A new character PV trailer has been revealed for the upcoming Once Upon a Witch’s Death TV anime series, highlighting the wise and experienced witch, Faust. The anime will begin broadcasting in Japan sometime in 2025.
Atsushi Nigorikawa (Beast Tamer, Between the Sky and Sea) is directing the anime series, 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.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes:
- • Yoshino Aoyama as Meg Raspberry
- • Yoshiko Sakakibara as Faust
- • Miharu Hanai as Carbuncle
- • Aina Suzuki as White-Owl
- • Rumi Okubo as Fine Cavendish
- • Hina Yomiya as Sophie Hayter
- • Atsumi Tanezaki as Mysterious Girl
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. Three tankobon volumes have been released as of September 2024.
Yen Press describes the main synopsis of Once Upon a Witch’s Death 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.
