A third new situation visual and latest cast member have been revealed for the upcoming Once Upon a Witch’s Death TV anime series, which highlights the stoic Sophie Hayter. The anime is scheduled to broadcast in Japan sometime in 2025.
Voice actress Hina Yomiya was also revealed as playing Sophie Hayter in the series. She joins a main cast that stars:
- • Yoshino Aoyama as Meg
- • Yoshiko Sakakibara as Faust
- • Miharu Hanai as Carbuncle
- • Aina Suzuki aa White-Owl
- • Rumi Okubo as Fine Cavendish
Atsushi Nigorikawa (Beast Tamer, Between the Sky and Sea) is directing the anime, with Keiichiro Ochi (Go, Go, Loser Ranger!, The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio) as series screenwriter and Yukishizuku (Smile of the Arsnotoria the Animation) as character designer. EMT Squared is in charge of the animation production for the series.
The anime is based on the light novel series by Saka and illustrated by Chorefuji. It was first published under ASCII Media Works’s Dengeki no Shinbungei imprint on December 17, 2021. Two volumes have been released as of July 2024. Yen Press licensed the light novels for release in English for North America.
A manga adaptation by Kenu Amearare was released in March 2023 and is published digitally in English on Kadokawa’s BookWalker website.
Yen Press describes the Once Upon a Witch’s Death light novels 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.
