TV Asahi announced that Yūki Suenaga and illustrator Takamasa Moue’s Akane-banashi manga will be getting an anime adaptation in 2026. Additionally, a trailer and key visual were also released.
Moreover, the Akane-banashi anime will have a panel at Anime NYC 2025, which is held this month. Seisuke Araki, editor of Shueisha, and Kazuki Endo, producer of TV Asahi, will be on the panel.
Check out the trailer below:
The cast and staff of the Akane-banashi anime include:
- Anna Nagase as Akane Sakurazaka
- Takuya Eguchi as Karashi Nerimaya
- Rie Takahashi as Hikaru Koragi
Staff
- Director: Ayumu Watanabe
- Co-Director: Yu Harima
- Animation Production: ZEXCS
- Character Design / Chief Animation Director: Ki Tanaka
- Series Composition: Michihiro Tsuchiya
- Music: Akio Izutsu
- Rakugo Supervision: Kikuyo Hayashiya
Yūki Suenaga and Takamasa Moue released the Akane-banashi manga in February 2022. Shueisha published the 17th compiled volume on June 4. The manga was nominated for the 47th Kodansha Manga Awards and the 16th Manga Taisho Awards in 2023.
Viz Media releases the manga in English and describes the story as follows:
Akane unintentionally stirs up a scandal when she’s discovered taking informal lessons from her father’s former teacher, Shiguma Arakawa. And she’s about to make even bigger waves because she is about to begin her first steps in climbing the ranks of a rakugo performer from zenza opening act to shin’uchi headliner is exchanging her secret lessons for formal training. But she’ll still have to finish high school and navigate her relationship with Shiguma’s existing apprentices, all while learning that becoming a stellar rakugoka takes much more than just being good at performing!
