A television anime adaptation of Kyo Shirodaira and Yuri Kimura’s The Record of a Fallen Vampire (Vampire Jūjikai) is officially moving forward and will debut in 2027. A dedicated website opened on Monday, October 5, confirming the project and revealing the first teaser promotional video, a teaser visual, and the main cast and staff.
The announcement ends years of speculation around the cult-favourite vampire fantasy, which originally ran for nine volumes between 2003 and 2007. The new website landing with a teaser PV rather than a text-only notice suggests production is already well underway for its 2027 release.
Cast
- Yūma Uchida as Rose Red Strauss — a pure-blooded vampire and the last king of the Night Kingdom
- Aino Shimada as Bridget Irving Frostheart — a Dhampir who has lived for over 1,000 years
Staff
- Director and series scripts: Mankyū (Fist of the North Star: Strawberry Flavor, Migi & Dali, both seasons of The Ramparts of Ice)
- Character design: jimao (prop designer on Mechanical Marie and The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague)
- Music: Evan Call (Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Violet Evergarden)
- Animation: Zero-G and Liber
The pairing of a cult-adventure director in Mankyū with a composer of Evan Call’s profile signals a production that is being treated as more than a quick catalogue adaptation. Call’s work on sweeping, emotionally weighted fantasy — most famously the two-season Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End — lines up squarely with the melancholy, centuries-spanning tone of the source material.
What The Record of a Fallen Vampire is about
The manga, published in English physically by Viz Media and digitally by Yen Press together with Square Enix’s Manga UP! Global service, follows a vampire king on a very long search. Viz Media describes the story as a tale of the Vampire King’s tragic love and its consequences:
Thousands of years ago, Vampire King Akabara “Red Rose” Strauss lost both his kingdom and his queen. Since humans were unable to kill the queen, they sealed her away, erecting thousands of fake seals so that the king would never find her true location. Despite being pursued by relentless dhampires, Akabara continues to search for his queen to this day…
Akabara’s quest takes a sinister turn when an entity called the Black Swan appears. The Black Swan inhabits the body of a young human girl every 50 years, giving her the power to destroy the Vampire King and his queen. With each incarnation the Black Swan grows stronger — will the 49th Black Swan mean the end of Akabara?
A series with a long history — and a new chapter on the way
Shirodaira and Kimura launched The Record of a Fallen Vampire in Square Enix’s Shonen Gangan magazine in December 2003. The company shipped the ninth and final compiled volume in April 2007. Viz Media published the manga in English beginning in May 2008, and shipped the ninth volume in May 2010.
The timing of the anime announcement is not a coincidence. Shirodaira and Kimura will launch a new manga in the same series, titled Vampire Jūjikai: Inu ni wa Inu no Uta (The Record of a Fallen Vampire: A Dog’s Song for Dogs), in Shonen Gangan on October 9 — just days after the anime reveal. Reviving a dormant property with both an anime and a fresh manga launch at the same time is a familiar playbook for publishers looking to rebuild a brand around a single, momentum-driven push.
For viewers unfamiliar with the title, the appeal is in the premise itself: a structurally unusual fantasy in which the “final boss” of the escalating conflict keeps being reborn as an ordinary girl, forcing an immortal protagonist to confront an antagonist who is simultaneously a threat and, in a sense, a recurring acquaintance. It is the kind of cyclical, emotional hook that has aged better than many of its mid-2000s contemporaries.
Why it matters
The Record of a Fallen Vampire is exactly the sort of older, completed series that modern anime production has increasingly turned to: a finite, self-contained story with a loyal readership, a strong central hook and a built-in ending that a studio can adapt without guessing where the plot goes. Fewer moving parts than an ongoing serialized hit, and a clean promotional hook in the parallel manga revival.
The 2027 window is broad, and neither the website nor the announcement has narrowed down a season, episode count or streaming home yet. Those details will likely follow as production progresses. What is confirmed now is the core creative team, the two leads, and the fact that the series is returning in two formats at once.
It also fits a broader pattern of completed manga being revived for anime. Recent examples include Manchuria Opium Squad getting an anime adaptation and the newly announced Phantom Busters TV anime for 2027, both of which show how quickly older or niche titles can be pulled back into production when the right team is attached.
Source: Anime News Network, citing the anime’s official website.
Featured image: Teaser visual for The Record of a Fallen Vampire anime, via the anime’s official website.
