After Kazuma Satou dies, he finds himself sent to another world by the goddess, Aqua for a second chance at life. This is no world like Earth though, he must learn to deal with magic and a great many things that are unknown to him. Not only that, he is also given the immense task of defeating the Demon King. With a crew that is anything but ordinary, Kazuma must make his way through the mysterious world and fulfill his destiny.

Megumin is the unlikely partner that fuels the strong magic of Kazuma’s team. In order to achieve her costume, a short long-sleeved peasant dress must be worn along with a long black cloak. A pair of suede boots are on her foot while one leg is dressed in a long thigh high, black sock and the other in a white bandage. A wide brown belt and a large witch’s hat will complete this ensemble for one very powerful witch.

Though enrolled at magic school, student Louise Francoise Le Blanc de La Vallière is completely hopeless. She soon summons a familiar that she is none to kind to. No ordinary slave though, he bears the mark of a powerful familiar. Does this mean the Louise is more powerful than any could have imagined possible?

With a pink wig, Louise Valliere’s outfit is relatively simple. Pair a white button down shirt with a black mini skirt and you have the bulk of her outfit. Add a long black cape and some black thigh high socks to complete the look. Any black flats would make an ideal footwear for this comfy costume.

While Ryuu Yamada may not always live up to his reputation as a violent delinquent, it doesn’t stop the rumors from spreading and causes him to attend a school far away from the rumors. Things soon become boring as they begin to surface again but he finds friendship with Supernatural Studies Club and honors student Urara Shiraishi. Things are more unique than they appear as the club is revealed to have more mysteries than they ever thought possible.

This smart blonde is an excellent way to dress up this Halloween season. A short-sleeved button up shirt with a short plaid skirt make this outfit. With a yellow pullover and a witch’s hat, this outfit is complete. If you really want to make this look complete, tie your hair back with some red bobby pins for a cute and authentic appearance.

When 15-year-old Makoto Kowata goes out into the world to evolve into a full-fledged witch, she must gather knowledge to aid in her training. Chito, her familiar black cat, accompanies her on this journey and helps her through the challenges that she must face. Facing many trials and the difficulty of being a high school student allows for this wholesome and entertaining anime to weave its way right into your heart.

Makoto Kowata’s appearance is perfect for the chilly Halloween night. A long black wig or hair dye can accomplish her unique style. A yellow cardigan with a red tie underneath and a short plaid skirt are easy to obtain and clothes that you will very well wear again. Unearth your black tights to get ready for fall and pair with some brown shoes to complete the look. Makoto’s broomstick will be the last thing that you need to finish this comfortable and convenient costume.

Wanting something bad enough generally means it will come true, especially for Atsuko Kagari. With the dream of becoming a witch, she enrolls at Luna Nova Magical Academy. Her studies are more difficult than expected and she must overcome many trials in order to call herself a full-fledged witch. The possibilities are endless with the help of her friends and she must learn what it means to be a witch and the responsibility of practicing her beloved skill.

Sucy Manbavaran, the sarcastic friend of Atsuko Kagari, is likely the most generic witch costume on this list. With a large witch’s hat and a long black dress, her outfit is mostly complete. Add a red belt for some individuality and voila! Sucy’s appearance must be accompanied by her unique personality to truly become this character for Halloween.

Youkai Academy is filled to the brim with monsters that remain in their human form during school hours. However, when normal human, Tsukune Aono, transfers in, he is in for a more difficult time than he could ever have imagined. By helping the students over their problems with the help of vampire Moka Akashiya, he learns to have a great time and build lasting bonds with his monster friends.

As one of the witches enrolled at Youkai Academy, Yukari as expected wears a school uniform. Pair a red shirt with a corset and a short plaid skirt. Add a flowing black cape and any witches hat to look like this cute little witch. Any sort of black shoes will do but if you are keeping around an old pair from a private or catholic school at the back of your closet, those would be perfect! With some thigh high yellow socks, the outfit is completed for the most adorable look this Halloween.

When Chihiro becomes separated from her parents, she ends up in a bath house for spirits. Run by an angry witch named Yubaba, Chihiro must learn to survive in a world that she knows nothing about. She faces many trials and difficult situations that allow her to navigate the world of the spirits. Her experiences ultimately teach her the meaning of friendship, humility and love.

