What the Ultra Teaser Actually Shows
Avex Pictures broke down the footage in a press release on PR TIMES, the Japanese press-release platform, after the teaser screened at the panel. The anime's official YouTube channel posted the video the same day, including a cut with the English title "Ultra Teaser Trailer" for viewers outside Japan.
The teaser opens right where episode 13, which streamed internationally as "Forbidden Magic," cut to black this June. The people of Romonon close in on Coco and her fellow apprentices, and Qifrey fights them head-on in a high-impact action sequence. The release also flags a pointed shot of Coco wearing a Brimmed Cap, the headgear tied to the outlawed witches who practice forbidden magic, and says the video digs deeper into the secrets and taboos casting a dark shadow behind the world's beautiful surface. The back half adds a huge assembly hall and a glimpse of a new character shown only from behind.
Watanabe's Message to the Anime Expo Crowd
Director Ayumu Watanabe (Children of the Sea, Komi Can't Communicate) had a statement read aloud to the audience right after the video played. "Being able to deliver the continuation of this wonderful story to the world is the greatest happiness for our anime team," he wrote, calling the project the thing that gives the staff courage to push through every difficulty.
The full message is looser and funnier than standard production boilerplate. Watanabe wrote that he wished he could jump through one of the series' magical door tools to the venue and personally tap every attendee on the shoulder. He repeated, twice, that the story is far from over, and said the team has to see it through because Coco and her friends "already live in our hearts." He also promised that Season 2 is being rendered into animation with more depth and care than before, and admitted the staff want to see the rest of the story as much as anyone in the room.
The Story So Far
Kamome Shirahama's manga is a high fantasy built on one rule: magic fills the world and everyone depends on it, but only witches can cast it. Letting anyone else watch a spell being cast is forbidden. Coco, a village girl who has always dreamed of becoming a witch, secretly watches the visiting witch Qifrey at work. What she stumbles onto is the world's "absolute secret": anyone can use magic by drawing the right sigils with the right tools. Taken in as Qifrey's apprentice, she starts pulling at the threads of a history the adult witches have deliberately buried.
The series runs in Kodansha's seinen magazine Morning Two and has over 9 million copies in circulation across 16 volumes. Its awards reach well beyond Japan, including an Eisner Award and a Harvey Award for Best Manga in the United States, plus manga prizes in France, Spain, and South Korea.
BUG FILMS produces the anime. The first season starred Rena Motomura as Coco and Natsuki Hanae (Tanjiro Kamado in Demon Slayer) as Qifrey, alongside Hibiku Yamamura as Agott and Yuichi Nakamura as Olruggio. In Japan the show streams on Netflix and the Japanese service ABEMA, with an opening theme, "Kaze no Anthem," by Eve featuring suis from Yorushika.
Looking Ahead
Season 2 has no broadcast window, episode count, or key visual yet. The release only commits to posting updates through the anime's official site and X account, so the teaser is all fans have to go on for now.
International viewers are in better shape than usual at this stage. Crunchyroll announced on June 29 that it will stream Season 2, after carrying the first season outside Asia while Netflix handled the show in parts of the Asian market.
The manga is published in English by Kodansha USA. In Japan, the first season arrives on Blu-ray in two volumes, with episodes 1 through 6 out on July 29, 2026 and episodes 7 through 13 following on September 30, 2026.