Witch Hat Atelier Season 2 Announced
The swift renewal confirms that the adaptation, which director Watanabe called a reckless undertaking, met the commercial and audience expectations of its production committee despite the reported production challenges.
Reporting from 3 sources: Anime News Network, Anime UK News, Anime Corner.
The television anime of Kamome Shirahama's manga Witch Hat Atelier will receive a second season, the staff announced on Monday immediately after the first season's finale aired in Japan. Crunchyroll confirmed it will stream the new season worldwide excluding Asia. The first season, produced by studio BUG FILMS and directed by Ayumu Watanabe, ran for 13 episodes and ended on a cliffhanger during a test for characters Agott and Richeh. The manga, which began serialization in Kodansha's Morning Two magazine in July 2016, has 16 compiled volumes as of April 2026 and over 7 million copies in circulation worldwide. It has won multiple awards including the Harvey Award for Best Manga and the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material-Asia. Key staff returning for the second season include director Ayumu Watanabe, series script supervisor Hiroshi Seko, character designer Kairi Unabara, and composer Yuka Kitamura. The announcement was accompanied by an endcard image.
The second season announcement arrived with an endcard image, though the staff did not specify a premiere window. Director Ayumu Watanabe previously described the first season's production as "a reckless undertaking" in an interview. Coco's Japanese voice actress Rena Motomura noted that Episode 5, the Qifrey vs. Dragon sequence, required over 20,000 drawings.
Additional returning staff include assistant director Jun Shinohara, art director Ryōta Gotō, color key artist Naomi Nakano, and compositing director of photography Tadashi Kitaoka. Animation producer Hiroaki Kojima, who worked on Komi Can't Communicate, also returns. The opening theme "Kaze no Anthem feat. suis from yorushika" is performed by Eve and suis, and the ending theme songs "Tada Utsukushii no Noroi," "Yoru ni Ukabu," and "Hikari" are performed by Nakamura Hak.
The manga has a spin-off titled Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen, which launched in Kodansha's Morning Two magazine in November 2019. The series was nominated for the Best Comic award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in January 2019 and ranked in the top 10 on the 2018 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook for best manga for male readers. It also made the American Library Association's YALSA Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens list in 2020. The manga won the Harvey Award for Best Manga in both 2020 and 2025.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 3 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.