Witch Watch

Witch Watch
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Nico Wakatsuki
ウィッチウォッチ (Witchi Wotchi)
Genre	Fantasy Romantic comedy
Manga
Written by	Kenta Shinohara
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA: Viz Media
Imprint	Jump Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Jump
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	February 8, 2021 – present
Volumes	21
Anime television series
Directed by	Hiroshi Ikehata
Produced by	Hiroyuki Aoi Yoshiteru Maeda Ryota Kanda Yurie Uehara Yuki Ogasawara Yūsuke Fujisawa Yūnosuke Uno
Written by	Deko Akao
Music by	Yukari Hashimoto
Studio	Bibury Animation Studios
Licensed by	Crunchyroll (streaming) Netflix (streaming) NA: GKIDS SEA: Tropics Entertaiment US: Hulu (streaming)
Original network	JNN (MBS, TBS), BS NTV, AT-X
Original run	April 6, 2025 – present
Episodes	11

Witch Watch (Japanese: ウィッチウォッチ, Hepburn: Witchi Wotchi) (stylized in all caps when written in Latin script) is a Japanese fantasy and romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Kenta Shinohara. It has been serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump since February 2021, with its chapters collected into twenty-one tankōbon volumes as of April 2025. By November 2022, the manga had over 1.1 million copies in circulation. An anime television series adaptation produced by Bibury Animation Studios premiered in April 2025.

Synopsis

The series focuses on Nico Wakatsuki, a teenage witch who, after completing her magical training, moves into a house with her childhood friend Morihito Otogi, a human-looking ogre. Due to their families' ancestral history, Morihito is to become Nico's familiar and protect her. Nico also hopes this will help them become a couple, as he is her longtime crush, though he does not reciprocate in the slightest. As the story progresses, Nico and Morihito find themselves forced to deal with the various supernatural and legendary beings they encounter while also trying to solve all the unpredictable problems Nico's magic causes in their daily lives.

Characters

Otogi Household

Nico Wakatsuki (若月 ニコ, Wakatsuki Niko)

Voiced by: Rina Kawaguchi (Japanese); Lily Ki (English)

A first year high school student who is a "Witch of Thousand" (千の魔女, Sen no Majo), which lets her cast various spells. She often tries to help people with her magic, but usually does so without fully knowing the details or side effect of the spells. She is in love with her childhood friend Morihito, whom she affectionately calls "Moi" since as a child she was unable to correctly pronounce his name. She also struggles to reveal her feelings for him. Her mother Ibuki is the "Witch of Premonition" that has foreseen that a disaster will befall upon Nico. To prevent this, she lets Nico lives with Morihito in the Otogi household and gather other familiars to protect her.

Morihito Otogi (乙木 守仁, Otogi Morihito)

Voiced by: Ryōta Suzuki, Natsumi Fujiwara^{Ep. 1 credits} (young) (Japanese); Stephen Fu, Heather Gonzalez^{Ep. 1 credits} (young) (English)

An ogre with extreme physical strength due to practicing Ogre Qigong. His family is a familiar to Nico's family, who is also his childhood friend. He is very overprotective towards Nico but at the same does not reciprocate her feelings. While Morihito is a serious and responsible person, he is very fond of denims and other heavily detailed trivia items. He often acts like the mother in the household, nagging and scolding the residents for the sake of their own. It is later revealed in a note that Nico gave him in the past that she "will always be Morihito's friend" which works as a unintentional curse that makes Morihito only see Nico as a friend, thus making him unable to realize that he is also in love with her.

Kanshi Kazamatsuri (風祭 監志, Kazamatsuri Kanshi)

Voiced by: Kōhei Amasaki, Yui Tsukada^{Ep. 4 credits} (young) (Japanese); Caleb Yen (English)

A tengu who can control wind, he befriended Nico during her training. He is Nico's "crow familiar", and moves in with her and Morihito as he is also tasked with protecting her. Kanshi speaks in Kansai dialect and often acts as the straight man in the household. He is very socially active, but also is bad with money management and incredibly impulsive, which causes him to end up in humiliating situations when he tries to use magic to make easy money. When he first appeared, he tried to fight Morihito for Nico's attention, but eventually came to fully accept him and even tries to help them become a couple from time to time.

