Earlier in November, it was announced that TYPE-MOON visual novel, Witch on the Holy Night, will receive a manga adaptation. Keigo Maki, the author and illustrator of Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie, is in charge of the adaptation. The manga will being serialization in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine Issue #50 on November 11 in Japan. In addition to the adaptation reveal, Kodansha announced that the Witch on the Holy Night manga will receive an English release on K MANGA starting Tuesday, November 10, nearly the same time as its release in Japan.
You can check out the manga’s announcement trailer below.
Witch on the Holy Night is a visual novel developed by TYPE-MOON and first released for PC in 2012. The visual novel’s HD remaster released in 2022 for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch and 2023 for PC via Steam. It was first written in 1996 by Kinoko Nasu and it laid the groundwork (see note *6 in READ ME! column) for future works by Nasu such as Tsukihime and Fate/stay night. In addition to the manga, the visual novel has been adapted to other forms of media including a 3-part novel series published by Seikasha FICTIONS and a soon to be released anime film by ufotable.
Keigo Maki, the creator in charge of the manga adaptation, is known for writing and illustrating the Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie manga series which was published by Kodansha from 2019 to 2023. Since 2025, Maki has worked on a new supernatural romance series titled NakiNagi which is also published by Kodansha.
If you’re interested in the Witch on the Holy Night manga adaptation, you can follow the manga’s official X account and K MANGA on X.
