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 get that, but Shibata Kouhei really made his mark as a really creative Yuri artist with his strange sense of humor, and you can see that just from his previous works like Reki and Yomi, Yona Yona Yona, and a one-shot which unlike any others perviously - Watashi ga Sekai wo Sukuu Riyuu (The Reason I Saved the World) - because it's genuinely Yuri with love in it and not just "subtext" with an emphasis on the "s" and "ex".
Anywho, it's entirely possible to have funny comedy and serious/tragic backstories, as long as the author manages the tone. Which is to say that as long as the can be serious when they need to be and funny when they can be, there won't be any tonal clashes. After all, when you look inside the great comedies, there are tragedies to some degree at their core. Just like "Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid", in a way.
Also, the artist's work is just ozzing with style, and they also have bonus pages entirely consisting of hand-written drafts, which just shows the dedication of traditional artists~
The fonts in this chapter is a bit chaotic, by the way, but no biggie, since the art's where its at and Rea's derailing journey has just begun!
