The word on the street is that the upcoming Once Upon a Witch’s Death: The Tale of the One Thousand Tears of Joy anime series, which is currently scheduled for a 2025 broadcast, today released a second ‘situation visual’ featuring Meg and her best friend roaming the streets of Lapis, while also announcing the casting of Rumi Okubo (Annette in No Longer Allowed in Another World) as Fine Cavendish.
Situation Visual 2
Fine
Based on the light novels by Saka and Chorefuji, Atsushi Nigorikawa (Beast Tamer) directs Once Upon a Witch’s Death: The Tale of the One Thousand Tears of Joy at studio EMT Squared, with series composition by Keiichiro Ochi (The Quintessential Quintuplets) and character designs by Yukishizuku (Aterlier Ryza chief animation director).
Yen Press publishes an official English version of the light novel series and describes the story:
On Meg’s seventeenth birthday, she learns that she only has one year left to live. Her mentor—the Eternal Witch, Faust—explains that she is cursed and the only way to save herself is to grow a seed of life using one thousand tears of joy. Of course, such tears aren’t easy to come by. As Meg begins her quest, she finds herself drawn into the lives of her friends and neighbors in ways she never imagined. By sharing their burdens and using her magic to comfort them, she learns how precious those moments of connection can be even in the face of death.
Source: Press Release
