Witch on the Holy Night Release Date: US Theaters January 29, No Crunchyroll Stream Yet

Crunchyroll has set January 29, 2027 as the Witch on the Holy Night release date in United States and Canadian theaters, with both English-dubbed and Japanese-with-subtitles screenings. The ufotable-animated film opens in Japan first, on November 20, 2026, so North American fans face a two-month wait after the Japanese premiere.

Crunchyroll is distributing the film alongside Sony Pictures Entertainment in North America. The first trailer landed with the dates, and it is the studio's own footage rather than a teaser cut from the 2012 visual novel's art.

When does the Witch on the Holy Night release date land in your country?

The rollout is staggered across nine days, and a few markets get it before the US. The announced schedule:

• November 20, 2026 — Japan
• January 21 — Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
• January 26 — Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland
• January 27 — France, Belgium, French-speaking Switzerland
• January 28 — Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Central America, Italy, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Italian-speaking Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand
• January 29 — United States, Canada, UK and Ireland, Finland, Poland, Sweden, India
• February 5 — Spain, Kazakhstan

Ticketing has not opened anywhere outside Japan, and no theater chains or premium formats have been named yet.

Will it stream on Crunchyroll?

Not on day one, and no streaming date has been announced. The announcement covers theatrical distribution only. Crunchyroll's recent anime features have typically reached the service months after their cinema runs, but nothing about this title has been confirmed, so treat any specific streaming date circulating online as guesswork.

That matters more than usual here, because the film is being handled as a theatrical event rather than a subscription drop. If you want to see it in January, a cinema ticket is the only confirmed route. Readers who prefer waiting for a platform date can compare that with how other anime is landing right now — Fool Night arrives on Netflix on November 26, and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 drops all 10 episodes on October 20.

Is there an English dub?

Yes. Crunchyroll confirmed both an English dub and Japanese audio with English subtitles for the North American run. The dub cast has not been announced. The Japanese cast is led by Haruka Tomatsu as Aoko Aozaki, Yusuke Kobayashi as Sojuro Shizuki and Kana Hanazawa as Alice Kuonji.

Which version plays at your local screen usually comes down to the chain, and those listings normally appear four to six weeks out. Expect subtitled and dubbed showtimes to be split across different sessions rather than different weeks.

What is Witch on the Holy Night?

It adapts the 2012 visual novel written by Kinoko Nasu and developed by Type-Moon, the studio behind the Fate franchise. Aoko Aozaki is a high schooler who is secretly a magician in training, living an ordinary life in a modern town until a boy discovers what she is.

Animation is by ufotable, the studio whose work on Demon Slayer turned that franchise's films into some of the highest-grossing anime ever released. That pairing is the reason this is getting a wide international cinema run at all, rather than a limited two-night event.

Type-Moon's catalogue already sits at the centre of a large mobile ecosystem, and if the film sends you looking for something to play on the commute, our roundup of the best anime games for Android covers the gacha and no-gacha options. For a comparison on the streaming side, The Mandalorian and Grogu reached Disney+ 103 days after theaters — a useful yardstick for how long a cinema-first title can take to reach a subscription.