The second new situational visual has been released for the upcoming Once Upon a Witch's Death television anime, along with the addition of Rumi Okubo to the main voice cast. The anime will premiere sometime in 2025.
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Okubo will voice the character Fine Cavendish, who will star alongside protagonist Meg Raspberry in the new visual.
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She also joins the main voice cast which includes:
• Yoshino Aoyama as Meg • Yoshiko Sakakibara as Faust • Miharu Hanai as Carbuncle • Aina Suzuki as White Owl
Atsushi Nigorikawa (Beast Tamer, Between the Sky and Sea) will direct the anime, with Keiichiro Ochi (Go, Go, Loser Ranger!, The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio) composing the series music and Yukishizuku (Smile of the Arsnotoria the Animation) serving as character designer. EMT Squared is handling animation production for the series.
The anime is based on the light novel series by Saka and illustrated by Chorefuji. It was first published under ASCII Media Works' Dengeki no Shinbuei imprint on December 17, 2021. Two volumes have been released as of July 2024. Yen Press has licensed the light novels for English release in North America.
A manga adaptation by Kenu Amearare was released in March 2023 and is published digitally in English on Kadokawa's BookWalker website.
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Yen Press describes the main summary of the light novel Once Upon a Witch's Death as follows:
On Meg's seventeenth birthday, she learns that she has only one year to live. Her mentor—the Eternal Witch, Faust—explains that she is cursed and that the only way to save herself is to plant a seed of life with a thousand tears of joy. Of course, such tears are not easy to come by. As Meg begins her journey, she finds herself drawn into the lives of her friends and neighbors in ways she never imagined. By sharing their burdens and using her magic to comfort them, she realizes how precious those moments of connection can be even in the face of death.
Source: Official Twitter Anime of Once Upon a Witch
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