Witch on the Holy Night Film Gets Manga Adaptation
This year's 49th issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine announced on Wednesday that the Witch on the Holy Night (Mahōtsukai no Yoru) anime film will receive a manga adaptation by Keigo Maki (Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie) in the next issue on November 11.
The company streamed a commercial for the upcoming manga, featuring the film's lead cast members Haruka Tomatsu as Aoko Aozaki and Yūsuke Kobayashi as Soujyuro Sizuki:
The story of the original Witch on the Holy Night visual novel is set in the late 1980s, and centers on protagonist Aoko Aozaki, one of two sister heirs to a long family line of modern mages. Although she is disinterested in magic, she is suddenly declared as the heir of their family's magical art, and reluctantly begins her apprenticeship under Alice Kuonji, a young witch who lives in a lonely manor atop a hill. Aoko balances her duties of learning the arcane, while also serving as her school's student council president. She also makes the acquaintance of Sōjūrō Shizuki (romanized as Soujyuro Sizuki in the English version of the game), a new transfer student who is unfamiliar with much of the modern world, and contends with the plots of her older sister Tōko Aozaki, who feels that her birthright has been denied.
The film will open in Japan on November 20. The original visual novel game's smartphone version will launch on the same day as the film's opening in Japan.
Type-Moon most recently released the game on Steam in December 2023.
Aniplex released the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch versions of the game in the West in December 2022, on the same day as the game's Japanese release date. The PS4 and Switch versions have sold more than 150,000 copies worldwide.
Mahōtsukai no Yoru was one of the first collaborations between Kinoko Nasu and artist Takashi Takeuchi in the mid-90s, preceding their founding of Type-Moon. Initially a novel, Nasu and Takeuchi only showed the draft to friends and did not officially release it. Type-Moon eventually developed it into a visual novel with graphics by Hirokazu Koyama that shipped in April 2012, with two sequels planned.
The story is noted for being one of the few tangible connections in the loosely connected "Nasuverse," the English-speaking fan term for the shared universe and cosmology in Type-Moon's works, including Tsukihime, Fate/stay night, and The Garden of Sinners. An older Aoko Aozaki is an early mentor to Tsukihime protagonist Shiki Tohno, while an older Tōko Aozaki is an employer to Garden of Sinners protagonist Shiki Ryōgi. Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-, the remake of Type-Moon's Tsukihime dōjin visual novel game, launched in Japan for PS4 and Switch in August 2021. The game launched on PS4 and Switch in English in June 2024.
Source: Weekly Shōnen Magazine issue 49
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