“A novelist becomes guardian to her orphaned teenage niece, and they learn to live together while processing grief and finding themselves.”
Journal with Witch
違国日記
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Synopsis
A novelist becomes guardian to her orphaned teenage niece, and they learn to live together while processing grief and finding themselves.
Thirty-five-year-old novelist Makio Koudai never had a good relationship with her older sister Minori, who always berated her for being different. Due to this, Makio is not stricken with grief upon hearing the news that Minori and her husband die in a car crash. But when Makio is asked to identify their bodies, she runs into her 15-year-old niece, Asa Takumi, whom she has not seen in years. As Asa struggles to process her parents' death, Makio reassures her that her complicated feelings are valid and suggests that the teenager start writing in a diary as a way to cope with the loss. Upon learning that no other relatives wanted to take in Asa, Makio decides to become her guardian despite her lack of experience. In a world full of uncertainty, the novelist and teenager must learn to live with each other while figuring themselves out.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
What 9 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.18 · split reception
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 2.11
Running avg · Jan 2021 → Mar 2026
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- 9 “"Love itself is an act of overcoming fear." Having just finished the anime, I found the time to finish the manga too. If there is any justice in the world, Ikoku Nikki will get a full anime...”
- 10 “Journal With Witch is a coming of age story, which really does the genre well, it really emphasizes on the outlook that people can never truly understand others, and that's absolutely fine! The...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 56 × 11 ch × vol
- Total read 7h 28m approx
- Published Jun 2017 – Jun 2023
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M50286 catalog