The Moon On A Rainy Night Anime Unveils Cast And 2027 Premiere
The trailer attaches specific names to a production that had only been announced, and the cast announcement arrives roughly 12 months ahead of the stated 2027 premiere.
Key Facts
- The Moon on a Rainy Night anime streamed its first full promotional video on Wednesday and is slated to premiere in 2027.
- Iori Saeki voices Saki Kindaichi and Sora Amamiya voices Kanon Oikawa in The Moon on a Rainy Night anime.
- Tomoe Makino directs The Moon on a Rainy Night at CompTown, with Shogo Yasukawa on series composition and scripts and Ayumi Nishibata on character design.
- Kuzushiro launched The Moon on a Rainy Night manga on Kodansha's Comic Days website in June 2021, and Kodansha published the 12th volume in Japan on June 19.
- Kodansha USA licensed The Moon on a Rainy Night manga and released the eighth volume digitally on December 23.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
The television anime of Kuzushiro's The Moon on a Rainy Night manga released its first full promotional video on Wednesday, and the video names the main cast and additional staff. Iori Saeki plays Saki Kindaichi and Sora Amamiya plays Kanon Oikawa. The anime is slated to premiere in 2027. Tomoe Makino directs at CompTown, Shogo Yasukawa handles series composition and scripts, Ayumi Nishibata designs the characters, and jizue composes the music. The newly listed staff include Seung Deok Kim and Tsutomu Tomoyuki as assistant directors, Haruko Nobori as color key artist, Mai Ichioka as art director, Atsushi Sato as compositing director of photography, Masahiro Goto as editor, and Nobuyuki Abe as sound director. CompTown president Masao Yamamura is credited as animation producer. Kodansha USA licensed the manga, which Kuzushiro launched on Kodansha's Comic Days website in June 2021.
The trailer's staff list carries a few names worth pulling out: Aharen-san wa Hakarenai director Tomoe Makino is attached as director, with Shogo Yasukawa writing and overseeing the series scripts and Ayumi Nishibata designing the characters. jizue handles the music.
Kodansha's Japanese run has reached 12 volumes, the most recent published on June 19. Kodansha USA released the eighth volume digitally on December 23. The story follows Saki Kindaichi, who runs into Kanon Oikawa on the way to a piano lesson, then finds her seated at the next desk on the first day of high school. Kanon is hard of hearing and keeps people at a distance by reading lips.
Kuzushiro's other credits include Living With My Brother's Wife, published in English by Manga UP!, and Mama Akuma, published by Yen Press. A television anime of her Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu premiered in October 2025, and Crunchyroll streamed it as A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.