Witch Craft Works

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.

It’s amazing how a show with such an interesting premise could turn out to be so boring. I watched this show because I remember reading the manga and liking it, but now that I think about it, I can’t recall what happened in that manga at all.

Pros:
- The art and animation. There’s a lot of beautiful scenery and background, especially in the latter half of the show, and there is good animation as well, the magic, certain battles, as well as many flying scenes. There is some CGI but I don’t think it detracts from the show at all and is fairly well done.

Mixed:
- Our ... main duo. Takamiya and Kagari do make for a pretty cute pair, the damsel in distress and his knight respectively if you were to simplify it. Plot spoilers aside, you’re set up well to be invested in them, both their relationship as well as who they are individually. I do think the pacing knocks them down a peg unfortunately, as there are a lot of hints to things that go nowhere. Both of their characters suffer too as a result, they honestly just take turns being damsels, but at least Kagari responds with actually doing something about it, while Takamiya just panics and waits for someone else to tell him what to do.

Cons:
- The characters. Theres an awful lot of people to get to know in the span of 12 episodes, so unfortunately basically everyone outside of our main duo is severely underdeveloped. There’s a Team Rocket esque group that the duo deals with through the entire show and only 1 of them is memorable, and I’d argue it’s only because she had a special individual fight scene before the rest show up, there’s nothing I could tell you about the other 4 members of the group that you couldn’t glean from character design, I’m pretty sure only 2 of them show off their magic too. Multiple characters will show up, stick around and act like they’re well established, and then vanish after like, 2 episodes. The school as an entirety sucks too, they’re there to be assholes and that’s about it, there’s few to no consequences for them, nor do they change either.
- Kasumi. Unfortunately they decided to add the trope of incestuous little sister and clueless big brother to this show, as Takamiya’s little sister Kasumi is deeply obsessed with him and wants to get married, but also she doesn’t realize she’s being incestuous, it’s just normal sisterly feelings! Ugh. It’s a shame because she’s got an interesting setup, but they kinda toss it out halfway through and turn her into either a background character or a creep.
- The pacing. The show whiplashes between school shenanigans and witch related conflicts, handwaves plot holes, and doesn’t give enough time for anything to be set up or sink in. Fights are either short or aren’t shown, either Kagari immediately kicks ass or gets her ass kicked, sometimes even offscreen. I ended the season not really having a grasp on anything, and a lot of stuff is left unresolved. It feels like they either knew they weren’t getting another season or they were hoping they would, and you can’t tell which one it was.
- The worldbuilding. You enter the show curious to learn more about the conflict between the Workshop Witches and the Tower Witches, why Takamiya is stuck in the middle of the two, and how the magic system works. The anime doesn’t go past surface level regarding any of those topics, or plops things in with no explanation, resulting in a frustratingly underdeveloped world.

Ultimately I’m not sure how to feel about this show, part of me wants to like it considering that it’s a point of nostalgia, but it’s hard to argue why this show is worth watching. Might be better to check out the manga instead.

Hello, this review is from the perspective of a woman so I want to tell you about the different aspects I like and dislike from a female perspective!! Overall a fair warning this anime does not have a proper ending. Instead, the show has a seasonal ending where everything feels unaddressed.
When it comes down to the female characters there was only really two part that made me feel uncomfortable which was how Honoka would address Ayaka's body as being a full figure. Along with the little sister character that was the typical Onii-chan possessive ... type. It's not really a harem despite having tons of female characters and one male. Only two characters have feelings for the main character which is Ayaka and the little sister.
In my opinion, I actually liked Ayaka but that was because to me she felt relatable. I may be speaking out of my butt but both Ayaka and Honoka felt neurodivergent in my opinion. Especially with how Ayaka has trouble expressing emotions, and she likes being on task and on time. Both the characters didn't seem like they processed social cues in the same way others would. Along with Honoka having a room full of penguins I just thought it was cute to think of them as a neurodivergent couple.
The anime does not like to deal with consequences and regularly the anime will just stop permanent damages from ever happening. People never get killed despite buildings falling down and people getting stabbed or blown up. Also, this anime does not care much for magic logic. The show never dives deep into how people become witches, and how they learn witch-craft. They never address how tower witches get their powers.
I would only recommend this anime if you like relationships between two awkward teens who seem to have a lot of weight on their shoulders. There are some fun characters but I feel like unless the show gets a season two to just skip it. Read the manga instead.

I usually choose anime I watch based off the ratings. This one's rating really pulled one over on me and for the life of me, I cannot fathom why it has a rating over 7.

Unless people like watching anime with no plot, cohesion or any need to think about anything except which is happening in the current episode. Dropped it after episode 6.

I won't be going into detail about individual aspects and will only say that after 6 episodes, I still don't get what this is supposed to be about and have no interest in wasting any more time on this nonsense. Others may ... have differing opinions and enjoy this, but it's definitely not for me.

The truth is as much as i wanted to like this, I found it difficult. Everything revolves around 2 characters becoming a highly overpowered combination, that pretty much becomes an invincible team that no one can do anything against.

So when tower witches which seem the majority of witches constantly in groups looking to gain power from attacking these two, they constantly look incompetent and useless as time and time again, they fail to learn from anything they do or the massive gap in power.

The story is watchable, but you feel it is flawed on power levels, why tower witches will kill and their ... enemies won't, how even for an objective that will benefit one side, they fail to work together, communicate, etc,

Slowly it just makes the anime worse from something that could of pushed a 7 with the right narrative down. When is cases like, we just battled and you tried to kill me, oh yeah will let you stay at my house, take risks of what can happen to me, and my apprentice, you start sitting as it hovers between 3-4.

After all the incompetence, then suddenly at the end, we see how suddenly our superpowered witches who no one has really seen most have been prepping some things for years with no magic signature, etc, and the mix signals of why, for the person's power that was supposedly not known about, to weaken the head, the chaos. it just becomes as it struggles for narratives.

So i wanted to like it, but it became, oh they will get through this easy, and that just bored the hell out of me