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GKIDS to Screen Witch Watch Anime in Theaters on March 16 Ahead of April Stream on Crunchyroll/Netflix (Updated)
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GKIDS announced on Thursday that it will screen the first three episodes of the television anime of Kenta Shinohara's Witch Watch manga early in North American theaters on March 16. Crunchyroll and Netflix also revealed that they will stream the anime when it debuts this April. GKIDS streamed an English-subtitled trailer:
The screenings will feature exclusive interviews.
The cast includes:
- Ryōta Suzuki as Morihito Otogi
- Rina Kawaguchi as Nico Wakatsuki
- Tomori Kusunoki as Nemu Miyao
- Kōhei Amasaki as Kanshi Kazamatsuri
- Kaito Ishikawa as Magami Keigo
- Mikako Komatsu as Yūri Makuwa
- Konomi Kohara as Kukumi Ureshino
- Rie Takahashi as Kara Minami
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Tenryū Kiyomiya
Hiroshi Ikehata (TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) is directing the series with assistant director Masao Kawase (Kiratto Pri☆Chan, Magical Destroyers) at Bibury Animation Studio. Deko Akao (Shadowverse, Suppose a Kid From the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town) is in charge of the series scripts. Haruko Iizuka (Ensemble Stars!, Sugar Apple Fairy Tale) is designing the characters with sub-character designs by Yoshiaki Sugimura and Sawa Tomoki.
Kusanagi's Ping Xue (Fuuka, Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's New Dinosaur) serves as the art director. Kusanagi's Takeuchi Yuzuki and Masayuki Niizuma (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II) are in charge of art setting. Yuiha Ōta is the color key artist. Hisashi Yonezawa (Is This a Zombie?) is the compositing director of photography. Mutsumi Takemiya (The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You) is editing the series. Yukari Hashimoto (Mr. Osomatsu, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun) is composing the music for the series. Fumiyuki Go (BLUELOCK, Kaiju No. 8) is the sound director, and Bit Grooove Promotion is responsible for sound production.
Morihito, a boy with the strength of an ogre, is about to start living together with his childhood friend Niko, who is training to be a witch. NIko's magic leads to all sorts of unpredictable trouble, and with two teens under one roof... Let the fantastical antics begin! Magical comedy series by Kenta Shinohara creator of SKET DANCE and Astra Lost in Space.
Shinohara launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in February 2021. Shueisha published the manga's 20th compiled book volume on January 4.
Shinohara published the Sket Dance manga in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2007 to 2013. The manga inspired a television anime in 2011-2012 and an OVA in 2013. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired.
Shinohara's award-winning Astra Lost in Space manga ran on the Shonen Jump+ website and app in from 2016 to 2017 and had five volumes. Viz Media released the manga in English. A 12-episode television anime adaptation premiered in July 2019. Funimation streamed the anime as it aired.
Update: Added Netflix information. Thanks, Kiwi93. Source: Netflix's YouTube channel
Sources: GKIDS' YouTube channel, Crunchyroll (Kyle Cardine)
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