The staff of the TV anime adaptation of Kamome Shirahama’s Witch Hat Atelier manga released a new “welcome” key visual at New York Comic Con 2025, which runs from October 9 to 12 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. The Witch Hat Atelier welcome visual depicts Koko and Qifrey.
Originally set to premiere in 2025, Witch Hat Atelier was delayed to 2026 in order for the staff “to present the charm of the project at an even higher quality.” Crunchyroll will stream the Witch Hat Atelier anime when it premieres next year.
Ayumu Watanabe will direct the series at BUG FILMS, Hiroaki Kojima will produce the series, and Yuka Kitamura (Elden Ring) will compose the music. Kairi Unabara is designing the characters of the anime series.
Kamome Shirahama launched the Witch Hat Atelier manga series in 2016 in Kodansha’s Morning Two magazine. Kodansha has published the series ever since as an ongoing series. Kodansha USA Publishing releases the manga in English.
Lastly, Kodansha describes Witch Hat Atelier as follows:
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…
