They’re real! They’re really real. For the longest time, I’ve seen a few panels floating around here and there, but I’ve never heard of anyone who actually physically had the manga. I bought the first volume at Barnes & Nobel, but the other two I got from Amazon. I’ve read all three volumes and I really want to talk about it!

SPOILERS kind of.

Yeah, kind of. The manga has some of the anime episodes directly adapted. Some of them. They kind of zig-zag round a few of them. Even if an episode isn’t in the manga, they still say it happened. The episode where Akko turns into a fish isn’t here, but they show Hanna and Barbara talking about it. They have new stories in between the ones we’ve seen in the anime.





VOLUME 1

Volume 1 starts off similar to the anime with Akko getting the Shiny Rod and then ending up in Luna Nova. No big deal. The rest of the volume is mostly original stories.

Diana and Akko get into an argument and Professor Ursula tries to settle it with a game of volleyball. Then there’s a chapter about Lotte and the Shooting Star Broom. The volume ends with Akko trying to get Sucy a birthday present. That’s where we get that page of Akko wearing the maid outfit in Diana’s room.

VOLUME 2

Volume 2 goes back and forth with anime stories and original stories. The volume starts with the chapter about Fafnir stealing the Sorcerer’s Stone. There are a few differences from the anime, but the idea is more or less the same.

The next chapter is an original story about Akko getting tutored by Diana. Akko gets transformed into a mouse and gets lost in town and Diana turns into a ferret to go find her.

We get the introduction to Andrew but first, we see his friend Frank invite himself to go to Luna Nova with him. Akko and Andrew go to the Fountain of Polaris, the same as the anime.

The volume ends with a story about Amanda trying to get Akko to stop studying because she’s no fun anymore by stealing a cheat sheet to the next exam.

VOLUME 3

Volume 3 has completely original stories. First, we get one about Jasminka and then one about Constanze. They keep shortening her name to Consey, for space, I guess.

Next, there’s a chapter about Lotte showing Annabel around Luna Nova. It seems they’ve become friends after meeting in the anime.

The last half of the volume is about another witch school competing with Luna Nova in a broom race.

According to the back cover of volume 3, that’s the last one. Boo.





It seems that the manga doesn’t really care about following the plot about the seven words. Instead, it focuses on stories about the characters themselves. Most of it is comedy and slice of life. All the characters are still very much in character and the art is expressive on the comedic side. There are a few contradictions with the anime here and there, but it’s nothing major.





In the end, I’m just glad I got more Little Witch Academia. With the anime and the game, you can get the manga if you want to complete the collection or if you want a few new little stories. I liked it, and I’m happy I bought it.