Among the most thrilling revelations made on the first day of Anime Expo 2024 was the long-awaited unveiling of the people behind the anime adaptation of Witch Hat Atelier, the exquisitely drawn high fantasy manga by Kamome Shirahana.Since July 2016, Witch Hat Atelier has been published in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine, Morning Two, with 5.5 million copies presently in circulation. Since its announcement back in 2022, fans of the award-winning manga series have been enthralled with it and eager to learn more about its anime adaptation.
All the Information We Have About the Future Anime Adaptation of Witch Hat Atelier
Witch Hat Atelier was revealed to be produced by Bug Films during its featured panel at Anime Expo 2024. Bug Films is the same studio that produced
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead , which debuted on Netflix during the Summer 2023 anime season. It was also stated that in 2025, the anime will be available for viewing on Crunchyroll.It was also revealed that Yuka Kitamura would be composing the original music and Kairi Unabara would be handling character designs, with Ayumu Watanabe (
Children of the Sea,
Space Brothers) serving as the anime's director.
Witch Hat Atelier is published in English by Kodansha, which provides the following synopsis:A girl who longs for magic in her life discovers that, on the inside, she is already everything she dreams she might be in this beautifully illustrated tale. This beautifully illustrated tale, which harkens back to Studio Ghibli, was selected as one of the Top 10 comics of 2018 by the Japanese manga community. A simple goal of Coco's was to become a witch in a world where everyone took marvels like magic spells and dragons for granted. However, as everyone knows, magicians are created, not born, thus Coco lacked a magical talent from birth. Coco, resigned to her mundane existence, is on the verge of abandoning her aspiration to become a witch. until the day she encounters the enigmatic, itinerant wizard Qifrey. Following her covert observation of Qifrey doing magic in a manner she has never seen before, Coco quickly comes to the realization that what everyone "knows" may not be true and that her magical goal may not be as far as it may seem.