Little Witch Academia



Little Witch Academia is a Japanese anime franchise created by Yoh Yoshinari and produced by Studio Trigger (Kill la Kill). The original short film, directed by Yoshinari and written by Masahiko Otsuka, was released in theaters on March 2, 2013 as part of the Young Animator Training Project's Anime Mirai 2013 project, and was later streamed with English subtitles on YouTube from April 19, 2013. A second short film partially funded through Kickstarter, Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade, was released on October 9, 2015. An anime television series aired in Japan between January and June 2017, with its first 13 episodes available on Netflix worldwide beginning on June 30, 2017. The next 12 episodes were released worldwide on August 15, 2017. Two manga series have been published by Shueisha.

Entires in the Little Witch Academia franchise have a rather interesting naming scheme, in the sense that a lot of entries are simply possess the title of, well, Little Witch Academia. You can't just say Little Witch Academia and have your audience know what you're referring to, no. If you say "Little Witch Academia anime", you can refer to both the 2013 film or the 2017 series. Also, please don't just say "Little Witch Academia" because that adds two manga series to the sea of confusion. Oh, the term Little Witch Academia can also refer to the franchise as a whole. It also doesn't help that all entries titled Little Witch Academia puts Akko right back at the very start of the story, meeting the same characters again, and attending the same school. Once they get going though, they tend to be different from each other. Fortunately, most fans tend to think of the series when Little Witch Academia is mentioned.


