Flying Witch

Flying Witch

The cover of Flying Witch volume one.
ふらいんぐうぃっち
(Furaingu Uitchi)
Genre Comedy
Manga
Written by Chihiro Ishizuka
Published by Kodansha
English publisher

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Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine
Original run August 9, 2012 – present
Volumes 5
Anime television series
Directed by Katsushi Sakurabi
Produced by Hiroyuki Inage
Atsushi Kirimoto
Shunsuke Nara
Kazunari Sengoku
Wataru Sasaki
Yohei Ito
Written by Deko Akao
Music by Yoshiaki Dewa
Studio J.C.Staff
Licensed by

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Animatsu Entertainment
Network NTV, SUN, RAB, BS Nittele, MMT
Original run April 9, 2016 – June 25, 2016
Episodes 12

Flying Witch (ふらいんぐうぃっち Furaingu Uitchi) is a Japanese manga series by Chihiro Ishizuka. It has been serialized since September 2012[1] in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine and collected in five tankōbon volumes. The manga was first published as a one-shot on July 9, 2010 in the same magazine. An anime television series adaptation premiered on April 9, 2016.

Plot

The story is about Makoto, a young witch from Yokohama, who moves to Aomori to live with some relatives as part of her training. What follows is Makoto's daily life as she gets used to her new environment. Her relatives and the new friends she makes there are introduced to the customs and peculiarities of witchcraft.

Characters

Makoto Kowata (木幡 真琴 Kowata Makoto)
Voiced by: Minami Shinoda[2]
The main character and a witch in training who moves to live with her relatives in Aomori. She is a polite and kind girl who gets lost easily, and is more focused on preparing potions than casting spells. She has a black cat familiar named Chito.
Chinatsu Kuramoto (倉本 千夏 Kuramoto Chinatsu)
Voiced by: Eri Suzuki[2]
Kei's little sister and Makoto's cousin. Initially wary of Makoto, whom she found strange when they first met, she quickly comes to like her after Makoto takes her flying on a broom. She is fascinated with magic and eagerly watches Makoto when she does something that involves witchcraft or something supernatural. She also enjoys sweets. She becomes Akane's apprentice to learn more about magic and to later become a witch herself. After wishing to be able to use magic, Makoto and Inukai manage to inadvertently create a ring filled with mana from a tooth from Hamabe (a sea spirit who befriended Chinatsu). The ring then bonded with Chinatsu and enabled her to use water magic.
Kei Kuramoto (倉本 圭 Kuramoto Kei)
Voiced by: Shinsuke Sugawara[2]
Chinatsu's older brother and Makoto's cousin.
Keiji Kuramoto (倉本啓二 Kuramoto Keiji)
Voiced by: Mitsuru Ogata
Kei and Chinatsu's father and Nana's husband.
Nana Kuramoto (倉本 奈々 Kuramoto Nana)
Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue
Kei and Chinatsu's Mother. She is familiar with the world of witchcraft and doesn't find some of the odd things that happen because of Makoto strange at all. She illustrates and writes children books professionally as her job.
Akane Kowata (木幡茜 Kowata Akane)
Voiced by: Kana Aoi[3]
Makoto's older sister and a full-fledged witch. She contrasts with Makoto in both personality and appearance. While Makoto is polite and softly spoken, Akane is more brash and loud-mouthed, though still just as kind. She also has brown skin and white hair, which contrasts with Makoto's pale skin and black hair. Makoto mentions that many people say that they don't have much in common. Akane cares deeply for Makoto and takes time off from her travels all around the world to visit and check on her sister regularly. She also has a white cat familiar named Kenny.
Nao Ishiwatari (石渡なお Ishiwatari Nao)
Voiced by: Shiori Mikami[3]
Kei's friend, whose family runs a liquor store.
Inukai (犬養)
Voiced by: Mari Hino[3]
A witch who specializes in fortune-telling, and is also Akane's friend. After a night of heavy drinking, she ate some chocolates which turn people into animals, made by Akane, and became an anthropomorphic dog. As the chocolates didn't work correctly she simply has the face, ears, and tail of a dog, as well as furry skin, and returns to her human form at night. She has been looking for a way to contact Akane for a year to find a cure which will return her to human form permanently. Due to her half-animal appearance, she wears a cloak that covers her face and body so that she doesn't draw attention. Kei admits that she is his type of girl after seeing her as a human. She has a hamster familiar named Al.
Anzu Shiina (椎名あんず Shiina Anzu)
Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi[3]
A witch who lives nearby Kei and Chinatsu's house. While soft-spoken and somewhat reserved, she's an amateur archaeologist and has a love for history. She has a brown owl familiar named Aurore.
Anzu's Mother (杏子の母)
Voiced by: Risa Hayamizu
Anzu's mother and the owner of Cafe Concrucio, She is also a witch.
Hina (ひな)
Voiced by: Hisako Kanemoto
A female ghost who was born in 1906 Japan (Meiji Era) and now works at the Cafe run by Anzu's mother. She is very shy towards others as shown when Makoto, Kei and Chinatsu visit the cafe.

