Witch Hat Atelier revealed a new teaser trailer featuring the main cast an an April 2026 premiere on Tuesday. The series stars Rena Motomura as Coco and Natsuki Hanae as Qifrey.
The main staff consists of:
- Original Work: Kamome Shirahama
- Director: Ayumu Watanabe
- Assistant Director: Jun Shinohara
- Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko
- Character Design / Chief Animation Director: Kairi Unabara
- Art Director: Ryota Goto
- Color Design: Naomi Nakano
- Director of Photography: Tadashi Kitaoka
- Music: Yuka Kitamura
- Animation Studio: BUG FILMS
The anime series was delayed from 2025 to 2026 in order deliver the series with the highest possible quality. Kodansha USA has been serializing the manga which the series is based on in English since 2019. They describe the plot as follows:
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…
We also had a chance to speak to Kamone Shirahama, Ayumu Watanabe and Hiroaki Kojima where asked about the inspiration for Witch Hat Atelier as well as about how the three envisioned different aspects of the anime series.
Source: Witch Hat Atelier anime Official Website, X (formerly Twitter)
© Kamome Shirahama/KODANSHA/ Witch Hat Atelier Committee