Keigo Magami (真神 圭護, Magami Keigo)

Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa (Japanese); Kevin K. Gomez (English)

A werewolf who transforms into another person, referred to as "Wolf" (ウルフ), when he sees anything that he recognizes as crescent shape. Keigo is usually a quiet person, but becomes arrogant when showing off his knowledge of obscure culture. Wolf, however, is always arrogant and rude. He is a classmate of Nico and Morihito, and eventually moves in with them. As a child, he was training as a professional figure skater, but quit after his mother suffered an injury that left her bound to a wheelchair. Eventually, he starts to develop feelings for Nemu, although he himself does not realize this.

Miharu Kiryu (霧生 見晴, Kiryū Miharu)

A young vampire, who feeds by absorbing people's life force, from a family of futsumashi or exorcists. He is a third-year middle school student and usually carries a parasol to shield him from the sun. Although appearing polite and graceful, he has no filter and will say whatever is on his mind. He moves in with Nico and the others. He is skilled with a sword, which he hides in his parasol, and can absorb stamina by touching others.

Ban (番)

A dragon familiar Nico summoned after she was turned into a child. She's a avid drinker with a gambling problem, and a lazy slacker, but a protective and caring familiar. She has the power to change into a human form, and can change the temperature of her breath in order to produce flames or freezing vapor.

Witches

Nemu Miyao (宮尾 音夢, Miyao Nemu)

Voiced by: Tomori Kusunoki (Japanese); Cristina Vee (English)

The "Shape-Shifting Witch" (変身の魔女, Henshin no Majo) who lives in the town next to Nico's. She is capable of transforming into a black cat, but automatically reverts back when she sleeps. Nemu originally came to Otogi household to recruit Morihito to be her familiar, but always failed to do so because Morihito's always petting her in cat form into slumber. Nemu and Nico quickly become friends and she later starts developing feelings for both Keigo and Wolf.

Momo Kuramochi (倉持 桃, Kuramochi Momo)

A 19-year-old "Witch of Teleportation" (移動の魔女, Idou no Majo) who is capable to teleport anyone but at the cost of her body weight. She moves to Otogi's neighborhood to support Nico. She has a motherly personality and tends to spoil the residents in Otogi household.

Mii Tsuchiya (土屋 美依, Tsuchiya Mii)

A fifth year elementary student who is the "Witch of Summon" (召喚の魔女, Shoukan no Mojo). She is also a child actress. She has a genie familiar called Slump that follows her and acts as her servant. She is a well-meaning but spoiled girl. She respects Nico's mother after she helped her when her magic powers first awakened.

Asunaro Private High School

Yuri Makuwa (真桑 悠里, Makuwa Yūri)

Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu (Japanese); Rosie Okumura (English)

The homeroom teacher in Nico's class who is popular in the school for her "cool-beauty" personality. In reality, she is a closet otaku who is desperate to hide this side of her from her students. She and Kukumi become otaku friends through their shared favorite manga, Uron Mirage, where Yuri encourages Kukumi into creating her own manga.

Kara Minami (南 伽羅, Minami Kara)

Voiced by: Rie Takahashi (Japanese); Erica Mendez (English)

One of Nico's best friends in high school. She is incredibly friendly and always willing to make friends with people that are struggling socially, though she is often embarrassed about it afterwards. Thus, Kara is very welcoming about Nico's real identity. She is a priestess in training at her family's shrine. When playing around with one of Nico's spells, she accidentally creates a Shikigami familiar she nicknames "Shiki".

