The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Kamome Shirahama’s Witch Hat Atelier manga confirms the anime’s April 2026 premiere. A new promotional video was also released to confirm the main cast and more staff members.
The main cast of Witch Hat Atelier includes Rena Motomura as Coco and Natsuki Hanae as Qifrey.
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.
Additional staff members include:
- Assistant Director: Jun Shinohara
- Series Script Supervisor: Hiroshi Seko
- Chief Animation Director: Kairi Unabara
- Art Director: Ryōta Gotō
- Color Key Artist: Naomi Nakano
- Compositing Director of Photography: Tadashi Kitaoka
Crunchyroll will stream the anime series as it airs in Japan.
The Witch Hat Atelier manga has surpassed 7 million copies in circulation, and the manga’s 15th volume will ship on November 21. A limited edition bundle for the 15th volume will be sold with an acrylic stand. What’s more, Kodansha will ship a new novel adaptation titled Shōsetsu Tongari Bōshi no Atelier Special Stories. The new novel is written by One Piece novel HEROINES author Jun Esaka, with Shirahama credited for supervision and the original work.
Shōsetsu Tongari Bōshi no Atelier Special Stories features three short stories. The first story focuses on Qifrey, who went missing, and Olruggio goes searching for him in the snowy mountains. The second story follows up with a dragon managing group that visits the atelier with a request for Olruggio. The third story is set in Ezrest, as Easthies and others confiscate illegal magic devices and go on an undercover investigation.
Kodansha USA Publishing releases the Witch Hat Atelier manga in English and describes the series 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…
