Witch Craft Works

Even though they shared the same bus every morning and sat next to each other in class, Ayaka Kagari, the "Princess" of Tougetsu High School, was nothing more than an unreachable idol for Honoka Takamiya. The horde of students who worshipped the "Princess" was merely a nuisance to Honoka, living his lazy, regular high school life.

Everything seemed perfectly normal until, one day, Honoka is attacked out of the blue by a mysterious witch. To his surprise, Ayaka saves his life, revealing herself to be a fire witch on a covert mission to protect Honoka.

From that fateful day, the ordinary life of Honoka is turned upside down as he is thrown into the war between the Workshop Witches, who strive to protect the citizens, and the Tower Witches, who desire to steal a power hidden within him.

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Episode 1 was previewed at a screening at Cinemart Shinjuku in Tokyo on December 29, 2013. Regular broadcasting began on January 5, 2014.

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Kagari, Ayaka

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Seto, Asami
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Takamiya, Honoka

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Kobayashi, Yuusuke
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Izawa, Shiori
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Iida, Yuuko
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Matsukura, Yuuji

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Kisara, Youhei

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Hayashi, Youhei

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Suzuki, Kaoru

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Opening Theme

"divine intervention" by fhána

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Ending Theme

"Witch☆Activity (ウィッチ☆アクティビティ)" by KMM Dan (KMM団) Tanpopo Kuraishi (CV: Shiori Izawa), Tsurupeta (CV: Momo Asakura), Twintail (CV: Shiina Natsukawa), Gantai (CV: Yuuko Iida), and Deko (CV: Natsumi Hioka)

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Mar 24, 2014

Percutient

Recommended

Witch Craft Works! An anime about witches and stuff. An average anime with cliché characters and not much of a plot. Even though I say that, it was still an enjoyable watch. With outstanding animation and the great OST, WCW was a nice 12-ep anime which was pretty funny with it's catchy ending song.

Story. 7

The story is about a normal boy, going to school as always, but then one day the schools most popular girl starts to interact with him. After getting to know her, he learns of her identity as a witch. She tells him about the special "being" inside of him and starts ...

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Mar 24, 2014

Asfaria

Mixed Feelings

Recently, magical school anime seem to be very popular. Witch Craft Works is not much different, except it has magicians attending school alongside non-magical people. Our main protagonist, Takamiya, at first doesn't know about any of this. He just keeps to himself and avoids getting involved with people until the most popular girl, Kagari also known as Hime (princess), forcefully gets involved in his high school life. It turns out that Takamiya actually has vast magical potential hidden inside of him that evil witches want and would kill him to obtain, so Kagari (who is a witch) must protect him. And she does an excellent ... job of protecting him considering she's an extremely overpowered magician with fire magic that can instantly obliterate half a city. Too bad her personality isn't as interesting as her magic, but oh well, it's still fun to watch her destroy stuff emotionlessly.

The story in Witch Craft Works jumps around a lot. Each episode is very fast paced and the story is always moving in one way or another (whether it has any effect on the plot or not). This results in certain parts of the story being very entertaining, while others are just annoying and bizarre.

The thing I dislike most about this series, though, is the first episode. I thought this series was going to be absolutely terrible after I watched it. It takes every high school anime cliche (popular girl, guy getting beaten up for being around her, transfer students, etc) to the annoying extreme. The bullying part was especially stupid (and why is one bully named Obama?) because it was portrayed in a humorous way, but it just made you feel bad for Takamiya. However, after the first episode, most of these aspects are forgotten and don't affect the story at all, so it's not too much of a problem overall.

The character cast is a little too large for it's own good and tends to introduce unimportant characters as if they will be important. Takamiya and Kagari are really the only characters given proper introductions. These two are decent protagonists, but they don't bring anything new to plate. Kagari I found to be very boring both in every aspect aside from her overpowered magic abilities, and Takamiya is a generic protagonist who doesn't want anyone to get hurt. It also does a poor job of introducing some of the more important villains. The five initial comedic relief villains are just there for the hell of it since they do nothing except be funny and be in the ED. Another villain, Medusa (I'm sure you can easily guess what her powers are), is also just kind of there and doesn't do anything except make Takamiya develop more. Takamiya's younger sister who fights over him with Kagari is the only other memorable character. The rest are mostly unimportant or are introduced towards the end.

