Majo ni Sasageru Trick
Tricks Dedicated to Witches

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This is a manga about magician. Not the RPG magic using mana etc, but the magic trick you see in TV shows using deception and illusion.

The main selling point of the manga is the magic tricks. It draw the reader's curiosity how the MC will pull out his acts. The method used in the tricks are well explained, so the author really did their research. How the author execute the visual is also did a good job.

The downside is the plot and the character. As I mentioned, the selling point is the magic. Not the story.
The story so far (chap 10) is the MC still ... succeeding in everything he does.
The character also too bland.
The MC still a gary stu whose plans and tricks always work. His only special trait is his chocolate addiction and his love to magic, that alone isn't enough to make 'human personality'.
Because many real life magician use lots of women assistant, so does the MC. The side girl character also hasn't show enough personality and purpose other than being the MC's side kicks.
And the church antagonist is the worst. Too template-ish. They are the church so the author expect us to just accept that they hate magic.
They are just pure evil (radical, murderous, lecherous, etc), so we'll just hate them. We just want them to be removed from the story as soon as possible because they are too repulsive. So far no back story, no justification etc which should make even the worst bad guy is loveable and readers will eager to see how they act.

You don't need the antagonist to be a degenerate. 2 faction fighting with conflicting interest with both has their reason. 1 is the protag and the other is the antag is better than just making the protag is gud while the antag is an evil degenerate.

I came here expecting yet another cliche isekai manga where MC gets transported to a totally different world with super natural magical abilities but NO. I am so glad i was proven wrong.

The MC is a magician who wants to quit his job in search for true magic, not just tricks that people these days can easily find on the internet. His mother was also a magician but has died. Since then he needs chocolate from losing his mind. But then he gets transported to the medieval ages where the church were hunting down witches and killing them for salvation.

The plus point of this manga ... is that the MC is not some dumb guy who just goes fooling around looking for girls but instead his knowledge and experience of magic comes handy. He can easily see through peoples tricks and himself do tricks that people in medieval ages could'nt even think about, In short magic for them.

The characters are pretty good, with a very good artstyle and sometimes the details reminded me of AOT manga were they explained the walls and the weapons. As said before our MC seems to be strong but seems focused. He knows what he is doing and even if sometimes it feels exaggerated the brains behind the tricks actually grips us more into the manga and we are left wanting for more.

The only negative points I have are that the MC is quite dense in showing his feelings (given the romance tag) but atleast its not annoying and the love for magic more than makes up for it.

Well its too early to right a detailed review, its more like a summary for now but reading this was actually satisfying and i want more from it. I hope this gets even better later on so yeah I recommend this.

While this is a really nice Isekai with a fresh story and new ideas, the Author seems to have written themselves into a corner. Because the series is either on hiatus or axed, there haven't been any updates in a while.

Which is sad, because this was one of the most promising Mangas I had the pleasure to read lately!


The MC is a Magician who gets isekaid after burning to death by accident. Having searched for real magic his whole life, he is very happy to meet a witch right away - only to learn that the "witch" is just a woman who knows how ... to cure people with herbs she finds in the forest. And it's the dark middle ages of Europe, with the Witch hunts...

As I said, the start was great. But without spoiling too much, I can also see why the author doesn't know where to go from here.


7/10