is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kenta Shinohara. It has been serialized in Shueisha's magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump since February 2021, with its chapters collected in 28 volumes as of October 2026. An anime television series adaptation produced by Bibury Animation Studios aired from April to October 2025. A second season has been announced.
By October 2025, the manga had over 4 million copies in circulation.
Synopsis The series focuses on Nico Wakatsuki, a teenage witch who, after completing her magical training, moves into a house with her childhood friend Morihito Otogi, a human-looking ogre. Due to their families' ancestral history, Morihito is to become Nico's familiar and protect her. Nico also hopes this will help them become a couple, as he is her longtime crush, though he does not reciprocate in the slightest. As the story progresses, Nico and Morihito find themselves forced to deal with the various supernatural and legendary beings they encounter while also trying to solve all the unpredictable problems Nico's magic causes in their daily lives.
Characters Otogi Household
A first year high school student who is the , a witch who appears once every thousand years and possesses great magical powers, which lets her spells various magic. She often tries to help people with her magic, but usually does so without fully knowing the details or side effect of the spells. She is in love with her childhood friend Morihito Otogi, whom she affectionately calls "Moi" since as a child she was unable to correctly pronounce his name. She also struggles to reveal her feelings for him, despite it being obvious to pretty much every other character besides Morihito himself. Her mother Ibuki is the and has foreseen that a disaster will befall upon Nico. To prevent this from happening, Ibuki lets Nico live with Morihito in the Otogi household and gathers other familiars to protect her.
An ogre with extreme physical strength due to practicing Ogre Qigong. His family is a familiar to Nico's family, who is also his childhood friend. He is very overprotective towards Nico but at the same seems to not reciprocate her feelings. While Morihito is a serious and responsible person, he can be eccentric in his interests and hobbies, such as being very fond of denims and other heavily detailed trivia items. He often acts like the mother in the household, doing the most chores as well as nagging and scolding the residents for the sake of their own. It is later revealed in a note that Nico gave him in the past that she "will always be Morihito's friend", which works as an unintentional curse that makes Morihito only see Nico as a friend, thus making him unable to realize that he is also in love with her.
A tengu who can control wind, he befriended Nico during her training. He is Nico's "crow familiar", and moves in with her and Morihito as he is also tasked with protecting her. Kanshi speaks in Kansai dialect and often acts as the straight man in the household. He is very socially active, but also is bad with money management and incredibly impulsive, which causes him to end up in humiliating situations when he tries to use magic to make easy money. Due to tengu and ogre's clashing nature, he was hostile towards Morihiro when they first met, even tried to fight the latter for Nico's attention. Kanshi eventually came to fully accept him and even tries to help them to become a couple from time to time.
A werewolf who transforms into another person, referred to as , when he sees anything that he recognizes as a crescent. Keigo is usually a quiet person, but becomes arrogant when showing off his knowledge of obscure culture. He is also a minor YouTuber whose video sometimes turned out viral. Wolf, however, is always arrogant and rude. Nevertheless, both are loyal to their friends. Keigo is a classmate of Nico and Morihito; he schemed on getting closer to them as part of his contract with a warlock. As a child, he was trained as a professional figure skater, but quit after his mother suffered an injury that left her bound to a wheelchair. After Nico cured his mom, Keigo decides to move in to protect Nico. Nico later gave him a ring infused with floating magic, which he ultimately mastered thanks to his skating ability. Eventually, he starts to develop feelings for Nemu, although he himself does not realize this.
A cute young man who comes from family of exorcists. He is also a vampire; instead of human blood he feeds by absorbing people's life force or witch's magic power. Miharu is a third-year middle school student who is skilled with sword, which he hides in the parasol he always wears around. Although appearing polite and graceful, he has no filter and will say whatever is on his mind. Miharu moves in to the Otogi household to protect Nico and started to feeds himself with Morihito's energy since ogres have more energy than normal human.
A dragon familiar Nico summoned after she was turned into a child. She is a avid drinker with a gambling problem, and a lazy slacker, but a protective and caring familiar. She has the power to change into a human form, and can change the temperature of her breath in order to produce flames or freezing vapor.
Witches In the series, "witch" refers to people who have magical power. Witches generally believe in making good deeds for people, whereas those who misuse magic for their selfish gain are referred to as warlocks; they act as the main antagonists in the story. The warlocks are after Nico's ability in order to resurrect the previous "Witch of Thousand" Jura; their main purpose is to create paradise for the witches. Modern day witches are capable of detecting a presence of warlocks from certain distance. While most witches are women, there are some male witches.