Deities

Harbinger of Spring (春の運び屋 Haru no hakobi-ya)
Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai
Veil of Darkness (夜の帳 Yoru no tobari)

Familiars

Chito (チト Chito)
Voiced by: Ai Kayano[4]
A 17-year-old black cat who is Makoto's familiar.
Kenny (ケニー Kenī)
Voiced by: Ayane Sakura[4]
A white cat who is Akane's familiar.
Al (アル Aru)
Voiced by: Ari Ozawa[4]
A white hamster who is Inukai's familiar. It wears a small bow tie.
Aurore (オロル Ororu)
A brown owl who is Anzu Shiina's familiar.

Media

Manga

Chihiro Ishizuka began serializing the manga in the September 2012 issue of Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine on August 9, 2012.[5][6][7]

North American publisher Vertical announced their license to the series during their panel at Anime Central on May 22, 2016. The first volume is expected to be released in Spring 2017.[8][9]

Anime

An anime television series adaptation has been announced for April 2016.[7][10]The opening theme of the anime is Sharanran Feat 96 Neko (シャンランラン feat.96猫 Shanranran fīto 96 Neko) by miwa while the ending theme is Magic of Everyday (日常の魔法 Nichijō no mahō) by Makoto Kowata (CV Minami Shinoda) & Chinatsu Kuramoto (CV Eri Suzuki).[11] Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series in North America.[12] Animatsu Entertainment has licensed the series in the UK.[13]

