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(Eight episodes watched): This show was sort of amusing and at least some of the main characters have some personality, which was made clear as they try to figure out exactly what they are supposed to do in the presence of their first 'customer'. Azu (dark blue hair) is kind of bitchy and contemptuous of this person who was apparently added to the team purely as a filler. The implication is that each of the other girls has some sort of dream of their own that they hope to accomplish by becoming a Witch, so this is a serious matter to them. But it is Yuina who figures out what's going on and takes the lead, not one of them. And all of a sudden the five of them spring into an elaborate Idol act, which must have been made possible by magic since they did no rehearsal. I noticed that there was lots of nice artwork which must have take time and trouble to create. Will the additional 'cases' that these girls will need to solve be very interesting? Does each of them really have a interesting dream of their own? I guess I would be willing to watch episode two in order to find out. Why is Azu so grouchy, so distant, so hostile, and in general, a bitch? It turns out that what a Witch candidate looks like within the florist shop that they have created is not necessarily what she looks like in the outside world. I think I can guess what Azu's goal is. The characters in MW talk a lot, and their conversations are interesting, plus Keroppe's jokes are fairly funny. In most anime talk seems to be kept to a minimum to make room for action and fanservice. We learn some more about how difficult earning the points that are required to become a full-fledged Witch are, and how long it may take, and what the rules for making use of the florist shop are. It largely makes sense (considering that this show is about Witches and magic), which I appreciated. I found episode two to be enjoyable and will continue watching for now. In episode three the girls help a chronically overweight woman who now works as a model for clothing and goods specialized for such people. Azu in particular knew where this person was coming from. But the lesson this woman--or Azu, for that matter--learned (or how exactly she learned it) wasn't clear to me and I was left confused. Something about 'don't worry about what other people think of you, trust yourself instead', which is a wise teaching but is unlikely to happen overnight. It looks like each of the five Witch candidates will get an arc of two episodes or so in which her own problem is revealed and she overcomes it. Second up is Mai, the girl with the brown hair. She has become entangled in the neverending quest for 'likes' on social media, though not nearly as much as a social media-addicted friend of hers. Again, Mai's problem didn't seem all that clear, or intriguing, or critically important to me. Instead, it seems to me that Keroppe is this show's savior, with his acid tongue and lines like "Let me phrase this in terms appropriate to your IQs". It may be that he has more personality than any of the five girls. Anyway, it turns out that Mai's seemingly arrogant friend has problems of her own (episode five). I can't really explain how her problem, and Mai's, were fixed by what happened; an Idol-style act has magical powers, perhaps? The back-and-forth between the characters and Keroppe is amusing and deeper than what you'd get in most shows; perhaps these girls do some fairly complex thinking unlike most anime characters. But the business of using magic to fix problems is confusing and as a result kind of tiresome. Next up is red-haired Kyoka, whose hero is an animated pink mole, 'Mogutan'. She has an altruistic reason to become a Witch, namely, to help people in need. She seems to be doing just what her parents want but feeling unfulfilled herself, which must be why she dabbles in Witchcraft. Actually 'Choco-chan' gets her personal situation explained in episode seven. Apparently this normally cheerful and flippant girl was obnoxious to an old woman because the woman reminded her of her own household(?). As usual, it didn't make complete sense; Choco seems to be on good or at least OK terms with her own grandmother, who substitutes for her hard-working mother at home. At the end of the episode Kyoka learns that whoever writes Mogutan's lines may not be the sort of person a young girl would want to associate with. In episode eight Choco's situation gets more of an explanation, but it still didn't make complete sense and at any rate wasn't all that moving. I'd rather we had moved to Kyoka's problem. In general, this episode seemed like kind of a waste of time and I wound up wondering if I should continue watching this show at all. Last updated Thursday, June 12 2025. Created Wednesday, April 23 2025. | ||||||||
