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Japan Expo Panel: Sugar Sugar Rune Manga Returns to U.S., Italy, Taiwan in 2026
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The Japan Expo panel for Studio Khara's new anime short reported in France on Friday that Moyoco Anno's Sugar Sugar Rune manga will go back on sale in the United States, Italy, and Taiwan next year. According to the panel, Udon Entertainment will offer the manga in the United States. The manga is already available in Japan itself, France, and South Korea.
Udon Entertainment had announced its license for the manga in 2015. Udon Entertainment describes the story:
In the Magical World, the future queen is chosen by selecting two young witches and sending them to the Human World, where they'll compete to capture the hearts of boys. Whoever has collected the most by the end of the competition is crowned queen. This generation's Queen Candidates are best friends and polar opposites Vanilla Mieux and Chocolat Meilleure, the daughters of the current queen and her former competitor (respectively). They're aided by their assigned mentor and guardian, pop idol witch Rockin' Robin, and their two animal familiars, Blanca the mouse and Duke the frog. But the girls have more to deal with than just competing for hearts at school. There's something weird about the cool, mysterious middle school boy Pierre, who resembles the evil king Glace—and he seems to be after Chocolat. Now, both trapped within their own new goals, the two witches must fight their way and retain a friendship which no magic can defeat.
A television anime adaptation of the manga premiered in 2005.
Yusuke Matsui (CG animator and CG animation director for Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time) and Studio Khara producer Kohei Fujiwara revealed a 20th anniversary "Sugar Sugar Rune Les deux sorcières" anime short at the same Japan Expo panel, and Matsui announced that production on a separate, full-fledged anime project using similar CG animation has also been green-lit. "Sugar Sugar Rune Les deux sorcières" serves as a prologue to the original manga.
Source: Studio Khara's Japan Expo panel livestream
