It’s official: per as we speak’s panel at Anime Expo, an anime adaptation of Kamome Shirahama’s Eisner award successful manga collection Witch Hat Atelier is about to premiere on Crunchyroll in 2025. The collection will likely be animated by BUG FILMS, the studio behind Zom 100: Bucket Listing of the Lifeless.
The synopsis of the primary quantity, per Kodansha Comics, reads:
In a world the place everybody takes wonders like magic spells and dragons as a right, Coco is a woman with a easy dream: She desires to be a witch. However all people is aware of magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a present for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to surrender on her dream to grow to be a witch…till the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, touring magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey carry out magic in a method she’s by no means seen earlier than, Coco quickly learns what all people “is aware of” may not be the reality, and discovers that her magical dream might not be as far-off as it could appear…
Feast your eyes on the trailer beneath:
The collection will likely be directed by the prolific Ayumu Watanabe, whose previous work contains the visually beautiful Kids of the Sea, the tv collection After the Rain and plenty of Doraemon movies. The producer is Hiroaki Kojima, who collaborated with Watanabe on the studio OLM on initiatives corresponding to Komi Can’t Talk and Summertime Rendering. Character designs are credited to Kairi Unabara, who contributed to the eighth episode of Pokemon Evolutions. Lastly, the music consists by Yuka Kitamura, who went freelance in 2023 after scoring From Software program’s blockbuster videogame Elden Ring.
BUG FILMS is the true wildcard right here. The premiere of their debut collection Zom 100 final yr, directed by Kazuki Kawagoe, was among the best episodes that aired in 2023. The remainder of the collection struggled to dwell as much as that promise. (I like to recommend studying Kevin Cirugeda’s write-up in Sakuga Weblog in the event you’d wish to be taught extra.) Witch Hat Atelier represents an opportunity for the studio to show that it’s able to studying from its previous errors. It is going to be a difficult mission regardless: Shirahama’s artwork and paneling is hard to beat.
Witch Hat Atelier is a favourite of the employees right here at Comics Beat. Most lately, Ilgın Aspect Soysal praised the collection in an installment of Beat’s Weird Journey. Earlier than that, Yazmin Garcia reviewed the pleasing spin-off Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen. I feel I communicate for my colleagues by saying that we’re all rooting for the BUG FILMS crew to make the perfect model of Witch Hat Atelier they’ll. Right here’s hoping the method goes easily!
Witch Hat Atelier is about to premiere on Crunchyroll in 2025. The manga is on the market in bodily and digital editions from Kodansha Comics.
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