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EP. REVIEW: Witch Watch




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MFrontier



Joined: 13 Apr 2014
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 10:25 am Reply with quote
Kenta Shinohara is back in animated form with a quirky, cute, and hilarious cast getting into magical misadventures.

Nico thinks she's in a romcom, Moi thinks he's in a serious fantasy anime where he's the perpetual straight man, their teacher is the only qualified person to teach this class as a manga otaku, the colorful class rolls with everything. The OP and ED are stellar. What more could you want?

Also I love how Studio Bibury end up with reference-heavy anime.
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Atelier



Joined: 05 Jun 2022
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 2:09 pm Reply with quote
Megumi Ishitani is truly an unbelievable director. What an Opening that is.

As a Gintama and Sket Dance fan, I obviously can't resist watching this. I thought the first episode was a bit weak, but I'm starting to warm up to it with its second episode.
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jdnation



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 2:42 pm Reply with quote
Heh heh... this show's funny!
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Zased



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 3:45 pm Reply with quote
I loved SKET Dance back in the day but I was not the biggest fan of Astra and felt Shinohara is much better suited to do more comedic school hijimks so I'm glad to see Witch Watch finally get adapted and have been loving it so far.
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Minos_Kurumada



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 6:51 pm Reply with quote
Episode 2 is better than 1, unfortunately I feel the character writing its weaker than Sket Dance's.

For now its funny and have no problem with keeping watching, but Sket Dance had an stronger beginning.
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Blaze_1013



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 2:04 am Reply with quote
Atelier wrote:
Megumi Ishitani is truly an unbelievable director. What an Opening that is.


I honestly avoid watching anime OPs until I watch the show itself, but when I saw that Ishitani did the OP I had to watch the OP, and yea, it's amazing. It has SO many nods to things that will happen in super subtle ways and it was only on my most recent rewatch that I noticed it shows that a character I didn't think it would show up in this season probably will. Also, it has a YOASOBI song elevating it even more. Just amazing stuff.
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ab2143



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 11:54 am Reply with quote
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This time, we get a version of the opening based entirely on its animation storyboards, with the joke here being that Nico seems to have somehow messed with the animation


It reminded me of Gintama MS Paint opening lmao
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Dr. Wily



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 1:57 pm Reply with quote
One of my favorite things in anime (or heck, in any show, period) is when a show alters its opening/ending for something, whether it's something like a simple gag or something more dramatic like a character's death

So what I'm saying is before I was kinda just watching the show because it popped up at the top of Netflix recommended shows, but now I'm actively looking forward to future episodes (also the smaller/dumber Nicos cracked me up).
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