Kukumi Ureshino (嬉野 久々実, Ureshino Kukumi)

Voiced by: Konomi Kohara (Japanese); Xanthe Huynh (English)

Nico's other best friend in high school, nicknamed "Kuku". She used to be a shy otaku in middle school until Kara befriended her, breaking her out of her shell while still retaining her otaku hobby. She is also a fan artist with more than 10,000 followers on Chitter, one of whom is Yuri, much to her dismay.

Student Council

Tenryu Kiyomiya (清宮 天流, Kiyomiya Tenryū)

Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Japanese); Howard Wang (English)

The student council president. He comes from a very traditional family, and hires students who act like stereotypical anime tropes, even though they are not qualified, forcing him to do all of the work. He has been trying to make Morihito joins the student council, as he thinks Morihito is the "cool, obedient fighting guy" trope. He also always has his hand on the lid of his hat and is actually able to take his hat off, but somehow refusing to do so. His younger sister is Suzuka Kiyomiya, who is in same class as Nico and is very clumsy.

Ibara Ibu (伊武 荊, Ibu Ibara)

Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro

The vice president alongside Yuzuru. Ibara leads the council in Tenryu's absence. Due to her appearance, Morihito initially thought that she was a promiscuous adult who illegally entered the school grounds. Her behavior resembles a mix between Takarazuka's otokoyaku and a mature older sister.

Yuzuru Kenmochi (剣持 弓弦, Kenmochi Yuzuru)

Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama

The other vice president who is always seen with eyes closed, looks suspicious, talks in a Kansai dialect, and only opens his eyes when he says "important stuff". He fits the anime and manga archetype of mysterious and devious characters, the over-obviousness of which constantly shocks Morihito and the others.

Syrup Amai (甘井 シロップ, Amai Shiroppu)

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya

Student council's secretary. She dresses in Western-style lolita fashion and acts like a tsundere. She is Kuromitsu's older twin sister, who is also her translator. Despite their petit figure, both Syrup and Kuromitsu are high schoolers.

Kuromitsu Amai (甘井 黒蜜, Amai Kuromitsu) / Kuromitsu (クロミツ)

Voiced by: Misaki Kuno

The other student council's secretary. She dresses in Japanese-style horror fashion and acts like a kuudere. Kuromitsu always speaks in misleading evil poetry and has her older sister Syrup to translates for her. Her speech pattern leads Morihito into thinking she might be a witch disguised as a normal human, but in reality she really is just an ordinary girl.

Riro Takumi (工 理路, Takumi Riro)

Voiced by: Noriko Hidaka

A short-figured first year high school boy who is the treasurer in the council. He is also a genius hacker who often hack into trivial things like Morihito's smartphone or the Shōnen Magazine editorial office.

Asuto Ishiba (石破 明日人, Ishiba Asuto) / Burst (バースト, Bāsuto)

Voiced by: Kenta Miyake

The student council spokesman whose appearance is big and muscular. He is also hot-blooded. Ironically, he is the most enthusiastic when it comes to his work in the student council.

Kyoki Saiko (西古 凶奇, Saiko Kyōki)

Voiced by: Jun Fukushima

A student council member who is in charge of general affairs. He tends to lick knives and pretending to be a psychotic, but usually ends up cutting his own tongue.

Daiki Sakai Mk. II (酒井 大樹マークII, Sakai Daiki Māku II)

Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa

A boy who wears a cardboard mask and acts like a robot. He is also in charge of general affairs. Ironically, he is the only one who wears his school uniform properly in the student council.

Production

Kenta Shinohara revealed that it takes five days to draw the characters in Witch Watch, while the storyboards take two and a half days. In January 2023, Shinohara stated on Twitter that Witch Watch would probably be his last weekly serial. He explained that he is "physically unable" to do one, even if he wanted to. The February 6, 2023 chapter of the manga began a crossover with Shinohara's previous Weekly Shōnen Jump series, Sket Dance.

Media

Manga

Main article: List of Witch Watch chapters

Witch Watch is written and illustrated by Kenta Shinohara. The manga began its serialization in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump on February 8, 2021. Shueisha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on June 4, 2021. As of April 4, 2025, twenty-one volumes have been released.

