. The manga’s 14th and final volume was released today, February 13th, 2026.
Kodansha USA Publishing will release the manga in English as a two-in-one omnibus volume. The Omnibus volume will be released in the Autumn of 2026, under the name Rainy Day Serenade. Kodansha USA describes the story below:
“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?”
