Episode 21 – Witch Watch

After two back-to-back episodes of romantic dramas, the show brings the show back to the usual comedy brand as it has attracted more attention on Miharu. This time, we have a glimpse of his attempt to deal with the regular middle school life and his interactions with the school’s student union president, who proves that he has a connection to his magical lineage. Both are ideas that seem to be for some interesting or heart-warming escape, but while these areas are not entirely lacking, none of these material lands are as good. That’s OK, though, because sandwiched between these Miharu clips between one of the most interesting sketches to date, and while it doesn’t fully deliver on the rest of the episode, it does at least further prove that you can never really tell where the show is.

As far as the Miharu-centric segment is concerned, we first find that on the surface, he seemed to do a good job with himself in middle school. Although he preserved his vampire lineage, as a pale, pretty boy, his class girls still caught his attention and playing a cool nobility role can only make him even more popular. It’s fun enough in itself, though unlike finding Miharu finds the whole thing exhausting, it’s long passed the point where he can break the behavior, so he’s been stuck without any actual friends. The character didn’t stop him from getting into trouble, and after pursuing some bullies, he eventually caught the attention of Fujiki, the president of the school’s student union, who is known for being very straightforward and serious. But when the story begins to spread around the school about a child whose black mask destroys school property, Miharu discovers that the two are one person, and Fujiki’s secret. He is also a legendary monster, but instead of ancient creatures like O’Grace or a vampire, he descends from the story’s Jekyll, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, occasionally showing his violent outbreak. Just like I love Witch watchThe way to the monsters left in old myths and stories is a very strange monster. Although Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are a very old story by modern standards, it is not as mysterious as a mermaid or a werewolf, and the suggestion does not make inclusion even more strange. I do think that the idea of ​​limiting the Hyde aspect of this lineage to a violent tendency rather than splitting personality is an interesting concept, but the episode didn’t take a lot of time to go on, otherwise it felt like a footnote. The Fujiki isn’t as interesting as this particular revelation, so it’s nice to have a friend who can talk to his Vampire Heritage, but I don’t think it’s a particularly strong introduction to the new actor.

Of course, those weak first impressions didn’t help the last part of the show, which is Fujiki’s weakest character with the show, the student union. Specifically, he encountered them after mistakenly thinking of them as other members of the Otogi family, which is as unfortunate as you would expect from the group. As always, the student union members are limited to one of their heads, and since there is nothing else here, there is only one wrong identity, and there is no real joke here except Fujiki. Not long after, Miharu arrived with Tenryu to clear the misunderstanding and we learned that the Council was trying to hold Tenryu’s birthday party, which I guess was lovely, but not enough to save the area from feeling dull. I do thank Fujiki for actually encountering how the Morito feels relative to the gang once the outside normal is, but other than that, Fujiki’s introduction doesn’t work much for me.

On the bright side, this at least doesn’t take up the whole plot, and the part that takes the focus away from Fujiki and Miharu is easily the strongest. To help improve the view of his streaming channel, Nico uses her magic to turn Keigo into a girl while she is sold to the audience as a new character. Now, you might be tempted to read it and assume that the show will use it at a cheap price Fan Serviceor a joke about gender exchange, but it’s too small. This show is much bigger than that. While the “keiko” here seemed like a bad marketing strategy at first because she couldn’t maintain her posture, she was warmly welcomed by the male audience and soon afterwards we started getting gender swaps from other boys. Kenzuo is reimagined as a sporty girl named Kanna, while Miharu becomes an ethereal princess Miharun. Although these two people hardly change their actual personality, they end up emitting a lot of scenery, while Morhito guides his inner producers to fill their value. Even straight men of our residents cannot relieve the masses of their will, just as when the audience started asking for the girl version of Morihito, we gave Mori: a stern sister with a ponytail and glasses. For Morihito, it’s so positioned that I manage to be both genius and hysterical at the same time, and I respect the effort in design. So it all scientifically proves what anime producers have been relying on for years: no matter how weird or scary you are, as long as you put a cute girl in front of it and the joke may come out from Shinohara’s perspective, I can’t say it’s bad.

What ultimately expelled this plan was when we finally got the girl version of Wolf (Wolf (maintaining the same hairstyle), the bravest design choice for bondage), they emanated by flashing all male audiences and streaming it down when they were forced to place another apology video. It’s the perfect way to sum up another of these ribbon-themed shorts, and it’s still interesting how good Shinohara’s attitude toward the content creation culture is. I do wish the two segments around this were a little stronger, but it was incredible when one of the third was good and I love how far this series is willing to get along with its setup. I hope next week’s episode will have a better balance.

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