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Akagami no Shirayuki-hime

Also known as Snow White with the Red Hair.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Shirayuki is famous for her naturally bright-red hair, and the prince of Tanbarun wants her all to himself! But when she escapes into the woods of the neighboring kingdom, a young man named Zen and his two friends come to her aid. But who is Zen really…?



Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Hachigatsu no Shikisai (Four-season Color of August)
Volume 2: Bokura wo Tsunaide. (Bind Us.)
Volume 13: Shizuku no Saki ni (Beyond the Drops)
Volume 14: Natsuyasumi 00-Nichime (00 Day of Summer Holiday)

Tags: Shoujo , Heterosexual , Medicine , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Politics , Royal Affairs , Historical , Swordplay , Love Triangle , Unrequited Love , Assassins , Bisexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Fairy Tale , Twins , Matriarchy , Found Family

Champignon no Majo

Also known as Champignon Witch.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

Deep within the depths of a murky forest resides a quite peculiar dark witch. Dwelling in an abode created by poisonous mushrooms, leaving toxic fungi in her wake and even exhaling noxious spores with every breath she takes, Luna lives a rather solitary existence. Believing her future would continue in the same vein for the rest of eternity, she is shocked to her core by a sudden dreamlike encounter…

Tags: Witch , Female Protagonist , Medieval , Shoujo , Medicine , LGBTQ+ Themes , Magic , Rural , Heterosexual , Boys' Love

Tongari Boushi no Atelier

Also known as Witch Hat Atelier.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: she wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch … until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem...



Notes:
Nominated for the 11th Manga Taishou Award in 2018.
Won the Daruma d'Or at Japan Expo in 2019.
Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia at the Eisner Awards in 2020.
Won the Best Manga Award at the Harvey Awards in 2020.

Tags: Witch , Magic , Found Family , Female Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Drawing , Coming of Age , Teacher , Ensemble Cast , Revenge , School , Medieval , Tragedy , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Conspiracy , Politics , Disability , Seinen , Philosophy , Body Horror , LGBTQ+ Themes , Rehabilitation , Travel , Amnesia , Foreign , Environmental , Iyashikei , Spearplay , Dragons , Twins

Mahoutsukai no Yome

Also known as The Ancient Magus' Bride.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Hatori Chise has lived most of her short 15-year life full of neglect and abuse, and devoid of love. With no familial warmth, she's had more than her share of troubles and pitfalls. Just when it seems like life can't get any worse, she's now being sold at a slave auction! When a cloaked man, with the head of a beast' skull and wielding strange powers, purchases her, Chise’s life will never be the same again.

The man is a a sorcerer of great power, a kindly magus who frees Chise and then makes a bold statement: Chise will become his apprentice–and his bride!



Note: Nominated for the 8th Manga Taisho Award.

Tags: Magic , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Foreign , Mythology , Rural , Age Gap , Monster Boy , Shounen , Heterosexual , Urban Fantasy , Travel , Fairy , Primarily Adult Cast , School , Dragons , Werewolf , Shapeshifting , Interspecies

Daidaiboshi

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy

Long, long ago four witches of great power were sealed away in a mysterious kingdom ruled by a mysterious king. To this day the legends say that the one who finds their graves will have their wish granted – however impossible that wish may be. Daidai, a girl who escaped from the king’s treasury, believes in those legends and starts her journey through the magic kingdom, accompanied by Matsuba, a small boy-robot who loves her. What really is their destination? And what wish shall the graves of the four witches grant the unlikely companions?

Tags: Josei , Witch

Yousei no Okyaku-sama

Also known as The Dressmaker and the Fairy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Slice of Life

A mysterious fairy suddenly appears before Kyouko Fujino, who runs a dressmaking business.

And so begins a heartwarming exchange between human and fairy as they explore a world of beautiful clothes.



Tags: Seinen , Fashion , Iyashikei , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Fairy , Work

Aru Majo ga Shinu Made: Owari no Kotoba to Hajimari no Namida

Also known as Once Upon a Witch's Death: The Tale of the One Thousand Tears of Joy.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

On her seventeenth birthday, the apprentice witch Meg learns that she only has one year left to live. Her teacher, the long-lived witch Faust, explains that the only way to undo the death curse is to collect tears of joy and grow the seed of life. To find them, Meg will have to leave the sheltered life she's always known and head out into the world. There will be meetings, partings, and friendships aplenty, and of course many tears. Meg will learn that the most important lessons for a witch are bright, sweet, and somewhat heart-wrenching.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Witch , Magic , Curses

Tongari Boushi no Kitchen

Also known as Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Fantasy , Slice of Life

Evening falls on Qifrey’s atelier, and Coco and her fellow witches-in-training take to their beds. In the quiet of midnight, Qifrey and Olruggio are finally free to pursue their culinary experiments. The kitchen comes alive as they whip up puddings, stews, parfaits, and jellies, and when the sun rises, Coco and the gang are there to savor every bite!

Includes a variety of real sweet and savory recipes with step-by-step instructions.



Tags: Food , Iyashikei , Teacher , Foreign , Medieval , Witch , Male Protagonist , Family Life , Magic , Seinen , Educational

Majo to Neko no Hanashi

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Slice of Life

When witches turn thirteen, they summon a guardian "cat" who stays with them and supports them their entire life. This is a story of witches and cats, a story of four friends at magic school -- Suzu, Kei, Mary, and Nina -- who all learn something about life as they turn thirteen and meet their cats.

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Animals , Magic , Witch , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Josei , Iyashikei , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , School

Shiosai no Majo

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Would you like to try 'eating' your worries?

From all times and places, many guests visit one at a time. A lone witch on a lone island cooks each customer's 'worries.'

Tags: Josei , Magic , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Food , Animals , Fairy Tale , Restaurant , Philosophy , Coastal , Primarily Adult Cast , Aviation , Reincarnation