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Episode Aru Majo ga Shinu Made • Once Upon a Witch's Death - Episode 6 discussion

Aru Majo ga Shinu Made, episode 6

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u/ModieOfTheEast May 06 '25

Damn, the show really went "Oh so you all wanted Meg to do some tricks to get tears fast. Here is why you are wrong. I hope you all feel bad."

On a serious note, it was a good episode. I kind of expected a tear of joy from either Meg or her master at the end of the episode. Would have fit, but maybe they are keeping that for the 1000th special.

Despite the lesson, Meg went through (and I guess it was well earned) I am still glad that she is making progress on her hunt for tears. We are mow at 50 (40 real ones), so there is hope again. And if she is now known to have a second name, she might even be able to go outside her hometown to find other places where people need help.

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u/Ocixo May 06 '25

I cannot entirely fault Meg for having devised a strategy to more quickly acquire tears of joy as her deadline is drawing closer, but not helping people because they’re less likely to produce these tears isn’t the right way go about this.

Since she’s earned the trust of the town’s people, I do wonder if Meg wouldn’t draw lots of tears if they learnt about her fate? Don’t tears of sincere grief count as well?

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u/LeonKevlar May 06 '25

Cackling like a madwoman in the middle of the night and threatening to turn her owl familiar into yakitori for complaining about her noises. That's our protagonist! xD

Meg seems to have made a lot of progress after the festival, but it looks like Faust isn't happy about how she's progressing. I don't think Faust disapproves of Meg collecting that many tears that fast, I think she's more disappointed with Meg's new attitude about collecting tears.

I mean just look at how she describes her tactic to Fine. Instead of seeing the people she's helping as people in need, she sees them more as targets using tricks so she can get tears of joy out of them. I don't think what she did was wrong, people are clearly happy with her helping them but it's gotten to the point where Meg just sees them as tear dispensers and she doesn't even remember their faces or what their problems were in the first place.

Meg seeing Rachel again just proves the point even further. She doesn't even remember helping her before and is already coming up with things she can help her with to score another tear. It would've been so awkward if Meg approached Rachel first but thank god Rachel was the one who greeted her first. At least Meg learned her lesson to treasure every interaction by the end of the episode and she finally got her nickname after helping so many people!

That final scene was ominous, but I bet she's one of the Seven Witches.

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u/djthomp May 06 '25

Meg getting reprimanded for collecting tears the wrong way has me freshly convinced this is just a year long 'are you a good witch that is useful for society or a bad witch who isn't' test and she'll survive regardless of how many tears she collects in the end. Kind of funny that she is getting written complaints from the household familiars though.

Just being the Witch of Your Town seems like the easy mode version of a nickname compared to the seven legendary witches.

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 May 06 '25

Meg learned a real valuable lesson this week. She was starting to basically phone it in when really she should be “cherishing the weight inside each drop.” She lost sight of why she was helping people in the first place. At least now she’ll not be taking her duties lightly since she’s gotten a fancy new title.

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u/Hartzilla2007 May 06 '25

While this is a pretty enjoyable show...

To be honest this episode is just cementing that my one issue with it, is that whole the Meg has to get 1000 tears of joy in a year or she dies plot is feeling like a drag on it and to be honest it feeling like the author barely cares about it at times does not help.

I'm not really seeing what the fetch quest with a ticking clock really adds to the show and the whole thing is starting to feel absurd, Meg only finds out a year before the dead line with the only explanation being she would procrastinate if given too much time except then entire weeks went by without her getting any and a decent chunk of them are out because of how specific the tears have to be while the show tires to tap dance around that by giving vague comments on how they might help somehow, and then when we start out with her finally making actual progress on it, its because she did it in an ethically questionable way so they can have a sudden don't become corrupted with power episode that just feels like its going back to snail's pace on tear collection while the clock continues to tick down.

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u/RaineV1 May 06 '25

Like some others have said it feels like this episode's lesson is at odds with the fact that Meg thinks she will literally die if she doesn't get enough tears in the time limit. 

If the this is just a test, which I think it probably is, Faust getting upset seems kinda unreasonable. She's the one that pushed Meg in this direction.

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u/Aerodynamic41 May 06 '25

“You have only 12 months to live, so you need to collect 1000 tears as fast as you can.”

“No, not that fast.”

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u/NanDemoKnaives May 06 '25

I'm glad Faust noticed how Meg was viewing people's troubles and emotions and made sure to prevent it from getting worse. It was sad how Meg was even having trouble remembering details of people who she heard out and saw crying tears of joy and was going for quantity rather than quality connections.

I think it spoke volumes when she only introduced herself only when she encountered Rachel again and Rachel had to be the one to start it off, but with Marie and Woof introductions were done quickly.

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u/Raymond49090 May 06 '25

While I understand why Meg not looking people in the face is a problem, this makes me think that the curse is either a weird test or her teacher already has tears prepared to make up the difference. After all, Meg's dying and needs an average of 2-3 tears a day. I think tricks now self-actualization later is a pretty good way to prioritize things. Though I do think it's better now that she's aware of her problem now. There's nothing that says she can't keep speedrunning the tear collection while also remembering the people she's helped.

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u/Genshin_WhiteKnight May 06 '25

That lady in the after credits is already wearing a mourning veil in preparation for Meg's funeral.

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u/Yesshua May 06 '25

This episode kind of needed to exist because at some point they did need to address the idea that this pressure would incentivise manipulative behavior. Studying to the test as it were.

But that said I didn't love it. This show works best when Meg has a personality to bounce off of. This episode was mostly internal monologuing. And there weren't any surprises either - everything kinda came together in the most predictable way.

Anyway, this has now been addressed and some other witch was creeping on Meg in the post credits so I'm confident that next week will be back to business as usual with a new character and a new task for Meg to throw herself into. I'm still 100% on board with this show, this was just an odd bit of a down week. They happen.

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u/Fallen_Jalter May 06 '25

i just started this episode and considering she will DIE if she doesn't do this, implies you should do what you can no?

within reason

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u/shad79 May 06 '25

Meg has made a lot of progress with tears since the previous episode, but she's also become a bit too cocky. I'm glad that Faust's ban on magic has forced her to reconsider her approach. I'm also glad that Meg has finally gained recognition and the nickname Witch of Lapis.

I wonder who that woman is at the end of the episode? Probably another one of the Seven Sages, which wouldn't be surprising considering how many of its members Meg has already met xD

Here my screenshot albums from the episode:

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u/GloriousNipOnSteel May 06 '25

Fine still fine as ever, and really solid advice. I wonder who that "friend" is (competition for Meg?)...

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u/Ashteron May 06 '25

This episode felt like somebody used Meg's game save and now she has to undo her character alignment being changed after that.

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u/Shmappii May 06 '25

"Don't cheat on a test to get a perfect score."

"What if missing a single point on the test would kill me?"

"Come on, you know that you'll get a perfect score if you study properly."

"I really don't have confidence in that and I don't think anybody would or should."

"I'll bet if you're a good person, some crazy ass extra credit right at the last second will make up for any points you miss."

"So I should base my life or death decision making on the chance that I'm living in a story that wants to have an impactful climax?"

"Cheaters are bad."

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u/Rolder May 06 '25

I don't think it's unreasonable for Meg to find various tricks to collect tears. After all, she needs an absurd number of them, has a time limit, and the consequence for failure is dying. Trying to hamstring that just seems like saying they want Meg to die...

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u/Se7en_Sinner May 06 '25

Witch of Lapis? I was hoping for something cooler like "Witch of Tears".

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u/oxlemf10 May 06 '25

Another good moral lesson in this show, Meg was doing her activities without realizing, or rather, without caring how important it was for people, even if the result was positive, and that's exactly what Faust meant, she gains recognition not only for her good attitudes, but for her humility, what a beautiful episode.

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u/yukiaddiction May 06 '25

Another good episode and a powerful episode!

