GKIDS Presents The Supernatural Rom-Com Sensation Witch Watch Season One on Digital Platforms Now and Coming Home in a 4-Disc Blu-Ray™ Set July 14th

Los Angeles, CA (May 13, 2026) - GKIDS and Shout! Studios are bringing one of anime's most beloved new rom-com series home — Witch Watch Season One is now available on digital platforms and will be released in a 4-Disc Blu-ray™ set on July 14th with a selection of special features. The release gives North American fans their first chance to own the supernatural comedy that has enchanted audiences since its debut, along with a glimpse behind the scenes. This whip-smart series blends magical chaos, heartfelt romance, and unstoppable laughs into something genuinely irresistible, and Witch Watch Season One contains all 25 episodes.

Morihito Otogi, a high school student who comes from a lineage of ogres, enjoys a peaceful, ordinary life until his childhood friend, Nico, moves in with him. Nico is a witch-in-training and chooses Morihito to be her familiar. While Nico is thrilled to reunite with her old friend and crush, Morihito is tasked with the perilous duty to protect her from a foretold calamity. Between the unpredictable chaos caused by Nico's magic, and the awkwardness of sharing a home, their lives become a whirlwind of supernatural hijinks and threats.

Puppy love meets magical mischief and danger in WITCH WATCH, the endlessly charming and riotously funny new anime series based on the Weekly Shonen Jump manga by Kenta Shinohara (Sket Dance).

At its core, WITCH WATCH is a story about the anxiety of protecting someone you love in a world full of unpredictable forces beyond your control — a feeling that resonates far beyond the supernatural setting. For longtime manga fans who followed Nico and Morihito from the beginning, this home release is a celebration. For new audiences, it's the perfect entry point into one of the freshest voices working in the shonen genre today.

Witch Watch Season One Special Features:

● Advance Screening Documentary
● Director and Cast Interview
● Voice Recording Interview
● "Uron Mirage" Textless Opening
● Teasers & Trailers

About MBS
Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc., (MBS) is known as a pioneer in the Japanese broadcasting industry. Tracing back through history, MBS was one of the first commercial radio stations in Japan, starting its first radio broadcasts in 1951 and later beginning terrestrial television broadcasting in 1959. MBS has its head office in Osaka, which is the business center of Kansai, the western part of Japan, with new emerging businesses and innovative ideas. For anime, MBS has been co-producing and broadcasting for more than half a century. The broadcaster is the TV home to numerous global hit anime franchises like “Attack on Titan,” “Fullmetal Alchemist” and “Jujutsu Kaisen.” In addition to co-producing those and many other series, MBS was a co-producer of “Akira,” seen as one of the most influential anime films of all time. https://www.mbs.jp/english/

About GKIDS
GKIDS is the Academy Award-winning curator, producer, and distributor of artist-driven, globally inspired cinema dedicated to connecting North American audiences with distinctive stories from around the world. Widely celebrated for its leadership in the “animation is film” movement, the studio has played a pivotal role in shaping the landscape for feature animation in the U.S. and internationally for nearly two decades. GKIDS represents the work of many of the world's most acclaimed animation filmmakers, including Makoto Shinkai (your name., Weathering With You), Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress), Tomm Moore (Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers), Mamoru Hosoda (Mirai, Wolf Children), and serves as the North American home of Japan's legendary Studio Ghibli.

Upcoming theatrical releases include the highly anticipated Godzilla Minus Zero, the follow up to director Takashi Yamazaki's Academy Award-winning Godzilla Minus One; and Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, the latest Aardman feature in the beloved Oscar-nominated film series. In addition to the Oscar-nominated Kokuho and Little Amélie and the Character of Rain, recent theatrical releases are the box office hit Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution, Mamoru Oshii's cult classic Angel's Egg, and the critically acclaimed ALL YOU NEED IS KILL, alongside groundbreaking television series such as DAN DA DAN, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Arcane: League of Legends. @GKIDSFilms

About Radial Entertainment
Radial Entertainment is a newly formed global entertainment company operating the FilmRise and Shout! Studios brands, backed by funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management. As a premier content distribution studio, Radial Entertainment boasts a diverse library of over 70,000 movies and episodes, making it the largest independent catalog in the industry. The company delivers high-quality entertainment across all major consumer platforms including FAST channels, AVOD, SVOD, TVOD, physical product, theatrical film and more. Its programming spans a wide range of genres, including true crime, reality, animation, action, westerns, award-winning titles, classics, medical, food, U.K. content, cult classics, and horror.

About Shout! Studios Shout! Studios, a Radial Entertainment Company, specializes in film and TV distribution, development, and production. The company has evolved with the changing entertainment landscape to excel in all forms of content distribution, including theatrical, digital streaming, broadcast and in-flight licensing, physical media, and more. Shout! Studios owns Gravitas Ventures and manages a portfolio of thousands of feature films, series, anime, animation, and documentaries. The company's creative acquisition mandate has established it as a leading independent distributor, with partners and properties including Aardman Animations, The Carol Burnett Show, GKIDS and Studio Ghibli (including the latest Academy Award® -winning masterpiece from Miyazaki, The Boy and the Heron), LAIKA Studios, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Golden Princess movie library, alongside many others. Shout! Studios operates three successful imprints – Shout! Kids for family animation and live-action entertainment, Scream Factory for genre horror films and TV, and Hong Kong Cinema Classics. Shout! Studios also operates the acclaimed streaming service Shout! TV and its family of FAST channels. Shout! Studios produces, acquires, and distributes new films, including Shout! Studios' original film Old Henry (Tim Blake Nelson), acclaimed

Western The Dead Don't Hurt (Viggo Mortensen, Vicky Krieps), family comedy A Sudden Case of Christmas (Danny DeVito, Andie MacDowell), and the upcoming Western thriller Killing Faith (Guy Pearce, DeWanda Wise, Bill Pullman). Shout! Studios is based in Los Angeles, California. For more on Shout! Studios, visit ShoutStudios.com