In a press conference the TV Asahi revealed this teaser trailer and promotional image for the anime series adaptation of the manga Baban Baban Ban Vampire in Hiromasa Okujima which we now know will debut in January 2025 (winter anime season) in a new block called IM Animation.
With animation by the studio Gaina (formerly Fukushima Gainax), the management is Itsurō Kawasaki (Arc the Lad, The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil, Magical Girl Ore) and Takahiro Tamano (episode direction for We Never Learn: BOKUBEN, BNA: Brand New Animal) is assistant director, character design is by Yukiko Ban (Dusk maiden of Amnesia, A Girl & Her Guard Dog) and the music is by Jun Ichikawa (The Morose Mononokean II, Seven Days War).
In the cast we have Daisuke Namikawa as Ranmaru Mori and Yūsuke Kobayashi as Rihito Tatsuno.
A live-action film is also in production, which is a joint production between Shochiku and the TV Asahi.
Baban Baban Ban Vampire began to be published in Bessatsu Shōnen Championn in October 2021 and the Akita Shoten launched its 7th volume on March 7, 2024.
This BL manga (referred to here as “Bloody Love Comedy”) revolves around a 450-year-old vampire named Ranmaru, who works part-time in an old public bath. He desires the blood of an 18-year-old virgin and therefore watches over the growth of 15-year-old Rihito, son of the bath’s owners, and tries to prevent him from losing his virginity.