Witch Watch has been licensed for simultaneous publication in North America as it is released in Japan, with its chapters being digitally launched by Viz Media on its Shonen Jump website. Shueisha also simulpublishes the series in English for free on the Manga Plus app and website. Viz Media also publishes its volumes in digital format.

Voice comic

In May 2022, a series of voice comic adaptations were posted online. The characters are voiced by three voice actors: Mikako Komatsu, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, and Jun Fukushima. Yumiri Hanamori joined the cast in August 2022.

Another voice comic featuring the franchise's in-universe manga series, Uron Mirage, was also posted online in June 2022 as part of the celebration for the manga's volume 6 release. The voice comic features voice acting by Shōya Chiba, Ryōta Suzuki, Yūichirō Umehara, and Tomokazu Sugita.

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced in August 2024. It is produced by Bibury Animation Studios and directed by Hiroshi Ikehata, with assistant direction by Masao Kawase, scripts written by Deko Akao, characters designed by Haruko Iizuka, and music composed by Yukari Hashimoto. The series premiered on April 6, 2025, on the Sunday-5 programming block on all JNN affiliates, including MBS and TBS, and will run for two consecutive cours. The opening theme song is "Watch Me!", performed by Yoasobi, while the ending theme song is "Mahō wa Spice" (魔法はスパイス, "Magic Spice"), performed by Aooo.

GKIDS acquired the license to the series in North America with Crunchyroll and Netflix streaming the series worldwide, alongside other platforms such as Hulu (United States), Animation Digital Network (several European territories) and Aniplus (South Korea). The anime's first three episodes were also screened in theaters outside of Japan under the title Witch Watch: Watch Party with screenings beginning March 13 in Asia and in North America on March 16 via GKIDS.

