The Once Upon a Witch’s Death: The Tale of the One Thousand Tears of Joy novel is getting a TV anime adaptation that will air in 2025. A teaser trailer and visual have been released.
Atsushi Nigorikawa (Beast Tamer, Between the Sky and Sea) is directing the EMT Squared production with Keiichiro Ochi (Go, Go, Loser Ranger!, The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio) as series composer and Yukishizuku (Smile of the Arsnotoria the Animation) as character designer. The main voice cast includes Yoshino Aoyama as Meg Raspberry and Yoshiko Sakakibara as Faust.
The Once Upon a Witch’s Death novel was published under KADOKAWA’s Dengeki no Shinbungei label in 2021. It is written by Saka and illustrated by Chorefuji. Yen Press describes it as:
On Meg’s seventeenth birthday, she learns that she only has one year left to live. Her mentor—the Eternal Witch, Faust—explains that she is cursed and the only way to save herself is to grow a seed of life using one thousand tears of joy. Of course, such tears aren’t easy to come by. As Meg begins her quest, she finds herself drawn into the lives of her friends and neighbors in ways she never imagined. By sharing their burdens and using her magic to comfort them, she learns how precious those moments of connection can be even in the face of death.
There is a manga adaptation by Kenu Amearare.
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Update: Corrected the details concerning the manga adaptation’s artist as well as the spelling of the novel illustrator’s name.
Source: @arumajo_anime
