Spring 2025 Witch Watch

[Stark700]

Looks like the manga series Witch Watch is getting an anime adaptation, coming 2025

Myanimelist Synopsis

Nico Wakatsuki has finished her six years of witch training and is moving back to town by herself. As a new witch, she must choose a familiar to accompany her. However, unlike the other witches, she wishes to pick a non-animal familiar. There's no better companion than Morihito "Moi" Otogi—her childhood friend who happens to be an ogre. Morihito is vehemently opposed to being her servant, but he reluctantly accepts his fate after learning that a curse would revert him into a strange cow-tiger hybrid were he to disobey a witch's order.

Due to Morihito's father leaving for a business trip and Nico's mother remaining behind in the Witches' Holy Land, the two teens find themselves living together under the same roof. While Nico is ecstatic to be living with her crush, Morihito finds that her magical antics and overall clumsiness create more problems than solutions. With a prophesied disaster to befall Nico within the year, Morihito must do everything he can to protect her as her bodyguard while also upholding his duties as her familiar.

https://twitter.com/SugoiLITE/status...20050361221306

[Kanon]

It's by Kenta Shinohara, the mangaka of Sket Dance and Astra Lost in Space. Let me warn you immediately though: this is NOWHERE near as good as those two manga were. I'm a big fan of Sket Dance in particular, but the comedy doesn't even come close to being as funny, and the more serious moments are just decent (the serious arcs in Sket Dance were incredible). It's an all around very mediocre manga.

I'll pass on the anime adaptation. I'll just watch the Sket Dance crossover story if they actually adapt it. The reason they might not is that it's a big call-back to one of the later arc of Sket Dance, which never made it into the anime. I would have loved a continuation of Sket Dance instead, but I'm afraid that ship has sailed.

I'm honestly surprised it's even getting an anime. Then again, Jump manga have to do extremely poorly to never get anime. If a manga survives 100 chapters, it pretty much gets one. I have no clue how it's doing in Japan, but I do know it's super unpopular in the West.

[Frontier]

I've actually heard decent things about this so I'll probably check it out .

[Nachtwandler]

Originally Posted by Kanon

It's by Kenta Shinohara, the mangaka of Sket Dance and Astra Lost in Space. Let me warn you immediately though: this is NOWHERE near as good as those two manga were. I'm a big fan of Sket Dance in particular, but the comedy doesn't even come close to being as funny, and the more serious moments are just decent (the serious arcs in Sket Dance were incredible). It's an all around very mediocre manga.

I'll pass on the anime adaptation. I'll just watch the Sket Dance crossover story if they actually adapt it. The reason they might not is that it's a big call-back to one of the later arc of Sket Dance, which never made it into the anime. I would have loved a continuation of Sket Dance instead, but I'm afraid that ship has sailed.

I'm honestly surprised it's even getting an anime. Then again, Jump manga have to do extremely poorly to never get anime. If a manga survives 100 chapters, it pretty much gets one. I have no clue how it's doing in Japan, but I do know it's super unpopular in the West.

I won't call it super unpopular. There are a few bigger sites like TV-tropes where people discuss it quite regularly.

[zztop]

Originally Posted by Nachtwandler

I won't call it super unpopular. There are a few bigger sites like TV-tropes where people discuss it quite regularly.

Correct, if Witch Watch was super unpopular in Japan it would've been cancelled long long ago. Especially when you consider how ruthless Weekly Shonen Jump is with axing titles that don't meet its standards (looks at Martial Master Asumi, Samurai 8 etc.)

[FlareKnight]

I figured this would happen eventually.

Honestly...I didn't love the source material. Just lost interest after a while and forgot about it. I'm kind of with Kanon in that I didn't think it was very good or funny. Obviously it's popular. SJ is pretty ruthless to series that aren't popular enough. I'm just not sure why it is popular . I guess that's humor for you.

And wow I forgot how that summary read . Witch is moving back to her hometown but instead of a normal familiar she enslaves her childhood friend/crush and makes him her familiar. But hey, maybe animating it will make it a bit more interesting.

[Nachtwandler]

Originally Posted by zztop

Correct, if Witch Watch was super unpopular in Japan it would've been cancelled long long ago. Especially when you consider how ruthless Weekly Shonen Jump is with axing titles that don't meet its standards (looks at Martial Master Asumi, Samurai 8 etc.)

Kanon was talking about it being unpopular in the West, though. Still, it is at least somehow popular here.

[Lex79]

The current arc made me lose most of my interest in the manga, so I'm not extremely motivated to watch the anime. Maybe if there aren't many interesting series airing at the same time.

[Stark700]

Teaser confirms Spring 2025

[Blaat]

That's unexpected.

[Frontier]

It looks really cute and fun .

[Diluc]

Originally Posted by Kanon

It's by Kenta Shinohara, the mangaka of Sket Dance and Astra Lost in Space. Let me warn you immediately though: this is NOWHERE near as good as those two manga were. I'm a big fan of Sket Dance in particular, but the comedy doesn't even come close to being as funny, and the more serious moments are just decent (the serious arcs in Sket Dance were incredible). It's an all around very mediocre manga.

I'll pass on the anime adaptation. I'll just watch the Sket Dance crossover story if they actually adapt it. The reason they might not is that it's a big call-back to one of the later arc of Sket Dance, which never made it into the anime. I would have loved a continuation of Sket Dance instead, but I'm afraid that ship has sailed.

I'm honestly surprised it's even getting an anime. Then again, Jump manga have to do extremely poorly to never get anime. If a manga survives 100 chapters, it pretty much gets one. I have no clue how it's doing in Japan, but I do know it's super unpopular in the West.

I don't think think its bad but i see your point compared to see Sket dance and Astra, Witch watch story is less gripper and more aimless.

It seem the author wanted to write comedy, romcom and shounen fight in this manga, well the romcom and comedy were working well but shounen fight always weakest part of the story.

Luckily Witch Watch never suffering from burnout and trainwreck, it still receives good responses in japan hence managed to survive till today

[Last Sinner]

The potential to break the memes associated with ogres being wasted along with the cliche setup...pass...