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboarded by	Chief animation directed by	Original release date
1	"Witch's Return" Transliteration: "Majo no Kikan" (Japanese: 魔女の帰還)	Tatsunori Sakamoto & Hiroshi Ikehata	Deko Akao	Hiroshi Ikehata	Yoshiaki Sugimura	April 6, 2025 (2025-04-06)
Morihito Otogi, a member of an ogre bloodline, learns that his childhood friend Nico Wakatsuki is returning home from witch training. It is ultimately decided that Morihito will live with Nico as her familiar and bodyguard. Nico arrives at Morihito's house and is eager to show off her newly learned magic spells to him. She cast a spell to turn herself into paper, but is accidentally blown away by the wind and trapped in a crevice between two walls. In order to save her, Morihito taps into his ogre powers and demolishes the wall, with Nico repairing it with her magic. Morihito then advises Nico not to use her magic in public, but she explains witches are oathbound to help others. They then come across a burning building and rescue a trapped woman, though Nico's spell to make her and Morihito lighter backfires when it wears off and temporarily makes them heavier. As Morihito and Nico prepare to start living together, Morihito recalls his father warning him that Nico's mother divined a prophecy that disaster would befall Nico within a year, and only Morihito will have the power to protect her.
2	"A Giant Rookie" Transliteration: "Ōgata Rūkī" (Japanese: 大型ルーキー)	Masao Kawase	Deko Akao	Hiroshi Ikehata	Yuki Sawa	April 13, 2025 (2025-04-13)
	"Let's Go to a Diner!" Transliteration: "Famiresu Iko!" (Japanese: ファミレス行こ！)
	"The Flying Classroom" Transliteration: "Tobu Kyōshitsu" (Japanese: 飛ぶ教室)
"A Giant Rookie": Morihito and Nico attend their first day of high school, with Morihito warning Nico not to reveal she is a witch or use any magic. However, during homeroom, Nico blows her cover when she accidentally casts an Embiggen spell on herself. As a result, she becomes the most popular girl in class. "Let's Go to a Diner!": After class, classmates Kara Minami and Kukumi Ureshino ask Nico to eat with them at a nearby diner, which Nico accepts. They ignore the advances of a trio of delinquents as the enter the diner and quickly become friends, while Morihito secretly beats up the delinquents to prevent them from further harassing the girls. "The Flying Classroom": The next day, Nico's classmates asks her to show off her magic. She sets up a field that allows them to fly, but a truck accidentally drives into it, forcing Morihito to use his ogre powers to rescue the driver. Despite Morihito's fears, his classmates accept him as well.
3	"Fresh Transparent Fashions for Spring" Transliteration: "Haru no Shīsurū Kōde" (Japanese: 春のシースルーコーデ)	Takuma Suzuki	Hiroko Fukuda	Keiichiro Kawaguchi	Masayuki Nonaka & Yoshiaki Sugimura	April 20, 2025 (2025-04-20)
	"Witch's Delivery Service" Transliteration: "Majo ni Takkyūbin" (Japanese: 魔女に宅急便)
	"Lost Dogs and the Patter of Rain" Transliteration: "Maigo Inu to Ame no Bīto" (Japanese: 迷子犬と雨のビート)
"Fresh Transparent Fashions for Spring": In an attempt to impress Morihito, Nico uses magic to conjure a fashionable outfit from a picture, but the back remains completely transparent, and gets embarrassed when she accidentally shows it to him. Despite that, he insists that Nico should just wear whatever makes her comfortable. "Witch's Delivery Service": Nico's mother Ibuki sends over Nico's manga collection as well as a letter for Morihito. Nico uses a duplication spell to make the moving easier, but ends up splitting into four child versions of herself. Morihito reads the letter, which warns him that "Dogs and raindrops will bring disaster." The weather soon turns to rain as an unknown figure spies on the house. "Lost Dogs and the Patter of Rain": Morihito becomes cautious when Nico insists on shopping during a rainy day, and spots a stranger wearing a dog mask stalking them. After a brief battle, the stranger reveals himself to be Kanshi Kazamatsuri, a tengu Nico befriended during her witch training. Kanshi insists on protecting Nico as well, claiming he is her crow familiar.
4	"Kanshi Kazamatsuri, The Tengu" Transliteration: "Tengu -Kazamatsuri Kanshi-" (Japanese: 天狗 -風祭監志-)	Natsu Tsuda	Kazuho Hyodo	Chihiro Kumano	Yoshiaki Sugimura, Masayuki Nonaka & Yuki Sawa	April 27, 2025 (2025-04-27)
