Majo no Shikkounin
Witch Enforcer

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I feel like I will remember those that were cut short more than the ongoing series. Really beautiful art reminiscent of Witch Hat Atelier, which is one of my favorites, so I was drawn in by that at first. I will say, it's slow, not much happens throughout the narrative in comparison to the action-packed electric plots of everything else surrounding it, but I feel I wanted to give this a chance. Will I read Shun Akagi's work again? Yes. Am I running to go seek it out? No, I'll be slow with it. A solid start with an interesting universe, witches and humans are ... able to have close contact with each other and trade in a rather bureaucratic way. Gadgets and scenery were similar to steampunk without the edge, closer to a Ghibli version of the world like A Howl's Moving Castle type of world. There's a mysterious magical energy running around and causing havoc, that's how many characters are brought together and an everlooming villain plagues the world. We finally get to figure out who it is, the connection between all characters, and then we get to see the backstory and why this all matters to our previously listless main witch character Nat. There's a beautiful seed of a story, one that shows how the overarching rules of the world might be wrong, something that might be explored with much more chapters in this authors runs. I don't know if they set out to do oneshots or given the situations that manga companies engage in, if it was axed. But given that we get to the climax and the ruling witch government just barely received their first case, I wonder what other moments/cases could mean for witch-human contact. I loved the apprentice-mentor relationship shared by Nat and I enjoyed this so much but feel that something like this deserves more time to cook, it is not something that entertains immediately, it contains very little hype, more so comfy and mysterious in familial connections, kind of like Frieren in that regard, we get to see things through the characters slowly. Given all this, I feel there's a cap on my enjoyment, I'm left sitting with the beauty of potential.