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<\/a>It hasn\u2019t escaped my notice that there\u2019s an odd symmetry between the two Patron Pick winners, past and present, occupying Sunday nights on my schedule. Shoushimin Series<\/em> (like Kusuriya no Hitorigogo<\/em>, as I\u2019ve noted more than once) is better when it\u2019s about something. But Witch Watch<\/em> is very much in the opposite camp. I find this series to be most winning when it\u2019s abjectly silly and satirical, embracing the irreverent and observational side of Shinohara Kenta\u2019s style. I like the characters, don\u2019t get me wrong. But serious character drama here just doesn\u2019t seem to soar. Just be funny and I think this show can continue to succeed.<\/p>\n<\/a>We got two stories this week rather than three, but they were both fully comical so that was no problem. The first involves Kan & Nico deciding (thanks to the advice of an apparently homeless man in the park named \u201cSergeant Punch<\/a>\u201c) to become YouTubers. This setup is right up Shinohara\u2019s street, and he doesn\u2019t disappoint. He manages to thoroughly mock both successful YouTubers and the even-more mockable feebs who try and copy them. And teenagers of course, his favorite satirical target. Nico and Kan are predictably useless at creating context (that unboxing one had me on the floor) and Moi is predictably majime<\/em> about the whole thing.<\/p>\n<\/a>Things really blossom when Moi brings Keigo in as an instructor. I saw great comic potential in him as soon as he was introduced last week, and this bit doesn\u2019t disappoint. Moi introduces him as the class loser hipster and he does everything in his power to live up to that. His tortured teen intellectual act<\/a> (both on and off-camera) hits the target like a laser-guided missile. He is at least nominally more competent at this than the dummy pair though, and between his tech know-how and Morihito\u2019s earnest dedication Nico (& Kanshi) Channel<\/a> manages to generate a minor viral hit (Nico playing Keigo\u2019s hilarious and unintentionally self-parodying game). Then they get tired of it just as Moi predicted, and that\u2019s that.<\/p>\n<\/a>Next up we meet Kiyomiya Suzuka<\/a>, an ojou-sama Nico idolizes as the perfect nadeshiko type she figures Moi goes for. Except she can\u2019t actually do<\/em> anything well, which is a great trial to the stern grandmother<\/a> who\u2019s been forcing her to take lessons in all the stereotypical cultural activities ojou-samas do. Kiyomiya begs Nico to fix her with a spell, which even I know isn\u2019t how it works. The best Moi can do is \u201cSynclone\u201d, which ties her movements to Moi\u2019s \u2013 on the grounds that this might help her pass the tea ceremony test Grandma is insisting she pass or go back to training square one. So ever-helpful and capable Moi agrees to learn the tea ceremony and help her fake it with the aid of Keigo\u2019s camera glasses.<\/p>\n<\/a>This is every bit the slapstick disaster you\u2019d expect it to be. Perfectly middlebrow at best, which is a butter zone for this show. For starters Morihito uses the strength he\u2019d use for his own oni body to move Suzuka\u2019s wispy frame around. Then when Kan uses a Country Ma\u2019am (IYKYK) cookie as a stand-in for the dry sweet Grandma places in front of Kiyomiya, almost chokes her. Only a fortuitous appearance by an osuzumebachi<\/a> saves the day, giving Moi a chance to impress the old lady with a skillset that comes naturally to him<\/a>. It all closes with a pun, when Suzuka asks him to learn the koto for her next trial and Moi responds with a firm \u201cO-kotowari\u201d.<\/p>\n