Yes, they really made a Little Witch Academia light novel. Yes, it’s in English. Yes, you can buy it on Amazon. But for some reason, I’m the only one who buys things like this. I’m looking at you, svtfoe comics. I found out about it after buying the LWA manga and just got it in the mail today. I’ve read it over and just thought I’d give a quick review.

Little Witch Academia: The Nonsensical Witch and the Country of the Fairies

(A little mean, but okay.)

The Story

The story takes place sometime in the first half of the anime. No Croix. Akko doesn’t know Ursula is Chariot. So there’s that.

The first-year Luna Nova students go on a field trip to Doras Hill, said to be the entrance to the Country of the Fairies. It’s a yearly tradition where the first-year students get a blessing if they stand in the moonlight of the hill. This is part of an agreement between Luna Nova and the hill’s guardian, Sifla.

Every generation of this witch family inherits the name and the duty as the hill’s guardian, but this time Sifla is a shy six-year-old. She won’t renew the agreement with Luna Nova until her cat and dog are brought back home. Akko agrees to do it except they might have gone to the Country of the Fairies. It is said that the fairies are hostile and no one is allowed to enter without permission from The King of The Fairies.

So, of course, Akko goes.

The Narrative

It’s written in first-person, so the story is from Akko’s perspective. The entire story (with the exception of the first chapter) takes place over one night, so it’s one of those ‘it’s canon if you want it to be’ stories. If it’s canon, great. If not, that’s cool too. Everyone is in character and it plays out like an LWA story would. The usual suspects all get involved: Akko, Lotte, Sucy, Amanda, Constanze, Jasminka, even Diana gets in on the action a bit.

My Physical Copy

The book itself is nice. The cover is pretty, though I’m not sure why they picked a lime green border. Right before the table of contents is a character introduction page that has drawings of each other characters including light novel-only characters, Sifla, Feoras, and Alan. The illustrations throughout the book are cute and closely match the show. They only take up a quarter or half a page. The thing that does kind of confuse me is that while’s Akko’s inner monologue is italicized, I guess they decided to bold the “important stuff” like we wouldn’t figure it out or something. It’s not too bad. It’s just something I’m not used to.





It does build to the world of LWA and doesn’t rely too much on callbacks from the show.

Overall

It was a nice little adventure. It took me two hours to read the whole thing, but that’s because I decided to read the first half out loud. With the game and the manga, this is a nice little addition to my collection.

