History Anime / LittleWitchAcademia2013

* SkewedPriorities: What is the first thing Akko does upon coming back from the dungeon? Happily show Ursula the Shiny Rod and wondering if she won the hunt, all while an escaped dragon is rampaging and causing mass panic amongst the students.

* SkewedPriorities: What is the first thing Akko does upon coming back from the dungeon? Happily show Ursula the Shiny Rod and wondering if she won the hunt, all while an escaped Dragon is rampaging and causing mass panic amongst the students.

* MugglesDoItBetter: At the academy, the Sorcerer's Stone allows the witches to use magic freely. But its effects don't reach all the way out to the nearby town, greatly limiting the number of magic witches can use, which proves troublesome when Akko and co. go there and get beset by a bunch of witch-hating hooligans.

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** Some of the characters who are featured don't make an appearance in the film. This includes a pair of random Luna Nova students, three adult female characters, and a group of fairies who bear a resemblance to the Luna Nova workers seen later on in the TV series.

The film is available on Creator/{{Netflix}} in its original Japanese audio, along with all-new English, Chilean Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French and Italian dubs, being the first Studio Trigger title with non-English foreign dubs.

* ShortFilm: The film is just 50 minutes long and had a limited two-week engagement in Japanese theaters.

The film spawned [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia a few other works]], including a crowdfunded [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademiaTheEnchantedParade sequel in 2015]] and most notably [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017 a full-length anime series]] broadcast in 2017.

While initially created as a stand-alone short film, its sudden popularity resulted in a [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1311401276/little-witch-academia-2 Kickstarter campaign asking for additional funding for a second episode.]] It reached its goal in ''five hours''. By the time the Kickstarter ended, it had made its stretch goal of a half-million, earning over six-hundred-thousand overall.

The film spawned [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia a few other works]], most notably [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017 a full-length anime series]] broadcast in 2017.

* CoversAlwaysLie: [[http://little-witch-academia.wikia.com/wiki/Little_Witch_Academia_(film)?file=LWA_1.jpg The poster]] seems to have been made before the film was finished, as it contains a number of weird anomalies:

-->'''Sucy:''' [[LampshadeHanging It's like a crappy dungeon-crawler RPG.]]

** Akko is of the GoodIsNotNice variety. She genuinely means well but tends to place her own feelings above those of her friends and not even consider that what she's doing is wrong or potentially dangerous.

** One of the girls in Akko's History of Magic class looks suspiciously like [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Mami.]]

* ShortFilm: The first film is just 50 minutes long and had a limited two-week engagement in Japanese theaters.

* UntranslatedTitle: The Chilean Spanish dub keeps the original English name in the film. The dub also keeps the same pronunciation of all the foreign names. For example, Akko's name is pronounced the Japanese way, and Diana's name is pronounced the same way in English (Dye-ana), rather than phonetically in Spanish (Dee-ana).

The second, longer short film, ''Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade'', premiered for Kickstarter pledgers July 3, 2015[[note]]Trigger asked those given the preview not to spread it on the internet. [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings One can guess how that went]].[[/note]] and was released for the general public on October 9 of the same year. Akko, Sucy, and Lotte are tasked with planning the annual Witch Parade, a parade that commemorates the Witch Hunts of the middle ages after they have once again caused trouble. They are not the only troublemakers tasked with the "prestigious" task as they are joined by Amanda O'Neill, [[ClassyCatBurglar a wannabe thief]], Constanze Braunschbank Albrechtsberger, a {{Magitek}} GadgeteerGenius, and Jasminka Antonenko, a BigEater.

Both short films are available on Creator/{{Netflix}} in its original Japanese audio, along with all-new English, Chilean Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French and Italian dubs, being the first Studio Trigger title with non-English foreign dubs.

The short films spawned [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia a few other works]], most notably [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017 a full-length anime series]] broadcast in 2017.