Let’s face it, not all of us are in our younger days and want something for an older person. Yubaba is the perfect example of an older and more dignified witch (for those of you who can’t stand her you could also dress as her twin sister Zeniba). A long blue dress is the textbook example of Yubaba. Throw your hair into a sophisticated bun and add on all the jewels and gold that you own. Yubaba may be aggressive but she knows how to run things seamlessly.

Subaru Natsuki leaves everything behind when leaves the convenience store in his hometown. Unknowingly, he is plopped into a new and strange world with magic. He soon encounters the beautiful and mysterious Satella. She disappears and he continues to seek her out in order for her to aid his experience in this unfamiliar world. This world is more dangerous than it seems though, murders are high and brutality is running rampant through the city.

This woman requires an air of determination and pride. You would need a long with a long-sleeved black dress down to the floor. Add a thigh high slit to your skirt and bows to your wig and you have this witch’s outfit. As a more prominent and popular anime, this idea will likely have some anime fans clued into your costume.

Maria takes pity on the humans caught up in France’s Hundred Years’ War. With the gift of magic, she attempts to quell the violence that the humans are so intent on, but her interference is given little support from the divine beings. She is forbidden to use magic to interfere and after being branded a heretic by the Catholic Church, she must find a way to create peace in her village while battling the forces of what is right and what she is ordered to do.

For those of you looking for a much more adult and scandalous costume, look no further. Maria is dripping with sexual appeal and latex. A black swimsuit could double as her body suit with a thick green belt around the waist. For those of you with chillier nights, pair her outfit with her famous fur-lined cloak. Add some circular red earrings and a pair of thigh high black boots to make this outfit complete.

In order to be considered a full witch, Kiki must travel on her own for one year. With the help of her cat Jiji, they encounter many experiences and overcome numerous trials. By creating a delivery service for her town’s small bakery, she is able to learn the meaning of responsibility and understand the true power of independence.

Kiki’s outfit is fairly simple; a dark blue dress makes up most of this outfit. A red bow and red flats are accents to this dress. However, if you want to be truly authentic, make sure to have a stuffed cat or if you have the means, a live one. A messenger bag can serve as your trick or treat basket and a broom can be added if you deem it necessary. This classic character offers an easy outfit with clothes that you likely have around your house.

Arata’s normal life ended abruptly with the words “Awaken now, Kasuga Arata”, as that spurred the Breakdown Phenomenon, a highly destructive event which saw Arata’s town reduced to rubble and all the townspeople whisked into the oblivion created by a black shadow covering the sun. Arata’s memories return to him in an unpleasant torrent: he comes to the realisation that he had been living inside an illusion created by an immensely powerful spellbook. A mage named Asami Lilith appears to investigate the phenomenon and gives Arata an ultimatum: relinquish the spellbook or die. Arata chooses to instead enroll in the top-secret Royal Biblia Academy, a magic school. Within the academy are the Trinity Seven, each a beauty with her own power. With their help, Arata hopes that he’ll be able to stop the world’s destruction and bring back his cousin, Kasuga Hijiri.

Rocking long blonde twintails, an all-black outfit featuring thigh high boots, opera gloves, shorts and a dress that leaves her navel open; and an ambition to become one of the most powerful witches ever, Lieselotte Sherlock is Trinity Seven’s antagonist before being saved by Kasuga Arata. She conducted an experiment which granted her access to a powerful object known as the Magic King’s Element, which turned Lieselotte into a Magic King Candidate – an immature iteration of a Magic King, a being which is brought about to destroy the entire world. Thanks to the efforts of the protagonist, Lieselotte lost her Magic King’s Element and is therefore no longer a Magic King Candidate. Lieselotte is; however, an awesome Halloween Costume Candidate, an ability which we believe gives Lieselotte more power than she could have ever dreamed of.

Medieval France. A war against England dubbed the Hundred Years’ War has been wreaking havoc and destruction in the lives of innocent people. The young witch Maria expresses her chagrin at the situation and uses her powers to prevent further conflict, which gathers divine attention and the Archangel Michael is sent to prevent Maria from further meddling in human matters. Michael forbids Maria from using her powers, creating a situation where Maria will lose her powers should she lose her virginity. Undeterred from her goal despite divine intervention, Maria continues to use her powers to dispel the war, but with the Church beginning to make moves to render her powerless, Maria may see a different battle in the near future.

