The
combination of music, magic and school life will have a new opportunity to
shine, this time on the big screen. The production company Bandai Namco
Filmworks has officially announced that the original anime
Maebashi Witches will have a compilation film screened in theaters,
which will summarize the twelve episodes of the television series released last
year.
Along with
this film announcement, the production committee confirmed that the original
series will once again air on Japanese television starting April 5.
To accompany these releases, the lead voice actresses will be holding live
performances, including a mini concert at AnimeJapan on March
28, followed by solo shows scheduled for May 24 in Tokyo and May 31 in Osaka.
Maebashi
Witches Details
The
original animation production was conceived by Bandai Namco Filmworks in
collaboration with PROJECT MBW. The direction of the project fell
to Junichi Yamamoto, with the supervision of scripts by Erika
Yoshida. The character designs were crafted by Nozomi Tachibana,
based on Yu Inami's original concepts. The visual section of the
magical world was the responsibility of Yoshiki Imazu, while Yuri
Habuka composed the soundtrack of the series.
About
the work
The story
is set in the city of Maebashi, located in Gunma Prefecture. Yuina
Akagi is a freshman in high school who leads an ordinary, emotionless
life until a mysterious talking toad named Keroppe appears
before her. This encounter leads her to be chosen, along with four other young
women, to become the "Witches of Maebashi".
From one moment to the next, an ordinary closet in her room transforms into a portal to a magical world connected to a peculiar flower shop. In this new environment, the protagonists use music, dance and their newly acquired magical powers to grant people's wishes, singing songs such as the opening "Sugosugi Maebashi Witches!" and the ending song "Sorezore no Door", performed by the cast of main seiyuus themselves.
