Hello, I Am a Witch and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion! Starts 5 October, and 39 of Our 69 Free Witch Episodes Carry the Tag at Just 20
The new series is not free here. Of 227 witch-tagged entries on AnimeSphere, 13 state free episodes and six well-known witch titles state none; here are three to start in English today, two of them first episodes only.
By Sana Whitfield · AnimeSphere staff · September 14, 2026
On Monday Kadokawa put out a fresh promotional video and key visual for Hello, I Am a Witch and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion!, the television anime adapting the light novel series illustrated by Vient and written by Eiko Mutsuhana. According to Anime News Network, it debuts in Japan on 5 October, on television and on streaming.
Akira Sekine and Hiro Shimono join Yōhei Azakami and Mikako Komatsu, who were announced earlier. Keizō Kusakawa directs at the studio diomedéa. The ending song is "Mada Uso ni wa Naranai" by Rainy. The opening song is Centimillimental's "Kanawanai".
Our index holds the series under its Japanese title, Doumo, Suki na Hito ni Horegusuri wo Irai Sareta Majo desu. It is listed as a 2026 television series with no episode total yet, carrying the witch tag at 60 out of 100, and it is not free to watch here.
What the witch shelf holds
Our index tags 227 entries with the witch tag, each scored out of 100 for how central the tag is. Just 13 of the 227 list free episodes, 69 in all, and 8 of those 13 list exactly one.
Those 69 episodes are unevenly spread. The 73 entries tagged at 80 or higher hold 12 of them across 5 entries, and half of those 12 belong to Magic User's Club!, a 1996 original video series. The 111 entries tagged from 60 to 79, the new series among them, hold 18 across 6 entries. The 43 tagged below 60 hold 39 across just 2 entries: Monster Strike the Anime 2nd Season with 23 and Love Magic Grocery with 16. Both carry the witch tag at only 20. More than half of the shelf's free episodes sit with those two.
Several well-known witch titles list none. WITCH WATCH, the 2025 television series tagged at 100, shows no free episode here. Nor do these, with their witch-tag scores in brackets: the 2017 Little Witch Academia television series (98), Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina (2020, 96), the 1989 film Kiki's Delivery Service (94), Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011, 90) and the 2004 film Howl's Moving Castle (77).
Where to start in English
These three free entries can be started in English today: one English dub and two with an English subtitle track, two of them first episodes only.
- Yamada and the Seven Witches, a 2015 television series with the witch tag at 94, has only episode 1 of 12 free. Its episode 1 page plays a whole-episode upload from the Crunchyroll channel, which carries a YouTube verified badge, as an English dub, and that upload's country allow-list includes the United States.
- Goodbye, Lara, a 2026 television series tagged at 61, also has only episode 1 of 12 free. Its episode 1 page plays a whole-episode upload from the Crunchyroll channel, with Japanese audio and an English subtitle track, and that upload's country allow-list includes the United States.
- All 16 episodes of the web series Love Magic Grocery are free here, the complete run, playing whole-episode uploads from the iQIYI Animation channel, which carries a YouTube verified badge. Each has an English subtitle track, their country allow-list includes the United States, and its witch tag scores only 20.