A couple of new cast details for Witch Hat Atelier have been revealed. This announcement covers the Brimmed Cap Sasaran, voiced by Ryusei Nakao, and the witch apprentice Euini, voiced by Hiiro Ishibashi, who are teased as being important characters for the second test.
Nakao is Mayuri Kurotsuchi from Bleach, and also Frieza and Cooler (and others) from Dragon Ball. Meanwhile, Ishibashi has been Umi from Children of the Sea and Ayato Yorita from The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity, and is starring in the upcoming The Salty Koharu Has a Soft Spot for Me and To You In the Beyond as Sota Oshio and Kazuki Tsukigase, respectively.
Witch Hat Atelier started airing on April 6, and can be found on Crunchyroll (outside Asia) and Netflix (“select regions of Asia”). An adaptation of the manga by Kamome Shirahama, it sees the young Coco being thrust into the captivating and dangerous world of witches after a magic accident that petrifies her mother. The BUG FILMS production is directed by Ayumu Watanabe (Summer Time Rendering, Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko, Children of the Sea) with Jun Shinohara (Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Episode 3 and 12 storyboard artist and director) as assistant director, Kairi Unabara (Magical Girl holoWitches! main trailer co-character designer, The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife) as character designer, and Hiroshi Seko (Jujutsu Kaisen) as series composer.
The Witch Hat Atelier manga began in 2016 in Monthly Morning Two and has 16 volumes as of April 2026. It was named Best Manga at the 37th Harvey Awards, and has a spin-off manga by Hiromi Sato titled Tongari Boshi no Kitchen, which debuted in 2019.
Kodansha USA describes the synopsis of the manga 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 …
Production credits
• Director: Ayumu Watanabe
• Character designer: Kairi Unabara
• Assistant director: Jun Shinohara
• Series composer: Hiroshi Seko (Jujutsu Kaisen)
• Background art director: Ryota Goto
• Color designer: Naomi Nakano (Chainsaw Man)
• Compositing director: Tadashi Kitaoka (Love Live! Superstar!!)
• Music composer: Yuka Kitamura (Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice composer, Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 co-composer)
• Animation production: BUG FILMS
Cast
• Rena Motomura as Coco
• Natsuki Hanae as Qifrey
• Hibiku Yamamura as Agott
• Kurumi Haruki as Tetia
• Hika Tsukishiro as Richieu
• Yuichi Nakamura as Olruggio
• Misaki Kuno as Brushbuddy
• Mitsuru Saiga as Iguin
Source: @tongari_anime
