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Witch Watch Anime Reveals Cast, Theme Songs for Uron Mirage In-Story Series

The staff for the television anime of Kenta Shinohara's Witch Watch manga revealed the key visual, cast, and theme songs for Uron Mirage, the series' in-story anime that Nico's classmate Kukumi Ureshino and homeroom teacher Yuri Makuwa love watching. Uron Mirage's episode "Chapter 119: Fuzzy Tōbatsu-4" (The Fuzzy Hunt Part 4) aired in Witch Watch anime's 14th episode on Sunday. Who-ya Extended performs the opening theme song of Uron Mirage titled "Bitter end," and ALI performs the ending theme song "FLASHBACK SYNDROME."

Uron Mirage opening theme song

Uron Mirage ending theme song

Uron Mirage anime stars:

Ryōko Shiraishi as Utsuro Akitsuki, a Phantom Warrior who is always at odds with Oboro

Hiroyuki Yoshino as Oboro Namisaki, a phantom warrior who is always at odds with Utsuro, but respects him to some extent

Hiro Shimono as Sagiri Kusama, Utsuro and Oboro's senior who seems mean, but his actions are aimed at helping his juniors grow

Tomokazu Sugita as Zack Balun, Utsuro and Oboro's senior that has a super fast ultimate move, that nobody has seen it completely

Hōchū Ōtsuka as Fuwa, the Phantom Warriors' commander who is good at dodging questions with vague answers

Ami Koshimizu as Honoka Shirafuji, Commander Fuwa's subordinate

The Witch Watch anime's second part started on June 29. The anime premiered in Japan on April 6 on MBS, TBS, and 26 affiliated channels. Crunchyroll, Netflix, ADN, Aniplus, Hulu, and Tropics stream the anime as it airs in various countries and territories outside Japan.

The anime's English dub debuted on April 27. The anime also has dubs in French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain and Latin), and Thai.

GKIDS screened the first three episodes of the anime in North American theaters on March 16-18. Tropics screened the episodes in Asia starting on March 18, ADN screened the episodes in "selected European countries" in March, and Aniplus screened the episodes in South Korea on March 21.

The anime stars:

• Ryōta Suzuki as Morihito Otogi
• Rina Kawaguchi as Nico Wakatsuki
• Tomori Kusunoki as Nemu Miyao
• Kōhei Amasaki as Kanshi Kazamatsuri
• Kaito Ishikawa as Magami Keigo
• Mikako Komatsu as Yūri Makuwa
• Konomi Kohara as Kukumi Ureshino
• Rie Takahashi as Kara Minami
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Tenryū Kiyomiya
• Miyuki Sawashiro as Ibara Ibu
• Jun Fukuyama as Yuzuru Kenmochi
• Rie Kugimiya as Syrup
• Misaki Kuno as Kuromitsu
• Noriko Hidaka as Riro Takumi
• Kenta Miyake as Burst
• Jun Fukushima as Kyōki Saiko
• Hikaru Midorikawa as Daiki Sakai MK. II
• Nana Mizuki as Ibuki Wakatsuki
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Reiji Otogi
• Yūki Wakai as Miharu Kiryū
• Yōhei Azakami as Rui Fujiki

Hiroshi Ikehata (TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) is directing the series with assistant director Masao Kawase (Kiratto Pri☆Chan, Magical Destroyers) at Bibury Animation Studio. Deko Akao (Shadowverse, Suppose a Kid From the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town) is in charge of the series scripts. Haruko Iizuka (Ensemble Stars!, Sugar Apple Fairy Tale) is designing the characters with sub-character designs by Kaishū Sugimura and Yuki Sawa.

Kusanagi's Ping Xue (Fuuka, Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's New Dinosaur) serves as the art director. Masayuki Niizuma (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II) and Kusanagi's Yuki Takeuchi are in charge of art setting. Yuiha Ōta is the color key artist. Hisashi Yonezawa (Is This a Zombie?) is the compositing director of photography. Mutsumi Takemiya (The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You) is editing the series. Yukari Hashimoto (Mr. Osomatsu, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun) is composing the music for the series. Fumiyuki Go (BLUELOCK, Kaiju No. 8) is the sound director, and Bit Grooove Promotion is responsible for sound production.

HashiMelo performs the second part's opening theme song "Tokihanate!" (Let go!), and rock band yutori performs the ending theme song "Tsuki to Watashi no Kakurenbo" (Hide and Seek with the Moon).

Viz Media and MANGA Plus are both publishing Witch Watch in English. Viz Media describes the first volume:

Morihito Otogi's family is descended from a long line of ogre familiars, and he has the inhuman strength to prove it. One day, his father comes to him with the life-changing news that he is to become the familiar of his childhood friend, the teenage witch Nico. He is to live under the same roof with her and protect her from anything and anyone that may attempt to harm her. Meanwhile, Nico is excited to get to live with the love of her life, even if her crush is one-sided—Morihito is so serious about his duties to protect her that any romance is going to be an uphill battle. But he has every reason to be serious, as Nico has a prophecy of doom hanging over her head!

Shinohara (Astra Lost in Space, Sket Dance) launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in February 2021. Shueisha published the manga's 22nd compiled book volume on July 4.

Sources: Witch Watch anime's website, Comic Natalie