{"id":180531,"date":"2025-04-10T14:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T14:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anime\/first-look-witch-watch-the-glorio-blog\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T14:36:22","slug":"first-look-witch-watch-the-glorio-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=180531","title":{"rendered":"First Look: Witch Watch | The Glorio Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Manga Adaptation by Bibury Animation Studios
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Premise<\/h3>\n

Young witch Nico was separated from her precious oni childhood friend Morihito when she went off to magic school. Now that they\u2019re teens, they must live together as master and familiar and deal with wacky magic-based hijinks.<\/p>\n

Iro\u2019s<\/span> verdict: You See It Is A Pun Because Witch And Watch Are One Letter Apart<\/h3>\n

We have spoken before on adaptations<\/a>, and this is a particularly good example of how an anime mindlessly adhering 1:1 to the manga is a bad idea. Pretty much every single gag \u2013 and there are a lot, since this is ostensibly a comedy series \u2013 is immediately<\/em> followed up with a line explaining what the joke was. I might<\/em> have laughed at some of them! But I sure won\u2019t if they\u2019re going to cut me off by calling attention to it every fucking time!! It sucks!!!<\/p>\n

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Zigg\u2019s<\/span> verdict: Which Watch? Not This One<\/h3>\n

Every season I feel like the by-the-numbers Weekly Shonen Jump<\/em> adaptation cannot become any more cliched, and every season I\u2019m reliably proved wrong.\u00a0Witch Watch<\/em> has it all \u2013 a childhood friend who moved away and is coming back, two teens living in a house together, a parade of incredibly unfunny jokes which the show nevertheless laboriously explains, removing any possible amusement, and an insanely powerful protagonist who is nevertheless fettered in some convenient way that also lets him play the lovable underdog. The result is just another interchangeable blob of anime that\u2019s agressively average. You could easily do worse but you could also do a hell of a lot better. Too bad the entire show isn\u2019t styled like the fantastic OP, which has more bounce and joie de vivre<\/em> in 90 seconds than the other 22 minutes of the episode.<\/p>\n

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