Witch Hat Atelier | |
とんがり帽子のアトリエ (Tongari Bōshi no Atorie) | |
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Genre | Fantasy [1] |
Manga | |
Written by | Kamome Shirahama |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher | |
Imprint | Morning KC |
Magazine | Morning Two |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | July 22, 2016 – present |
Volumes | 13 |
Anime | |
Licensed by | Crunchyroll |
Spin-off | |
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Witch Hat Atelier ( Japanese: とんがり帽子のアトリエ, Hepburn: Tongari Bōshi no Atorie) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kamome Shirahama. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning Two since July 2016, with its chapters collected in 13 tankōbon volumes as of February 2024. The series follows a girl named Coco, who dreams of being a witch, but in her world only those born with magical abilities are able to become witches. However, after meeting a witch named Qifrey, Coco's dream begins to come true.
An anime adaptation has been announced. A spin-off series, Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen, started in Morning Two in November 2019.
By October 2022, Witch Hat Atelier had over 4.5 million copies in circulation. In 2020, the series won the Harvey Award for the Best Manga category as well as the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia.
Coco is a kind and daydreaming daughter of a dressmaker who aspires to become a witch; however because only innate magical users can practice and use magic, she has to give up on her dream. One day she meets a male witch named Qifrey and after she witnesses how he uses magic (by drawing magical runes and using magical ink), Coco accidentally casts a spell that turns her mother to stone.
As Coco does not know which magic spell she cast and Qifrey is tracking the sinister coven that could be behind the incident, he takes Coco as his apprentice in order to undo the spell and allow her to fulfill her dream. As it is gradually revealed, the coven in question—the Brimmed Caps—have taken an extraordinary interest in Coco, hoping that she will help them revive the free use of magic, which was outlawed because of the atrocities committed with it in past times, with some of their repercussions still enduring in Coco's world. Because rune magic can be effectively made by everyone, the Assembly carefully watches over any abuse of it, even going as so far as to erase the memories of any uninitiated (called "Outsiders") when they discover this secret. Thus, as Coco immerses herself into this new, wondrous world, a sinister plot begins to thicken around her.
The Witches' Assembly is the institution in Coco's world which governs the use of magic, its spreading (by regulating the enlistment and advancement of apprentices) and the maintenance of its secrecy. The seat of the Assembly is located in an underwater city called the Great Hall, which can only be reached by a certain stairwell descending into the depths of the earth, as well as special magic. This community is financed by the Five Kingdoms of the Zozah Peninsula, in exchange for freely serving the people in times of great need. However, the Assembly is endeavoring to remain neutral in the realms' politics.
Also known as the Order of Moral Spellcasting, the Knights Moralis (魔警騎士団, Makei Kishi-dan) is a subsidiary agency to the Assembly—specifically, its law enforcement branch. Its members are assigned to track any abuse of magic and hunt down perpetrators and victims for memory erasure.
Written and illustrated by Kamome Shirahama, Witch Hat Atelier started in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning Two on July 22, 2016. [2] The magazine ceased print publication and moved to a digital release starting on August 4, 2022. [3] [4] Kodansha has compiled its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was published on January 23, 2017. [5] As of February 22, 2024, 13 volumes have been published. [6]
In North America, Kodansha USA announced the acquisition of the series in July 2018. [7] The first volume was published on April 9, 2019. [8]
A spin-off manga series by Hiromi Satō, titled Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen, started in Morning Two on November 22, 2019. [9] [10]
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN | |
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1 | January 23, 2017 [5] | 978-4-06-388690-0 | April 9, 2019 [8] | 978-1-63236-770-9 | |
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2 | August 23, 2017 [11] [12] |
978-4-06-510138-4 978-4-06-510203-9 ( LE) | June 25, 2019 [13] | 978-1-63236-804-1 | |
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3 | February 23, 2018 [14] [15] |
978-4-06-510930-4 978-4-06-510894-9 ( LE) | August 27, 2019 [16] | 978-1-63236-805-8 | |
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4 | September 21, 2018 [17] [18] |
978-4-06-512681-3 978-4-06-511766-8 ( LE) | November 12, 2019 [19] | 978-1-63236-860-7 | |
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5 | May 23, 2019 [20] [21] |
978-4-06-515597-4 978-4-06-515598-1 ( LE) | March 17, 2020 [22] | 978-1-63236-929-1 | |
