Miranda Holbrooke

**Miranda Holbrooke** (ミランダ・ホルブルック, *Miranda Horuburukku*?) is a character in *Little Witch Academia*. She is the 44th headmistress of Luna Nova Magical Academy.

## Appearance

Holbrooke is a short, old woman with short pale green hair and blue eyes. She wears a red jacket over her uniform, a necklace of green stones, a white scarf, rectangular lenses, and a witch hat that is bigger and curved than that of the teachers.

    Holbrooke's appearance in *Tsukiyo no Ōkan* manga looked vastly different. Here, she has longer, wavy hair, smaller pair of glasses which round instead of rectangular, and wears a cloak matching the color of her robe as opposed of jacket. She is also not carrying a staff.

## Personality

Holbrooke proves to be a conservative and respected woman, rather kind and cheerful. She maintains a formal relationship with all the students and teachers of the academy. She also proves to be a very patient and good-hearted person, being very accommodating of her students, even the most problematic ones. She has a good sense of humor and prefers compromise over conflict.

She is a great talker and speaks endlessly about things with no meaning. She tends to make very long discourses.

## Abilities and Equipment

Being the headmistress of Luna Nova Academy and having studied magic from her childhood, Miranda is a very talented and formidable witch, to the extent of capable of casting spells non-verbally. Her advanced age, which saw her over a century-old career as the Headmistress of Luna Nova and seeing through the academy's trials and tribulations since Golden Magic Age serves as the further testament of her abilities.

Unlike most witches who typically utilize wands, Holbrooke uses a magic staff fashioned out of the clapper of Blytonbury's Bell Tower.

## Voice actors

 English
 Italian
 Polish
 Brazil
 Latin America

## Trivia

* Miranda is the oldest living witch in the academy, being over 150 years old as of the year of 2017-2018 (the year events of anime TV Series take place according to Luna Nova's brochure in Akko's hands and Constanze's Wild Hunt permit as shown in "A New Beginning" and "Sky War Stanship" respectively).
	+ She is also one of the oldest characters in the series, the other being Fafnir and Molly McIntyre.
		- Molly was arguably born 50 years before Holbrooke. However, considering the former spent decades afflicted in Curse of Time while the latter experienced same decades worth of time, Miranda is older than her.
	+ Taking into the account of Holbrooke received her acceptance letter in 1880 and that Luna Nova's first years are typically 13 - 16 of age, she was arguably born somewhere between the year of 1864 - 1867. With this logic, Holbrooke may very well around 150 - 153 years old (30 - 33 by the time she became the school's 44th Headmistress).
* Her name appears as "Miranda Holbrook" on her nameplate at the Samhain Festival.
* Owing to Yoh Yoshinari's confession that he came up with Little Witch Academia after vaguely watching 1998 TV Series adaptation of The Worst Witch series during Trigger Night Vol. 11, it's possible that Holbrooke's character was influenced by Miss Cackle in some form. This helped by their shared kind-hearted nature and lenience toward their troublemaking students (Mildred Hubble for Miss Cackle and Atsuko Kagari for Miranda Holbrooke).

## References

1. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/LittleWitchAcademia/comments/6smxg9/lwa\_info\_from\_trigger\_night/
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Little Witch Academia Chronicles, Chapter 4, page 120
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://twitter.com/JessicaGeeVO/status/889544847366922240
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://www.instagram.com/vodynamicduo/p/BW8Y8v-hwaY/