!!The ''Little Witch Academia'' short films provide examples of:
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* GirlPosse: Diana's followers, Hannah and Barbara. They actually seem to have worse attitudes than their leader, given how much quicker they are to insult, while Diana's comments lean more towards constructive criticism.
* HeadPet: Lotte's fire sprite spends a good deal of time on Lotte's head.
* {{Jerkass}}:
** Akko is of the GoodIsNotNice variety. She genuinely means well but tends to place her own feelings above those of her friends and not even consider that what she's doing is wrong or potentially dangerous.
** Diana is pretty haughty and looks down on Muggle-born witches, such as Akko. She is also pretty rude to her two followers, Hannah and Barbara when she calls them out for being afraid in the dungeon, saying that because they are witches, they should be the ones instilling fear instead.
* UntranslatedTitle: The Chilean Spanish dub keeps the original English names in both the first film and the sequel. The dub also keeps the same pronunciation of all the foreign names. For example, Akko Kagari's name is pronounced the Japanese way, and Diana Cavendish's name is pronounced the same way in English (Dye-ana), rather than phonetically in Spanish (Dee-ana).
* WaveMotionTuningFork: [[http://i.imgur.com/KJ87V6a.png The wands have this appearance]], with spells coming out from between the prongs.
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[[folder:First Film]]
* AccidentalPun: When the minotaur appears, Hannah and Barbara try to tell Diana that it's behind her (''ushiro'') but only manage to stammer out ''ushi'' (cow). In the English dub, they just refer to the minotaur as a "bull".