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6 | November 21, 2019 [23] [24] |
978-4-06-517778-5 978-4-06-517909-3 ( LE) | September 15, 2020 [25] | 978-1-64651-010-8 | |
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7 | May 22, 2020 [26] [27] |
978-4-06-519266-5 978-4-06-520266-1 ( LE) | February 2, 2021 [28] | 978-1-64651-078-8 | |
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8 | December 23, 2020 [29] [30] |
978-4-06-521625-5 978-4-06-521626-2 ( LE) | September 28, 2021 [31] | 978-1-64651-269-0 | |
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9 | July 21, 2021 [32] [33] |
978-4-06-524100-4 978-4-06-524098-4 ( LE) | June 21, 2022 [34] | 978-1-64651-447-2 | |
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10 | April 21, 2022 [35] | 978-4-06-527412-5 | November 29, 2022 [36] | 978-1-64651-618-6 | |
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11 | October 21, 2022 [37] [38] |
978-4-06-529605-9 978-4-06-529604-2 ( LE) | September 12, 2023 [39] | 978-1-64651-745-9 | |
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12 | June 22, 2023 [40] [41] |
978-4-06-531969-7 978-4-06-531829-4 ( LE) | May 21, 2024 [42] | 979-8-88-877079-5 | |
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13 | February 22, 2024 [6] [43] |
978-4-06-534652-5 978-4-06-534727-0 ( LE) | — | — | |
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In April 2022, it was announced that the series will receive an anime adaptation. [44] [45] Crunchyroll licensed the anime outside of Asia. [46]
The manga had over 700,000 copies in circulation by July 2018; [47] 1 million by September 2018; [48] 2.5 million by April 2022; [44] and 4.5 million copies in circulation by October 2022. [49]
The series ranked sixth on Kono Manga ga Sugoi!'s top 20 manga for male readers 2018. [50] The manga was nominated for the 11th Manga Taishō awards in 2018. [51] It ranked first on the "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics" by the Honya Club website in 2018. [52] The manga was nominated for the 42nd and 44th Kodansha Manga Award in the General category in 2018 and 2020 respectively. [53] [54] It was nominated for the French 12th ACBD's Prix Asie de la Critique 2018. [55]
In 2019, Witch Hat Atelier won the Korean Ridibooks Comic Award 2019' Next Manga Award. [56] [57] The series has won four French awards: the "Daruma d'or manga" at the Japan Expo Awards 2019; [58] the 2019 Mangawa Prize for best seinen manga; [59] [60] the Grand Prize of the 2019 "Les Mordus du Manga" award; [61] and the Babelio 2020 award in the manga category. [62] It won the Spanish Manga Barcelona award for the seinen category in 2018, 2022 and 2023. [63] [64] [65] The series was also picked as a nominee for "Best Youth Comic" at the 46th Angoulême International Comics Festival held in 2019. [66] Witch Hat Atelier was chosen as one of the Best Manga at the Comic-Con International Best & Worst Manga of 2019. [67]
In 2020, Witch Hat Atelier was one of the manga titles that ranked on the "Top 10 Graphic Novels for Teens" by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the American Library Association, [68] and ranked again on the 2021 list. [69] Along with Taiyō Matsumoto's Cats of the Louvre, the series won the 2020 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material in the Asia category for Kodansha USA's English release. [70] In 2020, the series won the Harvey Awards for the Best Manga category. [71] [72] [73]
Rebecca Silverman of Anime News Network rated the first two volumes an "A−". Silverman praised the series for its world, story, characters and artwork, and concluded that "this is one tale you don't want to miss". [74] Writing for Barnes & Noble, Kelly Chiu listed the series on her list of "The Perfect Manga Matches for 10 Studio Ghibli Movies", and recommended the series to fans of Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away. [75] American animator Dana Terrace endorsed the manga series on her Twitter account after receiving fan art from Shirahama of her recently-concluded animated series The Owl House, describing Witch Hat Atelier as a "magical, queer, heart-racing story of empathy and self discovery". [76]
Witch Hat Atelier | |
とんがり帽子のアトリエ (Tongari Bōshi no Atorie) | |
---|---|
Genre | Fantasy [1] |
Manga | |
Written by | Kamome Shirahama |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher | |
Imprint | Morning KC |
Magazine | Morning Two |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | July 22, 2016 – present |
Volumes | 13 |
Anime | |
Licensed by | Crunchyroll |
Spin-off | |
|
Witch Hat Atelier ( Japanese: とんがり帽子のアトリエ, Hepburn: Tongari Bōshi no Atorie) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kamome Shirahama. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning Two since July 2016, with its chapters collected in 13 tankōbon volumes as of February 2024. The series follows a girl named Coco, who dreams of being a witch, but in her world only those born with magical abilities are able to become witches. However, after meeting a witch named Qifrey, Coco's dream begins to come true.
