“New witch Nico chooses ogre friend Moi as familiar; they live together while he protects her from a prophesied disaster.”
Witch Watch
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Synopsis
New witch Nico chooses ogre friend Moi as familiar; they live together while he protects her from a prophesied disaster.
Nico Wakatsuki has finished her six years of witch training and is moving back to town by herself. As a new witch, she must choose a familiar to accompany her. However, unlike the other witches, she wishes to pick a non-animal familiar. There is no better companion than Morihito "Moi" Otogi—her childhood friend who happens to be an ogre. Morihito is vehemently opposed to being her servant, but he reluctantly accepts his fate after learning that a curse would revert him into a strange cow-tiger hybrid were he to disobey a witch's order. Due to Morihito's father leaving for a business trip and Nico's mother remaining behind in the Witches' Holy Land, the two teens find themselves living together under the same roof. While Nico is ecstatic to be living with her crush, Morihito finds that her magical antics and overall clumsiness create more problems than solutions. With a prophesied disaster to befall Nico within the year, Morihito must do everything he can to protect her as her bodyguard while also upholding his duties as her familiar.
What people say
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Derived from 10 sampled reviews
What 10 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.72 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 0.20
Running avg · Feb 2021 → Dec 2024
- 10 “I don't peoples rates on myanimelist at all... This manga is the funniest thing I have ever read in my entire life. It makes me cry lauthing each volume without a miss. The story and main plot is...”
- 9 “I did not expect this story. At first I thought it was a story about magical girls fighting evil, but in fact it seemed more like a comedy manga. Like Doraemon, it depicts the characters' daily...”
- 7 “Very Enjoyable Manga to say the least. Ton of wholesome scenes and pretty great comedy all round. For anyone who's looking for a great and underrated slice of life rom com then this might be the...”
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A Manga Publication
- Published Feb 2021 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M56558 catalog