Witch Watch: How It Won Me Over, Then Lost Me with Filler-Feeling Gags

Tired of being isekai’d into oblivion, we went looking for a different kind of fantasy—one that kept the magic but stayed grounded in a world you could actually recognize. Witch Watch looked like that show at first glance: a powerful young witch under threat, an Oni guardian with impossible strength, and an unseen organization pulling strings. What we found was a romantic comedy wrapped around a clever lore system, full of sketch‑style episodes that pop with chaos, then reset before the emotions can stick.

We break down what Witch Watch absolutely gets right. The worldbuilding is a gem: familiars evolving into humanlike beings, magic tied to service and purity, and the way Nico’s misfires warp reality in hilarious, sometimes alarming ways. Morihito’s backstory as an Oni who trained his feelings into near silence gives the series a stoic center, and the rules around power feel clear enough to set stakes without crushing the fun. When the plot kicks into gear—Keigo’s double life as Wolf, a prophecy that targets Nico, and a real fight that feels like a season finale—the show proves it can deliver tension, character stakes, and heart.

But we also get candid about the pace. Big arcs surface every few episodes, then drown in shorts that rarely move the story or deepen the leads. Some parody bits hit as dry rather than sharp, and character growth too often waits for the next new face to join the cast. Still, there are standout moments: the marble craze episode roasts influencer hype and misinformation with uncomfortable accuracy, and the creator subplot around gear, editing, and burnout hits home.

Score-wise, we land at a 6.5: high marks for concept and lore, points off for a stop‑start structure that makes entire episodes feel disposable. If you love breezy romcom energy with magical spice, this will likely charm you; if you crave continuity and steady growth, you may wish the show trusted its strongest threads. Listen for our favorite arcs, the scenes that almost turned the corner, and what Witch Watch could do to make its magic truly stick. If this breakdown helps, tap follow, share with a friend who loves anime deep dives, and leave a quick review to tell us where you agree—or where we’re way off.

Chapters

• 0:00 Fed Up With Isekai, Enter Witch Watch
• 1:00 Expecting Fantasy Adventure, Get Romcom
• 3:10 Pacing Woes And Episodic Gags
• 5:23 Non‑Spoiler Verdict And Rating
• 5:23 Spoilers Begin: Nico And The Rules Of Magic
• 9:00 Morihito’s Oni Backstory And Stoicism
• 12:40 Worldbuilding And Familiar Lore
• 14:50 Kanchi The Tengu And Humor Misses
• 16:25 Student Council Parody Bits
• 18:12 Keigo, YouTube, And Wolf’s Reveal
• 21:30 Stakes Rise: Prophecy And Kidnapping Plot
• 24:20 Momentum Stalls After Big Arc
• 26:00 Miharu The Vampire And Power Costs
• 28:00 Small Character Moments And The Marble Fiasco
• 30:00 Final Takeaways And 6.5 Rating

Transcript

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What's up everybody, Kokugasu here. Of course, we're gonna go ahead and talk about Witch Watch. And what got inspired me to want to watch this is that I got so tired of Isekai. It was Isekai this, isekai that, isekai everywhere. And I get the importance of Isekai as supposed to be like, oh, you know, I'm doing something that what if I was able to go live in this magical world and you know, instead of living my daily life, and I get that. I do understand the benefit into it, but it's to the point that it's entirely too much. I was trying to find an anime that was like, hey, what's something that is still fantasy? I can still do magic and stuff like that, but it's not a reincarnated into another world. Like, can it just be this is the story of this person? Like, just come on, just something simple. So Netflix recommended to me Witch Watch, and when I watched the preview of it, I was excited. I was like, oh, okay, cool. It's about a teenage girl, she got magical powers, and she's gonna go through these adventures, and you know, there's an evil organization after her magic. And although that is technically correct, that is not at all what the preview that I watched let this anime uh mold itself to be in my head. Because this anime is a romantic comedy. Now, I have nothing against romantic comedies. Romantic comedies are funny, they're hilarious. Uh, but because of how some anime romantic comedies tend to go, there's a lot of uh dry humor that tends to not be as funny. Uh, usually probably because of the fact that because I don't live in Japan, there's some jokes that kind of fly over my head. There's some things that's pretty common all across the world. It's gonna be hilarious, like social media and stuff. We're gonna get those. But then there's some stuff that I'm like, I feel like this was supposed to be funnier, but it it just didn't resonate with me per se, and that's kind of like how I felt onto it. So I'm not nothing against the Intuit. So just being realistic of my rating into this is the fact that it's like it's good anime, it's got really good reviews on Crunchyroll, Netflix, it's got a 4.5 out of 10. Um, I think it's got like an 80 per 86 percent on Google as far as uh watch radius that they liked it. But the thing about it is also me personally is the fact that I can't say that this was so enjoyable for me that I wanted to stay watching it. I actually did have some struggles with this because at some point the series kind of got a little bit boring, and the reason being is because there's multiple story plots into that where every about every five to six episodes we jump into what would be the main story, and even though there'll be hints about them trying to stay focused on that story during the other episodes, it's just pretty much every episode is their own little adventure into different things. This uh, this is just a wacky adventure, this happened, this is a wacky adventure, this happened, and then after about five or six episodes, then all right, let's go back into the main story point now. Now it's time to move the story forward, per se, and then jump right back to a couple episodes of just random humor. I guess to me, that didn't flow that well for me, per se. Like even some other romantic comedies I've watched, like for example, Rama One Half. Rama One Half was the fact that even though every episode was still kind of his own wacky adventure, if it was a story to it, that it played out in those couple episodes, and then when we jump into the next story that would take a couple episodes, and the next story that would take a couple episodes, where it kind of just continue on into like each of these different adventures, but we had a chance to kind of explore more into the adventure versus with Witch Watch, every episode is like every 30-minute interval is two to three episodes, and each episode, each little short is its own wacky adventure. Sometimes we may wind up getting a full 30-minute um episode of something else going on, and if we wind up jumping into the storyline, then we get two to three episodes of it, but then after that, it just goes right back to here's a short of just a random episode, here's a short of just a random episode, and it got to the point that every episode to me felt like filler. So, giving as far as that generalization and review, I get the high rating into it, but me personally, I would have to give it, I'd probably say like a six, six and a half out of ten. And as far as being an honest review into it, because the pacing just doesn't fit that well, and because of how the pacing is, we don't get as much character development, things don't flesh out the way they need to. We only get some storyline development during the actual like story points, otherwise, we're not seeing as much of character growth, it doesn't feel as if like there's actually a story, you know, like it doesn't feel like we're gonna follow the story until all of a sudden, boom, we're jumping it back into the storyline again. And it just feels the pacing feels a bit off to me onto it, and it just doesn't flow as well. Add into again, like I mentioned, some of the humor into it, even though I'm not gonna say it's not funny, there's there's still stuff that I'm like, okay, that seems kind of funny, but I feel like it would have been funnier if I had was more engrossed into the culture. So, even with this review, I'm gonna be very honest that it's more of a personal feel review into that one. Now, to go ahead and get further into a little bit more into the 6.5 rating, I definitely want to go ahead and zone into that a little bit further. So now we're entering spoiler territory. So that was my non-spoiler review. Now it's time to zone in and figure out going a little bit further about what's happening. So we have our main character, Nico. Nico is a witch, but albeit she is a very powerful witch, unlike most other witches, she has a significant amount of mana of power to be able to do a lot of different magical abilities, um, a little bit on a grander scale than most other witches can. Because of this, the there's an evil witch organization that's after her, trying to, in a sense, defect her over to the dark side per se. Because you see, the witches they have it set to where you use your magical ability in order to help and benefit other people, and that's all that you're supposed to use it for. Um, never to really be like a selfish gain into it. Now, granted, yes, you can use magical powers for your everyday life type of thing. However, the main premise of it is that you're doing the benefit and the betterment of other people. So when you stick into that, what winds up happening is that she gets graded on her magic scale as far as to becoming a full-fledged witch because she's a witch in training. The more that she uses her magic to help people, her magic changes color. And the whiter it becomes, the more pure she becomes, and the more she becomes a full-fledged full-fledged witch to be able to do everything that she wants to do into that. Now, Nico she grew up uh when she was a kid, her magical abilities were misunderstood. A lot of people didn't understand it because she was a kid, and other kids was like, first it seems cool, then it seemed kind of creepy, because unfortunately, Nico doesn't have the best control of her magical powers. And that's where some of that's when we come to some of the main drama, but also some of the funny things that happen to the show. Because she can't control her magical ability, what winds up happening is that when she starts doing magic attacks, anything can happen. She can do a magic where it's like, oh, this is supposed to help you not feel as much pain, and then what winds up happening is that boom, all of a sudden, now you're sitting here dealing with all types of drama. And clearly, none of the drama is intentional, like it's always accidental drama. Like what I mean, so she'll heal a wound, somebody got a scar, and she'll heal it, and the consequence of her healing it turns is their arm into like spaghetti. And it's like it's it was never intentional, it was just always an accidental thing because she can't get full grasp for power, but it winds up also being the point of like it's extreme onto an extreme level. It's not just like, oh, your arm just became spaghetti, your arm became spaghetti, and now it's extremely long or something like that. Like it it grew five additional feet or something. Um, and like even for like the first episode, she winds up making this magical blunder that winds up happening where she winds up accidentally giving one person an extendo arm, she winds up giving another person uh an extremely long neck, and it's like all these different things, one's uh extremely long fingernails. Um what was it? Oh, she was trying to fix a pencil. So, like the pencil was short, and she was trying to elongate the pencil and wound up accidentally misfiring and elongating everyone's body parts that was in the area. So it's like little mishaps like that, and it's like little comedy, little sketches into those moments. Um, so with that, it's it's pretty much kind of giving an idea for her. That's just kind of how she is. The other thing is, of course, she's in love with the other main other absolute main character, Morihito. So let's talk about this guy. Uh, Morihito is an Oni, uh, but not in the typical sense of an Oni that we would imagine. You see, the way the world building, and I I absolutely love the world building of this anime, is the fact that every mythical creature that we know of, it they exist, but they all retain a pretty much a permanent human form. The reason being is because over just years of incorporating into human society, what it was is that it started off as actual animals that became witches' familiars, and because they became witches' familiars, they started uh dawning more human-like traits. So at a halfway point is where they became the mythical beasts that we know, like only becoming like ogres were originally just boars that became more human-like, and now we have our character Mojito, who is still an Oni, he's still pretty much a boar human per se. But because his they've been incorporated to human society for so long, mingling with other humans, you know, making babies, other humans, and stuff, he just now looks like straight up like a human. Aside from the fact, the only way you could even guess that he would be an Oni is that he doesn't have a horn anymore, but his hair retains a horn-like structure. Like he has one his part of his hair is just pointed straight up, and it just that's just how it is. Like you can you try to smush it down or brush it down, it won't go down, it stays straight up. Same thing for his dad. His dad has two horns or his two pieces of hair that fold up looking like an Oni horn or demon horns, but it's just hair, and that's just it just retains like that, and that's kind of the best way you do it. That was like, well, that's that's just my hair, that's just kind of how my hair is. And I'm like, Okay, interesting. Um, otherwise, he still is an Oni, and that he retains Oni's super strength, so he's super strong, can lift up extremely heavy things like a car and stuff like that, and pick it up with his bare hands. Uh, so clearly he's still a magical creature in a sense. However, he has his own his character development winds up being that he was abused a lot as a kid. Not by his parents, but by other people. Because they call him a freak because of his superpowers, you know, like Superman went through when he couldn't control his powers at first. So he had to learn to control his powers, and his powers are more tied to his emotions. So, in order to get a better control, he wound up studying special only martial arts, and in doing so, gained more control of his emotions. Except for him, he didn't gain control of his emotions. What he learned to do was pretty much erase his emotions. So he stays with like a blank face almost the entire time to the point that people's is a whole comedy gag that he's hard to read. So when you get him in extreme emotion, then his face will show emotions. Like if you piss him off, he will clearly show that he's pissed the fuck off. If he's shocked or like kind of upset, like you'll really see it, you'll see on his face. But otherwise, if he's like a little upset or like I'm kind of upset or I'm a little frustrated or I'm a little shy, you will not see it on his face. You will not see on his face at all. He hides that to uh almost an absolute T on how he does that. Um he, of course, is a long childhood friend of Nico, you know. That kind of how most stories would go. He's a long childhood friend of Nico. Nico's in love with him. Uh he's so damn dense, he doesn't quite get it. Everybody else in the story knows that she's in love with him, but he's just dumb, dense as fuck, and just does not get it. Um, he just thinks that she's a really good childhood friend who's just being super nice. And he winds up getting roped into being her familiar. Not that his by his choice. He said, I absolutely refuse. But they're like, no, you don't have a choice in this matter. That's how it works for us. Because we are witches' familiars, that's just what it is. If they choose for us to be a familiar, we don't get a say so into that. That's just boom, we're done. Which I'm like, okay, that seems kind of unfair. But it never goes further into that story. He just kind of like just accepts it because he's like, Well, if it's anyone is Nico, she's my childhood friend, sure. She needs help anyway, she needs some protection, I'll make sure she's okay. And like how a lot of these enemy tropes go, Well, hey, now you now that uh you're gonna be taking her in and familiar, then all of a sudden all the parents disappear. Nico's mom is like, Oh, yeah, I'm gonna just send you there. And we never meet her, we just hear about her, and she's a very powerful witch in another country. But she sends Nico by herself. Um, and Mori Hito's dad, he's like, Okay, well, now since you're gonna be taking care of her, uh, you don't need me around. And then he just dips and winds up just leaving them there at the house by themselves for anything to happen, of course. And I'm like, Yeah, yeah, this portion is gonna be this usual trope. But then they're too shy to do anything. Let them not be in America. Shit, you leave two teenagers alone and tell them, oh, you guys are just gonna live here and I'll send you money to get food, but otherwise, you just take care of yourselves. You don't need an adult there. There's gonna be all types of stuff that happened now. All types of stuff. Anyway, but we know that. But so we wind up having this little thing where they kind of are just doing their thing together, they go to school together. Um, people make obviously make jokes into that when they're like, oh my god, y'all live alone? What? And it just becomes a whole big thing in itself there. However, we don't push too much further than that. Again, it just kind of stays as a simple dry joke, and then we're done. So it's one of those ones I wish they kind of pushed a little bit further, but they just don't really. So it's like, okay, it was whatever. Um, it would have been funnier, at least to Miyana. But then we also wind up having other characters who wound up getting introduced a little bit later into the story, and that's when we start getting into the actual I'd say story, because now what it felt like we was getting into the story when they introduced this new character, but then at the same time, not this is what I mean. Okay, so we get Kanshi. Now Kanshi's a Tingu. Now we remember Tingu are like the bird-like monsters and stuff, which same thing. It was a bird, became we're just familiar, became more human-like the Tingu that we know within mythology, and now he just looks like a human who has wind magic. That's just kind of how it works out for him. Um he he serves the comedy of the story, whereas Morihito is so serious. Uh Kanchi is always goofy, never takes anything serious and stuff. Um, he goes, he doesn't really have much of a character development other than just growing to like Mori Hito better. Because at first he doesn't like Morihito because Tingu and Oni have this thing with each other that they just don't like each other. Mojito didn't care. He was like, uh, I don't really give a fuck about that. He says, You seem like a cool guy, so we'll just leave it at that. I don't care. But Kanchi was very serious, like, no, I don't like I don't like Oni and stuff like that, but then he eventually just got over it because Mojito's a cool guy, and he's like, Yeah, it was kind of stupid, exactly. And then we move on from that. Um, otherwise, anytime Kanchi's involved, it's kind of just a goofy story type thing. You know, he shows up to try to fight Mojito, gets washed very quickly and then done. Um, I I honestly want to say justice for Kanchi because every time Kanchi's in a fight, he gets washed. Like he hit he gets no W's whatsoever. How this works out. Um so his introduction quick, and then we go right back into episodes of just goofy stuff. Um, we also get introduced to, and I don't need I'm not even gonna go further into this, but the fucking student council who are straight up ripoffs from other anime, like just for no apparent reason. Even Mori Hito winds up commenting this. He himself says, Are you guys you guys are just ripoffs from other anime? It's like I don't understand the point of you guys even being here, much less the point of you guys having these special tropes and themes about you for some bizarre reason. Like one of the characters, he likes he holds a blade with him all the time, and his name is like Stabby Stab or something, but he doesn't stab anybody, it's just a theme for him to have, which is absolutely fucking stupid. And it's like, why would you do this? I don't understand, but that's him, that's his theme, and then yeah, like it just makes no sense. And again, Mojito calls out every single person over it, including the student council head who looks like a German soldier who for some reason is always holding his hat, and it's like his hand has to be just attached to his hat because he can never let it go, and he always has to be in this one specific pose whenever you see him. So it's like there's nothing I can do about it. His hat never comes off his head, and so it's like why? And it's like I don't know, I just do it. And it's like okay, okay. Like again, that if to me, it felt like it was a dry humor thing that I feel like should have been funnier, and maybe I just was missing it. But to me, I was just like, That is just fucking stupid, but okay, and I just kind of moved on. I'm sorry, so that's kind of examples what I mean into the show. Um, but that's kind of it. Like again, Kanchi, he gets washed over very quickly, and then student council gets washed over very quickly. Um, probably the most intense where we're really getting into the actual storyline is when we get introduced into Keigo. So Keigo is another classmate, he is one that most people just kind of ignore, he's kind of shy to himself, but apparently he has his own YouTube series. And the reason we get introduced to him is because Nico and Kanji want to start their own YouTube channel, their own little channel thing to do stuff. But they have absolutely no idea what they're doing, they're terrible at editing. And Mojito, when he finds out, he's like, All your shit is trash. He says, Let me introduce you to somebody that might be able to help you out onto this. Morihito winds up running into Keigo one time while he's actually doing recording his own show, and he's like, Oh, you actually do recording. He's like, Yeah, okay, cool. And then he says, Oh, so he winds up bringing him into um to meeting Nico and Kanchi to try to help them out, setting up their channel, work on editing and stuff like that. Keigo is not really a famous YouTuber either, he's been doing it for a while, but he gets significantly more views than Nico and Kanchi did. With his help, their channel winds up picking up a little bit. But Keiko calls him out very specific. No, Mojito calls him out very specifically. He says, if you're gonna do this, you're gonna devote time because Mojito wouldn't spend money to try to help them out, and then they quickly was like, Oh, I'm kind of bored and tired of this. And he's like, See, I told y'all y'all was gonna do this shit. I'm sorry, I I would get so frustrated that it's like when someone just does it just for the time of like, oh, I just want to do it. If that's what's gonna be the case, that's fine. But if you're saying you're really gonna devote time into this, and then somebody's really trying to help you out and give you money, like literally buying the items for you, donating time and money to help you out, and then you're like, Oh, I'm just bored, I don't want to do it no more. Just wasted their time. Like, why the why the fuck the fuck would you do that shit? But that's exactly what winds up happening. But Kego winds up coming back again a little bit later when we get introduced to another new character named Wolf. Wolf is a secret character, nobody knows anything about him. Only thing that we know is that there's a random prophecy that says to be very careful that something's about to happen to Nico. So they get this prophecy, and they're like, we need to be very cautious, need to be careful. We get introduced to Nemo, who's another witch as well, also in their class. Um, she knows about Nico's match. She, well, everyone knows Nico's a witch and does magic, but she knows a little bit more about Nico's family and stuff, and she's also there to kind of help watch over. Nemo is a witch, but she doesn't have as much magical power as Nico does. So her power is mostly just shape shifting, so she mostly just shapeshifts into a cat. So at this point, I'm just calling her a wear cat because even though it says in the story she's a witch, and I haven't read the manga, but in the anime, it says that she's a witch, but she doesn't do anything other than shape shift into a cat. That that's literally it. She has magical knowledge, she's able to point out other magical abilities and different effects and things like that. She's able to point out magical spell circles. In fact, when she got caught into a secondary uh pocket dimension that was created by magic, she understood how it happened and that she clearly must have wandered into a magical circle without realizing it, or something like that. Like she was able to figure it out, so she's knowledgeable, but that's about as far as it goes as her being a witch in this series. Like it's it's by name only, and otherwise, we don't get more development for her, other than is she just kind of has high expectations, she has expectations for herself that she's not able to accomplish, and she's shy. She also does not want anyone to know that she can shape shift into a witch. Unlike Nico, who's out there and tells everyone, Oh, I'm the witch, and does magic, Nimu keeps it away. She doesn't want anyone to know about it. However, Wolf winds up finding out he's another so this character gets introduced because he is after Nico. He's having other people try to kidnap Nico or do different things, and Mojito's trying to figure out what's going on because Nico gets hurt and he's now going into serious mode. So they go to try to find these other students that apparently ran into Wolf, and they're like, Oh, he just told us to do this, and it's like, Well, how who is he? And they're like, I don't know, it's like I've never I don't recognize him, I've never seen him before, so it starts getting more intense because it's this mystery person that's just secretly going around doing stuff and then disappearing, and we don't know what's going on. So that's why I like the intensity of the story. Now, obviously, if you're watching that watching listening to sorry, this podcast review, you do you probably have already seen the series, but I just wanted to get a chance to point out what I like most about this uh intensity that they kind of built into it. This is where I was actually engrossed in the series, and where quickly why it is I dropped off of it right after, because it felt like yes, this can have some good story writing, and then it goes nowhere quickly after that. Because clearly, you know, we find out that Wolf and Keigo are the same person, per se. Kind of a Jekyll and Hyde situation, um, where Kego just looks at anything that resembles a moon, like a whether it be a full moon, crescent moon, or whatever, and then he turns into wolf, and then wolf uh he has to revert back when he wants to, per se. So we understand how the werewolf works out. Um, same as again, like every magical creature we're introduced to is the same situation. They became a witch's familiar when they were just the animals, became more human-like, anyway. Um, so wolf and Nemo's relationship is honestly stupid. Wolf finds out that Nemo's shape shift to a cat, knows that she's trying to hide it from everyone, so he winds up blackmailing her. Um, primary, and I understand his reasoning for it, but it's just stupid to me again, because his reasoning is that he's cramped up, right? Because even though technically he is Keiko, he's also a separate entity. By being a separate entity, he's engrossed inside of Keiko's body. Because when Keiko transforms into Wolf, he gets bigger and uh more muscular and stuff, and he's like, all my body gets really cramped up and it starts hurting. So if you if I come out every so often, then I'll be able to go ahead and kind of stretch out a little bit. The problem is that for some reason, Wolf doesn't want to communicate this with everybody else, he only wants to do this with Nemo because he just wants her to secretly do it. Though, realistically, if Wolf just explained that uh to everyone, it wouldn't be a problem because Mori Hito didn't he doesn't necessarily like fighting, but Morihito did actually have a little bit of fun fighting Wolf. Wolf enjoyed fighting him, it's the only action sequence really throughout the whole movie, that same movie throughout the whole series, because everything else is just more magical stuff, but it doesn't really get as much inviting into that. This was the only time that we actually had like an actual fight, like it felt like an end-of-season type situation. Um, and it actually if it was intense again. I really like the writing of Introduction of Wolf and then the witch, the other witch that winds up getting her story, that she just felt horrible. The fact that she didn't have a lot of magical power, and she felt like she didn't accomplish anything in her life because she didn't have a lot of magical power, and it wasn't her fault, but then she was coerced by this evil organization to go ahead and increase her magic to be able to do stuff, but then in exchange they had to kidnap Nico. So she winds up blackmail, not blackmailed, but trying to convince Wolf that he's gonna help them help Wolf K go out, help with their mom because their mom is hurt, had got hurt, and is paralyzed, which of course Nico winds up being the one helping out towards the end. So after that, again, this is where the story just drops off, it no longer goes too much further anymore. We get more occasional comedy moments and stuff. We get further into the story again where we're introduced to another new character, and it's like that's the thing about it is that it feels like the story only progresses when we're introducing another character, and it's like there's no progressing story just as is, it's only oh, it's time to introduce another character, so let's progress the story type thing. And I'm like, it just feels so lackluster with that. Um, we get introduced to Miharu, you know, they go the team goes on vacation to the mountains. Um, while they're in the river, they wind up getting attacked by a water magician, um, they're having trouble. Miharu is they wind up running into him, he shows up and helps them out. He's uh on the brink of death, but we find out that he's actually a vampire. Instead of drinking blood, he just steals magical essence from somebody, steals the your life essence from you. Without he doesn't have to actually bite you to do it, he can do it just from pinching your arm or something like that. Um he likes Mojito because Mojito has a bunch of magical essence from him being an Oni and being super powerful. Whereas if um if Marharu was tried to take some magical essence from Nico, even though Nico has a strong amount of magic, it's still too much for her because she has magic, but not life essence. Sorry, I'm saying magical essence, but life essence. She doesn't have a lot of life essence. Only Morihito has the most because of his Oni background. Oni's are known for they have an extremely long lifespan, so he's sapping his life to kind of keep himself alive, per se, because that's just the downside of being a vampire. But Miharu is also a very powerful vampire, he has extreme strength and durability, but because of his extremeness, unlike his dad, he is heavily injured by sunlight, so he has to have a very special umbrella and very special clothing that he wears to kind of block himself out, so he can still go out in the daylight, you just he has to really block himself, otherwise, it gives him a really bad headache and eventually could actually kill him. Uh, aside from just not eating, could also kill him, too. Eating enough could also kill him, also. Um, and that's about it. Like, realistically, that that's again the story doesn't progress until we get more characters, and then after that, it's just more goofy comedy segments and stuff. We did have one episode, I will say, where we have a little bit of a character