The staff behind the television anime adaptation of Saka and Chorefuji’s Once Upon a Witch’s Death (Aru Majo ga Shinu Made: Owari no Kotoba to Hajimari no Namida) light novel series shared new details about the show on Friday, including its main promotional video, theme song information, additional cast members, and its television debut date of April 1.
Maaya Sakamoto will perform the opening theme song “Drops,” which is featured in the promotional video.
The new cast members include:
- Shizuka Itō as Inori, the “Witch of Wisdom” and one of the seven sages.
- Yōko Hikasa as Eldora, the “Witch of Calamity” and another of the seven sages.
The anime will air on multiple platforms, including Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, AT-X, and BS11, beginning April 1.
The anime’s main cast includes:
- Yoshino Aoyama as Meg Raspberry
- Yoshiko Sakakibara as Faust
- Miharu Hanai as Carbuncle
- Aina Suzuki as Shirofukurō (Snowy Owl)
- Rumi Okubo as Fine Cavendish
- Hina Yomiya as Sophie Hayter
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Mysterious Girl
Atsushi Nigorikawa, known for works such as A Destructive God Sits Next to Me and Beast Tamer, is directing the anime at EMT Squared.
Once Upon a Witch’s Death Anime
The character designs, created by Chorefuji, are being adapted for animation by Yuki Shizuku, who has worked on Smile of the Arsnotoria the Animation and Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout. Keiichirō Ōchi, known for Adachi and Shimamura and The Quintessential Quintuplets, is overseeing the series scripts.
Yen Press is publishing the English version of the light novels and provides the following story description:
“On her seventeenth birthday, Meg, an apprentice witch, learns that she only has one year left to live. Her teacher, the long-lived witch Faust, explains that the only way to undo the death curse is to collect tears of joy and grow the seed of life.
To find them, Meg must leave the sheltered life she has always known and venture into the world. Along the way, she will encounter new friends, experience partings, and shed many tears. Through these trials, Meg will come to realize that the most important lessons for a witch are bright, sweet, and often heartbreaking.”
Saka began the story on the Kakuyomu website in October 2019 and finished it in August 2022. Kadokawa has been publishing the light novels with illustrations by Chorefuji, releasing the second volume on July 17. The third volume is set to release on March 17.
A manga adaptation by Kenu Amearare launched on the KadoComi (Comic Walker) website in March 2023. Kadokawa released the third volume of the manga on September 27, and the fourth volume is scheduled for release on April 10.
