English Dub Review: Witch Watch “The Lost Wolf and the Stray Cat”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Keigo feels down about not being able to help out in fights, so Nico gives him use of a flight spell. Later, Nemu visits the Morihito household in cat form to get pets and let Wolf Keigo out, but starts to take a shine to Keigo’s normal self.

OUR TAKE

Were they short on material for this episode? Because they took up at least a couple extra minutes on extending the Ending song just to show more clips of Nemu and Keigo, even stopping on a still shot for an odd amount of time. But yeah, this is an episode just about progressing that slowly building plotline about these two that’s been going on for about a handful of episodes now (starting with Episode 16). Longer if you just look at Nemu’s stuff. She started the show wanting to spy on Nico as a cat but found herself enjoying Morihito’s petting a lot, but then couldn’t reveal herself as a human witch without dying of embarrassment. Then Keigo joined the house and somehow she and his alter ego Wolf worked out a deal of sneaking in to let him “sneak out” for a bit by showing Keigo a crescent moon, but she then started to take a bit of a belligerent liking to Wolf, but Keigo remained an odd duck to her. And now, at least from her end, it seems she’s really come to like original recipe Keigo now too, after he showed he was willing to save her when her magic got out of control due to her remembering a sad part of her backstory. And now she knows Nico likes Morihito, so he’s out, so Keigo’s really the only romantic interest she needs to worry about now.

That’s where this ends up leading, but it starts with Keigo not being able to help with…a street fight? Is that something that these guys just do now? Finding and beating up gangsters whenever the mood strikes them? Seems a little bit like they couldn’t come up with a good lead in to this plot and threw that in. And also Keigo can fly now, which also feels like something done to facilitate the climax of this episode of saving a falling Nemu. We do at least get some insight into Nemu’s backstory, wherein her mother basically tells her she’s never going to have any friends or people who understand her and…what do ya know, she actually has those now. Still, this is pretty cute, even if I prefer the comedy episodes more. And it looks like Keigo is going to remain in the dark about having just made Nemu get a crush on him, and with only five or six episodes left, I don’t think this subplot is going to get a resolution, but this is certainly progress for them. And speaking of progress, we’re almost done with the season, so we might be due for another serious episode to close us out! Stay tuned to find out!