Champignon Witch

Champignon Witch
First tankōbon volume cover
シャンピニオンの魔女
(Shanpinion no Majo)
GenreFantasy[1]
Manga
Written byTachibana Higuchi
Published byHakusensha
ImprintHC Special
MagazineManga Park
Original runOctober 18, 2019 – present
Volumes7
Anime television series
Directed byYōsuke Kubo
Written byYūko Kakihara
Music byTakeshi Hama
Studio
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkTBS, BS11, AT-X
Original run January 9, 2026 – present
Episodes7

Champignon Witch (Japanese: シャンピニオンの魔女, Hepburn: Shanpinion no Majo) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tachibana Higuchi. It began serialization on Hakusensha's Manga Park manga website in October 2019. An anime television series adaptation produced by Typhoon Graphics and Qzil.la premiered in January 2026.

Plot

Luna is a young witch who lives alone in a forest known for its poisonous mushrooms. Feared and shunned by nearby villagers for being a black witch in a kingdom ruled by white witches, Luna is believed to bring illness and death because of the poisonous mushrooms that she leaves everywhere she touches. Despite her reputation, Luna is gentle and kind, spending her days studying mushrooms, brewing medicines, and quietly helping others from afar. One day she meets someone who changes the course of her life forever.

Characters

Luna (ルーナ, Rūna)
Voiced by: Haruka Shiraishi[2]
A talented and kind black witch who has lived for much longer than a normal human, despite her youthful appearance. Her skin and breath are poisonous and she leaves a trail of mushrooms everywhere she goes, caused by the fact that she was a cursed youngling. Because of this, people are generally afraid of her and she keeps to herself to avoid hurting anyone, only having the company of the magical creatures that live with her in her mushroom house.
Lize (リゼ, Rize)
Voiced by: Yuki Sakakihara[3]
Beautiful noble boy who is a cursed youngling and seed to The End of All Things. Luna take him in and trains him to make sure he doesn't become a monster.
Claude (クロード, Kurōdo)
Voiced by: Jun Fukushima[4]
A friend of Luna's, he is strict and acts mean, but he cares and watches out for Luna. He is the familiar for the great and powerful bird magician and is able to turn into a crow.
Minos (ミノス, Minosu)
Voiced by: Emiri Katō[4]
Magical cow creature and companion of Luna who lives in the mushroom house with her. They turn into a cow when accompanying Luna to the village.
Merino (メリノー, Merinō)
Voiced by: Miho Okasaki[4]
Magical sheep creature and companion of Luna who lives in the mushroom house with her. They can turn into a sheep on command.
Sisi (シシィ, Shishyi)
Voiced by: Misato Fukuen[4]
Magical cat creature and companion of Luna who lives in the mushroom house with her. The former familiar of the cat witch who was taken in by Luna after she died.
Henri (アンリ, Anri)
Voiced by: Shōya Chiba[5]
A handsome and friendly boy from the village that Luna draws and later befriends. It stated that he has family loyal to the white witches, but he is more open-minded. Luna and him fall in love, but she takes his memories of their love to save him.
Cat Witch (猫の魔女, Neko no Majo)
Voiced by: Akane Fujita[6]
A former friend of Luna who uses magic related to cats. Luna calls her Miss Dorothy. Despite having a reputation for being mean, after getting to know Luna, she becomes more kind and cares deeply about Luna. She is executed as part of the black witch hunt.
Wind Mage (猫の魔女, Kaze no Mahōtsukai)
Voiced by: Kazuki Ura[6]

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Tachibana Higuchi, Champignon Witch began serialization on Hakusensha's Manga Park website on October 18, 2019.[7] A side-story was published in The Hana to Yume magazine the following week. Its chapters have been compiled into seven tankōbon volumes as of January 2026.[8]

No. Release date ISBN
1April 20, 2020[9]978-4-592-22727-4
2December 18, 2020[10]978-4-592-22748-9
3September 17, 2021[11]978-4-592-22749-6
4August 19, 2022[12]978-4-592-22869-1
5July 20, 2023[13]978-4-592-22892-9
6December 20, 2024[14]978-4-592-23047-2
7January 20, 2026[8]978-4-592-23115-8