Morihito interrogates Kanshi about his suspicious behavior, and the latter admits that due to the rivalry between the tengu and ogre clans, he wants to prove that tengu are superior to ogres. He also racked up significant debt, which Ibuki was willing to cover in return for becoming Nico's bodyguard. Kanshi then passes a new prophecy to Morihito, warning there is "An enemy within the school." However, neither Morihito nor Kanshi seem to get along so Nico tries to smooth things over with a "Friendeal" spell. However, the spell backfires and makes Morihito overenthusiastic about becoming Kanshi's friend, which scares him off. Nico dispels the Friendeal spell and apologizes to her friends, but she is suddenly attacked and abducted by a possessed dress. Morihito and Kanshi are forced to work together, with Kanshi using his control over wind to help Morihito catch up with the dress and destroy it. Realizing their enemy is more dangerous than they thought, Morihito and Kanshi decide to overcome their personal grudges and join forces, with Kanshi moving in to live with Morihito and Nico.
5	"My Student Is My Favorite Artist" Transliteration: "Oshiego ga Oshi Eshi Datta Ken" (Japanese: 教え子が推し絵師だった件)	Yūma Imura	Deko Akao	Daisuke Eguchi	Masayuki Nonaka, Seigo Saito & Yoshiaki Sugimura	May 4, 2025 (2025-05-04)
	"My Tummy Is Tender Today" Transliteration: "Kyō wa Hebī na Sutomakku" (Japanese: 今日はヘビーなストマック)
	"Cat Scout" Transliteration: "Kyatto Sukauto" (Japanese: キャットスカウト)
"My Student Is My Favorite Artist": Yuri by chance discovers that Kukumi is actually one of her favorite manga fan artists she follows online. Kukumi also discovers both she and Yuri are fans of the same manga, and encourages her to be more open about her hobbies. "My Tummy Is Tender Today": Classmate Kowashi Hara asks Nico to cast a spell that will make him unnoticeable, so he will not draw attention whenever he has to go to the bathroom. She casts a special Mobliviate spell that suppresses his presence, but he realizes he does not actually need it since his self-consciousness is unfounded. He thanks Nico for her help anyways, which empowers the special witch gem she carries, signifying she is one step closer to becoming a true witch. "Cat Scout": Another witch, Nemu Miyao, secretly stalks Morihito, intending to have him be her familiar, but she is too shy to actually approach him. She follows him home disguised as a cat, but suddenly develops a crush on him when he demonstrates to Nico and Kanshi how to properly pet a cat. Flustered, Nemu make her escape and swears to make Morihito her familiar.
6	"Under the Lovers' Tree" Transliteration: "Enmusubi no Ki no Shita de" (Japanese: 縁結びの樹の下で)	Enishi Ōshima	Kazuho Hyodo	Enishi Ōshima	Enishi Ōshima	May 11, 2025 (2025-05-11)
After crafting a special charm to help a classmate make her love confession, Nico notices that Morihito is growing increasingly popular among the girls at school and becomes jealous. Kanshi tries to help her gain Morihito's attention romantically, but they end up backfiring and making Morihito even more popular with the other girls, as Morihito never sees Nico's attempts at seducing him at all. Later, one of Nico's male classmates Ishii asks to talk her privately during a planed field trip. Kara comes to believe that Ishii plans to confess his feelings to Nico under a local tree that is famous for being a lovers' tree. Kanshi overhears the conversation and suggest to Nico that she confess to Morihito under the tree, instead. During the field trip, Morihito meets a classmate, Keigo Magami, and find they have similar interests in subculture. Nico finds out Ishii and his friends want love charms from her, so she shrinks herself to hide form them and accidentally falls into Morihito's shirt pocket. She witnesses a girl confess to Morithito, but he turns her down saying he has already fallen in love with someone precious to him, which worries Nico as she starts to think he already loves someone else, not her. Nico recalls the time she fell in love with Morihito, when he comforted her after her father left due to her losing control of powers. Afterwards, Nico and Morihito eat lunch under a smaller, less prominent tree, unaware that it is the real lovers' tree.
7	"Kan and Nico's Channel" Transliteration: "Kan Niko Channeru" (Japanese: カンニコチャンネル)	Kiichi Ueki	Hiroko Fukuda	Hiroaki Shimura	Yoshiaki Sugimura	May 18, 2025 (2025-05-18)
	"The Tea Ceremony Is a Piece of Tea Cake" Transliteration: "Ocha no Kokoro wa Ocha no Ko Saisai" (Japanese: お茶の心はお茶の子さいさい)