The animation for this anime is actually it's best aspect. The action and aerial scenes are stunning and the CG really isn't too bad, and at times it's meant to look funny anyway. The character designs aren't the best, and I didn't care for Kagari's design, but they're certainly not bad. Some of the more magical scenes also look splendid with vivid colors and crazy designs. And the magic itself looks great, especially Kagari's overpowered fire magic. If you like fire a lot, you'll at least like one part of this show. The music is good with an excellent OP and a strange yet catchy ED. The soundtrack during the action sequences fits them very well but other than that not much stands out.

Witch Craft Works is pretty average in my opinion. It looks great, but some of the story is just random and strange and the characters needed more time to develop with a smaller cast of actually relevant characters. Too many characters are introduced quickly late in the show and too many are introduced for too long in the beginning only to fade out of importance by the end. The final villain was especially terribly introduced, and the show made it seem like the villain was just a precursor villain for the real one except that that wasn't the case. Takamiya's power could have also used a better explanation, but I'm not sure even he knows exactly what his power is either. But even with all those problems, it's not a bad show and it was fairly entertaining.

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Aug 10, 2014

Marthgun

Not Recommended

I could not wait to write a review for this garbage can. I will eviscerate this pile of crap and hopefully you will avoid at all costs. Unless of course you're a masochist.

I'll get to the point. The main character is one of the most pathetic, sniveling, whiny, weak, pieces of crap i have bore witness to. Not once does he man up, and the only time he does something actually somewhat noble, he's crying throughout. For example, one character is dying, all he has to do is kiss the character to ressurect the character. He decided to snivel ... and cry and whine for about 5 minutes.

There's a point at which the pathetic-ness of a character reaches a point that you stop caring, usually i would have turned it off except I felt a payoff was due, i sat through over half of it, i was going to see it through, so why didn't i turn it off.

There's a certain plot device in anime, movies, tv, that is meant to build the suspense and anxiety, this particular device makes me rage. In WCW, it reached such an absurd point that my soul actually left my body. Imagine having super powers, there is an evil villian that comes to your town, destroys everything, tortures your friends, and then kills everyone. You would think that if you had a slight advantage you would take it and dispose of this person.

In WCW, the villains come into town, devise evil, the main characters beat them up a little bit and then walk away leaving the villains half beat up. Ofc they are villains, so naturally they go away and come back. At what point should you expect the main characters to at least tie them up? Nothing breaks immersion or even suspension of disbelief more than something so absurdly unbelieveable as letting the villains go. I understand you might not want to kill them, i mean, they only killed everyone in town and destroyed everything. Let them go. The last episode of the trash bag, this probably happened about 10 times. In a row. To the point where they would beat the villain up, turn around and start chatting to each other, and then the villain would get up right behind their backs and attack them again. and everytime they did this, the attacks got more and more heinous until the villain actually killed both of them. Oh, if it wasn't for love the heroes wouldn't have ressurected. alas.

So after the villain literally stabs the main character in the back, she regrets what she's done so she uses magic to heal the mc a little bit and then walks right out in front of like 20 of their friends. And she just walks away and they have no intention of doing anything to her. Their jails in this show get broken out of by everyone who gets put in them. Literally, everyone that ever gets put in jail in this show breaks out immediately. Seriously what is the point? The villains basically shit all over everyone and they love it. I mean this is an anime for extreme masochists. Japan is doing a great job teaching this shit to people.

How am i supposed to feel about this? The protagonists were terrible to watch, the most uninteresting piles of crap i've ever seen. The "villains" were the only redeeming factor in this entire show. AND NOBODY WON ANYTHING. Nothing was resolved, none of it even made any sense. All of it was avoidable. Every single plan that the evil doers plotted was obviously preventable. The show didn't hide it, they wanted you to know that.

What was the story here? MC has power, everyone tries to protect that power, everyone fails miserably, and then nothing happens. I don't think i've ever felt this enraged after a show before. I hope you didn't read all of this, but if you did, the moral to this story is stay away unless you can enjoy the fake, lazy suspense that the MC's create by doing virtually nothing and acting so naive and unreasonable that you have to suspect this entire show was written ad hoc on the back of a bar coaster.

Good night.

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