History ComicBook / Witch

An [[WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}} animated adaptation of the comic]] from French studio Creator/SIPAnimation and Disney premiered in 2004, airing on [[Creator/ToonDisney Jetix]] worldwide, and also Creator/{{ABC}} Kids & Family in the US. The series lasted for 52 episodes and covered the events of the first two story arcs, with the second season notably having Creator/GregWeisman of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' fame as showrunner; all tropes concerning that adaptation go there.

In July of 2023, Disney Italy [[https://disneytvanimation.com/post/723949034962812928/witch-sets-reboot-with-new-graphic-novel-by/amp announced]] a new even-more {{Animesque}} reboot in the form of a manga-like graphic novel, set to release in Italy in October. Pages with English text have [[ContentLeak surfaced online]], but so far there is no word on an official English-language release yet.

* CloningBlues: Early on the girls learn how to make Astral Drops, clones of themselves with their exact personalities and memories, to take their places while going on missions. That is, all of them except of Will who's distracted by Taranee's earlier capture. She ends up with a clone who's basically a blank state. At the beginning this only leads to some HilarityEnsues... [[spoiler: then the clones starts developing their own personalities.]] When they start using the astral drops for non-guardian things [[spoiler: all the astral drops band together and try to live without the originals to varying degrees of success. In the end the Oracle grants them their own lives and they get to live independently. This also means WITCH can't use astral drops any more.]]

%%* AbhorrentAdmirer: Martin, for Irma. [[CharacterDevelopment Though eventually, he learns to leave her alone, and they become fairly good friends.]]

* AbhorrentAdmirer[=/=]StalkerWithACrush: Martin, for Irma. [[CharacterDevelopment Though eventually, he learns to leave her alone, and they become fairly good friends.]]

In July of 2023, Disney Italy [[https://disneytvanimation.com/post/723949034962812928/witch-sets-reboot-with-new-graphic-novel-by/amp announced]] a new even-more {{Animesque}} reboot in the form of a manga-like graphic novel, set to release in Italy in October. Pages with english text have [[ContentLeak surfaced online]], but so far there is no word on an official english-language release yet.

** [[MadScientist Professor]] [[KnightTemplar Takeda]] in the Teach 2b Witch arc may well have been inspired by [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendou Ikari]]: a brilliant Japanese scientist who undertakes questionable experiments motivated by the loss of a family member, while ignoring his introverted daughter '''Shin'''obu.

In the United States, the comic was initially released as graphic novels underneath Disney's "Hyperion Books" publishing label, with that run covering only the first sixteen issues, ending in the middle of the second story arc. The United Kingdom fared a bit better, seeing the release of everything up to issue seventy-four, but still {{left hanging}} in the middle of the seventh story arc. In October 2017, Creator/YenPress began a new English translation, with the first eight story arcs being released as of June 2021. There also exists chapter book {{novelization}}s of the first two story arcs, as well as a short-lived [[ForeignRemake Japanese manga version]] that was serialized in Kadokawa's "Monthly Asuka" magazine (consisting of the original scripts with new artwork by [[Manga/CrescentMoon Haruko Iida]]) that covered the first story arc and was later collected in two tankōbon.

* BuxomIsBetter: It's an official plot point, in both the comics and novelizations... subverted by Irma, however, whose oversized bust is the butt of jokes.

* ElementalPowers: Duh. The entire franchise is build on the concept of five [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary girls]] gaining magical powers, becoming {{Magical Girl Warrior}}s as a result. They elemental powers follow the classic Greek air, water, earth, and fire, with the fifth one being [[PureEnergy "quintessence"]].