Witch Hat Atelier Gets Season 2
The Witch Hat Atelier anime is continuing with Season 2, which will stream on Crunchyroll. The news was announced today with a celebratory illustration by Kamome Shirahama.
In addition to the announcement visual, mangaka Shirahama shared an illustration for the second volume of Witch Hat Atelier Blu-ray (to be released on September 30), featuring Qifrey and Olruggio:
Shirahama also commented on the Season 2 announcement:
Congratulations on the production of the second season of the anime! And thank you very much.
I'm happy to say that the magical show by the amazing production team is far from over, and it seems they will be showing us the continuation in the highest quality!
I'm sure viewers were surprised and thought, "What?! It ends here?!" but as the original author, I can confidently say that it's worth waiting for!
Let's wait together with anticipation for the culmination of the dedication and passion that so many wizards are creating!
Director Watanabe also issued a statement:
Thank you for watching Season 1! And the magic that Coco and her friends weave together, stroke by stroke.
We, too, have carefully built up each episode, staying close to the story every step of the way. And this journey will continue.
The story will grow even bigger and deeper, inviting Coco and her friends to learn and discover more about magic.
New locations will appear. New characters will cross paths with Coco and her friends.
And countless spells whose meanings deepen as we explore this world…!
We’ll pour even more heart into this than ever before and bring the story to life with excitement for the adventure ahead.
Please stay tuned!
The staff for the first season included:
- Director: Ayumu Watanabe
- Character Designer: Kairi Unabara
- Music: Yuka Kitamura
- Producer: Hiroaki Kojima
- Studio: BUG FILMS
The main cast for anime includes Rena Motomura as Coco and Natsuki Hanae as Qifrey.
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The anime series adapts Shirahama’s manga of the same title. Witch Hat Atelier (Tongari Boushi no Atelier) began serialization in 2016 in Kodansha’s Morning Two magazine.
Kodansha USA has been serializing it in English since 2019. The publisher describes the plot:
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…
The manga is also available on the K MANGA app in English.
Source: Official Website
© Kamome Shirahama/KODANSHA/ Witch Hat Atelier Committee