Kan and Nico's Channel: Nico and Kanshi start a "WJTube" channel in hopes of making easy money, but Morihito points out they have no followers because their videos are low quality and have no focus. Morihito teams up with Keigo to revamp Nico and Kanshi's channel. Their new videos end up very successful, but Nico and Kanshi quickly lose interest and quit. The Tea Ceremony Is a Piece of Tea Cake: Classmate Suzuka Kiyomiya asks Nico to help her find a way to complete an upcoming tea ceremony test. Nico casts a "Synclone" spell on Morihito and Suzuka that allows them to synchronize their movements, so Morihito can complete the tea ceremony in Suzuka's stead. However, due to a last minute schedule change, they are forced to perform the tea ceremony without a rehearsal and end up failing. Fortunately, Morihito uses his martial arts skill to save Suzuka's grandmother from a giant hornet, convincing her to withdraw the failure. Suzuka later asks Morihito to help her with her next test, which he flatly refuses.
8	"Kanshi's Part-Time Job Diaries ～The Superhero Show～" Transliteration: "Kanshi no Baito Nikki: Hīrō Shō" (Japanese: カンシのバイト日記～ヒーローショー～)	Daishi Katō	Chika Suzumura	Naho Uchishiro	Seigo Saito	May 25, 2025 (2025-05-25)
	"Kanshi's Part-Time Job Diaries ～The Side Job～" Transliteration: "Kanshi no Baito Nikki: Naishoku" (Japanese: カンシのバイト日記～内職ー～)
Kanshi's Part-Time Job Diaries ～The Superhero Show～: In order to earn money for this month's living expenses, Kanshi is forced to take a part-time job in a hero show. He takes on the role of Otto-man, but finds out he replaced the previous actor who suffered an injury and must temporarily play the role of the villain. Seeing that the previous actor's son is supposed to watch his performance, Kanshi secretly switches roles, becoming the villain and putting a great act of being defeated by Otto-man. The show is a huge success, but the director refuses to pay Kanshi due to him switching roles and changing the script without permission. Kanshi's Part-Time Job Diaries ～The Side Job～: Kanshi takes a job packing screws, but has trouble dealing with the monotonous work. Despite warnings, he convinces Nico to cast a spell to make him move 10 times faster. However, in relative time, while the spell is supposed to last three days, the duration is 30 days from Kanshi's perspective. His inability to communicate or interact with other people takes a serious toll on his mental health until he is able to adjust to slowing his own movements to compensate. However, when the spell finally wears off, Kanshi has to readjust to living in normal time.
9	"Dear Kara" Transliteration: "Kara e" (Japanese: 伽羅へ)	Kou Horio	Hiroko Fukuda	Kou Horio	Yoshiaki Sugimura & Masayuki Nonaka	June 1, 2025 (2025-06-01)
	"New Friends" Transliteration: "Atarashii Tomodachi" (Japanese: 新しい友達)
	"Date With the Knight" Transliteration: "Dēto wizu za Naito" (Japanese: デート・ウィズ・ザ・ナイト)
Dear Kara: Kara approaches Nico to seek help to reconstruct a letter from her deceased mother that her father shredded for some reason. Nico, Morihito, and Kara work together to restore the letter, which reveals Kara's mother was not actually her birth mother. However, Kara feels that this revelation does not change their relationship and she reconciles with her father. Seeing how she was able to help Kara, Nico puts up an advertisement in school so anybody can come seek her assistance. New Friends: Classmate Jun Horai approaches Nico for help in talking to a girl he likes. However, he is self-conscious about how his speech sounds stilted due to reading too many English training textbooks. Nico assures him he should talk to his crush as himself, and it turns out the girl he likes, Ann Nikura, talks in a similar fashion to him. Jun and Ann agree to start dating, and Jun gifts Nico and Morihito a pair of movie tickets as thanks, with Morihito inviting Nico to watch it together. Date With the Knight: Nico gets anxious about her upcoming date with Morihito, as she finds it difficult to read his emotions due to his stoic nature. With his consent, Nico casts a spell on Morihito that creates a miniature version of him that expresses the emotions he feels. Nico observes that Morihito does feel a full range of emotions, and shows them through his actions in helping others. Morihito admits that he was conditioned to be stoic due to his training, but he feels that he has started to become more expressive with Nico and his new friends around.
