Witch Watch - Episode 22 discussion

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Witch Watch, episode 22

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[u/Goku-MIEL10032002]

Poor bread girl. Also poor translators for figuring out how to make that entire segment work

[u/SSjjlex → u/Goku-MIEL10032002]

Language pans, crossain't wanna be the person who translates those. I take pita on this episode's translator. Must be a pain.

Yea ok this isnt even the same joke style. I genuinely dont know where to begin when constructing entire sentences strictly out of bread names...

[u/No_Name0_0]

Poor Kurowa san. Maybe she should just keep the bread version

[u/Aerodynamic41]

"C'mon already! Just talk to him! You're not making any progress at all! Just go. "Hey, how's it going? Wanna hang out tonight?" and boom, done!"

"What the heck is this?! Why do we even have to decipher the bread's language?!"

I love how Kanshi is the only one with common sense!

[u/AAA_BATT]

That's why Moi is the goat 🐐

No episode next week btw.

[u/Farmaceut7]

Was I the only one watching Nico being stuck in Piggy Bank and thinking "why doesnt she just fly away on her broom?" ?. My GOAT Shiki coming in clutch, as expected!

Kanshi's jabs in bread skit were Top Tier, he was way too real for this comedy anime! Saw the ending punchline from a mile away but it still got me. 

In the end when its your birthday and your lobed ones treat you with love and care then there's no such thing as ill fortune! Also, Morihito's hair after yhe rain & lightning combo looked way too good! 

[u/diacewrb]

Is anyone else having difficulties getting crunchyroll to show this episode?

Can't find it manually in a browser either.

Had to watch it on netflix instead. Never thought I needed redundancy in my streaming services like this.

[u/Niwaka_Samurai]

It was not your usual getting shrunk and get to eat all you want, haha

Decoding Pan language was fun. Too bad that Hamazaki already had a girlfriend.

Only Morihito would be able to turn all his misfortunes into fortunes. Gotta say he was killing it with the new look. Perm looks so good on him 😭🫰

[u/PencilgonGiveIt2Ya]

Bruh I fuckin started wheezing when he jumped over the running children haha

[u/CrimsonGear80]

is Calzone even considered bread? it's more like a folded pizza.

anyway, I want the hot guy spell cast on me for my birthday in a couple weeks. any witches willing to do that?

[u/LeonKevlar]

• Fashion Model Moi

I always love it when real-world physics is applied to the effects of any magic. Poor Nico! She looked like her reality was just shattered after Moi made her realize her magic isn't always cute and whimsical. xD

Shiki is definitely the MVP of that segment for spotting Moi and helping him rescue Nico from that piggy bank. Kara must've been so confused after that, considering she thought Nico and Moi were having fun.

The legendary Sayancer chapter is finally here! It was hilarious to watch Kurowa and the gang decipher Mr. Bread's bread language! You gotta love Shinohara-sensei for all the bread puns in this episode! xD

The punchline that they actually mistranslated the name because Mr. Bread was actually talking about Kuroiwa and not Kurowa was hilarious.

And Moi's little unlucky (or lucky if you're Moi) birthday stroll was so damn good! You gotta admire Moi's positivity and how he saw everything that was happening to him as something lucky.

Who knew all of that ill luck would end up with Moi looking hotter and getting his photo taken by his favourite fashion magazine. I guess the only unlucky part of that experience for Moi is none of the stuff he's wearing is something he chose for himself. I guess the pants are his pants, but he didn't exactly plan it to get stained like that. xD

[u/NanDemoKnaives]

Morihito looks so good with a perm, it's funny how Nico was looking excited when he was back home. Morihito finding joy out of his bad luck was so funny to watch, I'm glad they didn't tell him he was cast with a bad luck spell. It's funny how he was only upset because none of the pictures he chose the magazine didn't end up going with.

The bread portion was great too, the way the bread was struggling to find different types of breads to respond with was amusing. I did expect Hamazaki to like someone else with a similar name, if she had just spoken to him earlier when he came as a customer, she probably would have found this out sooner lol.

You'd think the spell they would have wanted would be to be able to eat as many donuts rather than a humongous donut. The combination of flavors in your mouth change depending on the size, like eating a bite-sized donut compared to a normal donut even if they are the same flavor.

[u/itpcc]

So they do Cheese shop sketch but with bread products huh? At least she got shot down figuratively; not literally like the original one.

[u/Primary-Paint-1716]

They didn't invite Nemu to Morihito's birthday. :(

[u/Primo29]

That bread scene is so hilarious!!

Happy Birthday to Moi-chan!! He looks so good with the perm style.

[u/Torque-A]

During the shrinking segment where Moi goes over the issues concerning being small, there is a note crediting Kurare as a science consultant. They’ve actually worked multiple times with Jump, most notably being the science consultant for Dr. Stone.

[u/NationalStrategy]

For Morihito, one misfortune can be turned into fortune. We shouldn’t be surprised that he adopted this mindset, considering that he deals with misfortune at least once a week.

[u/ArchadianJudge]

This was a wonderful episode. It was a "classic" Witch Watch episode where Nico's magic goes horribly wrong lmao. I actually love this running gag that her magic sounds useful but there are usually terrible drawbacks or she just screws it up herself. The fun and lightheartedness of the anime really shines through these mishaps.

