Kuzushiro's "The Moon on a Rainy Night" receives an anime adaptation in 2027.


The official website of Kuzushiro's "The Moon on a Rainy Night" announced the details, including the cast and staff, which will air in 2027, following the announcement made in December 2025. Kuzushiro is the author of the manga " A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace, which was adapted into an anime that aired in October 2025.

The cast for the anime series includes Iori Saeki as Saki Kindaichi, a first-year female high school student who has been playing the piano and is struck by Kanon's beauty the first time they meet, and resolves to approach her despite Kanon's taciturnity. While she wants to understand Kanon better, she tends not to share much about herself and is afraid of Kanon finding out she has feelings for her.

Sora Amamiya as Kanon Oikawa, a first-year female high school student who sits next to Saki. She has sensorineural hearing loss and wears a hearing aid, and grew up loving music and playing the piano, but gave up playing when her hearing loss worsened; she prefers to keep her distance from others because she fears that they will judge or abandon her, but gradually comes to accept Saki.

Tomoe Makino is directing the anime at the animation studio CompTown. Together with Shogo Yasukawa is writing the series composition and screenplay, and Ayumi Nishibata is designing the characters.

The manga series was published on Kodansha's Comic Days digital manga platform in June 2021, and released in 12 manga volumes. Kodansha USA licensed the series and released it in English, with the first manga volume released in September 2023.

It also received achievements including a 2-time runner-up in the Web Manga category at the Next Manga Awards in 2022 and 2023, listed as one of the top ten yuri series 4 times according to Okazu from 2022 to 2025, and listed in the Best Books for Teens List according to the New York Public Library in 2023 and the Rainbow Book List according to the American Library Association in 2025.

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Source:

- "The Moon on a Rainy Night" anime website - https://amayonotsuki.jp/

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Photo:

- © Kuzushiro/Kodansha • The Moon on a Rainy Night Production Committee.

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