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Anime Like Witch Hat Atelier

Coco is the daughter of a seamstress and is captivated by the wonderful, awe-inspiring, secretive world of witches and magic. Unfortunately, magic is strictly guarded and kept away from non-witches like Coco.

One day, when a witch named Qifrey comes to her town, she manages to catch a glimpse of him casting magic. When another mysterious witch offers her a way to cast magic, it comes with a tragic price for Coco.

To save her memories and the secrets now within them, Qifrey spirits Coco away to take her on as an apprentice, but the secrets of magic are a heavy burden.

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Anime Like Witch Hat Atelier

For Fans of Witches

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Little Witch Academia

Although Atsuko is an ordinary girl, she became enamored by witches and magic by a magic show she saw as a kid hosted by a witch named Shiny Chariot.

Now, she has aspires to be a witch, taking the first step by joining a renowned academy for witches called Luna Nova Academy.

Although she faces hardship as a first generation witch and fan of Shiny Chariot, whom many consider a fraud, she and her two friends do their best each new day.

Similarities Between Witch Hat Atelier and Little Witch Academia

  • Girl wants to be a witch, isn’t a witch, becomes a witch student anyway
  • Learning magic is slow going for non-magic folk
  • Innocent female friendships
  • Surprisingly dark intrigue bubbling up under the surface

Differences Between Witch Hat Atelier and Little Witch Academia

  • Little Witch Academia is more energetic in all ways—with its characters, its silliness, and its action.
  • Little Witch Academia features profoundly few men
  • Little Witch Academia takes place at a school for witches, and magic isn’t as strictly controlled
  • Little Witch Academia doesn’t have a very hard magic system.
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Secrets of the Silent Witch

Monica Everett is a young witch who was the first to perfect the use of chantless magic. She joins the prestigious order known as the Seven Sages, heroes capable of defeating dragons all on their own. However, few know the real reason Monica perfected chantless magic—it’s because she’s shy!

Hoping to get her to work on her social skills, a fellow sage tasks Monica with infiltrating Serendia Academy to protect the second prince, Felix Arc Ridill, from attempts on his life.

Similarities Between Witch Hat Atelier and Secrets of the Silent Witch

  • Soft-spoken, likable girl is (or is becoming) a witch
  • Protagonist learning confidence in herself and her skills
  • Hard-ish magic system with rules that is also sparingly used, but beautifully animated.
  • Intrigue building under the story

Differences Between Witch Hat Atelier and Secrets of the Silent Witch

  • Silent Witch follows a powerful witch with social anxiety where she is forced to attend school to secretly guard a prince. So she is not a novice
  • The intrigue in Silent Witch is pretty standard “someone is trying to murder this prince” stuff.
  • Silent Witch does have some romance to it
  • Magic is very sparse in Silent Witch, and always fairly grand when used. Though it is also not as secretive.
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Wandering Witch – The Journey of Elaina

Ever since she was a child, Elaina has been enamored by the stories in her favorite book. It tells the tale of Nike, a famous witch who enjoyed many great adventures around the world.

After becoming a fully-fledged witch herself, she departs, becoming entangled in a number of stories of those she meets around the world.

Similarities Between Witch Hat Atelier and Wandering Witch

  • A girl falls in love with witches/magic as a child, ends up becoming one
  • Whimsical magical world with surprisingly dark stories going on at times
  • Female friendships
  • Magic is controlled and limited to specific people
  • Diverse array of small magical stories/situations

Differences Between Witch Hat Atelier and Wandering Witch

  • Wandering Witch shows the girl as a child wanting to become a witch, then skips ahead to the future where she is one. No training shown.
  • The magic in Wandering Witch is a soft magic system where magic is just magic
  • While witches are a special social class, they don’t appear all that secretive about magic in the Wandering Witch, even when some magic folk are doing some kind of morally messed up things.
  • Wandering Witch follows a young witch on her travels
  • The main character in Wandering Witch has personality flaws that can make her harder to immediately like.
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Once Upon a Witch’s Death

Raised by the Eternal Witch Faust, Meg Raspberry has dreamed of becoming a witch as great as her master. However, that dream crumbles when Faust tells her on her 17th birthday that she has one year left to live due to a congenial curse that will age her at a rapid rate when she turns 18.

