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Witch Watch

Japanese manga series by Kenta Shinohara

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Witch Watch is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kenta Shinohara. It has been serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump since February 2021, with its chapters collected in 27 tankōbon volumes as of August 2026. An anime television series adaptation produced by Bibury Animation Studios aired from April to October 2025. A second season has been announced.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Witch Watch” is japanese manga series by Kenta Shinohara. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Witch, Watch and Japanese, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2026, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Witch, Watch and Japanese is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “japanese manga series by Kenta Shinohara” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2021, 2026 and 2025.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Witch Watch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.