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[[folder:''The Enchanted Parade'']]
* AdmiringTheAbomination: When the giant reveals its full self in, Akko's reaction isn't freaking out but rather "Whoa, this is a giant...?"
* ApatheticCitizens: When the group of witch-hating bullies that had attacked Akko and company earlier on return and sabotage the parade, no one lifts a hand to stop them.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Amanda O'Neill is being punished for breaking and entering the school vaults and attempted theft of an artifact. Constanze is being punished for smuggling, producing and selling hi-tech contraband on school grounds. Meanwhile, Jazminka is being punished because she won't stop eating in class.
* ArtShift: The scene turns for a couple of seconds into an 8-bit ShootEmUp featuring a witch on her broom. It's revealed to be a game that Constanze is playing on her laptop/robot familiar. The scene goes by so fast that one can barely process it. Also, the representation of how Luna Nova's magic stone works have a simpler style than the regular animation.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: While there are no real villains in ''The Enchanted Parade'', the mayor is a [[NonStandardCharacterDesign diminutive caricature]] of a man with an ego several times his own size and directly responsible for the giant's awakening.
* BigDamnHeroes: Lotte and Sucy return in time to save the day when things are looking bleak.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: PlayedForLaughs. Akko and company have been brought before the headmistress so many times they have lost count, and when trying to recall the actual reasons, Sucy and Akko start admitting things they haven't actually been punished for.
* CatapultToGlory: Akko gets into a jury-rigged catapult, due to being unable to fly a broom, and launches herself onto the unsealed rock monster to try and free Thomas from its grasp.
* ChekhovsGun: The ''Luna Lana'' spell and Lotte's ancestral song in ''The Enchanted Parade''.
* CrushBlush: Thomas, the ringleader of the band of kids who harass the witches, sports some of this when he's rescued by Diana.
* DieLaughing: Akko and Sucy, during class, manage to make a giant mushroom monster that releases a type of gas that causes those who breathe it in to collapse in laughter. Later Sucy, when discussing how to make the parade more enjoyable, suggests using an army of them on the town. The idea is rejected as bioterrorism.
* DisasterDominoes: Akko throws a broomstick in frustration... which knocks over the other broomsticks, which leads to the accidental premature activation of the float.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Despite saving the whole school from a giant magic-eating dragon that nearly consumed their sorcerer's stone, by the time of ''The Enchanted Parade'', Akko and her friends are back to being the unpopular weirdos... and are on the verge of being expelled for causing relatively minor problems.
* FacePalm: Amanda does this after Akko beans Lotte with her broom.
* FlatEarthAtheist: The mayor has shades of this, wanting to tear down a stone monument that legends say act as a seal to a great misfortune. Considering that magic exists in this world, and there is a ''literal magic school less than a mile away'', scoffing at said "misfortune" seems to be incredibly stupid, arrogant, and short-sighted.
* GadgeteerGenius: Constanze is a tinkerer who uses her wand as a literal MagicTool and uses it to create and power various inventions such as a little RobotBuddy or even a laser gun. She's forced to work with the girls for selling technology within school grounds.
* GenreBlindness: The town mayor decides to bulldoze a seal planted by a witch to make room for a statue of him. Despite the fact that the witch school is nearby, he doesn't stop to ask them if it's real and blows off the foreman's concerns.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Amanda's mugshot features her FlippingTheBird. It's pixellated in both the original Japanese version and the English dub, but it's still pretty strong for a TV-Y7 rating.
* GorgeousGarmentGeneration: In the climax of their fight against the rock monster, Sucy, Lotte, and Akko's outfits turn into some variation of Shiny Chariot's before they launch their final attack.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The incantation for the "Luna Lana" nullification spell, "Ein Sof Ohr", is Hebrew for "infinite light".[[note]]Or, rather, "an infinite number of light", which is grammatically nonsensical, but kudos for trying.[[/note]] For what it's worth, "Luna Lana" itself is made of the Italian words for "Moon" and "Wool".[[note]]The English phrase "Moon Wool" renders in Italian as "Lana '''di''' luna" or "Lana '''della''' Luna".[[/note]]
* GravityIsAHarshMistress: Akko and Sucy, while flying a broom in tandem to avoid the giant's hands, manage to evade its attacks by rapidly climbing upwards... only to find that the giant has swatted their broom away from them.
* HardWorkMontage: Akko gets one halfway through ''The Enchanted Parade'' as she tries to get the Happy Time Project to work.
* InsultBackfire: After the disastrous trip to town, Diana spots a forlorn Akko and hits her with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech... except that she makes the mistake of mentioning Shiny Chariot, which ends up getting Akko's spirits up instead.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Near the end, the main dramatic theme starts playing, and then switches to being broadcast by the speakers on their parade float.
* LosingTheTeamSpirit: After Akko accidentally tears in half Lotte's ancestral music scroll, Lotte gets pissed off and goes her own way, and Akko splits from Sucy too. Noticeably, for the next few parts, it's the new girls who give Akko help, while Lotte and Sucy are nowhere to be seen.
* MayorPain: The Mayor is mainly the Quimby type. He is more concerned about [[TheNapoleon puffing up his own ego]] and earning tourist dollars than he is with things like good sense and reason. With incontrovertible proof that both magic and witches are real, he decides to remove a rock that is specifically labelled as a [[SealedEvilInACan seal to a great evil]] to place a statue of himself. When the inevitable happens and a giant attacks his city, he blames the witches and only backs down when he starts thinking of the tourist revenue. Even a witch [[TooDumbToLive supporting him from a great height on her broom]] is not enough to dissuade him even when she gently tries to remind him exactly whose fault this whole fiasco is.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Akko rattles off a number of variations on "I mean no harm" after she accidentally tears Lotte's ancestral music scroll in half and drives a wedge between herself and the rest with her refusal to compromise. Her aggressive fangirling of Shiny Chariot has clearly scuttled potential friendships with other students, Diana most of all.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After Akko accidentally tears Lotte's ancestral music scroll in half, Lotte gets visibly angry. Sucy points out how pissed off she must be for the normally gentle girl to get mad.
* OcularGushers: Akko cries a river after Lotte returns for her.
* OurGiantsAreDifferent: The enemy of ''The Enchanted Parade'' is called a giant. It's incredibly powerful and able to turn objects into monsters as well as fuse them to itself to create armour, and unlike the dragon cannot be destroyed, only resealed.
* ParasolParachute: Sucy creates an umbrella out of a mushroom.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Diana tries to get the witch parade cancelled because she finds the whole thing is offensive to witches.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Giant is sealed in rocks by Jennifer the Witch. The rocks are later revealed to not be rocks at all but the giant's hand, with the rest of him buried under the town.
* TemptingFate: Professor Ursula really didn't have to say "I just hope nothing bad happens..."
* WitchHunt: The eponymous witch parade is a reenactment of old witch trials (which were quite rare in England, the show's apparent setting), with witches being "volunteers" from Luna Nova. The unlucky witches are paraded before the townsfolk to be pelted with tomatoes, dunked in a pool, and rolled in barrels [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking all while wearing silly fake noses]]. Small wonder the whole event has become a ''disciplinary measure''. Needless to say, Akko is horrified; Diana wants to get the tradition ended altogether.
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The second, longer short film, ''Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade'', premiered for Kickstarter pledgers July 3, 2015[[note]]Trigger asked those given the preview not to spread it on the internet. [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings One can guess how that went]].[[/note]] and was released for the general public on October 9th of the same year. Akko, Sucy, and Lotte are tasked with planning the annual Witch Parade, a parade that commemorates the Witch Hunts of the middle ages after they have once again caused trouble. They are not the only troublemakers tasked with the "prestigious" task as they are joined by Amanda O'Neill, [[ClassyCatBurglar a wannabe thief]], Constanze Braunschbank Albrechtsberger, a {{Magitek}} GadgeteerGenius, and Jasminka Antonenko, a BigEater.

