Sandbox / Cute Witch

Wick check: 60

• classical Magical Girl: 2 (5%)
• "this character is a witch/ can use magic": 15 (25%)
• "this witch is cute": 12 (20%)
• ZCE / unhelpful potholes: 31 (50%)

Classical Magical Girl

• Sasami: Magical Girls Club: Re-imagining of the 1996 Affectionate Parody Pretty Sammy series as a 2006 Magical Girl anime of the Cute Witch variety. Sasami Iwakura is a young girl with magical powers of a telekinetic type that her parents forbid her from using. This has led to her feeling isolated due to a belief of herself as some sort of freak. One day, she goes to the newly formed cooking club headed by Washu, a rather eccentric teacher that starts the club off by faking an attempt to kill her pet. After some hilarity, it turns out that the cooking club is a front for the magical girls club, with Sasami and Misao as the first members. Through this club, they meet more awakening magical girls and discover a masquerade involving a magical world.
• Sugar Sugar Rune: The series features this type of Magical Girl.

"this character is a witch/ can use magic"

• Waccha PriMagi!: The treasured can use magic, and collect Waccha during performances to do more.
• Childhood Friends: As in canon, Sabrina's a petite teenaged witch who's a Nice Girl and has Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold.
• Sleepy Hollow (1999): Katrina practices witchcraft, since she is seen making a potion and chanting a spell when Ichabod falls ill. She goes more toward Cute Witch.
• Magic Kaito - Black Magician Girl: Akako Koizumi is, admittedly, a Cute Witch.
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Sabrina of course, as she's a sixteen-year-old witch who's shy about fitting in.
• Band vs. Band: Honey practices a type of religion that she made up, but seems to be based off of Wicca.
• ActRaiser: At first, she's quite a coward, wanting to run away from her duties. Over the course of her arc, she develops into a fine witch, gaining the confidence to save the day.
• Azure Dreams - Black Magician Girl/Cute Witch/Hot Witch: She's a self-proclaimed witch, but it's mostly in her appearance. In her defense, she did cast a fireball once at a U-boat.
• Brawl Stars: Damage Dealers: Becomes one in her appropriately named Witch skin.
• Buffyverse: Willow Rosenberg: More so as the series goes on. Just don't make her angry. Parodied in a Halloween Episode where Willow is ranting about the Wicked Witch stereotype... until she sees a little girl dressed up as a witch and finds it adorable.
• Corpse Party (PC-98): In Book of Shadows, we learn she is descended from a family that really had magic powers. Her older sister is a Hot Witch instead.
• Fate/Grand Order: Casters A To F: She's a witch in a tutu.
• Genshin Impact: Knights of Favonius: She dresses like one in her Blossoming Starlight Outfit to match her mage mother, Alice.
• Land of Oz: Develops into one over the course of her appearances. In her first appearance, in Road to Oz, she very explicitly says she doesn't know any magic. In her fourth appearance (third if we only count Oz books) in The Tin Woodman of Oz, she's flinging magic spells left and right.
• Midnight Train: In Lydia's 2019 Halloween artwork, Luna is dressed as a witch.

this witch is cute

• Legion of Super-Heroes: Retroboot: She's quite cute for a sorceress.
• Galaxy Angel II: She's one adorable witch.
• Kiki's Delivery Service: Witches don't come much cuter than Kiki.
• Persona: The Sougawa Files - Halloween Episode: The second and third bonus chapters focus around the gang having some fun during Halloween. Everyone has a costume, of course - Rina dresses up as a detective, Hikaru goes as a knight, Izumi goes as a gladiator, Wilma goes as a superhero called The Mottled Minder, Ryouichi goes as a Cowboy, Tamiko goes as a Cute Witch, and Kazuki goes as a vampire. Arata and Satomi don't have costumes, as they stayed at the Sougawa Clock Tower to hand out candy.
• Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: Katelyn, who always goes as a witch on Halloween, and her princess, who is a pretty witch princess.
• Fighting Foodons: Ham-Scam Witch, so much so that it is part of her attack strategy.
• The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Chiyo dresses like this in the splash page for Chapter 76.
• Suite Pretty Cure Ep 37 Everyone Transform For Halloween: Kanade dresses as a pumpkin witch.
• Die Liewe Heksie: Livinia herself qualifies. The illustrations in the original childrens' books make her look even cuter with blonder and better-kept hair.
• Let Me Explain Studios: Although Rebecca as a kid wanted to be a Wicked Witch who was feared by others, her current self still takes on the image of a witch, but with a more adorable and amicable demeanor.
• Little Charmers: Hazel, Lavender, and Posie are adorable young mages.
• Ultimate Book of Spells: Cassy is both cute as a button and a skilled witch.

