The Vampire Juujikai anime (The Record of a Fallen Vampire), based on the manga by Kyo Shirodaira and Yuri Kimura, debuts in 2027. The adaptation's official site opened on Monday, October 5, 2026, with a teaser visual, promotional video, main cast, and staff.
Production is handled by Zero-G and Liber. Direction and series composition are by Mankyu, credited on titles such as Migi & Dali and The Ramparts of Ice. Character design is by jimao, and the score is by Evan Call, composer of Frieren and Violet Evergarden.
Who is in the cast
Yuma Uchida plays Rose Red Strauss, the pure-blooded vampire king and last ruler of the Night Kingdom. Aino Shimada voices Bridget Irving Frostheart, a dhampir who has lived for more than a thousand years. The exact 2027 season has not been announced.
The story, published by Square Enix in Monthly Shonen Gangan from 2003 to 2007 across nine volumes, follows King Akabara Strauss after he loses his kingdom and his queen. Humans who could not kill her sealed her away and raised thousands of fake seals. While dhampirs hunt him, Strauss keeps searching. The arc gains another axis with the Black Swan, an entity that inhabits a young human girl every 50 years.
Why it matters
Roughly 24 years separate the start of serialization and the TV adaptation. Shirodaira is also the author of In/Spectre and Spiral. In English, Viz published the print edition; Yen Press and Square Enix's Manga UP! Global carry the digital edition.
There is also a continuation on the page. Vampire Juujikai: Inu ni wa Inu no Uta, by Shirodaira and Kimura, begins in Shonen Gangan on October 9, 2026. The anime and the new manga are not the same work: one adapts the original series; the other is a print sequel announced earlier.
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