Witch Craft Works
SPOILER ALERT:The following are major spoilers
Witch Craft Works is one of those very unusual anime, that are very lowly rated. On MAL, it ranks at 6.99, hardly impressive! Yet we at Pywackett Productions think otherwise, and consider this property to be one of those “lost things” which turn up every now and then!
Basically the story (for what it is worth) is about two groups of witches, The Workshop Witches (good guys) and The Tower Witches (bad guys) who are fighting over possession of Honoka Takamiya (多華宮 仄, Takamiya Honoka), the male protag who has great power within him. But Ayaka Kagari (火々里 綾火, Kagari Ayaka), a Workshop Witch is there to protect him. This is about as much sense as the story ever arrives at because once it hits the ground running, you will not believe where it dares to go.
I mean we are talking about giant plushie mecha teddy bears, and giant mecha robot rabbits, and their fights (think Godzilla destroying Tokyo). We have sister love for her brother, we have lesbian romance where Honoka’s mother is in love with Kagari’s mother, but they cannot marry. So they decide to marry males and raise their children to marry each other. So the mothers of Kagari and Honoka have fated the two to end up together even before the story begins. In the course of the story, one supposed Final Big Boss leaves the field only for another one to take her place, and this is to the point where a watching cannot keep track of the antagonists without a program. The story soon loses it’s grip on reality, and we enter hidden dimensions, goddesses, stolen kisses, a true “Alice in Wonderland” adventure.
The animation and voice acting is quite excellent, and the imagination in the creation of this world of witches and their conflicts, is exceptionally well done. For as wild as the animation is, and it is indeed wild, this story has an immense amount of heart. Kagari really does love Honoka. He is her princess and she is there to guard and protect him. Any injury that he receives is actually transferred to her.
Kagari Ayaka is an exceptionally attractive protagonist. She is stoic to a fault, and never smiles. But she is fierce and powerful, tall, statuesque and beautiful, and she is prepared to die for Honoka, provided he can just find his manhood to kiss her, and save her life. Unfortunately Honoka is actually a wimp, but his character does grow, but not really sufficient to save his character by the end of the series. But he does make one very significant sacrifice for Kagari.
Sample of Ayaka Kagari (火々里 綾火, Kagari Ayaka) taking care of Honoka Takamiya (多華宮 仄, Takamiya Honoka)
There are characters who come and go in this series, and they are nonsensical in the extreme. The Ivory Quintet, the five Tower Witches who sing the ED song above, and move in with Kagari and Honoka, are profoundly inept as evil doers, and three other witches who just happen to stumble into this story, want to know why everyone is persecuting them, because they have done nothing in the story which is true and very funny.
Witch Craft Works is not especially popular with the anime fandom which is indicated by it’s low score on MAL. But if one can put their rational minds on the shelf, and suspend thinking, then the nonsense that is this anime might make for a pleasurable experience. But one should know that before even entering this property.
For our tastes only here at Pywackett Productions, unfortunately we love sensible nonsense so we give this anime the following rating:
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