Manga You Should Be Reading: ‘Witch Hat Atelier’

Last year, I really enjoyed all the writing I did in making those themed manga lists and now in the new year I want to start a new series on a single manga series (per entry) that I believe you should be reading. I aim to write about manga series that are highly acclaimed, manga series that are finally getting anime adaptations, and hopefully manga that will move you the way that they have moved me. Hopefully, this new series gives you all no holier-than-thou gatekeeping-preachy vibes and more of a friendly, introductory vibes. I also hoping this first entry, at its core, as major spoiler free, gives you reading this a good ideal of the series and why it is so loved and poured over. This is a manga series that I did not catch the very beginning of but quickly caught up and devoured it. My friends, you should be reading the brilliant Witch Hat Atelier.

Witch Hat Atelier Story and Art by: Kamome Shirahama Publisher: Kodansha Available Formats: (Print/Digital) Ongoing or Completed: Ongoing (10 volumes as of January 2023) Localization Team: Stephen Kohler (Translator), Lys Blakeslee (Letterer), Ajani Oloye (Editing) Kodansha edition cover design by Phil Balsman What is this Manga About:

Panel from Volume 1 of Witch Hat Atelier published by Kodansha

Witch Hat Atelier is the gorgeously illustrated, ongoing manga series “about a girl who longs for magic in her life and learns that, on the inside, she already is what she wishes she could be,” as the publisher puts it…