An anime adaptation has been announced. A spin-off series, Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen, started in Morning Two in November 2019.
By October 2022, Witch Hat Atelier had over 4.5 million copies in circulation. In 2020, the series won the Harvey Award for the Best Manga category as well as the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia.
Coco is a kind and daydreaming daughter of a dressmaker who aspires to become a witch; however because only innate magical users can practice and use magic, she has to give up on her dream. One day she meets a male witch named Qifrey and after she witnesses how he uses magic (by drawing magical runes and using magical ink), Coco accidentally casts a spell that turns her mother to stone.
As Coco does not know which magic spell she cast and Qifrey is tracking the sinister coven that could be behind the incident, he takes Coco as his apprentice in order to undo the spell and allow her to fulfill her dream. As it is gradually revealed, the coven in question—the Brimmed Caps—have taken an extraordinary interest in Coco, hoping that she will help them revive the free use of magic, which was outlawed because of the atrocities committed with it in past times, with some of their repercussions still enduring in Coco's world. Because rune magic can be effectively made by everyone, the Assembly carefully watches over any abuse of it, even going as so far as to erase the memories of any uninitiated (called "Outsiders") when they discover this secret. Thus, as Coco immerses herself into this new, wondrous world, a sinister plot begins to thicken around her.
The Witches' Assembly is the institution in Coco's world which governs the use of magic, its spreading (by regulating the enlistment and advancement of apprentices) and the maintenance of its secrecy. The seat of the Assembly is located in an underwater city called the Great Hall, which can only be reached by a certain stairwell descending into the depths of the earth, as well as special magic. This community is financed by the Five Kingdoms of the Zozah Peninsula, in exchange for freely serving the people in times of great need. However, the Assembly is endeavoring to remain neutral in the realms' politics.
Also known as the Order of Moral Spellcasting, the Knights Moralis (魔警騎士団, Makei Kishi-dan) is a subsidiary agency to the Assembly—specifically, its law enforcement branch. Its members are assigned to track any abuse of magic and hunt down perpetrators and victims for memory erasure.
Written and illustrated by Kamome Shirahama, Witch Hat Atelier started in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning Two on July 22, 2016. [2] The magazine ceased print publication and moved to a digital release starting on August 4, 2022. [3] [4] Kodansha has compiled its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was published on January 23, 2017. [5] As of February 22, 2024, 13 volumes have been published. [6]
In North America, Kodansha USA announced the acquisition of the series in July 2018. [7] The first volume was published on April 9, 2019. [8]
A spin-off manga series by Hiromi Satō, titled Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen, started in Morning Two on November 22, 2019. [9] [10]
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN | |
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1 | January 23, 2017 [5] | 978-4-06-388690-0 | April 9, 2019 [8] | 978-1-63236-770-9 | |
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2 | August 23, 2017 [11] [12] |
978-4-06-510138-4 978-4-06-510203-9 ( LE) | June 25, 2019 [13] | 978-1-63236-804-1 | |
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3 | February 23, 2018 [14] [15] |
978-4-06-510930-4 978-4-06-510894-9 ( LE) | August 27, 2019 [16] | 978-1-63236-805-8 | |
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4 | September 21, 2018 [17] [18] |
978-4-06-512681-3 978-4-06-511766-8 ( LE) | November 12, 2019 [19] | 978-1-63236-860-7 | |
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5 | May 23, 2019 [20] [21] |
