Witch Watch Episode 11 Discussion

A great twist with great wordplay on the prophecy, with Ame meaning both Rain and Candy. While this series gets pretty silly at times, gotta give the writer credit where it's due. I suppose you could say Keigo's two tone hair may have been a slight giveaway at his other side, but I feel most probably chucked that up to either a design choice or him being a hipster.

It's also cool to see some lore for Nico, and that she's significantly more powerful than other witches, which gives an actual reason for black magic witches to go after her.

No OP and ED this time, so that means more episode time.

Can’t wait to see the fight between Morihito and that guy, he seems strong!

So the Wolf was among them the whole time. I didn't see that coming.

Still, I feel like the next episode is going to be totally predictable. They're going to have their fight, and Wolf will lose (or at best a draw), and then Nico or perhaps Nemu is going to offer him the thing anyway, and he'll switch sides. (The enchanter goofed by offering him something that every witch has and younger witches are less likely to have used up.)

Meanwhile, she'll escape to set up the Big Bad for next season as well.

So, every with knows about warlocks and the Witch of Thousands except for the one that needs to, Nico. Really dumbshit strategy, Nico's mom.

Keigo was a skater. Figures.

"Am I being dissed right now?"
Later for that, buddy.

"The moon is going all blurry!"
'I have a bad feeling about this.'

And,,,,, The traitor appears, to fuck up the plan. At least he is also the chief goon for the baddies, so Moi does not have to fight two.

Oh my god, Keigo was the traitor all along?! I never even suspected that! So we’ve finally learned the identity of the werewolf…

Two quick points worth mentioning! First, the animation and art were clearly weak in this episode. (And just to be clear, I’m comparing the anime to itself, since I know many people get overly emotional whenever someone critiques their favorite show.) I *like* this series and have praised it for the past 10 episodes, but I won’t lie and praise it blindly—the animation this time was just bad.

Second point: the anime has finally entered the main plot! The prophecy Neko’s mom spoke of, using clairvoyant magic at 00:27 in episode 3—can you believe it? We finally got back to the story’s path, started learning about the characters’ pasts, and understanding the significance of being a tengu, a ghoul, or a witch from the Myao family, etc.

Nemo showed great courage, and I hope she gets saved and “Bathed” by Morihito again, hahahaha (just joking).

As usual, Neko completely forgot the seriousness of the situation the moment Morihito praised her! Her heart and love for Morihito are so strong, even Nemo is starting to envy their close relationship.

I’m excited for next week’s episode! See you all in the comments for episode 12...

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It makes sense, if there are oni and tengu, that there are werewolves as well, and it's good to see that Nemu I'm hoping that if she's not going to have an affair with Morihito, at least Keigo will be okay, technically they're a bit similar except for the personality traits.

@ShiroAlex The amount of different familiars is not super high, but it keeps getting expanded. It's almost such that the witch variants tend to outpace the familiars, more witches just allying with each other to fight and sometimes having magic that's more combat applicable (because they're warlocks, thus they don't have the limiter witches do)

@ReaperCreeper I checked and one character that'll be interesting to see isn't introduced until chapter 72 and we're still only around 28 iirc at present. Probably in S2 if we get it

@FMmatron The ways Shinohara modifies the various monsters into their familiar descendants is fun, though I still think another author could take the concept and turn it into a genuine battle series with some more expansion on things like the supernatural background, etc

@holdingnothing That's good to know, too bad it's not more than 26 episodes, but two seasons in a row isn't bad either.

@holdingnothing It seems you've gone quite deep into this… but in the end, this is a comedy parody anime, and honestly, to this day I still don’t know if Morihito is an Oni or a Ghoul—just like what’s written on the cup he drinks from!

@holdingnothing Considering how the anime is shifting things around maybe they could even adapt volume 10 material to end on a big arc.

@holdingnothing Yes, I understand. But these kinds of distinctions aren’t really emphasized in our Arab or Arabic-speaking culture.
The terms *oni* and *ghoul* usually get translated the same way—
typically just as “غول” (ghoul), which creates a lot of confusion.

@ShiroAlex It's more manageable than the projects that seem to never end and that's slowly going away. Like I'd hope we move past that, the animators that worked on those probably don't have the best life expectancy at present or were replaced in succession

@holdingnothing I agree, I hope so too.

@holdingnothing Yes, I understand. But these kinds of distinctions aren’t really emphasized in our Arab or Arabic-speaking culture.
The terms *oni* and *ghoul* usually get translated the same way—
typically just as “غول” (ghoul), which creates a lot of confusion.

@AboAhmed130 Yeah, that was something a bit confusing in a way with Demon Slayer, since the kanji and word they use is just oni, but they resemble vampires from general fiction way more, right down to the sunlight vulnerability.

It's probably worse with "genie" and what I'd think is not a common reference in anime of djinn, the more proper term for the general race in the folklore, make of smokeless fire, iirc

Ghoul in Tokyo Ghoul kanji wise was supposedly just "eating species", but they did resemble ghouls in barely the one trait: eating human flesh. Otherwise, they're not really shapeshifters, they don't hang around in graveyard and they don't have the sunken facial features that one thinks of (not just in Fallout)

And that kanji for oni is also the one for demon, which can translate several ways and is utilized for even the Japanese word for witch, I believe, the ma in majo, which is also the ma in mazoku, makai, etc. Which Piccolo in Dragon Ball and his father were referred to as mazoku before the Namek reveal, though Daima supposedly retconned that back into them being from the Demon World (don't quote me on that, I haven't properly seen Daima, that's the summary I've heard)

Oni is 鬼 and ma is 魔.

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I love how Nico baked fresh cookies just to plan their battle strategy, and that she named the floor jellifying spell after Keigo's weird cricket game (Slime Lotion Gel Amoeba) from their long-abandoned YouTubing days (i.e. like a couple weeks ago)

@Lucifrost Thank you truly for the clarification!

@holdingnothing Your knowledge is rich! I thank you for every word you wrote for me!

holy shit, Keigo is the wolf?? they didn't even foreshadow or give some hint at all and just drop that betrayal scene at the end.

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Starting this series I was hoping for easy going goofing around and now with this forced “serious” plot arc I really considering dropping this title. Please, someone tell me how much of this warlock bullshit would there be?