Autumn 2026 is a special season for TYPE-MOON fans. ufotable's theatrical anime Witch on the Holy Night (Mahoutsukai no Yoru) opens in Japan on Friday, November 20. On October 29, Aniplex announced that the film's score album, Witch on the Holy Night (Theatrical Anime) Original Soundtrack, will be released as a 2-CD set on Wednesday, December 23. It is priced at 3,850 yen (tax included), catalog number SVWC-70809–70810, and first pressings come in a three-sided box featuring new artwork by ufotable.

The score is by Hideyuki Fukasawa, one of the composers who worked on the music of the original visual novel Witch on the Holy Night, released in 2012. Fourteen years later, the same person is scoring the same story's "night" again, this time for the big screen. That doesn't happen very often.

From one of the original game's composers to the film's sole score credit

The official staff list for the 2022 PlayStation 4 / Nintendo Switch release of Witch on the Holy Night credited four people for music: Hideyuki Fukasawa, Keita Haga, James Harris and hil. In other words, the original game's sound was built by a team. For the film, the score is credited to Fukasawa alone. Someone who knows the original's atmosphere is redrawing it as a single new line for cinema, and that alone raises expectations for the soundtrack.

The story is set in the late 1980s and follows the meeting of three people: Aoko Aozaki (voiced by Haruka Tomatsu), an apprentice mage and student council president; Alice Kuonji (Kana Hanazawa), the witch who lives with her; and Soujuurou Shizuki (Yusuke Kobayashi), a transfer student who has moved from the mountains to the city. Late-Showa streets, an old Western-style mansion, and the night. Anyone who played the original will remember that slightly cold, slightly nostalgic air.

"UBW" and "Tsukihime": Fukasawa's long history with TYPE-MOON

Born in Tokyo in 1970, Hideyuki Fukasawa began his career as a synthesizer programmer in 1991 and has moved between games and anime ever since. Game fans know him for Street Fighter IV (2009), and last year he scored the TV anime Gnosia (2025), mixing arrangements of the original game's music with newly written pieces.

His ties to TYPE-MOON titles run deep. The main ones:

  • 2012: the game Witch on the Holy Night (the original)
  • 2014: the TV anime Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] (produced by ufotable)
  • 2021: the game Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- (with Keita Haga)
  • 2026: Witch on the Holy Night (theatrical anime)

This is the first ufotable × TYPE-MOON × Fukasawa combination since UBW. ufotable's visuals carry a lot of information in light and shadow; if the music leans in too hard it quickly becomes noisy, and if it pulls back too far it loses to the density of the image. How far will a composer who has already walked that tightrope on UBW push it in a two-hour theatrical feature? That is something we want to hear for ourselves once the film opens.

As a side note, Fukasawa has said his way into music was hearing the soundtrack of the anime film Swan Lake at age ten, which drew him to Tchaikovsky. A story of witches and night, scored by someone led into music by Tchaikovsky: as coincidences go, it is almost too neat.

supercell returns too: theme song and soundtrack release schedule through year-end

The theme song is also worth noting. The film's theme is "Yoru to Ao" (Night and Blue), a new song by supercell. In the original game, supercell also wrote the ending theme "Hoshi ga Matataku Konna Yoru ni." Both the score and the theme song are coming back from the same people as the original, almost as if the staff were declaring that this film is an extension of the original work.

Here is a summary of related releases through the end of the year:

  • Fri, Nov 20: Witch on the Holy Night opens in theaters (simultaneous IMAX release from day one)
  • Sat, Nov 21: supercell "Yoru to Ao" digital release
  • Wed, Nov 25: "Yoru to Ao" anime edition CD (jacket newly illustrated by ufotable)
  • Wed, Dec 9: "Yoru to Ao" supercell edition CD
  • Wed, Dec 23: Witch on the Holy Night (Theatrical Anime) Original Soundtrack (2 CDs)

The track count has not been announced yet. Even so, two discs is a generous amount for the score of a single theatrical film, and the schedule lets you revisit the phrases that stuck with you in the theater just before Christmas.

Take in Fukasawa's score through IMAX sound, then check your impressions against the 2-CD set a month later. Hearing how he re-scored a "night" 14 years in the making, and what he chose to change and keep, may be the biggest pleasure of this winter.