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— Shiny Chariot "Never forget, a believing heart is your magic."

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Little Witch Academia is an anime franchise by Studio Trigger, which spun out of a 2013 animated short film created by Yoh Yoshinari of Studio Gainax fame.

It focuses on the adventures of Atsuko "Akko" Kagari, a young and plucky Japanese witch-in-training attending the prestigious Wizarding School Luna Nova Academy, where she dreams of following in the footsteps of her idol Shiny Chariot. However, there is only one problem. She is a muggle and one that is very incompetent at magic, which combined with her rebellious, childish and impulsive nature and her idolization of Shiny Chariot, who is not well liked in the magic community, tends to constantly put her at odds with both teachers and students alike, particularly its top student, Diana Cavendish, a highly proud and insanely skilled witch prodigy who tends to look down on Akko for the aforementioned reasons.

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However, in spite of the insane odds placed against her, she isn't gonna let them stop her and with the help of her best friends and roommates, Lotte Jansson, a shy but kindhearted bookworm who can communicate with spirits and Sucy Manbavaran, a highly mischievous Deadpan Snarker who loves mushrooms and potions as well as Amanda O'Neil, a rebellious and tomboyish delinquent, Constanze Amalie von Braunschbank-Albrechtsberger, a slient student who tends to combine magic with technology, Jasminka Antonenko, a sweet girl who tends to be a Big Eater, her mentor Ursula Callistis, who unbeknownst to Akko, is actually her very idol in disguise, and finally, the Shiny Rod, a mysterious and powerful wand that her idol used in her shows and chose Akko as its wielder, Akko will stop at nothing to become the witch she dreams of becoming.

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Works in the series in release order:

Films — Animated

Little Witch Academia (2013): A short film released by Studio Trigger in 2013, featuring Akko and her friends Lotte and Sucy on an assignment to explore a dungeon while the haughty top student, Diana, inadvertently causes trouble.

Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade: A Kickstarter-funded sequel, wherein Akko and her friends — alongside three other troublemakers, Amanda, Costanze, and Jasminka — are appointed to oversee the school's annual witch parade, only for problems to ensue due to Akko's highly ambitious ideas and Control Freak tendencies.

Anime & Manga

Terio Teri's five-episode manga, ran on Ultra Jump from 2013 to 2015.

Little Witch Academia: The Midnight Crown, written by Yuka Fujiwara and ran on Ribbon through 2015.

Keisuke Satō's manga, ran on Monthly Shōnen Ace from 2017 to 2018.

Little Witch Academia (2017): A full-length anime series that serves as a Continuity Reboot for the franchise, again following the hapless Akko and her friends' hijinks at Luna Nova. Despite her troubles in her classes, Akko finds that she can use Shiny Chariot's old wand with surprising aptitude, and may eventually have to use it to combat the global decline of magic. The series was announced in 2016 and ran from January to June 2017.

Little Witch Academia: The Nonsensical Witch and the Country of the Fairies, a light novel by Momo Tachibana.

Video Games

Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time: An action RPG for PlayStation 4 and PC announced in May 2017. The game was developed by A+ Games, published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, and was released in Japan on November 30, 2017, and May 15, 2018, in Western countries.

Little Witch Academia: VR Broom Racing: A VR game by Univrs, slated for release on October 13, 2020 on the Oculus Quest and early 2021 on the PlayStation VR, the Occlus Rift and Steam VR.

If a direct link leads you here and it points to the 2013 and 2015 films or the 2017 series, please correct it to the proper page.

For two older anime series with similar premise and themes, see Soul Eater and Tweeny Witches. Many fans compared the show with Harry Potter due to Small Reference Pools, but the show has much more in common with the older The Worst Witch. Not to be confused with The Little Witch, a book by Otfried Preußler. It has no relation to My Hero Academia besides being set in specialized schools (hence the "Academia" in the titles).

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The franchise in general

Teri Terio's manga

The Midnight Crown

Keisuke Satō's manga