10	"Trope-tacular Student Council" Transliteration: "Betabeta Seitokai" (Japanese: ベタベタ生徒会)	Yasuo Fujii	Deko Akao	Momoko Natsuno	Seigo Saito & Yoshiaki Sugimura	June 8, 2025 (2025-06-08)
	"A Stray Cat's Bubble of Bliss" Transliteration: "Kayoi Neko no Awai Hitotoki" (Japanese: 通い猫の泡いひととき)
Trope-tacular Student Council: Nico and Morihito are informed by the Student Council that the use of magic has been banned at school for safety reasons. However, they both realize all of the student council members follow generic anime tropes. The Student Council President Tenryu Kiyomiya explains Nico helping others with her magic made the rest of the Student Council jealous, but he is willing to rescind the ban if Morihito joins them, as he also fulfills a character trope. Morihito refuses and takes his leave with Nico, intending to ignore the Student Council's rules anyways. Morihito then watches a video about the Student Council and realizes Tenryu is similar to him, having to take care of a group of silly and irresponsible friends. Tenryu then chases down Morihito, declaring he will find a way to recruit him into the Student Council. A Stray Cat's Bubble of Bliss: Nemu attempts to visit Morihito as his home, but is too nervous to meet him directly and instinctively transforms into her cat form. Morihito takes Nemu into the house where Nico accidentally spills a drink on her. Morihito gives Nemu a bath and while he is drying her off, she accidentally falls asleep and transforms back to human form. Fortunately, Morihito, Nico, and Kan are distracted by the TV, allowing her to escape without notice. However, she then comes across a warlock planning to kidnap Nico, and runs back to try and warn her.
11	"Dogs and Raindrops, Part 1" Transliteration: "Inu to Uteki Zenpen" (Japanese: 犬と雨滴・前編)	Kousuke Hirota	Kazuho Hyodo	Momoko Natsuno	Masayuki Nonaka, Seigo Saito & Enishi Ōshima	June 15, 2025 (2025-06-15)
Nemu warns Nico and Morihito about the warlock, explaining that Nico is a target of the warlocks due to being the "Witch of Thousands", an extremely rare and powerful type of witch. Meanwhile, Kanshi rescues Keigo from a bully who has been taking enchanted candy as a performance enhancer. He learns the candy is being distributed by another student only known as "Wolf" and tries to track him down, only be beaten up by him. As Nico heals Kanshi's wounds, Nemu explains the warlock must be using the candy as a method to control the minds of whoever ingests it, turning them into an army of "Dogs". Nemu tries to retrace her steps to find the warlock's hideout, and figures out she is hiding in a magically created space. Nemu finds her way inside but is captured by the warlock. Keigo warns Morihito that Wolf has sent out a summons to his Dogs, but as they head out to confront the warlock, Keigo lures Morihito into a trap and transports him to the warlock's hideout. Keigo then reveals that he is actually the warlock's werewolf familiar, having made a deal to heal an old leg wound that prevents him from figure skating. Keigo then transforms into his werewolf alter ego, Wolf, and prepares to battle Morihito.
12	"Dogs and Raindrops, Part 2" Transliteration: "Inu to Uteki Kōhen" (Japanese: 犬と雨滴・後編)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	June 22, 2025 (2025-06-22)

Cultural impact and reception

Popularity and sales

In June 2021, Witch Watch was nominated for the seventh Next Manga Award in the Best Printed Manga category and placed tenth out of 50 nominees. It was also nominated for the same award and placed second out of 50 nominees in 2022. By November 2022, the first eight volumes of the manga had over 1.1 million copies in circulation.

Critical response

Timothy Donohoo of Comic Book Resources compared Witch Watch to Kouji Miura's Blue Box and Shigure Tokita's Don't Blush, Sekime-san! due to both series having concepts and romantic aspects similar to Witch Watch's.

Further reading

• ジャンプ4号連続新連載のTVCM、篠原健太作品の“あの3人組”や実写にラップも. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. February 1, 2021. Archived from the original on January 31, 2021.
• 篠原健太『ウィッチウォッチ』CMに“あの3人”が出演！ 新連載に登場フラグ？. Excite News (in Japanese). February 15, 2021. Archived from the original on June 6, 2021.

External links

• Witch Watch official manga website at Weekly Shōnen Jump (in Japanese)
• Witch Watch on Manga Plus
• Witch Watch official anime website (in Japanese)
• Witch Watch (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia