The December 2026 issue of Kodansha’s Kiss magazine has announced that Kawachi Haruka’s Namidaame to Serenade (Rainy Day Serenade/ 涙雨とセレナーデ ) manga will get a spinoff series in the magazine’s next issue, available from November 25th, 2026. The spinoff manga series will be titled Namidaame to Serenade: Gaiden.
Manga author Kawachi (Musashino Rondo, Natsuyuki Rendezvous) started the original 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 in February 2026.
Kodansha USA Publishing confirmed earlier this year that it will release the manga in English as a two-in-one omnibus volume. The Omnibus volume is scheduled for release 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?”
Earlier this year it was announced that the manga has been green-lit for an anime adaptation, which will debut in 2027.
