Manga ‘Witch Watch’ Set to Premiere as TV Anime in Spring 2025
Cast
Morihito Otogi: Ryouta Suzuki (Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen)
Nico Wakatsuki: Rina Kawaguchi (Kizuna no Allele)
Nemu Miyao: Tomori Kusunoki (Chainsaw Man)
Keigo Megumi: Kaito Ishikawa (Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon)
Kanshi Kazamatsuri: Kouhei Amasaki (Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru Tonari no Alya-san)
Staff
Director: Hiroshi Ikehata (Tonikaku Kawaii)
Assistant Director: Masao Kawase (Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers)
Series Composition: Deko Akao (Komi-san wa, Comyushou desu.)
Character Design: Haruko Iizuka (Horimiya)
Sub-character Design: Yoshiaki Sugimura (Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai opening animation director), Sawa Yuki (Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers character design)
Art Director: Ping Xue (Kusanagi) (Undead Unluck)
Art Design: Yuzuki Takeuchi (Kusanagi), Masayuki Niitsuma (Senju Kobo) (Onii-chan wa Oshimai!)
Color Design: Yuiha Oota (Prima Doll)
Director of Photography: Hisashi Yonezawa (Princess Connect! Re:Dive)
Editing: Mutsumi Takemiya (Jigokuraku)
Music: Yukari Hashimoto (Maoujou de Oyasumi)
Sound Director: Fumiyuki Gou (Kaijuu 8-gou)
Sound Production: Bit groove promotion
Studio: Bibury Animation Studios
Shinohara began serializing the supernatural comedy manga in Weekly Shounen Jump in February 2021. Shueisha published the 17th volume on July 4, with the 18th volume planned for a September 4 release.
VIZ Media simulpublishes the manga in English on its Shounen Jump website and released the tenth volume digitally on May 28, with the 11th volume scheduled to be released on August 27. Shueisha’s Manga Plus website also simulpublishes the manga in English.
Synopsis
Nico Wakatsuki has finished her six years of witch training and is moving back to town by herself. As a new witch, she must choose a familiar to accompany her. However, unlike the other witches, she wishes to pick a non-animal familiar. There’s no better companion than Morihito “Moi” Otogi—her childhood friend who happens to be an ogre. Morihito is vehemently opposed to being her servant, but he reluctantly accepts his fate after learning that a curse would revert him into a strange cow-tiger hybrid were he to disobey a witch’s order.
Due to Morihito’s father leaving for a business trip and Nico’s mother remaining behind in the Witches’ Holy Land, the two teens find themselves living together under the same roof. While Nico is ecstatic to be living with her crush, Morihito finds that her magical antics and overall clumsiness create more problems than solutions. With a prophesied disaster to befall Nico within the year, Morihito must do everything he can to protect her as her bodyguard while also upholding his duties as her familiar. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Teaser PV
Official site: https://witchwatch-anime.com/
Official X (Twitter): @WITCHWATCHanime
Manga special site: https://www.shonenjump.com/j/rensai/witch.html
Manga official X (Twitter): @WITCHWATCH_off
Source: Comic Natalie
Witch Watch on MAL