Crunchyroll has announced the license acquisition and theatrical screening dates of the upcoming Witch on The Holy Night anime film.
Witch on The Holy Night will be distributed by Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment. It will be available in both Japanese with English subtitles and in an English-language dub. An English-subtitled trailer was also released, which may not be viewable in some territories.
The anime film will premiere in North American theaters, starting on January 29, 2027 in the United States and Canada. Other international theatrical dates include:
- • January 21, 2027 — Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
- • January 26, 2027 — Austria, Germany, Switzerland (German-speaking)
- • January 27, 2027 — France, Belgium, Switzerland (French-speaking)
- • January 28, 2027 — Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Central America, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Italy, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland (Italian-speaking), Australia, and New Zealand.
- • January 29, 2027 — United Kingdom and Ireland, Finland, Poland, Sweden, and India
- • February 5, 2027 — Spain, Kazakhstan
The anime film will premiere in Japanese theaters on November 20, 2026.
Like the 2022 remastered visual novel, the anime film adaptation will star Haruka Tomatsu as Aoko, Yusuke Kobayashi as Sojuro Shizuki, and Kana Hanazawa as Alice. Ufotable is in charge of the animation production.
The Witch on the Holy Night visual novel was first released by TYPE-MOON for PC in Japan in 2012. A fully voiced HD version was released for Nintendo Switch and PS4 in December 2022. It was then made available on Steam in December 2023.
The character, Aoko, first appeared in the 2000 visual novel Tsukihime (which takes place after Witch on the Holy Night and has received a remake of two of its routes), and has appeared in various other Type-Moon-related titles such as the Melty Blood fighting game series. Another Witch on the Holy Night character, Aoko’s sister Touko Aozaki, is a major character in The Garden of Sinners light novel series, which has been adapted into a series of anime films also produced by ufotable.
Crunchyroll describes the synopsis of Witch on The Holy Night as:
Aoko Aozaki, an ordinary high school girl, is actually a Magician who lives in the modern world…though she is still only an apprentice. As she spends her days living alongside her housemate, Alice Kuonji, striving to become a full-fledged Magician…
The girl meets a boy.
This is the beginning of one young girl’s story — the tale of a Witch.
Source: Press release