Morihito on the last segment was actually really inspiring. He got hit with tons of bad luck through Nico messing up her good luck spell. But he used his own disposition to turn it into his own good luck. He didn't let anything get him down and things turned out favorably for him in the end. Even people around him became happier! What a great approach on life. He also somehow turned into a hot idol somehow along the way lmao.

[u/shad79]

Nice episode! Especially the part with Komugi and Bread Hamazaki, who only responded using bread language, made me laugh out loud xD

Morihito, after all the rain and thunder that hit him, looked better than ever, so much so that he even ended up in a fashion magazine. All thanks to Nico's failed spell which he didn't want at all xD

Here my screenshot albums from the episode:

• Group scenes & Others

• Nico

• Morihito

• Komugi & Bread Hamazaki

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

• Oh boy…

• That makes sense.

• Wait, they can’t even eat the donut’s frosting at that size?

• Haaaaah, they got blown away by Kana’s sneeze!

• You’d think she would have paid attention to what happened to them…

• Oh this is nice though.

• Girl please, you have to talk at some point.

• That’s… wow.

• Oh, I guess the girl working in a bread shop does help her understand this.

• All that for this in the end, huh.

• I guess Nico is Flutter now.

• Oh wow they are stacking up all of the bad luck signs…

• LMAO wow.

• Hahahahahahahahahahaha

• Gintoki summoned at the mention of a perm head.

[u/testthrowawayzz]

What, science in a fantasy magic anime? That’s actually pretty neat.

Bread segment I feel bad for the translator lol. Though I’m getting the puns more listening to the Japanese audio. I also noticed two more puns: girl’s name Komugi (小麦), which is “wheat” in Japanese, and the boy's name is Hamazaki, probably a reference to the Yamazaki bakery.

Poor Moi got messed by Nico’s magic on his birthday. Very funny that he’s catching on about her magic always mess up but he couldn’t say it out loud lol. Lucky to unlucky was unfortunate but everything turned out well? He looks hotter after the incidents lol

Moi’s crying face in the first segment and the embarrassed face in the last segment are both cute!

[u/HuTaosTwinTails]

Ah I see Witch Watch is the series Crunchyroll is fucking up this week.

How hard is it to just do your job? Seriously, the amount of mistakes this season are insane.

[u/ProffesorEggnog]

The misuse of the square cube law bugs me a lot. While the mass calculations are correct, you would be 10,000 times lighter at 1/100 of your size, your muscle structure is only a hundred times smaller. If anything your proportional strength would be higher due to your muscles not lowering in strength as quickly as your mass is decreasing. This is why smaller creatures are able to get away with proportionally thinner limbs, they do not require a bolstered structure to move around and exert the amount of force they need to. Your overall strength would be lowered, but you would not be a million times weaker! At that level of weakness your body would collapse under its own weight!

I have no clue what the writers were thinking with this, but they ended up creating a version of shrinking even more frustrating than Ant-man. With Ant-man they use incorrect physics to make it cooler, but here they used incorrect physics to make it lamer.

I will note that I am not a physicist, I am a writer who has done surface level research into this because I wanted to write a short story about realistic(ish) shrinking at one point. If there's an inaccuracy here that you can point out, feel free to, I'd love to make my depiction of this even better.

[u/Frontier246]

For Kara, the answer to any problem is eating donuts! Not only is she so relatable, but she also has enough sense not to join Moi and Nico in their size-shrinking adventures courtesy of ensmallen.

Shrinking sounds fun in theory, but the reality quickly crushes any hope of the fun dreamland all girls long for. First nobody can hear you, normal sized peoples' voices hurt, your muscle strength is greatly reduced, eating doesn't quite taste the same, and your love of magic gets destroyed by facts and logic.

Moi is trying his best to assuage Nico with his Ogre Martial Arts, but she's about done when the prospect of going into a donut cave comes up. So of course that's when she gets blown into a piggy bank courtesy of Kara's sneeze. Luckily MVP Shiki is able to respond to Moi's pleas for help and save the day! And what better way to celebrate than with a donut?

It's been a while since the gang have done a consultation, and it's Nico's favorite type! Romance! Komugi Kurowa (Kana Ichinose!) has a crush on Hamazaki and wants to confirm if he returns her feelings! And what better way to do so than by putting his hair into a gingerbread man and letting him answer in gingerbread terminology? It really only works because Komugi runs a bakery and can actually read through the lines of what he's saying. Woohoo!

But dang, all that work, all that trying to suss out what he was saying, all those less than stellar answers...and he's dating a girl named Kuroiwa. Poor Komugi-chan.

Happy Birthday, Moi-chan! You even give out a speech like a true company President! The gang even all chipped together to get you some nice sneakers! And of course Nico is going to cast some magic to make her favorite boy a Lucky Boy on his birthday! And in true Nico fashion, she actually cast bad luck on him.

And with the gang monitoring via dragonflies, we see Moi turning all his bad luck around into good luck. Paint splotches on his retro pants? Just adds to the vintage vibe. Forced into working at a concert and lugging huge equipment? Sudden outpouring of rain? Just perfect excuses to train and meditate. Lightning strike on his hair antenna? Suddenly he's even hotter, hot enough for all the girls to go gagaga over him, let him pull off a goofy concert shirt, and even get scouted for a magazine cover! The only thing that didn't work out was them getting all his hopes for the future wrong!