Hana Sato

Hana Sato is one of the first officially confirmed datable characters in Witchbrook. She is introduced as a covenmate of the player character and a part-time shop assistant at Calico Fresh Threads, the clothing boutique on the boardwalk in Mossport. The developers describe her as bright and bubbly, a peppy classmate whose life outside the classroom revolves around fashion, friendship, and the daily rhythms of the shop. Her signature look, a pink ponytail and an ever-changing wardrobe, made her one of the earliest character reveals to circulate alongside the game's announcement trailer.

Overview

Hana is pitched as the kind of classmate who is impossible to miss. She shares a coven with the player, which means players run into her across their academic year in shared lessons, coven meetups, and group spellwork, and then continue to bump into her in town because she spends her afternoons behind the counter at Calico. That double footprint, on campus and on the boardwalk, lets her slot naturally into both the student social life at Witchbrook College and the wider civic life of Mossport.

She was the first datable character revealed to the public, a choice the studio leaned into when they opened their early character spotlights with her. Subsequent reveals placed her alongside the paper's editor Eli Ivers as part of a broader roster of romance options, but Hana remains the face of the game's first dating reveal and a recurring fixture in promotional material.

Role at Calico Fresh Threads

Hana works part-time at Calico Fresh Threads, the pastel-themed clothing shop on Mossport's boardwalk. Calico stocks a rotating mix of fashion labels, each with its own aesthetic, so the role gives her a working knowledge of the latest trends and a strong eye for putting an outfit together. Between restocking the floor and minding the register, she is usually the first person a customer meets when they push through the door.

Her signature contribution to the shop is a piece of light practical magic: she charms the mannequins in the store. The enchanted display figures move, pose, and model outfits so shoppers can see how a garment actually looks on a body rather than on a flat hanger, which helps customers commit to a choice they might otherwise talk themselves out of. The floor magic is presented as her own personal flourish on the job, a small workplace spell she uses every day.

Beyond the animated mannequins, Hana handles styling by hand. She curates window displays and puts together complete outfit combinations for shoppers who come in uncertain about what they want. When a customer arrives feeling insecure about their look, she is the one who pulls out the flowiest shirt in the shop or a pair of cheerful shoes and walks them through why it might suit them, which tends to send them home feeling more like themselves.

Personality

Developer write-ups describe Hana as bright, bubbly, and peppy, with a positive attitude toward almost every situation she walks into. She is the friend who will read a rainy weekend as an excuse for a new outfit and a cafe visit rather than a washout, and who treats other people's style experiments as interesting rather than embarrassing. That warmth is pitched as one of the reasons her coven enjoys having her around: she takes the group temperature up a notch whenever she shows up.

Her positivity is not presented as naive. She pays close attention to what other people are wearing, how they hold themselves, and what they seem to want to be seen as, and she uses that attention to tailor small, specific compliments and suggestions. The combination of enthusiasm and observation is what lets her do the job at Calico so well: she believes that the right clothes can change how someone feels about their day, and she gets genuine satisfaction from watching a customer rediscover their confidence in front of a mirror.

Civic Witchcraft

Hana is held up in the student paper as an example of civic witchcraft, the idea that witches are expected to take what they learn in class and turn it into something useful for the community around them. Her charmed-mannequin act is a small, specific spell that serves a very ordinary, very human need: helping a neighbor pick out a shirt. The paper uses her as a case study for how civic witchcraft does not have to look like big civic projects or dramatic interventions. A well-placed enchantment at a shop counter counts.

Her feature in Issue #3 of The Witchbrook Oracle, written as the cover story by editor-in-chief Eli Ivers, frames her work at Calico as the everyday version of that idea: styling customers, minding the shop, and using a little magic to brighten individual afternoons in town. The piece treats her talents as meaningful precisely because they are accessible and close to the ground rather than grand.

Appearance

Hana's visual signature is her bubblegum-pink hair, worn tied up in a ponytail, which makes her easy to spot in a crowd shot and in the shop from across the boardwalk. She appears in the original announcement trailer with that same silhouette, and the character has been used on event art, newsletter covers, and social promotions since.

Her wardrobe is shown rotating with the season and with the shop's current stock, which lines up with her being both a Witchbrook student and a Calico employee. Promotional illustrations place her in front of the boutique's storefront in sunny boardwalk scenes, usually mid-gesture toward a mannequin or a customer, which captures both sides of her daily routine.

Relationships

Hana is introduced first and foremost as a covenmate of the player, which puts her in regular contact with the player character as a classmate and study partner before any romantic track opens up. She moves in the same student social circles as the rest of the coven and turns up in group contexts around the college and the town.

She is also connected to the wider Mossport cast through her job. Running the floor at Calico makes her a regular in the boardwalk community, which is why she is the student Eli Ivers chose to profile for his civic witchcraft feature in the Oracle. In that piece Eli writes about her as a friend and coven peer as well as a subject, which suggests the two of them know each other well outside the interview.

Dating and Friendship

As a datable character, Hana can be pursued romantically using the game's standard friendship-and-gift-giving loop. The developers have said that players will foster a friendship with her through repeated interactions, gifts, and time spent together, and that dating options open up from that foundation. Specific dating mechanics, such as how and when the transition from friendship to romance triggers, have not been fully revealed, but the core loop is shared with every other romance option in the game.

As with the game's other romanceable characters, the relationship with Hana is not guaranteed to succeed. Player choices and neglected interactions can push a relationship off track, so players who want to pursue her are expected to put real time into hanging out with her on campus and stopping by her shifts at Calico. Since she is both a covenmate and a shopkeeper, the game has two natural pipelines for finding her: coven events and lessons at Witchbrook College during the day, and Calico's opening hours on the boardwalk in the afternoon and evening.

Where to Find Her

Hana has two reliable anchors in the daily schedule. During the school day she can be found in classes and coven activities at Witchbrook College, as one of the witches the player studies alongside. Outside of lessons she heads into town for her shifts at Calico Fresh Threads, where she can usually be spotted behind the counter, near the window display, or on the shop floor helping a customer pick out an outfit.