Winter anime "Little Witch Academia" reveals latest key visual and broadcast station information!　Theme song artists are YURiKA and YUIKO OOHARA!

The latest information including the latest visuals from the TV anime "Little Witch Academia," which will start in January 2017, has been announced.

Little Witch Academia" is an original short animation produced by TRIGGER and directed by Yoh Yoshinari, which was released in 2013 as part of "Anime Mirai 2013," a project by the Agency for Cultural Affairs to foster young animators. In 2015, "Little Witch Academia: Magic Parade" was released and has been highly acclaimed by anime fans around the world. In the long-awaited new TV anime series, the story begins anew with the main character Akko's arrival at the prestigious witch training school "Luna Nova School of Magic" where the story takes place.
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The latest visual depicting her friends Lotte and Susie, and honor student Diana, as well as information on the broadcasting stations have been announced. Broadcasting will begin on January 8 on TOKYO MX/BS11/Kansai Television Broadcasting (KTV).

The theme song information was also announced. The opening theme song "Shiny Ray" will be sung by YURiKA, a singer selected in the "1st TOHO animation RECORDS Next Generation Artist Audition," who will make her major debut with the CD to be released in February 2017. The ending theme "Hoshi wo Trace" will be sung by YUIKO Ohara, who made her major debut with the ending theme of "Little Witch Academia: Magic Trick Parade.
Both CDs will be released on February 22, 2017, priced at 1,600 yen + tax each for the anime disc/artist disc and 1,200 yen + tax each for the standard disc.

The latest PV featuring both songs is now available on the renewed official TV anime website ( # ), so be sure to check it out as well. Here are comments from YURiKA and YUIKO OOHARA.

Comments from YURiKA and YUIKO OOHARA
YURiKA
My first impression when I heard "Shiny Ray" was that I felt from the whole song that I should keep moving forward without giving up, so I sang the lyrics thinking that they would be suitable for me as I am about to make my debut. Except for the chorus, the A melody and B melody are all different from each other, so I hope you can hear the whole flow of the song as if it were a story. The chorus part of the song is about the image of all the characters flying on broomsticks, and I think it is a very energetic song that fits the image of the characters who are struggling day by day to become witches. I also thought to myself, "I want to fly on a broomstick with them!" I hope everyone will listen to the song!

Yuko Ohara
I read the script of the TV anime "Little Witch Academia" over and over again, and was moved to tears many times (laughs). The lyrics, in particular, were written after much worry and agonizing. I carefully chose the words to the song based on Akko's dream of the future. Since it is the ending song, I wanted the song to make people feel good about the next day, to make them think at the end of the day, "Okay, let's do our best again tomorrow! We chose a song that would make you feel good about the next day and at the end of the day, you would think, "Okay, let's do it again tomorrow! I hope many people will listen to this song, which was arranged so beautifully.