It's official. The Record of a Fallen Vampire, the cult-favorite Shonen Gangan manga that wrapped up in 2007, is getting a TV anime in 2027. A teaser site went live on October 5, 2026, packing a teaser video, a key visual, and the first cast and staff. No season yet. Just a year and a whole lot of fans losing their minds. Yuma Uchida voices Rose Red Strauss, the last king of the Night Kingdom, while Mankyū directs and writes the series scripts at Zero-G and Liber. And there's a bonus: a fresh sequel manga, Vampire Jujikai: Inu ni wa Inu no Uta, starts in Monthly Shonen Gangan on October 9.
Here's why this one hits. Kyo Shirodaira, the writer behind Spiral and In/Spectre, scripted it, and Yuri Kimura drew it. Nine volumes. 44 chapters. Done by early 2007, with Viz putting it out in English through 2010. Then nothing, for almost two decades, while readers kept insisting it deserved better. The hook still works: a vampire king ditches his own kingdom and hunts for the queen humans sealed away a thousand years ago, with dhampirs on his tail. Then the Black Swan shows up, a being that possesses a girl every 50 years to kill the pair. Gothic, bloody, oddly tragic. The sequel tease landed back in September, so this whole comeback looks planned.
The vibe online is hype with a side of nerves. Longtime readers are thrilled somebody finally dug this series up. The worry is execution. Zero-G and Liber is a pairing people will scrutinize, and Mankyū's résumé, Fist of the North Star: Strawberry Flavor and The Ramparts of Ice, is all over the map in tone. Expect the usual theory pile: how much of the original run gets covered, whether the anime quietly sets up the new sequel manga, and how the Black Swan arc survives a tight episode count. My hot take? Uchida as Strauss is a smart pick. That guy needs a voice that sounds tired and dangerous at once, and Uchida can do both. The real test is pacing, because this story runs on melancholy as much as fights.
So what should you actually expect? A teaser-stage 2027 anime usually means more news drips out over the next several months: a premiere season, extra cast, a proper trailer. Don't bank on a winter slot. No streaming partner has surfaced in the reporting I found either, so skip the assumptions about where it'll land. A single cour likely covers the opening stretch of the manga, though that's a guess, not an announcement. In the meantime, the original run is only nine volumes, which makes it a painless catch-up before the premiere. Read it, then come back and argue with everyone about the Black Swan.