Not all hope is lost, however. Faust tell her that she can break the curse by consuming the Seed of Life, but in order to do so, she must collect a thousand tears of joy in just a year in order to craft it.

Similarities Between Witch Hat Atelier and Once Upon a Witch’s Death

  • Detailed magical fantasy world that is distinctly European flavored.
  • Young witch is an apprentice to an older one
  • Apprentice witch trials
  • Main character makes friends with other apprentices and those about town
  • Diverse array of stories, sometimes quite dark ones
  • Emotionally driven stories

Differences Between Witch Hat Atelier and Once Upon a Witch’s Death

  • Once Upon a Witch’s Death is about an apprentice learning she is going to die in a year if she doesn’t go collect some emotions from people
  • Once Upon a Witch’s Death has her mostly sticking to one town and just talking with a bunch of others
  • Once Upon a Witch’s Death main character is more of a spaz and not quite as innocent.
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Champignon Witch

The Champignon Witch, the black witch of poison, Luna has lived alone in her cottage on the outskirts of a kingdom for as long as the people can remember. While her occasional trips into town bring precious medicine, everyone is too afraid to approach Luna or the poisonous mushrooms she leaves behind in her wake.

One day, Luna happens across a dying boy that she saves. He has no memories and Luna gives him the name Lize. Unfortunately, the other black witches soon deem that the boy is destined to become The End of All Things, but Luna believes that as his teacher she can steer him away. After some debate, the other black witches agree to let her try—though not without some trials.

Similarities Between Witch Hat Atelier and Champignon Witch

  • Detailed magical fantasy world that is distinctly European flavored.
  • A witch takes an apprentice who holds a dark secret/power
  • Magical slice of life at the witch’s rural house
  • Emotional stories, sometimes with dark implications
  • Magic is dangerous and controlled, witches are secretive and live away from normal folk.

Differences Between Witch Hat Atelier and Champignon Witch

  • Champignon Witch is the more light-hearted, cheerful story. It’s slice of life is also a bit sillier as well.
  • Champignon Witch has a romance element between master and apprentice (and master and someone else)
  • Champignon Witch has a soft magic system

For Fans of Dense (Non-Isekai) Fantasy Worlds

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The Ancient Magus’ Bride

After being abandoned by her family, Chise Hatori is a 16-year-old teenager without hope.

In order to not have to worry about herself, she sells herself to slavers, only to be purchased by Magus Elias Ainsworth.

There, she is told she will become his apprentice and, in the future, his bride. Together, they work to build a relationship and work to control her own magus powers that will eventually result in her early death.

Similarities Between Witch Hat Atelier and The Ancient Magus’ Bride

  • Girl is orphaned and taken in by a very powerful mage to become his student
  • Low confidence main character
  • Learning magic is a slow burn
  • Detailed magical fantasy world that is distinctly European flavored.
  • You explore the magical world with the main character as they get involved in various story arcs
  • Dark storylines

Differences Between Witch Hat Atelier and The Ancient Magus’ Bride

  • The Ancient Magus’ Bride is more of a “the magic world exists in parallel to our world” sort of affair and deals occasionally with folklore aspects from our world.
  • The Ancient Magus’ Bride is a soft magic system and is often more about dangerous creatures than dangerous magic.
  • The Ancient Magus’ Bride does have a romantic element to it between master and student, but it has a fairly small focus.
  • The heroine in The Ancient Magus’ Bride, as she sold herself into slavery, has a bit of a self-esteem issue for a chunk of the series.
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Frieren – Beyond Journey’s End

After the Demon King’s defeat, the victorious hero’s party returns home. After disbanding, the elven mage Frieren continues journeying to indulge her hobby of collecting spells. However, being a long-living elf, fifty years pass in the blink of an eye for her. Now, she finds her old companions and friends slowly passing away from age one by one.

Before his death, Heiter the cleric manages to foist his young ward, Fern, onto Frieren as her apprentice mage. Together, they travel to collect spells, but after visiting many locations that Frieren had once visited with the hero’s party, she begins to ponder the missed opportunity to form deeper bonds with her now-dead comrades and cherish the new opportunities she has with her current ones.

