Yōsuke Kaneda's The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch Manga Gets TV Anime in 2026

Kaede Hondo, Nobunaga Shimazaki star in LIDEN FILMS anime

A website opened on Tuesday to announce the television anime adaptation of Yōsuke Kaneda's The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch (Kuroneko to Majo no Kyōshitsu) manga, which will premiere in 2026. The website also revealed the main cast, staff, and a teaser promotional video.

The anime will star:

Kaede Hondo as Spica Virgo, a witch apprentice aiming to become a first-class magicianNobunaga Shimazaki as Claude Sirius, a magician who was transformed into a cat due to a curse

Naoyuki Tatsuwa (Nisekoi - False Love, Promise of Wizard, Seitokai ni mo Ana wa Aru!) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS. Midori Gotō (Clean Freak! Aoyama kun, Mr. Villain's Day Off) is in charge of series scripts, and Takayuki Onoda (Hortensia Saga) is designing the characters.

The anime's English website describes the story:

Witch apprentice Spica Virgo can't use magic at all. To earn a place in the magic school she dreams of entering, she needs a mentor-but she has neither money nor connections. One day, a mysterious black cat who speaks and wields magic appears before her! Spica wants to master sorcery, and the black cat longs to break a curse. The pair's goals align. Thus begins their secret master-apprentice pact! And the key to breaking the curse is a kiss on the...?!

Kaneda launched the manga on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket manga app in March 2022. Kodansha will publish the manga's 12th compiled book volume on Thursday. Kodansha's K MANGA service publishes the manga in English.

Kaneda launched the Boarding School Juliet manga in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in 2015, and the series moved to Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2017. The manga ended serialization in September 2019. Kodansha shipped the 16th and final compiled book volume in Japan in November 2019. The series received a nomination in the Shōnen category of the 41st Annual Kodansha Manga Awards in 2017. Kodansha Comics released the manga digitally and in print in English.

A 12-episode television anime adaptation premiered in October 2018. Amazon Prime exclusively streamed the anime in Japan and overseas.

Sources: The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch anime's English website, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web