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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Kayano, Ai
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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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Matsushita, Takuya

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"divine intervention" by fhána

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"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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Jan 23, 2024

Zdnet622

Recommended

For me this anime is one the most underrated animes oat its Beautiful and funny and dramatic It got me excited after every episode the animation is good the story is good the characters exempt the main one is good
I didn't like the main character because hes so hesitant and It is easy for him to lose confidence in himself but i like the way he was trying to protect his gf and by speaking about his gf oh shit its one of my favorite waifu she's georges and confident and loyal for her love one

This anime is really really good snd idk ...

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Feb 29, 2024

Drakestalker

Mixed Feelings

A poor man's Toradora with reversed gender roles meets a poor man's Harry Potter. The result? This thing. Is it good? No. It is enjoyable nonetheless? Sure. It's a pretty shallow rom-com.

For what it's worth, the artwork is very polished. I can tell that a lot of work has been put into making the characters look attractive. Having said that, the actual designs are pretty generic and unimaginative. Furthermore, the series often makes some bizarre choices in terms of color hue. The color palette just looks weird at times.

Regardless, all in all, it's a good looking show, but I would argue it's below J.C.Staff's average. ...

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Mar 3, 2023

yoakefuyu

Not Recommended

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.

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