[Anime]/Little Witch Academia 2

Yes, you read that title correctly. The folks at Trigger have heard the calls from the masses and are currently attempting to get funds together to make a sequel to the astronomically loved Little Witch Academia. That said, this time around, you too can help!

How? Well, that's simple...they've started a Kickstarter campaign. Their goal? To extend the second episode by an entire 15minutes to be better as a sequel. A move that I have to agree with fully, there was just so much more that we wanted to see from this world.

That said, here's the full details from the Kickstarter campaign:

Little Witch Academia 2 (tentative title) is the sequel to the acclaimed animated title Little Witch Academia, and will once again be directed by Yoh Yoshinari and hand animated by Studio TRIGGER. The episode is currently planned to be about 20 minutes long, but we've come to Kickstarter in the hopes that we can make it even longer and better with your help! With your support, we want to increase the length of the episode by 15 minutes and make an amazing sequel that fans will be proud of! In order to accomplish this, we're hoping to raise $150,000 with this Kickstarter project.

Some of the concept work that's already up on the Kickstarter page as well

Currently the goals consist of wallpapers at the $1 pledge level and go all the way up to a trip to visit the offices of Studio Trigger and the related companies involved in the project for a $10,000 pledge, and that level is already completely sold out! With the unexpected success of the first episode aided by its legal availability on YouTube and Crunchyroll, I have no doubt that Trigger will hit their goal well ahead of the August 7th deadline.

At the time of this writing, they've received over $131,000 from 1,100 donors. I think it's safe to say that they're definitely going to meet their current goal of $150,000 since they have 29 days left...if they didn't, it'd be a crime. 

Haven't seen Little Witch Academia yet? You've no excuse not to! Not only did I review the now famous short, but it's available for free on YouTube...or you can watch it below!