The TV anime adaptation of Kamome Shirahama’s acclaimed manga, Witch Hat Atelier got a new trailer, focusing on the newly announced cast and revealing the anime’s release date window.
The new trailer also focused on the series’ core concept of magic drawn through spell glyphs, the introduction of Coco, and Qifrey, and finally, revealing that the series will premiere in April 2026. Joining the main cast will be Rena Motomura (Maebashi Witches, Betrothed to My Sister’s Ex, Yu-Gi-Oh!: Go Rush!!) Joining as Coco, and Natsuki Hanae (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, DanDaDan, Shangri-La Frontier) as Qifrey. For actor comments, Oricon has the exclusive details. The TV Anime was originally scheduled to premiere in
Main Staff:
- Original Work: Kamome Shirahama
- Director: Ayumu Watanabe
- Assistant Director: Jun Shinohara
- Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko
- Character Design / Chief Animation Director: Kairi Unabara
- Art Director: Ryota Goto
- Color Design: Naomi Nakano
- Director of Photography: Tadashi Kitaoka
- Music: Yuka Kitamura
- Animation Studio: BUG FILMS
Witch Hat Atelier was first serialized in Kodansha’s Morning Two magazine in July 2016 and it is still an ongoing series. The series consists of 14 compiled tankōbon volumes as of April 2025, with the 15th Volume scheduled to go on sale on November 21st, 2025. 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: Oricon
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