Witch on the Holy Night Film Final Trailer Confirms Staff And supercell Theme
The final trailer confirms ufotable's full production team and a supercell theme song, locking in the film's creative identity ahead of its November 20 Japan opening and the January 2027 North American screenings.
Key Facts
- The Witch on the Holy Night anime film opens in Japan on November 20.
- Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment will screen the film in the United States and Canada on January 29, 2027.
- supercell performs the theme song "Yoru to Ao," written, composed, and arranged by ryo with vocals by Nagi Yanagi.
- Masashi Takeuchi directs the Witch on the Holy Night film, with Moe Tsuzuki on character design and ufotable handling script production.
- The original Witch on the Holy Night visual novel's smartphone version releases in Japan on the same day as the film's opening.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
The official website for the Witch on the Holy Night anime film began streaming a final trailer on Wednesday. The trailer previews the theme song "Yoru to Ao" by supercell and confirms the film's staff. Masashi Takeuchi directs, with Moe Tsuzuki on character design, Masato Nagamori as chief animation director, and ufotable handling script production. Chief director is Hikaru Kondo, music is by Hideyuki Fukasawa, and original character designer Hirokazu Koyama drew a new character visual. The film opens in Japan on November 20. Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment will screen it in the United States and Canada on January 29, 2027, in Japanese with English subtitles and with an English dub. Returning cast include Haruka Tomatsu as Aoko Aozaki, Kana Hanazawa as Alice Kuonji, and Yusuke Kobayashi as Soujyuro Sizuki. The original visual novel's smartphone version releases the same day as the film in Japan.
The final trailer runs 90 seconds and also reveals the rest of the crew: Nana Ishigo and Masato Nagamori on sub-character design, Masato Saitō on prop design, Yuichi Terao as compositing director of photography and finishing technical director, Gōchū Satō as 3D director, Koji Eto as art director, Mika Matsuoka as color key artist, and Manabu Kamino on editing.
Supercell's "Yoru to Ao" (Night and Blue) was written, composed, and arranged by ryo, with Nagi Yanagi on vocals.
The film adapts a visual novel set in the late 1980s. Aoko Aozaki is one of two sister heirs to a long family line of modern mages. She is uninterested in magic but is declared heir to the family's magical art and reluctantly apprentices under Alice Kuonji, a young witch who lives in a lonely manor atop a hill. She balances her studies with her role as student council president and meets Sōjūrō Shizuki, a transfer student unfamiliar with the modern world, while contending with the plots of her older sister Tōko Aozaki.
The novel was one of the first collaborations between Kinoko Nasu and artist Takashi Takeuchi in the mid-90s, before they founded Type-Moon. It began as a novel shown only to friends, then became a visual novel with graphics by Hirokazu Koyama that shipped in April 2012, with two sequels planned.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.