Earwig and the Witch(Japanese Version)

Earwig, a 10 year old orphan girl, has grown up in a home for children where she always gets her way, and never wants for anything. One day, she is visited by a strange couple: a gaudy looking woman who goes by the name Bella Yaga, and a lanky gentleman called Mandrake. They take Earwig back to their abode.

“I’m a witch. I brought you into this house… because I need another pair of hands.”

“You agree that you'll teach me everything you know about magic. And I agree to remain here and help you out!”

So begins Earwig’s agreement with Bella Yaga, and her new life working as a witch’s helper. However, all the hostile woman does is work the defiant girl to the bone, without teaching her even a smidgen of magic.

For the first time ever, Earwig finds herself at someone else’s beck and call, So she joins forces with Bella Yaga’s familiar, a magic savvy black cat named Thomas, and goes on the counterattack!