The official website for the highly anticipated anime adaptation of Kamome Shirahama’s Witch Hat Atelier manga announced that Kotono Mitsuishi will play Alaira. The anime will air on April 6 at 11:00 p.m. JST on Tokyo MX and on other channels, and Crunchyroll will stream the anime.
The cast of the anime includes:
- Rena Motomura as Coco
- Natsuki Hanae as Qifrey
- Hibiku Yamamura as Agott
- Kurumi Haruki as Tetia
- Hika Tsukishiro as Richeh
- Yūichi Nakamura as Olruggio
- Misaki Kuno as Brushbuddy (Fudemushi)
- Mitsuki Saiga as Iguin
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. Eve and suis will perform the opening theme song “Kaze no Anthem feat. suis from yorushika” (Anthem of Wind), and Nakamura Hak performs the ending theme song “Tada Utsukushii no Noroi” (Just a Beautiful Curse).
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
The Witch Hat Atelier manga has surpassed 7 million copies in circulation. 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.
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…
