Witch Hat Atelier Manga is Getting a New Novel

Kodansha will ship a new novel adaptation of Kamome Shirahama’s Witch Hat Atelier manga, titled Shōsetsu Tongari Bōshi no Atelier Special Stories. The new Witch Hat Atelier novel is written by One Piece novel HEROINES author Jun Esaka, with Shirahama credited for supervision and the original work.

Shōsetsu Tongari Bōshi no Atelier Special Stories features three short stories. The first story focuses on Qifrey, who went missing, and Olruggio goes searching for him in the snowy mountains. The second story follows up with a dragon managing group that visits the atelier with a request for Olruggio. The third story is set in Ezrest, as Easthies and others confiscate illegal magic devices and go on an undercover investigation.

The Witch Hat Atelier anime premieres in 2026, and Crunchyroll will stream the series. Ayumu Watanabe will direct the series at BUG FILMS, Hiroaki Kojima will produce the series, and Yuka Kitamura (Elden Ring) will compose the music. Kairi Unabara is designing the characters of the anime series.

Kodansha USA Publishing releases the Witch Hat Atelier manga in English and describes the series as follows:

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…