growth from Kanchi and Miharu, where Kanchi winds up barring Miharu's umbrella, and Miharu is you know that umbrella's special to him, aside from it being able to keep him alive in sunlight. It is actually still something he's had for a long time. So Kanchi admits the fact that he's like, Oh, it was kind of taken by this random guy. He the way he describes the guy as a bald guy with this weird jersey and stuff, and it's like that doesn't even sound realistic, and nobody believes him until they actually run into the guy, and they're like, Oh my god, he was serious. He's like, Yeah, I told you I was I was being for real, this is who he was. And they're like, That just sounded so far-fetched we didn't believe you, but surprisingly, yeah, you were gave a very accurate description of the guy, and this is 100% real. Okay, so I we did have like a even some little moments like that where the characters kind of bond together. I think my favorite episode was the marble episode, where was it, Kanchi and Nico just start talking about different ideas and stuff, and Kanshi talks about how he can pretty much con anybody to buying anything, that he's like an excellent salesman, and winds up convincing uh Keigo about this marble that is like the most illustrious marble because it has no bubbles in it and it's one of the rarest kind. Keigo goes on his YouTube channel, it gets seen by another YouTuber who's also in the class, but then she's more popular than Keigo is, so she makes a video about it, about what she watched, and then other people watch it, and it became a worldwide phenomenon about people trying to buy these marbles, where some people are wanting marbles that have no bubbles, some people want marbles that have nothing but bubbles, um, which Morijito winds up getting caught into it as well, too. But then Morijito is like, Wait, so this isn't real, like he finds out, wait, this isn't real. He's like, I just bought all these marbles for nothing. But he's like, Wait, so you tell me this became a global phenomenon because y'all just randomly started something, and they're like, Yeah, and like this is about to get bad, and they're like, Why? He said, Because the corporation is gonna find out this is gonna be a big issue, and lo and behold, that's exactly what happened. Corporations had to release a whole big thing saying this is not real. I don't know where these influencers got this information from, but that's not correct. So it wound up becoming a whole big thing. It was like, Oh, you got scammed into buying marbles by these random YouTubers, and so Nico and Kanchi had to apologize to everyone that they would just talk about something they didn't expect it to blow up the way it did, and we're apologised, apologizing. The episode. Was actually pretty stupid funny to me, but I think also related to that too. As I guess being a podcaster, I am an influencer and understanding how giving just the wrong piece of information can quickly go out. I myself actually did an apology video on my TikTok a little while back where I apologized in the fact that I helped spread uh misinformation about Medusa because where it became this whole story about Medusa being taken advantage of and that that's how she came to be, finding out in the original mythology that is not at all true. You found out it was just some Roman guy who wanted to create a story, and he wanted something that would kind of capture the hearts of people. So Medusa, there is no real background story for the Gorgons like that. And he was like, Well, since there's no background, I'm gonna create one, and then people just took it and ran with it. Now he did this like hundreds of years ago, but the stories wind up coming up, and people just like, Oh, this is the true story of Medusa, and it wasn't. And I wound up prep, you know, passing on misinformation. So I think this episode kind of related to into that aspect. I'm like, uh, you know, you hear some information, you go and you look it up, and you think you found the right details, but you don't look further into it and you wanted to spread misinformation, it can happen. The main thing is take everything you see with a grain of salt. Same as my review, like into this again. I give it a 6.5 rating, it's just it has moments that is lackluster, and I feel like I wish we could get a story where we're not having to just keep introducing a character into the cast for the story to progress. If it's gonna be a romantic comedy, just be a romantic comedy. If we're gonna introduce a character, cool, we're gonna introduce a character from some random situation that happens, and then this character decides to stay alone. But if you're pushing that, there's this B plot to really kind of focus into it, then let's zone in on the on the B plot. So, like, what's going on? And it just it feels so lackluster to I just I don't know, I just couldn't continue on as much. I did finish the series, but it's just one of those ones that like I did have to put it down for a while because I just it just didn't grasp me as much. So that's kind of my review on to that. Again, take it with the grain of salt, best that you guys have into it. If you got any further questions, please continue to reach out to us. Thank y'all so much for listening to us here at the zone. And I want to say have a great morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night, whenever it is that you're listening. And again, thank y'all so much for your support. Bye.