Kamome Shirahama is self-publishing an official Witch Hat Atelier guide book titled Archives of Witch Hat Atelier, which will be released on August 19. The full-color PDF-only dojinshi, which covers up till the fifth volume of the manga, is available for pre-order until August 18 on MAGs, and has an English version that will drop an hour after the Japanese release (12 PM JST instead of 11 AM JST).
Archives of Witch Hat Atelier will bestow fans with new Shirahama illustrations, which include the cover art, “full-color full-body pieces” and portraits (eight each), and rough sketches. There is also promotional artwork that includes “never before published illustrations.” Other visual content come in the form of casting seals, storyboards (Chapter 1’s will be presented in full and come with Shirahama’s commentary), and design material.
Elsewhere, there are character profiles for Coco, Qifrey, Agott, Richech, Tetia, Olruggio, Tartah, and Euini which promise fresh character information, as well as “Field Notes.”
Archives of Witch Hat Atelier will cost US$34.99 when it releases, but is US$29.99 when pre-ordered. It’s listed with a page count of 164.
The Witch Hat Atelier manga has been collected into 16 volumes as of April 2026, almost 10 years since it debuted in Kodansha’s Monthly Morning Two in July 2016. A TV anime adaptation started airing on April 6 and is streaming internationally on Crunchyroll (outside Asia) and Netflix (“select regions of Asia”).
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 …
Source: @shirahamakamome
