Hello, I Am a Witch sets 5 October debut with new trailer
Kadokawa's adaptation of Eiko Mutsuhana's light novels arrives on 5 October with a main trailer, a fresh key visual and two more cast members.
The television anime of Hello, I Am a Witch and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion! will begin broadcasting on 5 October, with Kadokawa marking the date with a main promotional video and a new key visual that puts Rose and Harij at the centre of the frame.
The series debuts on 5 October on AT-X, Tokyo MX, BS NTV and RKB Mainichi Broadcasting, with MBS following on 6 October. Streaming starts the same day on d Anime Store, U-NEXT and Anime Hōdai, and reaches other services on 10 October.
Cast and staff
diomedéa is animating the series with Keizō Kusakawa directing, Wataru Watari overseeing the scripts and Masakazu Ishikawa designing the characters. Mikako Komatsu voices Rose, the witch at the centre of the story, and Yōhei Azakami plays the knight Harij. The new additions are Hiro Shimono as Tien and Akira Sekine as Villaura.
A witch, a knight and one awkward request
Rose lives in self-imposed exile as the Witch of the Lake, and her quiet routine ends when the knight Harij turns up asking her to brew him a love potion. The problem is that Rose has been in love with him for years and has never said a word about it.
The anime adapts Eiko Mutsuhana's light novel series, illustrated by Vient, which began life as a web novel on Shōsetsuka ni Narō. A manga adaptation by Kamada followed in 2020, and Cross Infinite World publishes the novels in English while Yen Press handles the manga.
Theme songs
Centimillimental performs the opening theme, Kanawanai, and Rainy performs the ending song, Mada Uso ni wa Naranai. Both tracks are previewed in the new trailer.
Our opinion
Autumn is crowded with fantasy romances, and this one arrives with an unusually specific hook: the heroine is not fighting a demon lord, she is trying to survive a request she is professionally obliged to fulfil and personally desperate to refuse. Kadokawa has been careful with the adaptation — a director who works comfortably in comedy, a writer with a track record for light novel structure and a studio that can handle interiors and faces — and the key visual suggests the romantic tension is being treated as the main event rather than background noise. The risk is the one every potion plot runs into: an obvious misunderstanding stretched across twelve episodes. Handle the reveal early, make the two leads genuinely worth rooting for, and this could be one of the season's quiet successes rather than another crowded-season casualty.