Witch Watch

In ancient times, some witches married their familiars, who had taken human form, giving birth to a lineage of ogres. One such ogre is Morihito Otogi, who while appearing completely human, still retains the inhuman strength of his bloodline. Nico Wakatsuki is a young witch and Morihito's childhood friend, but as part of her education, she had to go to the Witches' Holy Land to train and part ways with Morihito.

Years later, just before Morihito's first year of high school, Nico returns home with one goal in mind: to claim him as her familiar. While most witches choose a cat or a bat, Nico has her heart set on Morihito in more ways than one. Although seemingly oblivious to her true feelings, Morihito and Nico end up living together under the same roof with both of Morihito's parents elsewhere. While reluctant at first, Morihito accepts his new role, determined to help Nico seamlessly fit back in with human society and protect her from fated disaster.

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Wakatsuki, Nico Main

Kawaguchi, Rina Japanese

Otogi, Morihito Main

Suzuki, Ryouta Japanese

Miyao, Nemu Supporting

Kusunoki, Tomori Japanese

Magami, Keigo Supporting

Ishikawa, Kaito Japanese

Kazamatsuri, Kanshi Supporting

Amasaki, Kouhei Japanese

Minami, Kara Supporting

Takahashi, Rie Japanese

Makuwa, Yuuri Supporting

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

Kiryuu, Miharu Supporting

Wakai, Yuuki Japanese

Ureshino, Kukumi Supporting

Kohara, Konomi Japanese

Kiyomiya, Tenryuu Supporting

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Aoi, Hiroyuki Producer

Ogasawara, Yuki Producer

Fujisawa, Yuusuke Producer

Kanda, Ryouta Producer

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Jan 22, 2026

PixelB

Recommended

Witch Watch is obviously at it's best when it can default to it's primary theme, which is more of the comedic, supernatural and rom-com elements of the show. When it's about weird side effects of Nico's clumsy magic spells, Kanshi struggling to hold jobs due to his flaky and lazy nature, or even Uron Mirage, the show shines. Because that's what the entire manga was created for in the first place.

Nothing's too serious, everything's more laid back, and that's kind of apparent in every setting of the show. "Like erm actually, why is Nico not in a special magic school?" "Erm, her bodyguards are ... really lax and she's always in potential danger because of it" Who the hell are we kidding? This show doesn't really care about that--it's about a show where Nico and her magical antics has fun with her household with a loose theme of "her becoming a mature witch" looming in the background.

This is also why when more serious arcs happen, the show kind of sucks. Obviously when you place a comedic cast into battle shounen situations, it doesn't really work out very well. Keigo's arc is especially poor, with the most serious performances and the most obvious plot points in the entire anime. I know it's just a random shounen, but the logic completely falls apart in serious situations like that arc, where there's never any lasting consequences, everything works out in the end, and the arc is wrapped in a nice little bowtie.

This is also why arcs more like the final episode which still maintain just a little bit of urgency but very largely inconsequential and manageable with its theming is a lot better produced in my eyes. Still, of course, the main villain of that episode gets off largely scot free and is forced to "run laps as punishment" for basically assaulting other people. The vampire arc is similar, but again, because the stakes are much lower than Keigo's arc, they're a lot more manageable despite being pretty below average in many ways.

Of course, the comedic aspects of the show dominate, and it does make up for the poor action sequences and serious arcs that it has scattered around the show. It's definitely above average, and I especially like Kanshi's character and how his manzai is on point in many of the arcs which cause it to come to life. As long as the anime keeps up its pacing of pushing out more of the comedic content, I wouldn't mind watching another season. Still, also nothing too much is missed out if you decide to skip.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Feb 11, 2026

emberreviews

Mixed Feelings

Witch Watch is a comedy series of an acquired taste, as is the case of all comedies adapted from gag manga. It is a series with many, many flashes of comedic brilliance, delving into metatextual and trope-centric knowledge to such an intense degree that my laughter was balanced in equal part by my sheer amazement at the scope and scale of the set-ups and punchlines. Kenta Shinohara has proven to be an author on-par with Aka Akasaka in regards to his ability to accurately read societal shifts and parody them to an almost uncomfortable degree. That said, it is also extremely wide-ranging in its style ... of humor, with a large portion being devoted to gags that are intentionally cringe, a subgenre that I actively avoid for personal preferences, and while I adored the main cast and the surprising level of nuance put into their characterization, there’s only so much that can be done with comedy that you just don’t care for.
As for its visual presentation, its strongest aspects are in conveying its comedy to the viewer. Top-notch editing and perfect timing are a huge boon to the overall delivery, and the moments that they really want to look good do have an impressive polish to them. Generally, however, there is definitely a noticeable roughness to a lot of the artwork. This is kind of to be expected from a gag series since intentional roughness can prove humorously effective, but I still wish the overall quality was a bit higher. In the end, either you vibe with what this show’s throwing down or you don’t, and if you do, it’s certainly work sticking through some of its rougher moments.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jan 6, 2026

GreasyGrappler

Not Recommended

Well it took me some time to catch up with this anime from past season. Reason is I was worried that it would not land exacly well. And land it did not.
Ofc the worst idea would be trying to binge it, so I’m glad I planned to stretch the watchtime across several days, but it still didn’t help with overwhelming boredom for 80% of the watchtime. Decision to make it a 25 ep anime was the thing I feared the most during the first batch and it did not work well for the series. The jokes weren’t landing as good as in the first ... couple of ep’s, cast wasn’t as appealing as it could’ve been, plotline had nothing of interest to offer.

I am aware that it is a slice of life comedy, thus by plot I mean the overall short stories and how each of them presented different view on characters and placed them before problems to solve/lessons to learn.
Regarding the characters, even tho we do have a group of different, over-the-top personalities stuffed in one house, each and every one of those goobers is as developed as a cardboard cutout. Ofc I don't expect superb writing, exposing the very nature of human psyche, just - you know - some sort of progress with their relationship or, instead of that, exploring their comedic usage by making them perform all sorts of activities closely tied to their personality, not staying in the safe zone of repetitive 3-4 jokes the wholes show.
As for the jokes, what can be said. Comedy is subjective, but I can't recall myself laughing at any point after first 4 or so episodes, except of the gender-swap ep and the cringey stand up comedy in the last ep. It did force a few smirks out of me, tho I could probably count them on the fingers of one hand.
Witch Watch underperformed at all listed instances, especially compared to the greats in the industry such as Azumanga, Saiki K or Dragon Maid.

What it did excel at was different usage of animation in some of the eps and voice acting. Playing with the medium thru different animation styles for characters was certainly a highlight of usually boring eps. As for VA’s, every role was depicted amazingly by the seiyuus, my favs by far being the charater of Minami (Takahashi Rie couldn’t have fumbled) and Makuwa sensei (Komatsu Mikako has a great vocal range), tho rest of the cast didn’t fall behind by a great margin. Both of the OP's also had a ton of love poured into them, with the studio even trying to create a viral dance in the 2nd one, which is admirable. Funny, how I felt greater camaraderie between the main cast in the 2nd op then during most of the show.

Overall mediocre, pretty drawn-out anime that lost it’s footing somewhere after it’s first half, with significant lack of new joke ideas after just a 4 episodes runtime, but made watchable by the performance of voice actors and occasional animation switcharoos, tho I expected much more of it ;(
4,5/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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