Similarities Between Witch Hat Atelier and Frieren

  • Detailed magical fantasy world that is distinctly European flavored.
  • A young mage joins their master as they hone their magic
  • Diverse array of magical/fantasy stories
  • You explore the magical world with the main character as they get involved in various story arcs
  • Dark storylines

Differences Between Witch Hat Atelier and Frieren

  • Frieren follows a long-lived elven mage as the master and a human girl as her student on a journey.
  • Frieren is less about mages and more about the journey and the adventures within
  • There are hints of romance in Frieren.
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Delicious in Dungeon

After the Golden Kingdom was sunk a thousand years ago by a magician, the king emerged from the depths and said that anyone who can defeat the mage will get his treasure. The king crumbled to dust and adventurers raced into an expansive underground labyrinth to prob its dangerous depths.

Laios is the leader of one such adventuring party. However, when their battle with a red dragon goes awry, his sister Falin is eaten when sacrificing herself to transport them out.

With no money to buy supplies in order to go rescue his sister, Laios and his two remaining companions, Chilchuck the thief and Marcille the healer, decide to eat the monsters they defeat in order to save money on food and get to Falin before she is digested.

With eating monsters considered a bit taboo not to mention gross, they struggle to prepare them correctly since there is little knowledge on how to do so. However, they stumble across a dwarf named Senshi who has a passion for cooking monster ingredients and just so happens to have always wanted to try eating a red dragon.

Similarities Between Witch Hat Atelier and Delicious in Dungeon

  • Detailed magical fantasy world that is distinctly European flavored.
  • Dark storylines
  • You explore the magical world with the main character as they get involved in various story arcs
  • Asexual fantasy with friendships rather than romance, but invites tons of shippers

Differences Between Witch Hat Atelier and Delicious in Dungeon

  • Delicious in Dungeon has a mage, but it is more focused on the adventuring party as a whole than mages and magic.
  • Delicious in Dungeon is more of a food-focused adventure/journey. Witch Hat Atelier mostly has then staying put and learning.
  • The detail in Delicious in Dungeon comes from observing and eating the natural world.
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Land of the Lustrous

In this world, Gems inhabit the ruins of a world.

Taking on certain characteristics, gems are assigned roles depending on their hardness. The hardest among them fight the Lunarians, aliens that seek to shatter them to decorate their own bodies.

Phosphophyllite, or Phos, is young and fragile, but wants desperately to help the war effort of her fellow gems.

Similarities Between Witch Hat Atelier and Land of the Lustrous

  • Detailed magical fantasy world
  • Young character wants to be something she is not, becomes that anyway.
  • Main character struggles to fit into her role and earns the admiration of others
  • Surprisingly dark story
  • Unraveling the secrets of the world with the main character

Differences Between Witch Hat Atelier and Land of the Lustrous

  • The characters are made out of gems and various minerals in Land of the Lustrous, and are under attack from aliens that want to shatter them and use them to decorate their bodies.
  • Land of the Lustrous has a more melancholy, bleaker story featuring a main character who grows less innocent over time
  • The world in Land of the Lustrous is a bit more dead and post-apocalypse feeling.
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Ranking of Kings

In this world, kings are ranked based on their power, skill, and how they treat their subjects.

Bojji is the first son and heir of powerful 7th ranking king, Bosse. However, while Bojji is good-natured, he is often mocked as a fool because he is cannot speak and they believe him to be deaf.

While not physically strong either, Bojji has a strength of heart that earns the affection and loyalty of many he crosses paths with, including his most recent friend, a jaded shadow creature who swears to always have Bojji’s back as he tries to become the best future king he can be.

Similarities Between Witch Hat Atelier and Ranking of Kings

  • Detailed magical fantasy world that is distinctly European flavored.
  • Innocent main character, dark story
  • Main character wants to be a thing, lacks the innate ability, tries anyway

Differences Between Witch Hat Atelier and Ranking of Kings

  • Ranking of Kings is more fairy tale inspired, which makes its dark subversions hit even harder
  • Ranking of Kings follows the weak son of a king trying to become stronger. It has magical elements, but no true mages
  • Ranking of Kings has a stronger linear story

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