During its industry panel at Anime NYC, international licensing company REMOW officially revealed that the television anime adaptation of Kuzushiro's manga The Moon on a Rainy Night (Amayo no Tsuki) is scheduled to premiere in 2027.
Production Staff Revealed
Animation production is being handled by studio CompTown, with veteran director Tomoe Makino (Aharen-san wa Hakarenai, Woodpecker Detective's Office) at the helm. Shōgo Yasukawa (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, Rock is a Lady's Modesty) is supervising and writing the series scripts, while Ayumi Nishibata (Otherside Picnic, Migi & Dali) is adapting Kuzushiro's original art for character designs.
A Sensitive Drama
The story explores a delicate dynamic between two high school girls navigating personal space and disability:
One rainy night, Saki is rushing to a piano lesson when she crashes into a beautiful, long-haired girl, dropping her sheet music in the process. Saki stutters an apology, but the girl simply hands back her sheet music and leaves without a word. Saki begins her first day of high school the following morning, only to find the stranger from the night before sitting at the desk next to hers. She learns that the girl's name is Kanon and that she is hard of hearing...
Kuzushiro first launched the series on Kodansha's Comic Days platform in June 2021. The manga has steadily built a reputation for its grounded representation of hearing impairment and emotional growth, reaching its 12th collected volume in Japan earlier this summer.
