Kodansha USA has announced that it has licensed The Art of Witch Hat Atelier artbook and the Witch Hat Atelier Coloring Book for release in English print in Fall 2025.
The Art of Witch Hat Atelier comes in a 195 x 270 mm (7.7″ x 10.6″) hardcover book format, which includes cover illustrations without logos and text, character pieces from the series’ magazine serialization that weren’t included in the original volumes, and exclusive art drawn to commemorate publication milestones during the manga’s publication.
Meanwhile, the Witch Hat Atelier Coloring Book was first published in Japan at the end of 2024 in a large-format 9.7” x 9.7” collection of ready-to-color illustrations from Kamome Shirahama. Fans will be able to color their favorite characters, creatures, and places, and even design your own “witch hat” in your own colors.
Shirahama’s original manga series was first launched in Kodansha’s Morning Two digital magazine on July 22, 2016 and has released 13 tankobon volumes as of February 2024. A spinoff series titled Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen was released in November 2019. Kodansha USA releases both the manga and spinoff manga in English.
A TV anime adaptation from Bug Films will debut sometime later this year. Crunchyroll will be streaming the series in select countries and territories, outside of Asia.
Kodansha USA describes the main synopsis of Witch Hat Atelier as:
In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: she wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch… until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem…
Source: press release