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced on December 13, 2024.[1][15] It is produced by Typhoon Graphics and Qzil.la, and directed by Yōsuke Kubo, with scripts written by Yūko Kakihara, characters designed by Miki Matsumoto, and music composed by Takeshi Hama. The series premiered on January 9, 2026, on TBS and other networks.[2][5][a] The opening theme song is "Maho Tsukai no Nikki" (魔法使いの日記; lit. 'Magician's Diary'), performed by Rosu, and the ending theme song is "Kimi wa" (君は; lit. 'You Are'), performed by Ms. Ooja.[4] Crunchyroll is streaming the series.[16]

Episodes

No.Title [17][18]Directed by [17]Written by [17]Storyboarded by [17]Original release date [19][a]
1"Luna the Black Witch"
Transliteration: "Kuro Majo Rūna" (Japanese: 黒魔女ルーナ)		Saki MiuraYūko KakiharaYōsuke KuboJanuary 9, 2026 (2026-01-09)[b]
Luna is lonely witch who has lived a long life, despite her youthful appearance. She is a black witch, meaning she does not swear her loyalty to the kingdom like the highly regarded white witches. Combined with the fact that she leaves poisonous mushrooms everywhere she touches, the townspeople look at her with fear and suspicion. She only goes into town to sell medicine she makes to the apothecary and buy books, which she finds as an escape. It is revealed from her discussions with the book keeper that she actually absorbs negative enegy from the air and that is what causes the mushrooms to be poisonous. One day while walking home, she sees a handsome boy flirting with a girl, and she is inspired to draw him. The drawing ends up having a soul and she dances with him in the moonlight. Seeing the boy in town later, he has lost all the life he had before, so Luna takes the soul from the drawing and gives it back to him. Back to his normal self, he can't help but notice Luna.
2"The Destined One"
Transliteration: "Unmei no Hito" (Japanese: 運命の人)		Saki MiuraYūko KakiharaYōsuke KuboJanuary 9, 2026 (2026-01-09)[b]
On her next trip to the village, the boy from her drawings, Henri, tries to talk with her. She is surprised and uses her mushrooms to hide, but eventually she relaxes. Henri reveals that he comes from a family of white witches, but his powers are not strong compared to the rest of his family. The city guard is called and chases after Luna, but she escapes with the help of Claude, who flies her away as a crow. She hides at the bookstore where Claude orders her not to see him again, in order to protect all the other black witches and wizards. Later she draws Henri again and the drawing comes alive again. They say their feelings to each other and enjoy the next few days together. Henri is bedridden because of the time he spends in his drawing form. In order to save Henri, Luna absorbs the feelings he has for her into a mushroom. He no longer has memories of the love he once had for her, and they both go on with their lives, with Luna making less trips to the village over time. While swimming in the river with her magical friends, she encounters someone in the river bleeding.
3"The Cursed Youngling"
Transliteration: "Noroi no Ko" (Japanese: 呪いの仔)		TabihitoJun KumagaiTabihitoJanuary 16, 2026 (2026-01-16)
Luna struggles with what to do after finding the stabbed boy in the river because she can't touch him without posioning him. Luckily Claude happens to spot them, and Luna bribes him to help with some shiny stones she found. She finds that the knife has a terrible poison on it, and she struggles to absorb it. She runs to her master, a giant golden mushroom, who helps her by absorbing the poison which she can't contain. He tells her that she encountered the one destined to become The End of All Things, the cursed youngling. Back at the mushroom house, the council of black witches is there to take the cursed youngling. They explain that the boy is a seed for The End of All Things, a horrible monster born from the pollution of the world that will poison everything in its path. Luna refuses to give him up, and it is revealed that Luna was once a cursed youngling as well.
4"The Black Witch Council"
Transliteration: "Kuro Majo Kaigi" (Japanese: 黒魔女会議)		Shogo ShimizuJun KumagaiAmawaJanuary 23, 2026 (2026-01-23)
