The Witch and the Beast is one of the lesser-known anime of the Winter 2024 season. Despite its well-written story and carefully detailed artwork, the series has failed to come remotely close to any weekly top-10 poll and has yet to gain much momentum. It also doesn’t help not having much of an online presence, seeing as how The Witch and the Beast is towards the bottom of the Winter 2024 anime list regarding followers on social media.
So we decided to make this the hub of everything you need to know about the series itself including the production staff and their previous work, the cast and their former roles, where to watch, and much more. Remember to vote for The Witch and the Beast in our weekly polls!
The Witch and the Beast anime is based on the manga written and illustrated by Kousuke Satake. It began serialization in Young Magazine the 3rd on November 6, 2016, and was eventually moved to Monthly Young Magazine on May 20, 2021, where it’s currently being published. There are currently 10 volumes released in both Japanese and English.
The manga is Satake’s first big serialization after he released a one-shot titled Witch and Whim in 2015 under Kodansha’s Magalabo magazine. Unfortunately, The Witch and the Beast manga has been on hiatus for over a year now as of 2024 due to Satake’s health. No official announcement has been made on when the series will continue to resume. Fans can read the first 17 chapters for free on the official K Manga website. The amount of copies in circulation for The Witch and the Beast is currently unknown as of February 2024.
The Witch and the Beast anime is available to watch on Crunchyroll with new episodes released every Thursday in both Japanese subbed and English dub. Episode 7 is set to be released on Thursday. February 29, 2024, after it was delayed a week.
Crunchyroll describes the anime as such:
Guideau is a young woman who was cursed by a witch, forced to carry a dark secret. Ashaf is a tall, soft-spoken man with a coffin strapped to his back and secrets yet untold. Together they venture across the land on their quest for vengeance. Appearances can be deceiving, and each step could be their last. In a dark fantasy filled with adventure, will unlikely heroes find the vengeance they seek?
The Witch and the Beast is animated by studio Yokohama Animation Lab, who are more recently known for their work on The Kingdoms of Ruin, The Great Cleric, and The Genius Prince’s Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt. The studio also handled the animation production for the popular ecchi anime series Miru Tights.
Takayuki Hamana is the director of The Witch and the Beast anime and is most known for his work on The Prince of Tennis. Other highly popular directing works of his include The Beast Player Erin, Arte, and Sorcerous Stabber Orphen. The rest of the The Witch and the Beast production staff is as follows:
The main male protagonist Ashaf is voiced by Toshiyuki Morikawa, who is known for big roles such as Minato Namikaze in Naruto and Julius Novachrono in Black Clover. Some of his recent roles include Edgar Allen Poe in Bungo Stray Dogs and Paul Greyrat in Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation.
The main female protagonist Guideau is voiced by You Toichi, who is known for her roles as Dorothy in Princess Principal, Akane Ryuuzouji in World’s End Harem, and Suphia in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. She’s also voiced kid roles such as Takeo Kamada in Demon Slayer, Kenya from Erased, and Koutei (“Emperor”) in Akame Ga Kill.
The rest of the voice cast is the following:
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Source: Official Website, Official X (formerly Twitter)
© Kousuke Satake, Kodansha / “The Witch and the Beast” Production Committee