posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
This year’s 38th issue of Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine announced on Monday that Kenta Shinohara‘s Witch Watch manga is inspiring a television anime that will debut in April 2025.
The magazine also revealed the show’s cast, including:
- Ryōta Suzuki as Morihito Otogi
- Rina Kawaguchi as Nico Wakatsuki
- Tomori Kusunoki as Nemu Miyao
- Kōhei Amasaki as Kanshi Kazamatsuri
- Kaito Ishikawa as Magami Keigo
Hiroshi Ikehata (TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) is directing the series with assistant director Masao Kawase (Kiratto Pri☆Chan, Magical Destroyers) at Bibury Animation Studio. Deko Akao (Shadowverse, Suppose a Kid From the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town) is in charge of the series scripts. Haruko Iizuka (Ensemble Stars!, Sugar Apple Fairy Tale) is designing the characters with sub-character designs by Yoshiaki Sugimura and Sawa Tomoki.
Kusanagi‘s Ping Xue (Fuuka, Doraemon the Movie: Nobita’s New Dinosaur) serves as the art director. Kusanagi‘s Takeuchi Yuzuki and Masayuki Niizuma (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II) are in charge of art setting. Yuiha Ōta is the color key artist. Hisashi Yonezawa (Is This a Zombie?) is the compositing director of photography. Mutsumi Takemiya (The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You) is editing the series. Yukari Hashimoto (Mr. Osomatsu, Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun) is composing the music for the series. Fumiyuki Go (BLUELOCK, Kaiju No. 8) is the sound director, and Bit Grooove Promotion is responsible for sound production.
© Kenta Shinohara, Shueisha
Viz Media and MANGA Plus are both publishing Witch Watch in English. MANGA Plus describes the manga’s story:
Morihito, a boy with the strength of an ogre, is about to start living together with his childhood friend Niko, who is training to be a witch. NIko’s magic leads to all sorts of unpredictable trouble, and with two teens under one roof… Let the fantastical antics begin! Magical comedy series by Kenta Shinohara creator of SKET DANCE and Astra Lost in Space.
Shinohara launched the manga in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in February 2021. Shueisha published the manga’s 17th compiled book volume on July 4, and will release the 18th volume on September 4.
Shinohara published the Sket Dance manga in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2007 to 2013. The manga inspired a television anime in 2011-2012 and an OVA in 2013. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired.
Shinohara’s award-winning Astra Lost in Space manga ran on the Shonen Jump+ website and app in from 2016 to 2017 and had five volumes. Viz Media released the manga in English. A 12-episode television anime adaptation premiered in July 2019. Funimation streamed the anime as it aired.
Sources: Shonen Jump issue 38, MBS Anime & Drama YouTube channel