978-4-06-515597-4 978-4-06-515598-1 ( LE) | March 17, 2020 [22] | 978-1-63236-929-1 | |
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6 | November 21, 2019 [23] [24] |
978-4-06-517778-5 978-4-06-517909-3 ( LE) | September 15, 2020 [25] | 978-1-64651-010-8 | |
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7 | May 22, 2020 [26] [27] |
978-4-06-519266-5 978-4-06-520266-1 ( LE) | February 2, 2021 [28] | 978-1-64651-078-8 | |
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8 | December 23, 2020 [29] [30] |
978-4-06-521625-5 978-4-06-521626-2 ( LE) | September 28, 2021 [31] | 978-1-64651-269-0 | |
| |||||
9 | July 21, 2021 [32] [33] |
978-4-06-524100-4 978-4-06-524098-4 ( LE) | June 21, 2022 [34] | 978-1-64651-447-2 | |
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10 | April 21, 2022 [35] | 978-4-06-527412-5 | November 29, 2022 [36] | 978-1-64651-618-6 | |
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11 | October 21, 2022 [37] [38] |
978-4-06-529605-9 978-4-06-529604-2 ( LE) | September 12, 2023 [39] | 978-1-64651-745-9 | |
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12 | June 22, 2023 [40] [41] |
978-4-06-531969-7 978-4-06-531829-4 ( LE) | May 21, 2024 [42] | 979-8-88-877079-5 | |
| |||||
13 | February 22, 2024 [6] [43] |
978-4-06-534652-5 978-4-06-534727-0 ( LE) | — | — | |
|
In April 2022, it was announced that the series will receive an anime adaptation. [44] [45] Crunchyroll licensed the anime outside of Asia. [46]
The manga had over 700,000 copies in circulation by July 2018; [47] 1 million by September 2018; [48] 2.5 million by April 2022; [44] and 4.5 million copies in circulation by October 2022. [49]
The series ranked sixth on Kono Manga ga Sugoi!'s top 20 manga for male readers 2018. [50] The manga was nominated for the 11th Manga Taishō awards in 2018. [51] It ranked first on the "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics" by the Honya Club website in 2018. [52] The manga was nominated for the 42nd and 44th Kodansha Manga Award in the General category in 2018 and 2020 respectively. [53] [54] It was nominated for the French 12th ACBD's Prix Asie de la Critique 2018. [55]
In 2019, Witch Hat Atelier won the Korean Ridibooks Comic Award 2019' Next Manga Award. [56] [57] The series has won four French awards: the "Daruma d'or manga" at the Japan Expo Awards 2019; [58] the 2019 Mangawa Prize for best seinen manga; [59] [60] the Grand Prize of the 2019 "Les Mordus du Manga" award; [61] and the Babelio 2020 award in the manga category. [62] It won the Spanish Manga Barcelona award for the seinen category in 2018, 2022 and 2023. [63] [64] [65] The series was also picked as a nominee for "Best Youth Comic" at the 46th Angoulême International Comics Festival held in 2019. [66] Witch Hat Atelier was chosen as one of the Best Manga at the Comic-Con International Best & Worst Manga of 2019. [67]
In 2020, Witch Hat Atelier was one of the manga titles that ranked on the "Top 10 Graphic Novels for Teens" by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the American Library Association, [68] and ranked again on the 2021 list. [69] Along with Taiyō Matsumoto's Cats of the Louvre, the series won the 2020 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material in the Asia category for Kodansha USA's English release. [70] In 2020, the series won the Harvey Awards for the Best Manga category. [71] [72] [73]
Rebecca Silverman of Anime News Network rated the first two volumes an "A−". Silverman praised the series for its world, story, characters and artwork, and concluded that "this is one tale you don't want to miss". [74] Writing for Barnes & Noble, Kelly Chiu listed the series on her list of "The Perfect Manga Matches for 10 Studio Ghibli Movies", and recommended the series to fans of Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away. [75] American animator Dana Terrace endorsed the manga series on her Twitter account after receiving fan art from Shirahama of her recently-concluded animated series The Owl House, describing Witch Hat Atelier as a "magical, queer, heart-racing story of empathy and self discovery". [76]