Little Witch Academia: Season 1

Having been inspired by a magical performance from the witch Shiny Chariot, Atsuko "Akko" Kagari decides to enroll at Luna Nova Magical Academy. Arriving in the town of Blytonbury, Akko finds the ley line which leads to Luna Nova, but she is teased by some arriving students, who mock her non-magical bloodline. Unable to fly on a broom through the ley line alone, Akko manages to get a lift from Lotte Jansson. However, since Akko was carrying salty pickled plums, she and Lotte, along with Sucy Man

While Akko is puzzled at how the Shiny Rod really works, Sucy reveals to Lotte that she originally came to Luna Nova because the academy has samples of extinct poisonous mushrooms for her to collect. Akko begins her first day of magic lessons at Luna Nova, but the classes do not turn out to be as glamorous as she thought they would be. In addition, she has her first clash with top student Diana Cavendish over their diverging views towards Shiny Chariot. While Akko later ponders over Shiny Chario

Ursula gives an official broom to Akko, who is determined to return the Shiny Rod back to Shiny Chariot when they finally meet. Despite struggling to fly her broom properly during flight magic class, Akko becomes eager to enter the school's traditional broom relay race after learning Shiny Chariot was one of the winners. Later, Akko goes with Lotte to a magic item café, where they come across a legendary broom known as the Shooting Star that has been sealed off for being too temperamental. Inter

As the girls are given supplement training as punishment for stealing a tart during the night, prohibiting them from leaving school grounds, Lotte becomes depressed as it leaves her unable to go in town to attend the release of the latest volume in her favorite book series, Night Fall. Akko and Sucy manage to sneak Lotte aboard a potato delivery bus traveling in town after they hear her passion for the series and desire to meet the author, Annabel Crème. During an event in which Annabel makes he

While being forced to clean the academy's tower following an argument in magic pharmaceutics class, Akko and Amanda witness a horde of dragons flying off with the Sorcerer's Stone, leaving Luna Nova without any magical power. Strangely, the academy staff does not react to this theft, instead accidentally revealing that this is part of an anticipated prophecy involving a dragon. Akko, Amanda, and their friends head to the nearby Rastavan Ruins, after hearing a legend about a white dragon who resi

After magic numerology class, Akko is forced to practice metamorphosis magic in her room. Meanwhile, Luna Nova hosts a welcoming party for Earl Paul Hanbridge and his son Viscount Andrew Hanbridge, who is formally acquainted with Diana. After giving herself rabbit ears during her practice, Akko decides to search for the Fountain of Polaris, believing it can grant her great power. Akko soon comes across Andrew, who expresses a strong disinterest in magic, and she inadvertently gives him rat ears

Akko studies hard for her exams, but still struggles to get decent grades despite Ursula's tutorage. After getting into a fight with Diana's friends Hannah England and Barbara Parker, Akko is threatened with expulsion from Luna Nova should she fail her final exam, which requires an understanding of fish language. While attempting to bribe the fish magic philosophy teacher Pisces by pouring mineral water in her fishbowl, Akko accidentally drops her down a drain into the school's sewage system. Tr

After drinking her own ominous energy drink formula, Sucy winds up in a deep sleep with endless mushrooms growing around her body. Unable to ask for a teacher's help out of fear of expulsion, Akko has Lotte send her into Sucy's dreams in hopes of finding out how to cure Sucy. Enlisting the help of small angel and devil versions of Sucy, Akko encounters several different personality aspects of Sucy in her search for the original Sucy, only to get caught up in a purge of Sucy's unneeded emotions i

While trying to fix some tombstones that she knocked over while at a graveyard in town, Akko accidentally mixes a repair spell with one of Sucy's mushrooms, ultimately bringing a deceased soldier back from the dead. Akko, Lotte, and Sucy find themselves chasing the soldier across town seeking revenge on a coward despite his amnesia. After visiting the proprietor in the magical item café, the girls discover that the coward was a bell-ringer who allegedly broke a promise to his witch daughter Mira

Hearing from Hannah and Barbara about a formal party at Andrew's mansion that Diana is personally invited to attend, Akko, Lotte, and Sucy don magical Cinderella dresses purchased from the magical item café and sneak into the formal party. Just as Andrew notices them and prepares to send them out, a mischievous Sucy sets loose a Cupid Bee that cause whoever it stings to fall in love with the first person they see. Andrew and Diana are each stung by the Cupid Bee, causing them both to fall in lov

Late at night, Ursula does not say much about Shiny Chariot's disappearance to Akko. Meanwhile, Diana discovers from a book in the Reference Archives that the Nine Olde Witches sealed an ancient power known as the Grand Triskellion in Arcturus Forest centuries ago, but it can only be released when the Shiny Rod activates the Seven Words of Arcturus. Recalling a legend about an ancient ghost who only appears on the night of a blue moon, Akko takes the Shiny Rod with her to a cave underneath a cha

As Luna Nova prepares for their annual Samhain Festival, during which the most exemplary student is crowned the Moonlit Witch, each team leader picks an assignment for the festival. Unfortunately, Akko's team is stuck playing symbolic sacrifices for an ever-sorrowful ghost known as Vajarois. Determined to become the Moonlit Witch like Shiny Chariot was, despite her friends' low expectations of her, Akko is later mocked by a mischievous magic mirror, which turns her into an exact likeness of Dian

