Once Upon a Witch's Death Anime Casts Rumi Okubo as Fine Cavendish

The staff for the television anime of Saka and Chorefuji's Once Upon a Witch's Death: The Tale of the One Thousand Tears of Joy (Aru Majo ga Shinu Made: Owari no Kotoba to Hajimari no Namida) light novel series revealed the anime's second "situation visual," and a new cast member. The new visual features the Lapis town.

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The newly announced cast is Rumi Okubo as Fine Cavendish, a strong and kind-hearted high school girl, who has been friends with Meg for over 10 years.

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The anime will debut in 2025.

The anime stars:

Yoshino Aoyama as Meg Raspberry Yoshiko Sakakibara as Faust Miharu Hanai as Carbuncle Aina Suzuki as Shirofukurō (Snowy Owl)

Atsushi Nigorikawa (A Destructive God Sits Next to Me, Between the Sky and Sea, Beast Tamer) is directing the anime at EMT Squared. Yuki Shizuku (Smile of the Arsnotoria the Animation character design assistant, Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout chief animation director) is adapting Chorefuji's character designs for animation. Keiichirō Ōchi (Adachi and Shimamura, The Quintessential Quintuplets) is overseeing the series scripts.

Yen Press is releasing the novels in English, and describes the story:

On her seventeenth birthday, the apprentice witch Meg learns that she only has one year left to live. Her teacher, the long-lived witch Faust, explains that the only way to undo the death curse is to collect tears of joy and grow the seed of life. To find them, Meg will have to leave the sheltered life she's always known and head out into the world. There will be meetings, partings, and friendships aplenty, and of course many tears. Meg will learn that the most important lessons for a witch are bright, sweet, and somewhat heart-wrenching.

Saka launched the story on the Kakuyomu website in October 2019, and ended it in August 2022. Kadokawa is publishing the novels in print with illustrations by Chorefuji, and published the second volume on July 17.

Kenu Amearare launched a manga adaptation in March 2023 on the KadoComi (Comic Walker) website. Kadokawa released the second volume on July 26, and will release the third volume on September 27.

Source: Press release

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