It is explained that Luna had strong magical powers before she was a cursed youngling, and she was able to escape her fate because of it. The flame magician tries to kill the boy, but she digs a hole and escapes. Claude brings her back and the bird magician lets her speak. She pleads to the council to let her taise the boy so he can also overcome The End of All Things. The council votes, but it is a tie until the cat witch, a deceased friend of Luna's, appears and provides her support. They decide to let Luna train the boy, giving her three years to prove he is strong enough, or he will be sentenced to death. Claude is ordered to stay and watch over them, and the council will randomly appear and give the boy tests. After they leave, Luna passes out from exhaustion.
5"I Cannot Return to the Cat Forest"
Transliteration: "Neko no Mori ni wa kaerenai" (Japanese: 猫の森には帰れない)		Yōsuke KuboYūko KakiharaTakashi KameiJanuary 30, 2026 (2026-01-30)
In a flashback to when she first became a black witch, she recalls her first time meeting the cat witch. Originally jealous of how quickly she became a black witch, the cat witch was mean to Luna in hopes of scaring her off, but Luna was do lonely and used to being treated badly that she didn't notice her malintent. After having tea with Luna, she has a change of heart and starts to become more kind, showing Luna the bookstore and visiting her at the mushroom house more often. After trying to save a cat captured at the castle, the cat witch is executed, and Luna is asked to cleanse the grief and anger mushrooms where she was executed. In the present, the boy is having a nightmare about his past leading up to his stabbing. His memories drift away, but he hangs onto a memory with his mother. She explains that his true name holds magical power, and that he is destined to become King someday. He wakes up to Luna and says his true name, Lizel.
6"The First Day"
Transliteration: "Ichi-ni-chime" (Japanese: 一日目)		Shōgo ShimizuJun KumagaiMasato SatōFebruary 6, 2026 (2026-02-06)[c]
Lize is using magic to write his feelings in a diary, which helps prevent any negative emotions from building up inside of him. He has improved using magic, but is still clumsy, which worries and irritates Luna. In a flashback, Lizel wakes up from the events of the previous episode, and emits a great power when his true name is spoken. It is explained that white witche's power comes from their true name, so Luna gives him the name Lize to protect him. She tries to be strict with him, but struggles because of her kind personality. Claude keeps berating him and Luna, telling them that Lize has to do everything with magic if he is to improve quick enough. Lize sees a black fog of negative emotions around Claude, and after he absorbs it, Claude gets angry and says he can never touch him or Luna. He overhears Claude telling Luna that he is a poison monster and if he doesn't improve soon, they will have to kill him, prompting Lize to run into the black forest in fear.
7"The Magic Diary"
Transliteration: "Mahō Nikki" (Japanese: 魔法日記)		Jun Saitō &
Kosuke Iwanaga		Jun KumagaiShinichi WatanabeFebruary 13, 2026 (2026-02-13)[c]
Lize is running, but stops to help a mouse who ate a poisnous mushroom. Claude and Luna catch up to him, and Luna saves him from being overwhelmed by poison. Whenever Luna absorbs poisonous mushrooms from Lize, he loses memories and growth from his magical training. To prevent this, Luna teaches Lize how to extract these negative feelings by writing them in a diary. This helps prevent the poison from building up, but he still loses memories from these experiences, making him feel confused and alone. Luna makes some bouncy mushrooms for Lize, and he has fun playing on them, but when he almost falls and Luna has to save him, he generates a negative memory. He feels conflicted, not wanting to get rid of the bad memory if it means he loses the happy one as well. One day he meets the lord of the forest, and Lize tells him about his conflicting feelings and how he feels about Luna, all while Luna is secretly listening. The lord of the forest tells Lize about how Luna's body is poison. That night, wanting to feel connected to someone, Lize wears a sock on his hand and holds Luna's hand while sleeping, and he has a nice dream after that.
8Transliteration: "Shiro Majo to Kuro Majo" (Japanese: 白魔女と黒魔女)Aya KawamuraYūko KakiharaRyō OgawaFebruary 20, 2026 (2026-02-20)

Reception

The series has been recommended by manga artist Chica Umino and artist Yuko Higuchi.[23][24]

Notes

  1. ^ a b TBS listed the series premiere on January 8 at 25:58, which is effectively January 9 at 1:58 a.m. JST.
  2. ^ a b The first 2 episodes aired back-to-back.[20]
  3. ^ a b This episode aired at 2:08 a.m. JST, 10 minutes after the original air time on TBS.[21][22]

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