Flying Witch

Flying Witch
The cover of Flying Witch volume one.
ふらいんぐうぃっち (Furaingu Uitchi)
Genre	Comedy, Magic, Slice of Life
Manga
Written by	Chihiro Ishizuka
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA Vertical
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine
Original run	August 9, 2012 – present
Volumes	4
Anime television series
Directed by	Katsushi Sakurabi
Produced by	Hiroyuki Inage, Atsushi Kirimoto, Shunsuke Nara, Kazunari Sengoku, Wataru Sasaki, Yohei Ito
Written by	Deko Akao
Music by	Yoshiaki Dewa
Studio	J.C.Staff
Licensed by	NA Sentai Filmworks
Network	NTV, SUN, RAB, BS Nittele, MMT
Original run	April 9, 2016 – present
Episodes	12

Flying Witch (ふらいんぐうぃっち, Furaingu Uitchi) is a Japanese manga series by Chihiro Ishizuka. It has been serialized since September 2012 in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine and collected in three tankōbon volumes. The manga was first published as a one-shot on July 9, 2010 in the same magazine. An anime television series adaptation premiered on April 9, 2016.

Plot

The story is about Makoto, a young witch from Yokohama, that moves to Aomori to live with some relatives as part of her training. What follows is Makoto's daily life as she gets used to her new environment and her relatives and the new friends she makes there are introduced to the customs and peculiarities of witchcraft.

Characters

Makoto Kowata (木幡 真琴, Kowata Makoto)

Voiced by: Minami Shinoda

The main character and a witch in training who moves to live with her relatives in Aomori. She is a polite and kind girl who is also bad with directions and is more focused with preparing potions than casting spells. She has a black cat familiar named Chito.

Chinatsu Kuramoto (倉本 千夏, Kuramoto Chinatsu)

Voiced by: Eri Suzuki

Kei's little sister and Makoto's cousin. Originally wary of Makoto and thought of her as strange when they first met, she quickly came to like her after Makoto took her flying on a broom. She is fascinated with magic and eagerly watches Makoto when she does something that involves witchcraft or something supernatural. She also enjoys sweets. She became Akane's apprentice to learn more about magic and to later become a witch herself.

Kei Kuramoto (倉本 圭, Kuramoto Kei)

Voiced by: Shinsuke Sugawara

Chinatsu's older brother and Makoto's cousin.

Nana Kuramoto (倉本 奈々, Kuramoto Nana)

Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue

Kei and Chinatsu's Mother. She is familiar with the world of witchcraft and doesnt find some of the odd things that happen because of Makoto strange at all.

Akane Kowata (木幡茜, Kowata Akane)

Voiced by: Kana Aoi

Makoto's older sister and a full fledged witch. She contrasts Makoto in both personality and appearance. While Makoto is polite and soft spoken, Akane is more brash and loud mouthed, but still just as kind. She also has tanned skin and white hair, which contrasts with Makoto's pale skin and black hair. Makoto mentioned that many people say that they don't have much in common. She cares deeply for Makoto and takes time off from her travels all around the world to visit and to check on her sister. She also has a white cat familiar named Kenny.

Nao Ishiwatari (石渡なお, Ishiwatari Nao)

Voiced by: Shiori Mikami

Kei's friend who's family runs a liquor store.

Inukai (犬養)

Voiced by: Mari Hino

A witch that specializes in fortune telling and also Akane's friend. After a night of heavy drinking, she became an anthropomorphic dog because she ate some chocolate made by Akane which can to turn humans into animals. As the chocolates didnt work correctly, she now has a face, ears, and tail of a dog and furry skin, and she can only return to her full human form at night. She has been looking for a way to contact Akane for a year to find a cure and return her to a human form permanently. Due to her half animal appearance, she wears a cloak that covers her face and body so she doesnt draw attention. Kei admits that she is his type of girl when in human form, and even Akane admits that she is very cute.

Anzu Shiina (椎名あんず, Shiina Anzu)

Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi

Familiars

Chito (チト)

Voiced by: Ai Kayano

A 17 year old black cat and Makoto's familiar.

Kenny (ケニー, Kenī)

Voiced by: Ayane Sakura

A white cat who is Akane's familiar.

Al (アル, Aru)

Voiced by: Ari Ozawa

A white hamster who is Inukai's familiar. It wears a small bow tie.

Media

Manga

Chihiro Ishizuka began serializing the manga in the September 2012 issue of Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine on August 9, 2012.

North American publisher Vertical announced their license to the series during their panel at Anime Central on May 22, 2016.

Anime

An anime television series adaptation has been announced for April 2016.

Episode list

No.	Title	Original air date
1	"It's Been Six Years" "6-Nen buri no fushigi" (6年振りの不思議)	April 9, 2016
A rookie witch named Makoto Kowata goes to live with her relatives in Aomori. Her younger cousin Chinatsu thinks Makoto is a weirdo for talking to her cat all the time, but is quickly won over by a trip to a shopping mall, where Makoto demonstrates flying on a broomstick with her. The next day, Makoto attends a normal high school with her older cousin Kei and his friend Nao. After letting slip some details of what witches do, Makoto walks back home with Nao at the end of the day. She stumbles upon a wild mandrake root and pulls it out of the ground, offering it as a present to Nao, but Nao declines.
2	"A Visitor for the Witch" "Majo e no hōmon-sha" (魔女への訪問者)	April 16, 2016
Chinatsu is scared by the appearance of a strange tall man at their house, but Makoto recognizes him as the Harbinger of Spring, and offers him a piece of the mandrake root she collected from before. The Harbinger gives her a bouquet of wildflowers as a peace offering for scaring Chinatsu. Later, on the way home from school, Makoto tells Nao that she had a dream that indicated good luck in her future. Makoto and Kei pick some wild fuki shoots off the side of the road and later fry them in tempura batter for a snack, while Nao sits elsewhere and wonders what form her supposed good luck might take.
3	"Lessons in Farming and Magic" "Hata kōza to majutsu kōza" (畑講座と魔術講座)	April 23, 2016
Makoto offers to help work on the family garden behind the house, along with Kei and Chinatsu. After pulling up several weeds, she spots a pheasant and chases it around the garden. Some time later, Makoto's sister Akane takes a break from her Africa trip to say hello to Makoto and her Aomori family. After handing out odd gifts from her trip, Akane teaches Makoto a spell to summon a wild crow using a girl's black hair, but Makoto accidentally makes the spell too powerful with her own hair and summons a whole murder of crows.
4	"A Fortune Teller Veiled in Cherry Blossoms" "Sakura no naka no uranaishi" (桜の中の占い師)	April 30, 2016
5	"How to Use Your Familiar" "Tsukaima no katsuyō-hō" (使い魔の活用法)	May 7, 2016
6	"Trick or Treat" "Okashina okashi" (おかしなおかし)	May 14, 2016
7	"Cafe Concrucio" "Kissa Konkurushio" (喫茶コンクルシオ)	May 21, 2016
8	"The Regular Customers" "Jōren no nakigoe" (常連の鳴き声)	May 28, 2016
9	"Ashita no ashita wa ima ni aru" (明日の明日は今にある)	June 5, 2016

External links

• Flying Witch at Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine (Japanese)
• Official anime website (Japanese)
• Flying Witch (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia