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君は死ねない灰かぶりの魔女
8
2
Finished
Jun 25, 2020 to Jul 22, 2021
6.0/10
Average Review Score
50%
Recommend It
2
Reviews Worldwide
I was so desperate when I knew this manga was over because it could have been one of the greatest ever written. Although this story seems to be the type of isekai waifu, but believe me, it will gradually subvert all this later and lead to a better place. The puzzles and foreshadowing of 13 Witches and 13 Curses are very well written, but not the best part. The real protagonists and villains are far from being on the scene, but the story is interesting enough ------ The plot presented in the manga is less than 1% of the original. Here is the original address: https://yaruonichijou.com/blog-entry-15107.html (Japanese site) ----- This work, like "Goblin Slayer",was originally posted on the Japanese 2ch website. It is a work created in the form of text + character painting. If you are interested in this work, then you may consider going to see the original work. The original work is very good. In order to cater to the Japanese light novel market, in commercial version, a lot of the exciting parts have been removed, which makes it look ordinary.
I'm a magic apprentice. "My master," who has been living under this same run-down roof with me, is a shut-in girl who proclaimed herself to be a great witch. Despite sounding all high-and-mighty, my defenseless master loves to watch her disciple cooking for her. Our daily lives, filled with happiness, go by quietly. However, little did I know that behind that quiet, happy daily life is a terrible secret that involves the fate of the world... (Source: Kadokawa, translated)
The art is fantastic. That's about where the good news ends. To begin with, the manga is a bit of an isekai with magic and Saya no Uta abominations thrown in. An interesting combination, but you quickly realise the isekai part serves no purpose except to exist. And then there's an attempt at mixing in comedy, but then it also throws in action. The result of this is a mash up of a bunch of genres and trope elements that just sit there with zero synergy, serving no end goal, and amounting to nothing for the reader. Meanwhile, you still have no idea what is happening inthe actual story because no background context is revealed to you (and doesn't get satisfyingly established all the way until the arc ends). The pacing is throughly f**ked by this point by the sheer volume of "stuff happening" and genre mashing, but even the story itself gets rushed along. It's maybe 6 chapters in when you are finally given what you need to understand where this is set and what you are looking at. By the time the story figures out where it's headed, it gets AXED. Honestly, I do believe it really had potential and that the story it tried to tell was somewhat interesting, but it kept on tumbling over itself. A great shame, but the series ultimately ran out of steam after blowing through all its ideas and revealing its full hand in the span of a mere 7 chapters and an extra.