YOASOBI has launched an animated music video for “Watch Me!,” the opening theme track for the Witch Watch TV anime, which options the characters Nico Wakatsuki and Morihito Otogi.
The video is produced by Folium and directed by Folium member Yu Nakagaito (“Candy Shock” music video movement graphics and graphic design, “Wonderful Day” music video movement graphics, “Tentai Kansoku” music movie co-compositor). Different manufacturing credit embrace:
• Dance animation choreography: SACO MAKITA
• Animation director: Yoshiaki Sugimura (Witch Watch co-sub-character designer)
• Key animator: Naoya Tsutsumi
• Designer: MULTRA’s Taisei Yamashita
• Movement designer: MULTRA’s Yuki Matsuoka
• 3DCG: Hirotsugu
• Producer: Folium’s Daisuke Chiba (Stardust Telepath and “Oracle” compositing director)
Witch Watch began airing on April 6 JST and can run for 2 consecutive cours. It’s based mostly on the manga by Kenta Shinohara, which started in 2021 and has 21 volumes as of April 2025. It’s serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Soar. Viz Media describes the plot as:
Morihito Otogi’s household is descended from an extended line of ogre familiars, and he has the inhuman power to show it. Sooner or later, his father involves him with the life-changing information that he’s to develop into the acquainted of his childhood good friend, the teenage witch Nico. He’s to stay below the identical roof along with her and defend her from something and anybody which will try to hurt her. In the meantime, Nico is worked up to get to stay with the love of her life, even when her crush is one-sided—Morihito is so critical about his duties to guard her that any romance goes to be an uphill battle. However he has each purpose to be critical, as Nico has a prophecy of doom hanging over her head!
We beforehand highlighted Witch Watch‘s opening animation in an inventory of standout Spring 2025 anime opening and ending sequences.
Workers
• Director: Ikehata Hiroshi (i☆Ris the Film – Full Vitality!!, Darkish Gathering, Akiba’s Journey The Animation)
• Assistant director: Masao Kawase (Kiratto Pri Chan and Magical Destroyers, i☆Ris the Film – Full Vitality!! co-unit director)
• Sequence composer: Deko Akao (VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Flip Off My Stream, Unnamed Reminiscence)
• Character designer: Haruko Iizuka (The Magical Lady and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies, Josee, the Tiger and the Fish)
• Sub-character designer: Kaishu Sugimura (A Situation Referred to as Love opening animation animation director)
• Sub-character designer: Yuki Sawa (Magical Destroyers character designer)
• Animation manufacturing studio: Bibury Animation Studio
Forged
• Rina Kawaguchi as Nico Wakatsuki
• Ryota Suzuki as Morihito Otogi
• Kohei Amasaki as Kanshi Kazamatsuri
• Kaito Ishikawa as Keigo Magami
• Tomori Kusunoki as Nemu Miyao
Supply: Ayase/YOASOBI YouTube channel
