Manga 'Sugar Sugar Rune' Gets New Anime Adaptation

The Studio Khara panel at Japan Expo 2025 announced a new anime adaptation of Moyoco Anno's Sugar Sugar Rune shoujo manga last Friday. The studio also released a new short anime, Sugar Sugar Rune: Les deux sorcières, to commemorate the series' 20th anniversary.

Staff (Sugar Sugar Rune: Les deux sorcières)
Director, Script, Storyboard: Yuusuke Matsui (SoniAni: Super Sonico The Animation episode director)
Visual Director: Shougo Tsurii (Voy@ger)
CG Animation Supervision: Kohta Morie (Doraemon Movie: Nobita no Shin Kyouryuu)
Modeling Director: Issei Kouda (Glass no Hana to Kowasu Sekai character modeling)
Character Design, Animation Director: Naoyuki Asano (Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!)
Special Effects Animation Director: Naoki Yoshibe (Zom 100 special effects assistance)
Color Design: Ayaka Nakamura (WIT Studio) (Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara)
Art Director: Chieko Nakamura (Studio Cocolo) (Shiro Seijo to Kuro Bokushi)
Director of Photography: Hitomi Fukuzawa (M3: Sono Kuroki Hagane assistant director of photography)
Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose (Editz) (Dandadan)
Grading, Finishing Editor: Masaki Mizuno (Khaki)
Music: Takeshi Nakatsuka (Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru)
Planning, Producer: Masaki Kawashima (Nihon Animator Mihonichi assistant producer)
Animation Producer: Kouhei Fujiwara (Tales of Crestoria: Toga Waga wo Shoite Kare wa Tatsu)
Studio: Khara

Produced by Pierrot, the original 51-episode television anime adapting Anno's comedy fantasy manga aired from Summer 2005 to Spring 2006. Darkroom, a streaming platform by Synergetic Film, is streaming the anime with subtitles.

Anno serialized the manga in Nakayoshi from August 2003 to April 2007. Kodansha published the eighth and final volume in September 2007.

Del Rey (now defunct) published the series in English from September 2005 to September 2008. Udon Entertainment relicensed the manga and plans to release the first volume in 2026.

Sugar Sugar Rune won the 29th Kodansha Manga Awards in the children's manga category.

Synopsis
The queen of the Magical World is selected through a competition in which two young witches travel to the Human World to gather the hearts of boys who fall in love with them. This time, best friends Chocolat Meilleure and Vanilla Mieux, the daughters of the previous queen candidates, enroll in a human school in order to commence the challenge. Aided by their familiar spirits and mentor Rockin Robin, the young witches learn to adjust to human life as each aims to become the next queen.

Chocolat, who is popular with boys in the Magical World, finds that her strategies do not work well for capturing human hearts. In contrast, Vanilla's quiet and shy personality seems to make her the center of attraction. To make matters more complicated, a mysterious boy by the name of Pierre Tempête de Neige seems to be after Chocolat's heart. The two witches' friendship is put to the test as the competition intensifies. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Sugar Sugar Rune: Les deux sorcières


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