Wanting to follow Shiny Chariot's example, Akko proposes putting on a show using metamorphosis magic to make Vajarois cry from laughter, which prompts Ursula to look into what caused the grief of Vajarois in the first place. Initially unwilling to get on board with Akko's plan, Lotte and Sucy notice how hard Akko is working to make magic fun and decide to help her in her act. On the day of the festival, Akko transforms into various animals to try to entertain Vajarois, while Lotte and Sucy assis

The worker faeries of Luna Nova form a labor union and abandon their duties until they get a fairer share of energy from the Sorcerer's Stone. A new teacher named Croix Meridies arrives to teach modern magic class, demonstrating her flying roomba-like Sorcery Units. Akko ultimately sides with the faerie labor union in their strike. As the faerie labor union tries to negotiate terms with the academy staff, Croix proposes her new Sorcery Solution System (SSS), which creates new energy out of waste

In modern magic class, Croix explains how a ley line router works, impressing all students except Diana. Upon hearing that Shiny Chariot and Croix were former classmates, Akko goes to Croix, who reveals that Shiny Chariot's real name is Chariot du Nord. Croix invites Akko to her laboratory in the New Moon Tower to analyze the Shiny Rod. However, Croix ends up knocking Akko unconscious and begins examining the data in her memories in order to figure out how she is able to control the Shiny Rod. M

After learning from Ursula and the Shiny Rod that she needs to find something that she is lacking in order to unlock the fourth word, Akko joins Lotte and Sucy as they visit a magic item café owned by Lotte's parents at a remote town in Finland. The next morning, Akko, Lotte, and Sucy discover that Lotte's parents have become infected with the rare Greenman Disease from eating baked hapansilakka pies made from local herring, which will gradually turn them into moss until they wither away. Needin

Learning from Ursula that old history and traditions are the clues needed to unlock the fifth word, Akko and Amanda sneak into Appleton Academy, known for its disdain for witches, in search for a chalice known as the Holy Grail. As Amanda and Akko respectively disguise themselves as a student and a rat, Amanda has a heated run-in with the chairman's son Louis Blackwell, before they both come across Andrew, who refuses to disclose the whereabouts of the Holy Grail. Akko finds the Holy Grail store

An annual ghost-hunting event known as the Wild Hunt is coming to Blytonbury for its final stage. Akko offers to help silent tech genius Constanze Amalie von Braunschbank Albrechtsberger, who was invited by Croix to participate in the Wild Hunt. Though since Akko wrecked one of the Stanbots, Constanze's robotic helpers, Constanze refuses to receive help from Akko, preferring to work alone. However, Akko eventually proves herself worthy as a partner when gathering the necessary supplies to assemb

Akko learns from Hannah and Barbara that Diana is leaving Luna Nova at midnight to become the head of the Cavendish family. Before Diana departs, Akko is irritated by the fact that their rivalry was one-sided, but she is surprised that Diana researched all about the seven words. Akko refuses to accept that Diana simply left despite their past differences, deciding to head straight to the Cavendish manor in Wedinburgh to change Diana's mind, joining up with Andrew and Paul along the way. Once the

As Diana prepares for her ascension ceremony, which occurs once every few years during a Venus eclipse, she is constrained by Daryl's pet serpents. Meanwhile, Andrew tells Akko that Diana lost her magical abilities during childhood until something rekindled her determination. Akko and Andrew then overhear Daryl talking to her daughters Maril and Merrill Cavendish about her scheme to stop Diana from performing the ceremony. Akko decides to enter the Cavendish shrine and rescue Diana, only to get

Looking into the meaning behind the sixth word, Akko hears from Croix about how Chariot climbed a legendary tree called Wagandea to discover it. Unfortunately, Ursula urges Akko to refrain from doing this, due to a dangerous pollen released that is poisonous to witches. Despite this, Croix takes Akko to Wagandea anyway. While Akko begins climbing Wagandea, Ursula rushes to her safety, only to be ambushed by Croix. It is revealed that Croix has held a grudge against Chariot for being chosen as th

Andrew and Paul hear news reporting a feud between nations about a controversial soccer verdict threatening to erupt into an international conflict. Meanwhile, Ursula tells Akko that the seventh word lies within her heart in order to find it. Diana notifies Akko to meet in town with Andrew, who returns her witch hat previously left in his limo. However, she notices some Pixels hovering around the rioters, soon coming across Croix on top of a building. Akko discovers that Croix has been manipulat

In the past, Chariot became a performer to spread happiness with her magic from the Shiny Rod while in search of the seventh word. When her magic acts were demanded more entertainment, Ursula was tricked into using Croix's research of dream fuel spirit at the show which Akko attended. Upon learning that Croix's technique stole magic from spectators, Chariot's performance without relying on it led to her inadvertently destroying part of the moon, causing Chariot to lose the right to use the Shiny

In the laboratory, Ursula is unable to stop Croix from activating the Noir Rod, which manages to disable all magic across the country. As Croix takes the Noir Rod to Arcturus Forest, Akko and her friends also end up there after the magic goes out in the ley line. Croix uses the Noir Rod to unseal the Grand Triskellion, only to discover that it is just a twig wand capable of casting simple magic. Suddenly, the Noir Rod goes berserk due to the uncontrollable emotions from the rioters and attacks C

Ursula, Croix, and the girls learn that the remnants of the Noir Rod have taken control of the ICBM that threatens to destroy Great Britain's rivaled nation due to Croix's app that absorbs angry spirit energy. Unable to stop the Noir Missile by conventional means, Akko and her friends bundle their flight magic with the Shiny Rod's fifth word, working it like a multistage rocket to catch up with the Noir Missile. Incidentally, the effort of the girls is broadcast around the world. Many people wit