A second season of Witch Hat Atelier has been announced, following the broadcast of the fantasy TV anime’s 13th and final episode. Crunchyroll has confirmed its acquisition of the new season for exclusive worldwide (except Asia) streaming, though it’s currently unknown when it will debut.
Witch Hat Atelier started airing on April 6, with Netflix streaming it in “select regions of Asia.” The adaptation of Kamome Shirahama‘s manga sees the young Coco entering the captivating and dangerous world of witches after a magic accident petrifies her mother. Ayumu Watanabe (Summer Time Rendering, Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko, Children of the Sea) directed the BUG FILMS production 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. Rena Motomura voiced Coco.
©Kamome Shirahama/KODANSHA/ Witch Hat Atelier Committee
The anime was originally meant to begin in 2025.
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. A self-published guidebook will be released this August.
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
• 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
Sources: @tongari_anime, press release
