TV Asahi‘s Anime Lineup Press Conference on Monday revealed that the television anime adaptation of Hiromasa Okujima‘s Baban Baban Ban Vampire manga will debut in January 2025 in the channel’s new programming block IM Animation that airs on Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. The event also revealed the show’s main cast, full staff, a visual, and a teaser promotional video.

The anime will star Daisuke Namikawa as Ranmaru Mori and Yūsuke Kobayashi as Rihito Tatsuno.

Itsurō Kawasaki (Arc the Lad, The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil , Magical Girl Ore) is directing the anime and writing the scripts at studio GAINA. Takahiro Tamano (episode director for We Never Learn: BOKUBEN, BNA: Brand New Animal) is the assistant director. Yukiko Ban (Dusk maiden of Amnesia, A Girl & Her Guard Dog) is the character designer and chief animation director. Shunsuke Masuda and Satoru Kiyomaru are both also chief animation directors. Jun Ichikawa (The Morose Mononokean II, Seven Days War) of Julydex is composing the music.

Other staff members include:

The BL (indicated here as standing for “Bloody Love Comedy”) manga centers on a 450-year-old vampire named Ranmaru, working part-time at an old public bath. He desires the blood of an 18-year-old virgin, and so watches over the growth of 15-year-old Rihito, the son of the bathhouse owners, and tries to prevent him from losing his virginity.

Okujima launched the manga in Akita Shoten‘s Bessatsu Shōnen Champion magazine in October 2021. Akita Shoten published the manga’s seventh compiled book volume on March 7.

The manga is also inspiring a live-action film that will debut in 2025.

Viz Media‘s SuBLime imprint for boys-love manga licensed SHOOWA and Okujima’s Bad Boys, Happy Home (Dōsei Yankee Akamatsu Seven) manga, and released the first volume physically and digitally in July 2021. The pair launched the manga in Akita Shoten‘s Kachi Comi magazine in April 2018.

Source: TV Asahi Anime Lineup Press Conference livestream