Production company Pony Canyon opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Tomoko Yamashita's Ikoku Nikki (Journal with Witch) manga on Friday, revealing the main staff, a teaser visual (pictured) and teaser promotional video.

Staff
Director: Miyuki Ooshiro (Durarara!!x2 Shou assistant director)
Series Composition, Script: Kouhei Kiyasu (Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru)
Character Design: Kenji Hayama (Kuragehime)
Music: Kensuke Ushio (Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu)
Studio: Shuka

Yamashita (Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru) began drawing the drama manga in Feel Young magazine from June 2017 to June 2023. Shodensha shipped the 11th and final volume in August 2023. The manga has a cumulative 1.7 million copies of its volumes in print.

Ikoku Nikki ranked fourth, tenth, and fifth in the 2019, 2020, and 2024 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! rankings for female readers. The manga was nominated twice in 2019 and 2020 for the Manga Taisho Award.

Synopsis
Thirty-five-year-old novelist Makio Koudai never had a good relationship with her older sister Minori, who always berated her for being different. Due to this, Makio is not stricken with grief upon hearing the news that Minori and her husband die in a car crash. But when Makio is asked to identify their bodies, she runs into her 15-year-old niece, Asa Takumi, whom she has not seen in years.

Struggling to process her parents' death, Makio reassures Asa that her complicated feelings are valid and suggests that the teenager start writing in a diary as a way to cope with the loss. Upon learning that no other relatives wanted to take in Asa, Makio decides to become her guardian despite her lack of experience. In a world full of uncertainty, the novelist and teenager must learn to live with each other while figuring themselves out. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Teaser PV


Official site: https://ikoku-anime.com/
Official X (Twitter): @ikoku_anime

Source: Comic Natalie

Ikoku Nikki on MAL