With the winter and spring 2017 anime series Little Witch Academia getting closer to its finale as it’s set for a twenty-five episode run, TOHO has brought out a new promotional video for it. Intent on ramping up a bit more interest ahead of the finale, they’ve got a five-minute “climax” promo that digs into some of the recent past and emotional elements of the series that have drawn fans deeper into connecting with the characters.
The project sees Yoh Yoshinari directing it with Michiru Shimada handling the series composition. Shuhei Handa is on board as the character designer with Studio Trigger handling the animation. The project has its overseas rights held by Netflix.
The Japanese cast includes Megumi Han as Atsuko “Akko” Kagari, Fumiko Orikasa as Lotte Yanson, Michiyo Murase as Sucy Manbavaran, Yōko Hikasa as Diana Cavendish, Arisa Shida as Amanda O’Neill, Rie Murakawa as Constanze von Braunschbank Albrechtsberger, Reina Ueda as Jasminka Antonenko and Noriko Hidaka as Shiny Chariot.
The opening song is “Shiny Ray” from YURiKA while Yuiko Ohara will be performing the ending theme song, “Hoshi wo Tadoreba.”
Plot concept: The show’s story revolves around Akko, who as a child watched the witch Shiny Chariot perform a show, and from then on dreamed of becoming a witch. She enters the Luna Nova Academy, a school for witches that Shiny Chariot attended. In this new town she meets new friends and starts a new school life. At the school she has lessons on riding brooms and the wonder of magic, but Akko and her friends Lotte and Sucy keep getting wrapped up in tumultuous events.