The , whose family specializes in the magic form. Nemu lives in the town over from Nico's. She is capable of transforming into a black cat, but automatically reverts back when she sleeps. As she dreams of having a strong humanoid familiar, mainly for the servitude benefits it could provide, Nemu frequently comes to the Otogi household to recruit Morihito to be her familiar, but always fails because she always timidly turns into her cat form, leading Morihito and the others to dote on her. This in turn makes her fall asleep, but she is always able to flee while the rest get distracted, leaving humiliated but otherwise intact. She ultimately approaches the group as a human to assist them against the warlock contracted with Keigo, leading her to become friendly with the household and frequently visit as a human as well. Despite this, only Wolf knows of her secret, having learned it during the fight with the warlock. Wolf agrees to keep her secret, on the condition that Nemu visit the house and enable his transformation once a month. Nemu later gives up on recruiting Morihito out of respect for Nico's feelings for him, and in turn starts developing feelings for both Keigo and Wolf.
A 19-year-old who is capable to teleport anyone but at the cost of her body weight. As a teenager, she was struggling with how her body easily gets fat. After learning that she's always been a witch, Momo started to embraces her body and keeps her body weight so that she could help people in need. She moves to Morihito's neighborhood to support Nico. She has a motherly personality and tends to spoil the residents in Otogi household.
A fifth year elementary student who is the . She is also a child actress. She has a genie familiar called Slump that follows her and acts as her servant. She is a well-meaning but spoiled girl. She respects Nico's mother after she helped her when her magic powers first awakened.
Asunaro Private High School
Nico and Morihito's class
The homeroom teacher in Nico's class who is popular in the school for her "cool-beauty" personality. In reality, she is a closet who is desperate to hide this side of her from her students. She and Kukumi become friends through their shared favorite manga, Uron Mirage, where two of them later form a circle called .
One of Nico's best friends in high school. She is incredibly friendly and always willing to make friends with people that are struggling socially, though she is often embarrassed about it afterwards. Thus, Kara is very welcoming about Nico's real identity. She is a priestess in training at her family's shrine. When playing around with one of Nico's spells, she accidentally creates a Shikigami familiar she nicknames "Shiki".
Nico's other best friend in high school, nicknamed "Kuku". She used to be a shy in middle school until Kara befriended her, breaking her out of her shell while still retaining her hobby. She is also a fan artist with more than 10,000 followers on Chitter, one of whom is Yuri. Upon discovering this, they quickly become friends, much to Yuri's dismay.
A girl who comes from a traditional family. She excels in anything, but is clumsy when it comes to applying it into practice. Her older brother is the student council president, Tenryu Kiyomiya.
A male student with weak stomach but is too afraid of asking for toilet permission because he was teased in the past. He asked Nico for a spell that allows him goes unnoticed during those times. His name is a homophone of Japanese word for .
A twin-braided girl whose family owns a bakery and somehow can understand bread puns. It is later revealed that Komugi is a warlock who is able to control the ground and is after Nico's ability as well.
Student Council
The student council president. He comes from a very traditional family, and hires students who act like stereotypical anime tropes, even though they are not qualified, forcing him to do all of the work. He has been trying to make Morihito joins the student council, as he thinks Morihito is the "cool, obedient fighting guy" trope. He also always has his hand on the lid of his hat and is actually able to take his hat off, but refuses to let it go.
The vice president alongside Yuzuru. Ibara leads the council in Tenryu's absence. Due to her appearance, Morihito initially thought that she was a promiscuous adult who illegally entered the school grounds. Her behavior resembles a mix between Takarazuka's otokoyaku and a mature older sister.
The other vice president who is always seen with eyes closed, looks suspicious, talks in a Kansai dialect, and only opens his eyes when he says "important stuff". He fits the anime and manga archetype of mysterious and devious characters, the over-obviousness of which constantly shocks Morihito and the others.
Student council's secretary. She dresses in Western-style lolita fashion and acts like a tsundere. She is Kuromitsu's older twin sister, who is also her translator. Despite their petit figure, both Syrup and Kuromitsu are high schoolers.
The other student council's secretary. She dresses in Japanese-style horror fashion and acts like a kuudere. Kuromitsu always speaks in misleading evil poetry and has her older sister Syrup to translates for her. Her speech pattern leads Morihito into thinking she might be a witch disguised as a normal human, but in reality she really is just an ordinary girl.
A short-figured first year high school boy who is the treasurer in the council. He is also a genius hacker who often hack into trivial things like Morihito's smartphone or the Shōnen Magazine editorial office.
The student council spokesman whose appearance is big and muscular. He is also hot-blooded. Ironically, he is the most enthusiastic when it comes to his work in the student council.
A student council member who is in charge of general affairs. He tends to lick knives and pretending to be a psychotic, but usually ends up cutting his own tongue.
A boy who wears a cardboard mask and acts like a robot. He is also in charge of general affairs. Ironically, he is the only one who wears his school uniform properly in the student council.