A CD single containing the Witch Hat Atelier anime’s ending songs is set to be released on June 10 in Japan, and its jacket cover art will be from none other than Witch Hat Atelier creator Kamome Shirahama. The jacket art, which features protagonist Coco and was conceived by Shirahama after listening to all of the included songs, was revealed by the EDs’ artist Nakamura Hak, who shared an expanded version of the illustration as well.
Other announced details include the existence of a third, yet-to-be-heard Witch Hat Atelier ending song: “Hikari.” The songs that have appeared in the anime so far are “Tada Utsukushii Noroi,” the title track for the CD, and “Yoru ni Ukabu.”
Those two are also the respective first and second singles for Nakamura Hak, an office worker who will be releasing their first EP, Shiro wa Yume, on May 20 in Japan.
The Witch Hat Atelier anime, directed by Ayumu Watanabe (Summer Time Rendering, Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko, Children of the Sea) at BUG FILMS with Jun Shinohara (Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Episode 3 and 12 storyboard artist and director) as assistant director, began airing on April 6. It is streaming on Crunchyroll (outside Asia) and Netflix (“select regions of Asia”). Shirahama’s manga, which won Best Manga at the 37th Harvey Awards, started serialization in 2019. Kodansha USA describes the manga’s synopsis as such:
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 …
The anime is up to six episodes at the time of writing, while the manga has 16 volumes as of April 2026. The latter has inspired a spin-off by Hiromi Sato titled Tongari Boshi no Kitchen and a novelization by Mitsuru Yoshioka.
Aside from the Witch Hat Atelier ending songs, Nakamura Hak performed the opening song for Lunacy, a live-action drama based on the manga by Natsuko Ishitsuyo. The acoustic artist says that her music undergoes no tweaks or editing.
Source: @Hak_Nakamura (1), (2)