Episode list

No. Title Original air date
1 "It's Been Six Years"
"6-Nen buri no fushigi" (6年振りの不思議) 		April 9, 2016
A rookie witch named Makoto Kowata goes to live with her relatives in Aomori. Her younger cousin Chinatsu thinks Makoto is a weirdo for talking to her cat all the time, but is quickly won over by a trip from a shopping mall back home, where Makoto demonstrates flying on a broomstick with her. The next day, Makoto attends a normal high school with her older cousin Kei and his friend Nao. After letting slip some details of what witches do, Makoto walks back home with Nao at the end of the day. She stumbles upon a wild mandrake root and pulls it out of the ground, offering it as a present to Nao, but Nao declines. 
2 "A Visitor for the Witch"
"Majo e no hōmon-sha" (魔女への訪問者) 		April 16, 2016
Chinatsu is scared by the appearance of a strange tall man at their house, but Makoto recognizes him as the Harbinger of Spring, and offers him a piece of the mandrake root she collected from before. The Harbinger gives her a bouquet of wildflowers as a peace offering for scaring Chinatsu. Later, on the way home from school, Makoto tells Nao that she had a dream that indicated good luck in her future. Makoto and Kei pick some wild fuki shoots off the side of the road and later fry them in tempura batter for a snack, while Nao sits elsewhere and wonders what form her supposed good luck might take. 
3 "Lessons in Farming and Magic"
"Hata kōza to majutsu kōza" (畑講座と魔術講座) 		April 23, 2016
Makoto want to farm. so Chinatsu's uncle say about family garden behind the house which is full of weeds. So Kei and Chinatsu offers to help work on the garden. After pulling up several weeds, Makoto spots a pheasant and chases it around the garden. Some time later, Makoto's sister Akane takes a break from her Africa trip to say hello to Makoto and her Aomori family. After handing out odd gifts from her trip, Akane teaches Makoto a spell to summon a wild crow using a girl's black hair, but Makoto accidentally makes the spell too powerful with her own hair and summons a whole murder of crows. 
4 "A Fortune Teller Veiled in Cherry Blossoms"
"Sakura no naka no uranaishi" (桜の中の占い師) 		April 30, 2016
Makoto and her cousins decide to visit a local festival, where Makoto discovers Kei's fear of haunted houses and jump scares. On the way back home, the trio encounter a roadside fortune teller who suddenly becomes interested upon hearing Makoto's name. The fortune teller reveals herself to be a dog-person named Inukai, who was tricked into being turned part dog after a drunken night of revelry with Makoto's sister Akane in the past. Makoto invites Inukai to the Kuramoto household and attempts to reverse Akane's spell with magical candy. Unfortunately, the candy temporarily makes Inukai more dog-like. Later, Akane shows up and says that Inukai brought the transformation on herself by eating Akane's magic chocolate despite being warned not to, and that the spell would eventually fade in the future. 
5 "How to Use Your Familiar"
"Tsukaima no katsuyō-hō" (使い魔の活用法) 		May 7, 2016
6 "Trick or Treat"
"Okashina okashi" (おかしなおかし) 		May 14, 2016
7 "Cafe Concrucio"
"Kissa Konkurushio" (喫茶コンクルシオ) 		May 21, 2016
8 "The Regular Customers"
"Jōren no nakigoe" (常連の鳴き声) 		May 28, 2016
9 "The Day After Tomorrow is Today"
"Ashita no ashita wa ima ni aru" (明日の明日は今にある) 		June 4, 2016
10 "Bad With Cooking and Bad With Bees"
"Ryōri awazu to hachi awazu" (料理合わずと蜂合わず) 		June 11, 2016
11 "A Whale in the Sky"
"Kujira, sora o tobu" (くじら、空をとぶ) 		June 25, 2016
12 "A Witch's Robe and Different Ways to Spend the Day"
"Majo no rōbu to hibi wa jūnintoiro" (魔女のローブと日々は十人十色) 		June 25, 2016

References

  1. ↑ "別冊少年マガジン 2012年09月号" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Flying Witch Anime Casts Minami Shinoda, Eri Suzuki, Shinsuke Sugawara". Anime News Network. February 5, 2016. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Flying Witch Anime Announces Additional Cast". Anime News Network. February 25, 2016. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 "Flying Witch Anime Announces Cast for Familiar Characters". Anime News Network. February 28, 2016. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
  5. ↑ ドジな魔法少女とエロ使い魔の学園ギャグ、別マガで始動. Natalie (in Japanese). July 9, 2012. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  6. ↑ ゆるふわ非日常劇「ふらいんぐうぃっち」が別マガで開幕. Natalie (in Japanese). August 9, 2012. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  7. 1 2 "Flying Witch Manga About Teen Witch Gets TV Anime". Anime News Network. July 31, 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Vertical Licenses Chihiro Ishizuka's Flying Witch Manga". Anime News Network. May 22, 2016. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  9. ↑ Green, Scott (May 22, 2016). "Vertical Licenses "Flying Witch" Manga". Crunchyroll. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  10. ↑ "J.C. Staff Makes Flying Witch TV Anime for April". Anime News Network. January 6, 2015. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Flying Witch staff & cast". Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Sentai Filmworks Licenses "Flying Witch"". April 14, 2016. Retrieved April 14, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Manga Entertainment/Animatsu Acquisitions". Anime News Network. October 29, 2016. Retrieved October 29, 2016.

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