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Little Witch Academia TV Anime's Teaser Video Promotes January Premiere
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The official website for the Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade anime. The new anime's teaser video proclaims that a new story begins here:
The show's story revolves around Akko, who as a child watched the witch Shiny Chariot perform a show, and from then on dreamed of becoming a witch. She enters the Luna Nova Academy, a school for witches that Shiny Chariot attended. In this new town she meets new friends and starts a new school life. At the school she has lessons on riding brooms and the wonder of magic, but Akko and her friends Lotte and Sucy keep getting wrapped up in tumultuous events.
The returning cast includes:
- Megumi Han as Atsuko "Akko" Kagari
- Fumiko Orikasa as Lotte Yanson
- Michiyo Murase as Sucy Manbavaran
- Yōko Hikasa as Diana Cavendish
- Arisa Shida as Amanda O'Neill
- Rie Murakawa as Constanze von Braunschbank Albrechtsberger
- Reina Ueda as Jasminka Antonenko
- Noriko Hidaka as Shiny Chariot
Michiru Ōshima is returning from both previous Little Witch Academia anime to compose the music. The rest of the staff includes:
Color Setting: Yukiko Kakita
Director of Photography: Naoki Yorozu
Main Animator: Takafumi Hori
Design Works: Yusuke Yoshigaki
Editing: Kentarou Tsubone
Sound Director: Jun Watanabe
Sound Effects: Kiyotaka Kawada
The tagline on the visual on the website reads, "a new magic is now starting."
The television anime will be a 30-minute series. The series will premiere in January and stream the series.
The project began with a 2013 anime short that spawned the Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade sequel last year. Yoshinari created and directed the first short as part of the Anime Expo in July 2015.
