Synopsis
On her seventeenth birthday, witch apprentice Meg Raspberry was informed by her teacher, Faust, that she is afflicted with a curse that would make her die in a year. The only way Meg could prevent the curse from coming to pass is by using a seed of life, but to create it, she has to gather a thousand teardrops shed by people experiencing true joy.
Comments
Halimun Muhammad (The Indonesian Anime Times)
This first episode of Once Upon a Witch’s Death actually feels kind of like a mystery fiction, in the sense that the main character encounters a puzzle and gathers clues to uncover the answer to it. Sure, the mystery is as simple as what a girl’s late mother’s favorite flower is, and it’s certainly not hard for the audience to guess the answer themselves. But over the course of solving the mystery, Meg’s keen observation also uncovered details about the late mother that the husband and the daughter had not noticed before, bringing them catharsis from the regrets they were still having after that mother’s death. Here, I am reminded of Andrew Osmond’s review of Haruchika where he said that an often-overlooked part of detective fiction is that the detective acts as a healer to emotionally distressed people. With her attention to detail and her sensitivity to other people’s feelings and experiences, I’m looking forward to seeing if this is the direction that Meg’s journey to “open people’s hearts” (to borrow her teacher’s words) will take as the story goes on.
Facts and Figures
Alternative Title | Aru Majo ga Shinu Made |
Source material | Novel by Saka |
Cast | Aina Suzuki as Snowy Owl Atsumi Tanezaki as Mysterious Girl Hina Yomiya as Sophie Hayter Miharu Hanai as Carbuncle Rumi Okubo as Fine Cavendish Shizuka Ito as Inori Yoko Hikasa as Eldora Yoshiko Sakakibara as Faust Yoshino Aoyama as Meg Raspberry |
Director | Atsushi Nigorikawa (Beast Tamer, A Destructive God Sits Next to Me) |
Series Composition | Keiichiro Oochi (Adachi and Shimamura, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten) |
Character Design | Yuki Shizuku |
Opening Song |
“Drops” by Maaya Sakamoto
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Ending Song |
“Hanasaku Michi de” by Aoi Teshima
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Studio | EMT Squared |
Official Site | arumajo-anime.com |
@arumajo_anime | |
Broadcast Date | 1 April 2025 (1430 GMT/2130 WIT/2330 JST) |
Screenshots and Trailer
The Indonesian Anime Times