Trailer reveals release date for The Witch and the Beast

The official website for the anime series adaptation of the manga The Witch and the Beast (Majo to Yajuu) by Kousuke Satake posted this trailer online where it is revealed that the premiere will take place on January 11, 2024. Below you can see a new promotional image.

It was also revealed that the opening theme is “Soumonka” by sokoninaru and the ending theme is “Hikari no Toriru” by Yoshino Nanjo.

The animation is from the studio Yokohama Animation Lab (Miru Tights), the direction is by Takayuki Hamana (Sorcerous Stabber Orphen) and the character design is by Hiroya Iijima (Afro Samurai).

• Series story supervision: Yūichirō Momose
• Secondary character design: Kei Tsushima
• Prop design: Miki Matsuda
• Art Director: Hirotsugu Kakoi
• tion: Mai Hasegawa
• Cinematography Composition Director: Natsumi Uchida
• Main color artist: Hee Sook Wang
• 3D Director: Takuji Goshima
• 2D Scenario: Hiroyuki Yazaki
• Artistic scenario: Daigorō Yamaguchi, Satoshi Miura
• Sound director: Takuya Hiramatsu
• Music: Hanae Nakamura, Natsumi Tabuchi
• Music Production: Nichion
• Sound production: Dax Production

In the cast we have:

• Yōko Hikasa as Ione
• Noriko Shibasaki as Mary
• Junko Minagawa as Kiera Haines
• Hidenobu Kiuchi as Reuben Cole
• Atsushi Kousaka as Shulk
• Takuma Terashima as Loran
• Saori Hayami as Phanora Kristoffel
• Ryota Ohsaka as Johan
• Hozumi Gōda as Jeff Enker
• Nozomu Sasaki as Necromancer
• Yō Taichi as Guideau
• Toshiyuki Morikawa as Ashaf.

The Witch and the Beast (Majo to Yajuu) began to be published in Young Magazine the 3rd in November 2016 and in April 2021 it moved to Monthly Young Magazine.

Synopsis of The Witch and the Beast (Majo to Yajuu)

Ashaf – A soft-spoken man with delicate features, a coffin strapped to his back and an entourage of black ravens. Guideau – A wild and violent girl with long fangs and eyes like a beast. This sinister couple appears one day in a town enslaved by a witch, a ruler with magic coursing through her tattooed body who has convinced the townspeople that she is their hero. But Ashaf and Guideau know better. They live by a creed: “Where a witch goes, only curses and disasters follow.” They have a score to settle and will not hesitate to take down anyone who stands in their way, be it an angry mob or an army garrison.