 * Academy of Adventure: Luna Nova, the Wizarding School which provides many an adventure for characters in the series and two films. For example, it provides dungeons to explore, and mystical magic towers. Its professors are exotic and strange, and there are many out of bounds areas that Akko and her friends go into (because there's no stopping her).
 * Action Girl: Just about every witch is one to some degree. Shiny Chariot is the most famed contemporary one in the story.
 * Adorkable: Pretty much every main character has something they'll go full-geek-out about. Akko has Shiny Chariot (she even has a Shiny Chariot trading cards collection), Lotte has the Night Fall book series which is a popular book series in their world, and Sucy has mushrooms and poison. Akko and Sucy's traits are also present in the two short films, although the Night Fall series was never introduced until the 2017 television series.
 * Aerith and Bob: The students from all franchise instalments are from different countries. Thus, we have names like "Atsuko Kagari" hanging out with "Diana Cavendish" next to "Lotte Jansson" and "Constanze Braunschbank-Albrechtsberger", all while their teacher "Ursula Callistis" is watching.
 * All of the Other Reindeer: Akko is the first person admitted to the academy that doesn't come from a family of witches. Many of the other students and even faculty kind of look down on her because of this.
 * Badass Adorable: Some of the feats the witches accomplish is quite impressive. Student and professionals alike.
 * The Beautiful Elite Andrew, Diana, and their friends are considered this.
 * Brought Down to Normal:.
 * Calling Your Attacks: The way they cast spells involves using magic words, so it technically counts.
 * Cute Witch: Plenty of the students attending the academy are this.
 * Ethnic Magician: There are rules/laws and even government policies concerning how witches handle themselves and magic: Committing fraud, murder, and reviving the dead are the three biggest no-nos for witches.
 * Everything's Better with Sparkles Magic tends to appear very sparkly in this series. It works though, because it gives everything a glowing and energetic feeling to it. We have names such as "Shiny Rod" and "Shiny Chariot". Even the soundtrack knows this with the Anime Theme Song "Shiny Ray".
 * Extraordinarily Empowered Girl Shiny Chariot, obviously. Diana is renowned for being the most promising up-and-coming witch in years..
 * Fairytale Magic Dresses In one of the episodes, Akko, Lotte, and Sucy try to buy magical dresses, and end up with a special magical item that.
 * Fantastic Racism While it's not a specifically racial thing, the non-magic populous tends to see those who study and use magic as either irrelevant/outdated or something weird and bizarre. At the same time, there are many witches who feel that magic should only be used in specific ways adhering to long-kept traditions, and any using it otherwise is seen as disgraceful or improper.
 * Familiar: Lots of witches have them. Birds seem to be the most common type.
 * Flying Broomstick: The word "Witch" is in the title, of course they'd have these show up. Pretty much any witch can use a broom easily, except for Akko. There's even a.
 * Fish People.
 * Henchmen Race The witches have fairies and (seemingly) other species that resemble goblins and trolls working for them at the school.
 * Hot Witch: They can't... or rather... (thankfully) they aren't all ugly, wart covered, stereotypical, sickly-looking ladies. Some of them are actually quite the lookers.
 * Idiot Hero The main cast are students. Of course they're kind of clumsy and still learning the ropes of magic, especially Akko.
 * Inept Mage:, thus more witches are being born inept.
 * Invisible Parents: Most students studying at Luna Nova don't have on screen parents, or any family for that matter. Occasionally, some parents will appear in the series, like how Diana's family plays a role in the "Cavendish" episode (even then, it's her family that advances the story, not her parents). Lotte's parents appear in an episode, when the red trio are visiting them. Parents of characters like Amanda, Akko, and Sucy are never shown.
 * Kick the Dog: A lot of Akko's peers and even a bunch of her professors are pretty harsh towards her. Then again, she does have a habit of breaking school rules quite a bit.
 * Magical Incantation The spells function as this, obviously..
 * Mage Tower: The Sorcerer's Stone sits atop a giant tower on the campus.
 * Magical Library: It's not much, but they have one. Their magic museum is by and large better though, because they keep.
 * Magical Society: It's not like witches and non-magic people live in totally separate social worlds like in Harry Potter, but culturally, magic is looked down upon as obsolete.
 * Magic Staff: Both meanings of the word. The staff of the academy are all magical witches (obviously), and there are those who use staffs, but mostly wands to do magic. The Shiny Rod itself could count as this for Akko since it's around half her height and those far bigger than any other wand shown.
 * Magic Wand: Witches seem to need wands to perform most magic. One of the most iconic wands is of course the "Shiny Rod", which was Chariot's.
 * Magical Girl: The show is about w-i-t-c-h-e-s!
 * Magical Girl Queenliness Test The Fountain of Polaris, and.
 * MacGuffin: The Shiny Rod, the Sorcerer's Stone, and magic itself.
 * Necromancy: Reviving the dead is one of the, if not the biggest crimes a witch can commit..
 * Outdated Outfit: The robes the witches wear for their supposed "sacred witch dances". Think of the plainest, most unappealing, and just overall boring black cloak someone can wear..
 * Plea Bargain:.
 * Power Crystal: The Sorcerer's Stone.
 * Power Gives You Wings:.
 * Reason You Suck Speech: Akko ends up on the receiving end of these a lot. From some of her professors and peers for her not being from a family line of witches, from her peers for always going on about how she admires Shiny Chariot and ideally wants to be like her, and by plenty of other people just for studying magic in the first place..
 * Robe and Witch's Hat: They have standard uniforms for everyday class, but they also have special uniforms which include the robes and witch hats for special occasions. The teachers and adult witches generally wear this sort of clothes more often than not..
 * Sharp-Dressed Man Andrew is always seen in a proper suit.
 * Shout-Out: There's a few sprinkled in. The Harry Potter series, the Twilight Series, Sailor Moon, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Kill la Kill, and even the Fate/stay night Series.
 * Episode 18 features a ridiculous, over the top mecha. What else features a ridiculous, over the top mecha, made by the predecessors to Little Witch Academia's production studio? Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
 * The Chosen One:.
 * Vain Sorceress: Diana and a lot of the other witches at the academy come off as this when they look down upon or flat out bully Akko.
 * Walking Spoiler:.
 * White Magician Girl Again, Shiny Chariot. However, in the.
 * Wicked Witch: Some fit the description of this based solely on their appearance, others it's by their actions, but not all witches are evil.
 * Witch Doctor: Using magic for medical purposes is a genuine and legitimate profession in their world.
 * Witch Classic: There are a few that fit the stereotypical image of a witch, and honestly that's part of the problem, because them trying to force their students to practice magic using old/outdated traditions without any regard to modern culture has led to a huge decline in how they stand in society.
 * Wizarding School: A school for witches to train. It's the title of the series.