English Dub Review: Witch Watch “My Student Is My Favorite Fan Artist; My Tummy Is Tender Today; Cat Scout”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Yuri, the teacher, finds out one of her favorite artists is actually one of her students. Later, Nico hones her witch abilities, while another witch emerges an attempts to woo Morihito to be her familiar.

OUR TAKE

We’re still at the antics this week with Witch Watch, as fleshing out some supporting characters AND introducing a new one, which turns out to be another witch! First off, as mentioned, a segment about the manga loving teacher, Yuri, where she finds out one of her students is actually an artist she likes, but can’t say anything because she needs to look like a professional and an adult, even though she wants to be able to make manga references all day. Well, the student, Kukumi, manages to get this info out of her and encourages her to be more open about her hobbies, and because this is a comedy manga, this doesn’t lead to anything weird. And let me tell you, with manga it is legitimately a coinflip of whether this would end up somewhere strange. Then the next segment focuses on Nico helping out with her magic, and we get a little bit of a hint as to what things will look like as she keeps improving on her skills, specifically that the blue gem on her staff will slowly but surely turn white, and does this when she does things for people for which they are grateful, encouraging her to be more helpful with her abilities.

Though it’s probably the last segment that will have the more immediate impact down the road, as it features the introduction of another witch character, Nemu Miyao, whose main ability is to, as the name implies, turn into a cat. Also, since she is aware of Morihito’s ogre ancestry, she has decided to make him into her familiar and is jealous of Nico for calling dibs on that! Though as she infiltrates the group and tries to win his favor as a cat, she gains a crush on him when he pets her really well. So NOW we officially have a love triangle going, with it centering on the main guy of the show instead of the girl, though we may get that down the road. While I am pretty much sick to death of those sorts of cliches, I’m willing to see where things go with this, mainly because Witch Watch has shown to be pretty good at handling more cliche things in at least an entertaining way. It has my benefit of the doubt, so all it has to do is not taking this in a more boring direction, which hopefully it won’t.