Vanilla Mieux (left, small) and Chocola Meilleure (right, large) a pair of cute witches from
Sugar Sugar Rune
The original
Magical Girl archetype. Sometimes she's from
Another Dimension or otherwise
Magical Land unless the whole show is in a
magical setting. Magic study is often
equated with school, and many characters are out getting their licenses. The origin of magic is implied to be
genetic with training required to hone it. She may be a
princess, who may or may not be visiting Earth as part of
training to become queen—if so she may have to compete with rivals to the throne.
She may or may not be actively fighting monsters. Usually it's a hard enough life just trying to get through the day, and she'll use her magic (often a
non-flashy variety) to
make things easier.
Theoretically.
Cute Witches are sometimes thought to have influenced the rather benevolent image of witches in Japan; even the standard
Occult Girl/goth girl tends to be somewhat
cute. Will almost always wear a
Robe And Wizard Hat.
The original
Cute Witch,
Mahou Tsukai Sally, was directly inspired by the American TV series
Bewitched.
If and when the
Cute Witch grows up, if she doesn't lose her powers, she usually becomes the
Hot Witch.
Contrast the
Wicked Witch, who is evil, old
and ugly.
Examples
Anime and Manga
- Mahou Tsukai Tai (Magic Users' Club)
- Ojamajo Doremi
- Magical Princess Minky Momo and Floral Magician Mary Bell
- Ultra Maniac - though here she shares the lead role with her friend, and Muggle, Ayu.
- Akazukin Chacha, who also invokes the image of Little Red Riding Hood.
- Mahou Shoujo Tai Arusu (aka Tweeny Witches)
- Chikage in Sister Princess
- Negi Springfield of Mahou Sensei Negima is a male counterpart to the Cute Witch. He's also the friend to at least three.
- Judging by her card, Natsumi might be in her way to become one after making a pactio with Koutarou
- Cardcaptor Sakura was originally envisioned as a witch, but CLAMP decided that they needed something more original, and looked to tarot cards for their inspiration. She still shares a lot in common with witch Magical Girls like those above.
- Vanilla and Chocolat from Sugar Sugar Rune (pictured above)
- Oddly enough, ChibiUsa in Sailor Moon is more like one than the standard Magic Warrior the show features. She's time-traveled from the future for unspecified training, and her powers are mostly trickery than being useful for fighting.
- Yuuma from Magical Pokaan.
- Yukari Sendou from Rosario To Vampire.
- Honami from Rental Magica.
- Schierke from Berserk.
- Angela from Soul Eater.
- Later, Kim is revealed to be a good witch, attending Shibusen because she doesn't want to join the other witches.
- Eruka too, even with her likening for bombing buildings and people. The youngest combined form of the Mizune (Baba Yaga arc) is also rather cute.
- Letty from The Mikos Words And The Witches Incantations.
- Dai Mahou Touge is a parody of cute witch series
- Maple, in the manga based on The Legend Of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
- Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service. Interesting in that she's a relatively mild version of the folklore witch rather than the overly cute magical girl type.
- Kuesu from Omamori Himari.
- Subverted mercilessly in Umineko No Naku Koro Ni. Even the cute-looking ones are mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
- Maburaho is this trope to a T, with most of the female characters qualifying as this. Yuna even more so, because she practices Western magic, and when dressed up in the proper attire, she looks like the standard stereotypical witch.
Comic Books
Film
- Miss Price in Bedknobs And Broomsticks.
- Jennifer (Veronica Lake) in I Married a Witch.
- Gillian (Kim Novak) in Bell, Book and Candle.
Literature
- The 'three little witches' from the story of the same name in the Whateley Universe. Clover even has a witch's hat.
- The Worst Witch book series naturally features one of these as a heroine—an extremely clumsy heroine to boot.
- Tiffany Aching from her series of Discworld books is an aversion. Just because you're 11 years old doesn't mean you can't be angry, defiantly plain, and wearing shitkicker boots.
- Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter series.
- Sephrenia from the Elenium trilogy by David Eddings. Though she was not, technically speaking, a witch, she was often called that by those who opposed the use of magic for religious reasons — and, despite being a few hundred years old, was said to be extremely lovely.
