Witch Hat Atelier Director Unpacks His Biggest Worry About the Anime
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Ayumu Watanabe has played a major role in the anime industry for some time. To date, the anime director has had major roles in the likes of Komi Can’t Communicate, Great Pretender, Doraemon, Ace Attorney, and many more. While Watanabe has been an experienced creator in the medium, Ayumu is taking on a hefty new challenge with the upcoming anime adaptation of Witch Hat Atelier. Finding serious success with its manga long before the anime adaptation was confirmed, we here at ComicBook recently had the opportunity to chat with the anime director regarding what he is most nervous about when it comes to animating Coco’s story.
At this year’s Anime Expo, we talked with Watanabe about the upcoming anime adaptation and what made both the director and the team nervous about the major 2025 release, “No flattery or lies here – everyone on the production team, all of the staff, are huge fans of Witch Hat Atelier. On the one hand, of course, having a team that really likes the franchise is great and reliable for the director. But because they love it too much, a lot of the scenes are taking longer than I would like to complete… I’m quite happy, but still, the schedule has started to concern me a little bit.”
Witch Hat Atelier’s won’t just be brought to life by Ayumu Watanabe, but by the production house known as Bug Films. The studio might be best know for their work on the likes of Zom 100: Bucket List of The Dead, Mononoke, and The Ancient Magus’ Bride.
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