The second, longer short film, ''Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade'', premiered for Kickstarter pledgers July 3, 2015[[note]]Trigger asked those given the preview not to spread it on the internet. [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings One can guess how that went]].[[/note]] and was released for the general public on [[MeaningfulReleaseDate Halloween]] of the same year. Akko, Sucy, and Lotte are tasked with planning the annual Witch Parade, a parade that commemorates the Witch Hunts of the middle ages after they have once again caused trouble. They are not the only troublemakers tasked with the "prestigious" task as they are joined by Amanda O'Neill, [[ClassyCatBurglar a wannabe thief]], Constanze Braunschbank Albrechtsberger, a {{Magitek}} GadgeteerGenius, and Jasminka Antonenko, a BigEater.

''Little Witch Academia'' is a half-hour short film produced as part of Japan's "Young Animator Training Project," a government-sponsored program which hopes to train new animators under the guidance of industry masters; in this case, Yō Yoshinari of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' and ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' fame, produced the short film alongside Creator/StudioTrigger.

''Little Witch Academia'' is a half-hour short film produced as part of Japan's "Young Animator Training Project," a government-sponsored program which hopes to train new animators under the guidance of industry masters; in this case, Yō Yoshinari of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' and ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' fame, produced the show alongside Creator/StudioTrigger.

Studio Trigger later uploaded the short film on Website/YouTube with full English subtitles. Acttil, a video game and anime localization company, released the short on Blu-ray in North America in Summer 2013, which became the company's first release.

The film follows Atsuko "Akko" Kagari, a witch-in-training at Luna Nova, a European WizardingSchool. Akko dreams of following in the footsteps of Shiny Chariot, whose flashy stage magic captivated Akko during her youth. But Akko has three problems standing between her and her dream: Akko doesn't come from a wizard family (she can't even fly a broom properly), class queen bee Diana Cavendish continually upstages her, and most of the wizarding community thinks of Shiny Chariot as little more than a charlatan. But when a great threat threatens to destroy the school, can Akko's faith in Shiny Chariot ultimately save her friends and their magic?

!!''Little Witch Academia'' films provide examples of:

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* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Diana is very annoyed that Hannah and Barbara spend the entire DungeonCrawl [[SecurityCling clinging]] to each other begging Diana to go back, and tells them that witches shouldn't be afraid and ''they'' should be the ones feared. In ''The Enchanted Parade'', she tries to get the witch parade canceled because she finds the whole thing is offensive to witches.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After Akko accidentally tears Lotte's ancestral music scroll in half, Lotte gets visibly angry. Sucy points out how pissed off she must be for the normally gentle girl to get mad.

