Staff for the Aru Majo ga Shinu Made (Once Upon a Witch’s Death) TV anime have released the main promotional video and confirmed that the show will premiere on April 1st, 2025. The anime will air on the Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, AT-X, and BS11 channels.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l80FWPxqw_A]
Nigorikawa Atsushi will direct the anime at EMT Squared studio, and the anime will star:
- Aoyama Yoshino as Meg Raspberry
- Sakakibara Yoshiko as Faust
- Hanai Miharu as Carbuncle
- Suzuki Aina as Shirofukurou (Snowy Owl)
- Okubo Rumi as Fine Cavendish
- Yomiya Hina as Sophie Hayter
- Tanezaki Atsumi as Mysterious Girl
- Itou Shizuka as Inori, the Witch of Wisdom
- Hikasa Youko as Eldora, the Witch of Calmaity
The anime is based on Saka and Chorefuji’s 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) light novel series.
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 and the second novel in July 2024. The third novel will be released on March 17th, 2025.
Yen Press published the first novel in English in April 2024 under the name Once Upon a Witch’s Death.
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 and the third in September 2024. The manga’s fourth volume will be published on April 10th, 2025.
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.