Short blonde hair with curls on the ends, blue eyes, red earrings and a black mini-dress with slits revealing black hot pants and black thigh-high boots are all ingredients which make up the beautiful witch that is Maria. Maria’s awesome dress sense makes for a good outfit, but more than that, her powers give her an edge in terms of her goals – she is a good-natured witch who seeks to end all wars and cannot stand suffering, a character trait which has seen her help even the people who had given her grief. Her kindness did not go unnoticed as, ironically, the Archangel Michael went out of his way to try to take away Maria’s anti-suffering magic powers.

Takigawa Yoshino is secretly dating his best friend Mahiro’s little sister, Fuwa Aika, until her untimely death. After Aika’s death, Mahiro disappears, vowing to find his sister’s killer, until, a month after Mahiro’s disappearance, Yoshino is held at gunpoint by a strange girl. Making a hero’s entrance, Mahiro steps in just in time to save his friend. Mahiro has found an ally in the form of Kusaribe Hakaze, a witch from the Kusaribe Clan, to help him find Aika’s killer and the existence of the Tree of Exodus, the power of which Hakaze’s brother seeks to use for his own gain. However; Hakaze is stranded on a deserted island and unable to physically find Aika’s killer and the Tree of Exodus, so it is up to Yoshino and Mahiro to save Aika and the world.

Despite being stranded on an island, Hakaze is actually the Princess of the Kusaribe Clan and known as the Magician of Genesis, tasked to protect the Tree of Genesis, the source of magic power used by the Kusaribe Clan. Hakaze is also the most powerful sorceress in history, but due to the barrier set up on the island, her only means of magic use is through a wooden doll she uses to communicate with Mahiro. In her debut, Hakaze is dressed in nothing more than the remains of what used to be a short light pink dress – a look she pulls off effortlessly. Due to the fact that Hakaze’s power stems from the Tree of Genesis, which governs the world’s logic, Hakaze and the rest of the Kusaribe Clan are incredibly powerful.

Following tradition, young witch Kiki must move out of her parents’ home at a tender age and find a new town in which to settle. With her black cat, Jiji, Kiki flies to a far-off city and starts her own high-speed delivery service while learning more about independence and responsibility as a young witch.

Kiki’s a very cute rendition of the stereotypical witch – she flies on a broom and wears a dark robe and even has her own familiar, Jiji the cat. Kiki’s Delivery Service is a staple of the anime community and one of the several Studio Ghibli films that everyone needs to watch at least once. Kiki’s bubbly attitude make for an extremely pleasant film and perhaps, for the sake of Halloween, people could finally don their best black dresses and possibly have their black cats give them a little extra attention.

Takamiya Honoka’s has a fairly standard school life, apart from the fact that he commutes to and from school with the school sweetheart, Kagari Ayaka. With everyone fawning over Ayaka at any given moment, Honoka’s life is made extra complicated by the fact that he also sits next to her in class, invoking the envy of all his classmates. While taking out the trash one day, a school building falls on Honoka, but he is narrowly saved by… Kagari Ayaka?? She reveals that she has been protecting him in secret and also tells him that she is a fire witch here to protect Honoka from other witches who seek to use the power Honoka possesses. In one fell swoop, Honoka’s regular life goes up in flames!

Being a fire witch, Ayaka is capable of conjuring up flames, transform into flames and like most other witches, she can use a broom to fly. Normally Ayaka dons her standard Tougetsu Academy uniform, at times with her red witch’s hat and cloak draped over it. Coupled with Honoka’s power, Ayaka is capable of transforming – her hair turning white and her body enveloped in flames and she dons a green robe, a look which should be all the flames for anyone looking to be bewitching this Halloween.

The Seven Deadly Sins was a group of the Kingdom of Liones’s most powerful Holy Knights and highly revered until they plotted to overthrow the kingdom, an incident which incited the Holy War, in which they were defeated. Ten years later, with the Seven Deadly Sins forced into hiding and the Kingdom reeling from the effects of war, the Holy Knights themselves staged a coup d’état, becoming the new despotic rulers of the Kingdom of Liones. Wishing to take back her kingdom from the Holy Knights, third princess of the Kingdom of Liones, Elizabeth, seeks to find the Seven Deadly Sins and with their help, bring justice to the kingdom.

One of the Seven Deadly Sins is none other than the witch Merlin, the Boar’s Sin of Gluttony and King Arthur’s right-hand. Known to many as Britannia’s greatest sorcerer, Merlin uses her Sacred Treasure, the Morning Star Aldan in combat and she is capable of using it together with her inherent ability, Infinity, a skill which allows Merlin to make her spells to last for an eternity. Her appearance consists of shoulder-length black hair, a revealing fur-collared coat draped over shorts and thigh-high boots, her beauty being directly proportional to her power and creating a Halloween look that is well-worth a knighting or two.

