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The Once Upon A Witch’s Death has revealed an April 1 broadcast date, along with a main promo video and additional cast.
Once Upon A Witch’s Death’s official X (formerly Twitter) account has revealed that the series is set to broadcast on April 1. The announcement was paired with a reveal of additional cast, as well as a main promo video featuring scenes from the anime.
Voice actress and singer Maaya Sakamoto (Ouran Highschool Host Club, Black Butler) is revealed as the performer behind the show’s opening theme song ‘Drops’, which can be heard in the main promo video.
The new cast members announced are Shizuka Ito (Tsukino in Tomodachi Game, Maki Karisu in Komi Can’t Communicate), who will take on the role of Inori the ‘Witch of Wisdom’, and Yoko Hikasa (Dr. Arinsu in Dragon Ball Daima, Ayano Kosaka in Code Geass: Roze of the Recapture) as Eldora the ‘Witch of Calamity’.
The rest of the cast are as follows:
- Meg Raspberry - Yoshino Aoyama (Nonoa Miyamae in Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Hitori Goto in Bocchi the Rock!)
- Faust - Yoshiko Sakakibara (Keiko Anderson in Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno, Haman Karn in Super Robot Wars Z3: Heaven Chapter)
- Carbuncle - Miharu Hanai (Twin Turbo in Uma Yuru, Meroron in You and Idol Precure)
- Shirofukuro - Aina Suzuki (Yoshi in Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro, Miwa Honjo in Tokyo Mew Mew New)
- Fine Cavendish - Rumi Okubo (Nao Shiota in Yakuza Fiance, Iris Churchill in Wistoria: Wand and Sword)
- Sophie Hayter - Hina Yomiya (Anna Yamada in Dangers in My Heart, Tomori Takamatsu in BanG Dream! It’s My Go!!!!!)
- Mysterious Girl - Atsumi Tanezaki (Anya Forger in Spy x Family, Gyokuyou in The Apothecary Diaries)
Atsushi Nigorikawa (Beast Tamer, Zenryoku Usagi) is set to direct, while Yuki Shizuki is in charge of character designs. Keiichiro Ochi (Adachi and Shimamura, The Quintessential Quintuplets) takes on the role as script writer. The anime is being produced by EMT Squared.
Once Upon A Witch’s Death is based on a series of light novels created by Saka and Chorefuji, and was launched on the Kakuyomu website in 2019. The series finished serialisation in 2022. The official description of the story on Yen Press describes the story as:
“On Meg’s seventeenth birthday, she learns that she only has one year left to live. Her mentor—the Eternal Witch, Faust—explains that she is cursed and the only way to save herself is to grow a seed of life using one thousand tears of joy. Of course, such tears aren’t easy to come by. As Meg begins her quest, 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 learns how precious those moments of connection can be even in the face of death.”
