UPDATE: Witch Hat Atelier has been delayed to 2026, to deliver the series with the highest possible quality and to fully showcase its charm.
The staff for the upcoming anime adaptation of Kamome Shirahama’s Witch Hat Atelier revealed a new promotional video, a visual, a main staff list, and confirmed that the anime will premiere in 2025.
Directing the new series will be Ayumu Watanabe (Ace Attorney, Major 2nd, Komi Can’t Communicate) at BUG FILMS Studio, Hiroaki Kojima (Komi Can’t Communicate) will be serving as a producer, Kairi Unabara (Pokémon Evolution) is the character designer, Yuka Kitamura (Elden Ring) will be composing the music and Kazuki Kawagoe (ZOM 100: Bucket List of The Dead) directed the promotional video. Joining Shirahama at the panel was Kitamura and Unabara.
Crunchyroll confirmed that it will be streaming the anime as it airs in Japan. Kodansha’s Morning Two announced in April 2022 that Witch Hat Atelier would be getting an anime adaption.
Witch Hat Atelier was first serialized in Kodansha’s Morning Two magazine in July 2016 and it is still ongoing. The series consists of 13 compiled tankōbon volumes as of February 22. Kodansha Comics began releasing the series in English in April 2019, and you can read the latest manga chapters on KManga.
“In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: she wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch … until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem…“
Source: Anime News Network
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