* IWasJustPassingThrough: When Diana saves a falling Akko:
-->'''Diana:''' No need to thank me. It is my duty to evacuate all students.
* KillerRabbit: Sealed in an iron maiden deep within the school's dungeons, there's this lizard-looking thing. Sure, it's bigger than your average lizard, and it's got nasty-looking fangs, but isn't it a little tiny for a monster found so deep within the dungeon? Well, let's put it that way: [[OurDragonsAreDifferent for the sake of everything holy]], [[EnergyAbsorption do not use magic on it.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: The manga acts as a prequel to the show -- Akko's first day at Luna Nova -- and gives a bit of extra information such as Akko's full name and the names of Diana's GirlPosse.

While initially created as a stand-alone short film, ''Little Witch Academia''[='=]s sudden popularity resulted in a [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1311401276/little-witch-academia-2 Kickstarter campaign asking for additional funding for a second episode.]] It reached its goal in ''five hours''. By the time the Kickstarter ended, it had made its stretch goal of a half-million, earning over six-hundred-thousand overall.

** Diana is pretty haughty, and looks down on Muggle-born witches, such as Akko. She is also pretty rude to her two followers, Hannah and Barbara when she calls them out for being afraid in the dungeon, saying that because they are witches, they should be the ones instilling fear instead.

!!Tropes:

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[[folder:''Little Witch Academia'' (2013)]]

%%* BullyingADragon: Diana's GirlPosse with a literal dragon in the first film. As the trope implies, it doesn't go too well for them.

* CoversAlwaysLie: [[http://little-witch-academia.wikia.com/wiki/Little_Witch_Academia_(film)?file=LWA_1.jpg The poster for the first film]] seems to have been made before the film was finished, as it contains a number of weird anomalies:

* CulturalCrossReference: The films have a few ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' {{shoutout}}s in the form of plush versions of the characters. The television series has an even more unexpected reference; the shopkeeper in "Don't Stop Me Now" is a [[http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1214334-little-witch-academia dead ringer for Chumlee]] from ''Series/PawnStars''. Unsurprising, considering this series was ''also'' made by Creator/StudioTrigger, who had previously made ''Anime/KillLaKill'' and ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' when they were part of Creator/StudioGainax. The references go beyond ''My Little Pony'', though: the story being set at a WizardingSchool in Britain and the MacGuffin in the first film being called the Sorcerer's Stone are references to ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', witches being disciplined as part of a parade are made to wear fake noses like the "witch" in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', and Amanda in one scene is shown stealing valuables while dressed up like ComicBook/Catwoman.

* ImMelting: In the first film, the minotaur hit with poison melts into a puddle of goo, which promptly eats a clean circular hole through the floor.

* {{Munchkin}}: In the first film, both Akko and Diana go through the "typical RPG" assignment, in which they must penetrate a dungeon to retrieve treasure, as Munchkins of different categories. Diana is Min-Maxed - she declares herself 'invincible' and mows through legions of terrifying monsters, determined to bring back the best loot possible even though the rest of her party urges her to turn back. Akko is an inept Psychopath who gets derailed trying to murder every little blob monster that happens to move her way, even though her party members remind her that killing monsters isn't even part of the assignment.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In the first film, Diana is very distraught after freeing the dragon from its prison and tries to take care of it herself, but it gets out of the dungeon before she catches up to it.

%%* No-Sell: In the first film:

* OhCrap: In the first film:

* SealedEvilInACan: The dragon in the first film. It is stored in the level under the last level reachable by normal means; it is trapped in a torture device infamous for drinking the blood of hundreds of witches, and the device is covered with seals to keep it in... what can possibly go wrong?
* ShortFilm: The first film is just 50 minutes long and had a limited two week engagement in Japanese theaters.

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