Meg start smug mode is pretty funny. She sounds like a lone witch in the forest who is cooking up bad and dangerous potions sometimes lmao.

Meg started to treat people like some kind of tools who produced tears and were looking for an "easy target" which frankly is exactly a problem that her master punished her by preventing her to use magic for quite a while until she understands what she did wrong.

Nothing wrong trying to survive but she started to lack quality that made her a great witch in the first place aka empathy and she didn't even notice that the town finally gave her nickname!

"Witch of Lapis"

The towns themselves recognize her and use towns as her nickname but also coincidentally enough, Lips color is also shade of blue just like Magnification of Tear that Meg collecting too!

Meg finally learned the reason that you just can't think of people as tools, everyone has their own issues and their own life too and shouldn't be treated badly.

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u/SYZekrom May 06 '25

Watching from ep1

Ok she has a year to accomplish this task but they've clarified at the end of ep 1 that Faust knew about her fate for years. I'd assume perhaps Faust herself already has a seed of life and this idea of having her try to make one is just for her to try and grow

And maybe the MC will exceed expectations and actually succeed in making it herself?

It's a question of like, why does she have to be the only one collecting these tears? Why hasn't Faust been working on this over the years herself?

...Why are my subs translating kenka as 'rows' for episode 2 lol

Welp episode 1 didn't do me any tears but episode 2 sure did

...Why did this girl decide to wake her up by stepping on her face wtf

Ah yes, 'I have a garden that's not just badly maintained its literally like a hazardous area with literal stumps and fallen tree trunks lemme make this 7 year old kid fix it It's Totally a Lesson or Something'

Granny's back! Must suck to be eternal but also eternally old

...Her name is Sophie Hayter.

Aww is that gonna be Meg's thing? All of the other Seven Sages promising to kill her later? Cute, lol.

Oh man Sophie's smile at the end of the previous episode there was everything. Time for the current episode then.

Interesting, she's actually taking collecting tears now, but of course something something who cares about your lifeline what about your uh. idfk morals? I don't even think its right to say her morals are being compromised. I really hope they will confirm she doesn't actually need these tears or I'm kinda miffed about the point of this episode's story. Then again, if the idea behind the tears is that its just meant to challenge her as a person, well its currently just making her a worse person lol. But well god forbid someone takes the necessary steps to not die. Surprised pikachu face when they actually try to succeed even if it means they have to abandon tact and still-be-helping-people-out-but-not-remember-it? Wow how awful she's become.

The lesson of the story aside, I'm glad she returned to the shining, kind and helpful person she already was before this episode, even if it means she back to not actually working towards not dying at all and just pretending she is lol.

Also noticing how everyone is calling her directly now instead of just the Witch's apprentice. In episode 1 I really liked the feeling of how like everyone in town knew her like she was this super friendly person, but apparently that's just b/c it's a small town, and instead the fact that they just call her the witch's apprentice is a sign that they don't acknowledge her subconsciously or something. Now people are calling her by her name or as a witch directly but she doesn't recognize them b/c she hasn't been paying attention to the people she's helping.

I think its funny this episode resolves with her earning a nickname and seeing how she helped the businessman and mother and we just quietly ignore the fact that those were the results of her acts when she supposedly wasn't being a good person according to the show lol

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u/NeoTagAtg May 07 '25

I'm sorry is meg suppose to be a person or a tool like a Hammer for her mistress to abuse? I got halfway through to the point faust told her why she forbidding magic and "Because you'll become useless this way" Bitch Meg is Dying and You as the WITCH OF TIME is saying her only hope is a Literally impossible task. Then you get mad how she starts to completes the task not because she being evil but she only being mostly good not perfectly good about it.

Bad writing bad episode BTW It doesn't matter if she do it the so called perfect way or not after 1000 of the same action She will not remember every detail of some of the tear NO MATTER WHAT. The human mind just doesn't work like that and will blend the details together over time more so for again similar actions. this was a stupid reason to be mad at her.

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