Daisuke Namikawa, Yūsuke Kobayashi star in the vampire comedy anime
Kodoani.com – TV Asahi revealed on Monday during the “Anime Lineup” press conference that the television anime adaptation of the manga Baby Baby Ban Vampire Hiromasa Okujima's anime will premiere in January 2025. The anime will air on IM Animation's new time slot on Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. The announcement also included the reveal of the main cast, staff, promotional visual, and teaser for the film.
Main Cast
Daisuke Namikawa by Ranmaru Mori
Yusuke Kobayashi by Rihito Tatsuno
Production Team
Director: Itsurō Kawasaki (Arc the Lad, The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil, Magical Girl Ore)
Assistant Director: Takahiro Tamano (We Never Learn: BOKUBEN, BNA: Brand New Animal)
Character Designer and Animation Director: Yukiko Ban (Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, A Girl & Her Guard Dog)
Animation director: Shunsuke Masuda vs Satoru Kiyomaru
Compose music: Jun Ichikawa của Julydex (The Morose Mononokean II, Seven Days War)
Other personnel include:
Supporting character design: Manami Minakata
Props designBy Emi Ikemori, Shunsuke Masuda and Ryota Tamura
Color design: Chie Yoshimura
Art director: Hiroshi Katō (Totonyan), Hirofumi Sakagami (Totonyan)
Background art: Hiroshi Katō (Totonyan), Yuichi Asami (Totonyan)
Director: Rieko Koike (Assez Finaud Fabric)
Editor: Daisuke Hiraki (Assez Finaud Fabric)
2D design: Sho Ikeuchi
Director of 3DCG: Masaru how
Effect: Tomomi Ishihara
Sound effects: Yasumasa Koyama
Audio production: Bit Grooove Promotion
Manga Content
Baban Baban Ban Vampire is a manga series in the BL (Boys' Love) genre with a humorous and bloody title. The story revolves around a 450-year-old vampire named Ranmaru, who works part-time at an old public bathhouse. Ranmaru craves the blood of an 18-year-old virgin and thus, he watches the growth of Rihito, the 15-year-old son of the bathhouse owner, with the aim of preventing him from losing his virginity.
Okujima launched the manga in the magazine Best Champion by Akita Shoten in October 2021. The manga's seventh compilation volume was published on March 7 of this year.
Related Projects
In addition to the anime version, Baban Baban Ban Vampire will also be adapted into a live-action film scheduled for release in 2025.
Additional Information About the Author
Publishing company SuBLime Viz Media 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 two launched the series. This comic is in the magazine Akita Shoten by Akita Shoten in April 2018.