Kadokawa announced this week that Saka and Chorefuji’s light novel series Aru Majo ga Shinu Made: Owari no Kotoba to Hajimari no Namida (Once Upon a Witch’s Death: The Tale of the One Thousand Tears of Joy) will be adapted into a TV anime in 2025.
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Nigorikawa Atsushi will direct the anime at EMT Squared studio, and the anime will star Aoyama Yoshino as Meg Raspberry and Sakakibara Yoshiko as Faust.
Saka wrote the story from October 2019 to August 2022 on the Kakuyomu website, and Kadokawa published the first novel, with illustrations by Chorefuji, in December 2021. The second novel in the series will be released on July 17th, 2024.
Amearare Kenu adapted the novel series into a manga in March 2023 on Kadokawa’s Comic Walker website. Kadokawa released the manga’s first tankoubon volume in July 2023; the second volume will be released on July 26th, 2024.
On her seventeenth birthday, the apprentice witch, Meg, learns that she only has one year left to live. Her teacher, the long-lived witch Faust, explains that the only way to undo the death curse is to collect tears of joy and grow the seed of life. To find them, Meg must leave the sheltered life she’s always known and head out into the world. There will be meetings, partings, and friendships aplenty, and of course, many tears. Meg will learn that the most important lessons for a witch are bright, sweet, and somewhat heart-wrenching.