Live Action TV
- As mentioned, Bewitched.
- Willow in Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
- Amy too, up until she becomes a rat for a few years...
- Hello, Tara?
- Willow runs into a little girl dressed as a witch at the Magic Shop on Halloween and she's the most adorable thing ever. This is after Willow was criticizing the stereotypical "old hag" depiction of witches.
- Firefly's River is actually not a witch, but she gets called as such repeatedly for her psychic abilities. And, being played by Summer Glau, there is little doubt that she is very cute.
- The titular character of the 90's children's show Eureka's Castle was both a Cute Witch and a Cute Monster Girl. (She had horns.)
Music Videos
- One of these meets a particularly gruesome fate at the hands of the Titular witch hunters in Rob Zombie 's "Lords of Salem" music video. Link Here
Video Games
- The◊ Witch◊ princess◊ from two Harvest Moon games. Even tough she's pretty mean at start, she becomes a lot nicer when you talk to her a lot (and give her gifts, trigger heart events etc.), and you can even marry her eventually.
- Another Witch Princess, Vivi, appears in Animal Parade.
- "Natta de" Cotton from the Cotton series of Shoot Em Ups.
- Ripple from the Turbo-Grafx/PC-Engine game Magical Chase.
- Marisa Kirisame from the Touhou series.
- Arche Klein in Tales Of Phantasia.
- Lillet Blan from Grim Grimoire.
- Deneb from Ogre Battle. She's proven so popular that she's one of the only characters to have shown up in every game in the series, despite her tendency to slaughter entire villages in pursuit of her twisted experiments.
- Ran and Dark Ran in Twinkle Star Sprites.
- Mizuno from Tomba is actually called "The Cute Witch". She's also intensely sarcastic, and prone to losing her magic mirror.
- Ashley from the Wario Ware games.
- Yoriko from Arcana Heart. She's a lot more withdrawn than other examples on this page, and prefers to let her giant staff (a demon named "Mike") do the talking for her.
- Several characters in Luminous Arc.
- Lilka from Wild ARMs 2.
- Marion from the Gunbird series.
- Melody from Rune Factory. She runs the bathhouse and doesn't quite know why. In the original game, she only dresses the part, but in Rune Factory Frontier, it's possible for her to actually learn magic from Cinnamon.
- Maple from The Legend Of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/Ages is a Cute Witch apprentice who constantly chases Link around, bumping into him. She eventually starts riding a flying saucer.
- Cierra from Riviera The Promised Land, who nicknamed herself the "Scarlet Witch" due to her color scheme and her tendency to favor fire magic.
- Pamela from Yggdra Union. Rosary might count, too, if you're into that sort of thing...
- Laharl's mother in the Disgaea series was supposed to be one of these.
- Arguably the generic 'mage' class fit this description (all female; males are called 'skulls').
- Keke, a recurring enemy in the Kirby series.
- Any Magician class female character from FlyFF.
- Kyon Feulion from Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier. Her broom has a Booster attached to it and has an attack that is a Shout Out to Shoot Em Up games.
- Doki Doki Majo Shinpan is a game based entirely around identifying Cute Witches by groping them.
- Annoying Dojikko Mignon Heart from The King Of Fighters: Maximum Impact. Her sister Ninon is the polar opposite.
- The protagonist of the Mega Man ripoff The Krion Conquest.
- Wendalyn from My Sims.
- Witch, a reoccurring opponent from the Puyo Puyo series.
- The Student Witch enemies from various Castlevania games.
- Twinkle Star Sprites has the protagonist Load Ran fulfill this role.
- Lymle from Star Ocean 4 is 15 years old by her race's standards, but mentally acts and speaks like a 6 year old girl. If there's anything she knows complete mastery over though, it's using Symbology Magic and summoning Cerberus from a pocket dimension akin to Hell itself.
Web Comics
Western Animation
- Wendy the Cute Witch of Casper the Friendly Ghost.
Note: Has nothing to do with
strike witches, although they are indeed cute.
