Sunday, October 19, 2025

‘Witch Hat Atelier’ Wins Best Manga at Harvey Awards 2025

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The Harvey Award winners were announced at New York Comic Con 2025, and Witch Hat Atelier from Kamome Shirahama took home the gold for Best Manga!

In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch…until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem…

The manga began serialization in 2016 and is still ongoing. You can read the series in print, virtually, or on Kodansha’s manga app, K-Manga. The art, story, and characters are all deserving of this award; it truly is a feat of storytelling.

The manga is getting an anime adaptation. The series will release in 2026. Crunchyroll also revealed a new visual for the anime featuring the protagonist, Coco, and her teacher, Qifrey, during the convention.

Kodansha/Kamome Shirahama/BUG Films

Stay tuned for more news on Witch Hat Atelier‘s upcoming anime release!

Kaity
Kaity
Kaity started with Harry Potter in second grade and it’s been a losing battle ever since, or maybe a winning one ... She lives in New England with a small herd of cats, two dogs, three chinchillas, and one daughter. You can definitely find her either watching anime, reading manga, or playing the same five video games over and over again. Contact: kaity@nerdsandbeyond.com

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