The workers for the tv anime of Saka and Chorefuji‘s Once Upon a Witch’s Death: The Tale of the One Thousand Tears of Joy (Aru Majo ga Shinu Made: Owari no Kotoba to Hajimari no Namida) gentle novel collection revealed the anime’s second “scenario visible,” and a brand new forged member. The brand new visible options the Lapis city.
The newly introduced forged is Rumi Okubo as Tremendous Cavendish, a robust and kind-hearted highschool woman, who has been associates with Meg for over 10 years.
The anime will debut in 2025.
The anime stars:
- Yoshino Aoyama as Meg Raspberry
- Yoshiko Sakakibara as Faust
- Miharu Hanai as Carbuncle
- Aina Suzuki as Shirofukurō (Snowy Owl)
Atsushi Nigorikawa (A Destructive God Sits Next to Me, Between the Sky and Sea, Beast Tamer) is directing the anime at EMT Squared. Yuki Shizuku (Smile of the Arsnotoria the Animation character design assistant, Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout chief animation director) is adapting Chorefuji‘s character designs for animation. Keiichirō Ōchi (Adachi and Shimamura, The Quintessential Quintuplets) is overseeing the collection scripts.
Yen Press is releasing the novels in English, and describes the story:
On her seventeenth birthday, the apprentice witch Meg learns that she solely has one yr left to reside. Her trainer, the long-lived witch Faust, explains that the one approach to undo the demise curse is to gather tears of pleasure and develop the seed of life. To search out them, Meg should go away the sheltered life she’s at all times recognized and head out into the world. There will likely be conferences, partings, and friendships aplenty, and naturally many tears. Meg will study that a very powerful classes for a witch are vibrant, candy, and considerably heart-wrenching.
Saka launched the story on the Kakuyomu web site in October 2019, and ended it in August 2022. Kadokawa is publishing the novels in print with illustrations by Chorefuji, and revealed the second quantity on July 17.
Kenu Amearare launched a manga adaptation in March 2023 on the KadoComi (Comic Walker) web site. Kadokawa launched the second quantity on July 26, and can launch the third quantity on September 27.
Supply: Press launch