zce/ unhelpful potholes

• Blaze Union
• Merlin S 03 E 09 Love In The Time Of Dragons: Alice.
• Kuromajo-san ga Toru!!
• Coffin Princess Chaika: Chaika
• Bless the Child: Ellie.
• There's More Magic Out There: Alix the witch
• Magical Witch Punie Chan
• Nurse Witch Komugi
• Atlantica Online: So much.
• Lily the Witch: Lily's a redheaded preteen.
• Pet Projects: Notle, possibly.
• Dracula Everlasting: Hecate, or Cate for short.
• Trollz: The majority of Trolls, especially the main group.
• ACE Academy: Her Halloween costume.
• A Slap On Titan: Krista, though it remains to be seen if she has actual magic powers and isn't merely insane.
• Cascade Cabaret OCT: Though with a fiery temper, Paige qualifies.
• Crusade Paladins: When she was a child.
• Majo no Shinzou: Mika. Her sister also (may) count.
• The Deadland: Jade Harley, Lillet, the growing Puella Magi cast... And they're some of the more obvious powerhouses, too.
• Elden Ring: Secondary Characters - Expy: With a literal wolf head, scarred eye, massive, armored physique, and huge greatsword, Blaidd is another of FromSoftware's Guts expies. His close association with the witch Ranni even brings to mind Guts' relationship to Schierke.
• Nagasarete Airantou - Mad Scientist: Chikage. During one certain storyline, she becomes a Cute Witch, ironically enough.
• Grand Chase Dimensional Chaser Grand Chase - Kawaiiko: Downplayed compared to her appearance in Grand Chase, although she is still the self-proclaimed Cute Witch, and it reflects in her quotes and dress style.
• Monika After Story: And Marisa Kirisame. Selecting the outfit to wear on other occasions even has her say "Its just an ordinary outfit, ze", quoting the "ordinary witch" and her Catchphrase.
• The Worst Witch: Mildred is an extremely clumsy one.
• Bodacious Space Pirates - Cosplay: Specifically they have: an Angel, a cheerleader, a Cowgirl, Cute Monster Girl/Kaiju, Cute Witch/Dark Magical Girl, Fair Cop, Fair Folk, Naughty Nun, Naughty Nurse Outfit, Playboy Bunny, Race Queen and a soldier in a formal uniform or possibly (especially in light of the next episode) Prince Charming.
• Raised by Grandparents: In The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, it's implied that the Cute Witch Irene is being brought up by her grandmother, who is the only other witch in the game.
• Phenotype Stereotype: In I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, Azusa became a fair-skinned, blue-eyed blonde Cute Witch in a Medieval European Fantasy universe after reincarnation.
• Mental Health Recovery Arc: In Date A Live, Cute Witch Natsumi goes through a very rough one after Shido and friends rescue her from Ellen before her spirit powers are sealed. She thinks her true form is hideous. The arc revolves around getting her to accept herself and her honestly cute appearance, first with a makeover that ends with her having a mild Freak Out over her new, cute appearance (and inability to admit that she likes her new look) and ends with her coming out of Shido's pocket where she was disguised as a lollipop to save the day. Even after her sealing, her mental state is stated to be the weakest of all the spirits, which has the side effect of allowing her access to her powers when sufficiently upset.
• Mushroom Man: Catmaze have sentient, walking mushroom folks as recurring enemies in the forest stages, from shrooms reaching the waist of your Cute Witch protagonist to towering Giant Mook shrooms.
• Themed Harem: Ghoul Instructor Naruto gives Naruto a harem of Cute Monster Girls in the form of the Grimwood Academy girls and Miss Grimwood's niece Gem.