English Dub Review: Witch Watch “Keigo Magami, the Werewolf; Kind Tiger, Proud Wolf; Easy Spices for Enthralling Cooking”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Keigo settles in at the Otogi house, but his new roommates do their best to try and not trigger his Wolf form. Later, Nico accidentally charms some food, and shenanigans ensue.

OUR TAKE

We’re into the second half (or end of the first half?) of Witch Watch’s first season, and that means new opening and ending songs! But it also means cooling off from the events of last week’s two parter conclusion, where Keigo, revealed to be working for some bad guys, also had a second personality that gives him lighter hair and a more dominating attitude. After beating him and revealing his sad motives and backstory, he ended up moving in with Nico, Morihito, and Kanshi. And going by the new OP, he likely won’t be the last addition to that household, but we’ll get to that when we get to that. For now, this episode is just about mixing Keigo into the group dynamic, partly bringing back his niche tastes in media joke from a few episodes ago when he was a minor character, but also now having to deal with his other half popping out whenever he sees anything his mind recognizes as a crescent, including a specifically placed croissant. That’s funny for a little bit, but what seems to be important moving forward is that Wolf will only listen to Morihito, who beat him in combat, and is also the only one of the group that knows that Nemu is the cat that keeps coming over for pets (not even Keigo knows, so I guess Wolf is just a full on separate being).

There is a second segment in this episode that is pretty much just fine and more typical antics that also hint at more lovey dovey stuff between Nico and Morihito, but really the Keigo and Wolf being added to the group is the main thing of importance here. The main cast is increased, the dynamic between them all is okay but I’ll wait for it to play out to really know for sure, and they have a bit more offence on their side in case they face any further magical threats. This could very well be the turning point where this story goes from being a light hearted school comedy with some touches of fantasy drama to getting a bit more serialized and consistently dramatic as it goes along. I wouldn’t mind it getting a bit of that, I’ll admit, but what has kept me a fan of this so far has been the comedy, so hopefully they keep that up and funnier as we go along.