It has been announced that Hiromasa Okujima's manga "Baban Baban Ban Vampire", which is being serialized in the manga magazine "Bessatsu Shonen Champion" (Akita Shoten), will be made into a live-action film and a TV anime. The work is a romantic comedy featuring a 450-year-old vampire. The live-action movie will be co-produced by Shochiku and TV Asahi and will be released in 2025. The TV anime will be broadcast on TV Asahi in 2025. Details such as cast and staff will be announced in the future.
The work started serializing in October 2021 in Bessatsu Shonen Champion. Ranmaru Mori, a 450-year-old vampire who hides his true identity and works as a live-in part-time worker at a public bathhouse, seeks the ultimate taste of ``the blood of an 18-year-old virgin'' and sstruggles to protect the purity of Rihito (15 years old), the only son of a public bathhouse worker.