Criminy! I'm pleasantly surprised by this wacky fun dropping on my lap.

Still on chapter 1 but I have to comment on the sheer whiplash and crazy casual delivery on "Your potions are famous in the entire country, here're all your thank you letters! Oh btw there's a witch hunt yo, half our friends have been burned alive."

...You didn't think to lead with the witch hunts!?

Edit: Finished up to the latest chapter, man that was a lot more mature subject matter than I expected with the juvenile humor and comedy tag.

The glimpse of Rea on https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/witches_and_cigarettes_ch11_2#4 along with her doll-like design and tendency to be represented by cog shapes make me suspicious her body might be artificial and that's what her head really looks like under a powerful glamour spell, hence her memory loss.

Judging by the other witches' backstories, I expect she got attacked by a mob that either thought they killed her or got uno-reversed by her powers and that's the trauma that gave her amnesia.

...Also Tama apparently used to be a shinobi!?

last edited at Apr 6, 2026 10:57AM

I love this series

I'm glad this series made it to dynasty reader

This... Is surprisingly good! It's funny, tragic and lightheaded at the same time ~

I bet Rea's is pretty bad, yeah. Not sure how it can top Mode's 'all my animal companions died literally throwing themselves on the fire that was meant to kill me, except the bear I was closest to, who the humans killed directly'

These witches got trauma.

hell yeah!!!!! I love shibata Kouhei's art and this one is a real doozy both in the art and story department.

last edited at Apr 6, 2026 6:06PM

I'm against smoking, but if hot gay witches were involved, I'd have to make an exception.

And hot damn, this mangaka is a freak. AWESOME!
I want this story to get at least 20 volumes and several adaptations.

It's a crazy ride so far, and I definitely want more!

This series = (90% stupid and goofy) + (10% romance, psychological trauma, and gut punch)

Yoooooo lesss goo

I'm glad this series made it to dynasty reader

I helped doing that :)

last edited at Apr 8, 2026 3:33AM

Aaa I love this, oh my gosh...

Finally this fabulous witch Yuri made it to Dynasty Scans! This Mangaka’s works are just amazing, so stylish and so much personality.

And yes!!! This kind of storytelling needs so many volumes and several adaptations. The amount of details shown and the effort put into it all is just incredible.
(The girls here are really slender, too. Don’t see that often in the women of today’s anime/manga zone!)

This series = (90% stupid and goofy) + (10% romance, psychological trauma, and gut punch)

I’ve said it before. If done well, this can very well be the next “Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid” with double-downed dark and Yuri version. And both happens to be 90% comedy with individuals from a different space fitting in modern society, and 10% dark past and drama. And both featured flat-chested women, crazy-infatuated and capable helper girl who happens to be well-endowed, chill little loli, vast magical powers able to do just about anything, and a hell lot of “older than they look” for these newcomers.

Hope this manga gets more attention!

Rea seems a little batshit insane.

Mannic posted:

Rea seems a little batshit insane.

Just a little. ...

It's also interesting that the insanity seems to have been a thing before the witch hunts and not just a result of trauma and injury (at least not from the witch hunts). It also seems to be tied to her magic, which looks more instinctive and internal than what we've seen from the other witches.

Girl has a serious case of yearning

This series is such a gem. Love how creative it gets, and how it just goes all in on fantasy and crazy spells, without trying to explain any of it. It's magic - just let it be incomprehensible and interesting. Most of all, INTERESTING.
And damn those witches go through some dark, dark backstory. Can't get enough of it. More flashbacks please! Dying to know what happened to each, after the witch hunts. What happened to them, what they lost.

Only caveat is wish they would just like, drop the Lake Erie quantities of spit and the apprentice's sudden bouts of insane horny. ^ ^;
I get that it's being played for comedy, and I have nothing against sexual content (viva la yuri sex), but feel like there's a real tonal clash here. It feeeeels really, tacked on? And that the series would be better without it: it already has real, (non-)human connections between its characters.

This series is such a gem. Love how creative it gets, and how it just goes all in on fantasy and crazy spells, without trying to explain any of it. It's magic - just let it be incomprehensible and interesting. Most of all, INTERESTING.
And damn those witches go through some dark, dark backstory. Can't get enough of it. More flashbacks please! Dying to know what happened to each, after the witch hunts. What happened to them, what they lost.

Only caveat is wish they would just like, drop the Lake Erie quantities of spit and the apprentice's sudden bouts of insane horny. ^ ^;
I get that it's being played for comedy, and I have nothing against sexual content (viva la yuri sex), but feel like there's a real tonal clash here. It feeeeels really, tacked on? And that the series would be better without it: it already has real, (non-)human connections between its characters.

I’ve read a fair number of series that have sexual hijinks and comedy that’s of a similar tone, so at least to me it feels normal and not tacked on here. Also I think the saliva is mostly used for comedy, and I don’t really have any issue with it here. Fair though that you don’t like those factors, but I want the creator to keep making the series how they want to. Especially as I’m greatly enjoying this so far lol