Joseph Luster
August 5, 2025 
The latest series to get an anime adaptation is Yosuke Kaneda’s The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch manga. According to the reveal, the series will air in 2026, with Naomasa Tatsuwa (The Island of Giant Insects) directing at anime studio LIDENFILMS.
Midori Goto (Hozuki’s Coolheadedness) is on series composition for the production and Takayuki Onoda (Hortensia SAGA) is on character designs. You can see a teaser trailer, visual and the first two cast members and character designs below.
The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch Anime Teaser
Visual:
Kaede Hondo voices Spica Virgo
Nobunaga Shimazaki voices Claude Sirius
Kodansha releases The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch manga on its K Manga app, describing the series like so:
Spica Virgo is an apprentice witch, but can’t use any magic. She needs someone to be her master in order to get into the academy of her dreams, but she has no money and no connections. Suddenly, a mysterious talking black cat that can use magic appears before her!! Spica wants to learn magic, and the black cat wants his curse broken—goals on the same path. Therefore, a secret master-apprentice relationship was born! But the key to breaking the curse is kissing his…?! A clumsy witch and the teachings of a black cat—the magic academy fantasy starts here!!
Source: Official website
