''Someday's Dreamers'' The story is set in present-day
Tokyo. Much of the setting is based upon real areas, the more obvious ones being the Shibuya Crossing and the
Tokyo Tower. The main backdrop of the series where all the characters reside is
Shimokitazawa, roughly six minutes west of
Shibuya on the Keio Inokashira Line. The Bureau of Magic is in Tokyo, which employs Mage Labor for certain special requests by everyday people. However, the mages must only use their magic with special permission, and any unlicensed use results in a penalty. The story is very gentle and centers around the protagonist, a witch named , a second-year senior high school student from
Tono in
Iwate prefecture. In order to train as a magic user, she travels to
Tokyo during her summer break to apprentice under the charming . The story tells of Yume's trials and tribulations as she works toward her eventual graduation as a full-fledged magic user licensed by the Bureau of Magic. There is a strong undercurrent of romance which is never resolved.
Mahōtsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Natsu no Sora Sora Suzuki is a cheerful girl with magical abilities who lives with her mother in the small town of
Biei, Hokkaido. With the intention to honour a promise made to her late father, she successfully applies for a magic internship in Tokyo and temporarily moves into a boarding house in the city. Over the course of a summer month, she meets other teenagers studying to become accredited mages, including an initially aloof boy who appears to lack magic abilities. Under the guidance of their mentors, the apprentices learn more about magic, each other, and life in general as they attend formal classes and work to fulfil contractual assignments for clients. In the manga, Sora has a strange trait to her magic that manifests itself despite her ire; whenever Sora casts a spell, the result always involves sunflowers, though otherwise almost always how Sora intended it. This is absent in the anime. ==Cast==