In a fantasy world filled with mages, sorcerers and aristocrats, young Louise Françoise Le Blanc de la Vallière of Tristain Academy for magicians, is unable to properly cast elemental magic, earning her the nickname of “Louise the Zero” from her classmates. When she and her classmates are required to perform a summoning ritual, Louise’s summoning causes a massive explosion, an occurrence which is standard fare for Louise. When the smoke clears, Hiraga Saito makes an appearance, and per the rules of the summoning ritual, Saito is now Louise’s familiar and has to do her bidding. Whisked away from his normal life, Saito has to deal with an overbearing “master” and a prophecy brought into question by a strange marking on his hand.

Louise’s failures in the class, as it turns out, are not due to her lack of magical ability, on the contrary, it is due to the fact that she actually bears an affinity to the highly destructive Void Magic, an ancient branch of magic of which there have existed only four users. Due to the lack of Void magicians, Louise is unable to learn Void magic through the teachers at Tristain Academy. Louise is brash and persistent, and a true portrayal of a tsundere, yet also pure of heart. She is the third daughter of Duke de La Vallière and is therefore a noble. Her appearance features strawberry-pink hair and the standard Tristain Uniform for female students, which is complete with a black cloak which covers her small frame.

In Death City exists the Death Weapon Meister Academy, an academy led by Lord Death himself which seeks to raise Death Scythes, weapons that Lord Death will wield against evil. Death Scythes are born of human hybrids capable of transforming their bodies into Demon Weapons. Only after consuming 99 souls of evil beings and one witch can these Demon Weapons become Death Scythes worthy of use by the Lord Death himself. One such aspiring Demon Weapon is Soul Eater Evans, who with the help of his wielder Maka Albarn, seeks to become one of the Lord Death’s trusty Death Scythes.

With witches being as elusive as they come, it is unsurprising that Soul and Maka struggle to find and lay waste to a witch in order to retrieve her soul, but they have their work cut out for them when their school nurse turns out to be the Gorgon Medusa, a witch and scientist with a knack for manipulation and the inception of extremely cunning and intelligent schemes. Her appearance very much adheres to the theme of the Greek legend, Medusa, where her yellow irises are almost reptilian in appearance and her choice of attire includes a knee-length black cloak featuring a hood with eyes painted on it, making her look more like a snake. Medusa also sports a snake tattoo winding down either arm, an appearance so menacing, it could make anyone freeze this Halloween.

Young Kagari Atsuko or Akko, an ordinary girl, joined Witch Academy in order to one day become like the subject of her admiration, the famous witch Shiny Chariot. Despite not being born from a family of witches, Akko is determined to graduate from the Witch Academy and achieve her goal. Her journey begins with her friends Lotte Yansson and Sucy Manbavaran in their first few lessons in Witch Academy, a time in which Akko comes to realise that her favourite, Shiny Chariot, is not as revered in the world of witches as she could have hoped.

Akko is an energetic and optimistic girl who never backs away from a challenge, no matter how difficult it may be for her. She is headstrong and does not pay too much attention to the opinions of other people, often losing herself in her own fantasies. Akko also has a short fuse, but despite this, she sports a happy disposition to which many people are drawn. Due to the fact that she attends an academy for witches, her choice of clothing is often the standard witch wardrobe complete with a witch’s hat and robe.

In a fantasy world, two sisters work as “Noroiya”, or Cursers. One day, a big tree with tall buildings which seem to be from another world entangled in it appears in a forest and the sisters, Nene and Yoyo, head over to investigate. Upon arriving at the scene, the sisters are suddenly transported to a world which resembles our reality. They then run into two children who run back home after being startled by Yoyo and Nene’s appearance, but they arrive home only to find their parents turning into monsters…

Yoyo may seem like an adorable little witch who is fairly happy-go-lucky and enjoys pranks, she is actually the older sister in the duo. It is said that Yoyo is a witch who boasts an inexhaustible supply of magic power, and in the future, she’ll be capable of world domination! In reality, Yoyo is just a teenager who was unfortunate enough to lose control of her powers 12 years prior to the events of the film, an event which saw her trapped in the body of a 6 year old girl. That aside, her lime-coloured hair and eyes, together with her purple dress, lavender cape and purple hat make for one of the more adorable witches on this list.