Should you’ve already fallen underneath the spell of Witch Hat Atelier, Crunchyroll has a brand new approach to keep immersed within the sequence between episodes.
The anime streamer has launched Witch Chat: The Witch Hat Atelier Companion Podcast, a brand new watchalong-style sequence underneath its Anime Impact podcast slate. The present is designed to information viewers by means of the anime adaptation of Kamome Shirahama’s beloved manga, and the primary three episodes can be found now on Spotify and YouTube.
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Hosted by anime cosplayer and content material creator Lena Lemon and Crunchyroll persona Tim Lyu, followers can count on episodic recaps and a good deeper dive into the magical world of Coco, Qifrey, Agott, Tetia, and Richeh. Or possibly you actually wish to be sure to’re announcing phrases like Atelier, Qifrey, and Richeh appropriately (as a result of…similar).
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For a present like Witch Hat Atelier, which is already filled with intricate lore, mysterious Brimmed Caps, and sufficient storybook magnificence to encourage limitless TikTok edits, a companion podcast seems like a pure match. The primary episode of the anime premiered on April 6, and the podcast provides followers one other place to theorize about Coco’s future, Qifrey’s secrets and techniques, and no matter unsettling factor the Brimmed Caps are planning subsequent.
It’s also a reminder of how a lot anime fandom now lives on-line. In response to Crunchyroll, 82 % of anime followers talk about anime on social media, with TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube serving as main discovery instruments for viewers. In any case, it solely takes one devastating edit to vary the course of somebody’s life, or dictate what they watch subsequent.
And if any new present feels constructed for that form of fandom ecosystem — the cosplay, the fan artwork, the ship discourse, the aesthetic moodboards, the painstaking manga-to-anime comparisons — it is positively Witch Hat Atelier. Judging by the net discourse to this point, the Qifrey obsession has already begun.
