Bandai Namco Filmworks has announced that the TV anime adaptation of Kaeru Chōhōkiteki’s Witch and Mercenary (Majo to Yōhei) light novel series will premiere in April 2027 on NTV, BS NTV, and 29 affiliate channels in Japan. New cast and staff members for the anime were also revealed alongside a new promotional video.
The new cast members include:
- Yuri Noguchi as Isana Gihon
- Hiromu Mineta as Alan Clows
- Haruka Shiraishi as Elicia Armel
Taito Ban will star as Zig Crane while Saori Hayami will star as Siasha.
Shinpei Ezaki is directing the Witch and Mercenary anime at 8-Bit. Taishirou Tanimura is handling the series scripts, Keita Matsumoto is designing the characters. Akiko Fujita is the sound director, while Rei Ishizuka composes the music at Lantis.
Additional staff members for the anime include:
- Assistant Series Script Supervisor: Shingo Irie
- Sub-Character Design: Hideki Sakai
- Monster Design: Wataru Inada, Ryō Hirada
- Chief Animation Directors: Keita Matsumoto, Hideki Sakai, Sorato Shimizu
- Art: Sorato Shimizu
- Art Director: Kazuhiro Inoue
- Prop Design: Mikio
- Image Boards: pomodorosa
- Color Key Artist: Kunio Tsujita
- Compositing Director of Photography: Shūhei Inabe
- CG Director: Fūma Aizawa
- Editing: Gō Sadamatsu
Chōhōkiteki first released the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in June 2021, and ended it in December 2022. Micro Magazine published the first print volume with illustrations by Bench Kanase in May 2023. In 2024, Makoto Miyagi launched the manga adaptation of the story on Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket manga app.
Lastly here’s an overview of the story via Seven Seas Entertainment who releases the novels in English and describes the story:
Nothing in this world is more dangerous than a witch. The epitome of fear and terror, they can summon floods on a whim, conjure balls of fire out of the air, or even destroy entire countries overnight. Incur their wrath, and no one is safe. At least, that’s what everyone thinks, and it’s the very reason they all want Siasha dead. After yet another violent battle for her life, she teams up with Zig, a mercenary, and they depart for unknown lands to find somewhere she can live in peace. But is the pair any match for the lost magic and vicious monstrosities that lie ahead?
