Witch Watch Episode 8 is the funniest episode within the collection to this point and one of the entertaining by an extended shot. It focuses on Kanshi, his boisterous but careless persona, and odd selections. Witch Watch Episode 8 begins with Kanshi (Kôhei Amasaki) needing to skip a lease fee as a result of he’s dangerous at managing cash and begging Morihito (Ryota Suzuki) to cowl for him.
Morihito refuses and insists that he take a component-time job. Regardless of being immune to the concept and exhibiting that he by no means desires to be a working grownup, Kanshi earns a component-time job as a superhero youngsters’ actor in a play known as Ottoman. This begins an entire episode section devoted to this superhero, who was introduced by means of an oddly detailed backstory. Whereas a bit unhappy, the backstory exhibiting his rocky marital life can be surprisingly hilarious, the extra we be taught in regards to the hero.
This contains his masochistic tendencies, equivalent to liking it when his spouse treats him like an Ottoman leg relaxation or his co-employee who had a crush on him for weeks being a monster. Kanshi’s correct and comprehensible reactions to all of the absurdity improve these hilarious moments within the first half of Witch Watch Episode 8. He makes a number of loud feedback chiming into these scenes that strive method too laborious to appear extra critical than they’re.
Witch Watch Episode 8 leans into absurdity, creating some actually hilarious moments.
“Kanshi’s Half-Time Job Diaries: The Superhero Present” additionally exhibits how kindhearted Kanshi is. He purposely provides up his place to the earlier actor who performed Ottoman simply so the actor can impress his son, who seems as much as him. The combat scene, exhibiting Kanshi performing as a monster inferior to the hero, showcases some quick however glorious choreography and fluid movement animation from Bilbury Animation. Nonetheless, it’s unlucky that the scene is so quick, contemplating it’s the most fun a part of the complete Witch Watch Episode 8
The subsequent a part of Witch Watch Episode 8, “Kanshi’s Half-Time Job Diaries: The Aspect Job,” primarily continues Kanshi’s occupational woes. This time, he’s tasked with repacking screws from a number of containers. Sadly, as Kanshi is of course averse to laborious work, he asks Nico (Rina Kawaguchi) to place a spell on him to hurry issues up.
As Nico’s magic all the time has a caveat, the spell has a number of situations. The spell will trigger psychological misery and might’t be undone for 3 days. Nonetheless, as Kanshi shouldn’t be the sharpest instrument within the shed, he ignores these situations and proceeds regardless.
This promotes the funniest occasion in the complete anime to this point, as Kanshi has to wrestle with being ten instances quicker than every part and everybody on this planet. He can’t talk with everybody as a result of they communicate and transfer ten instances slower, his metabolism modifications, the three-day restrict appears like thirty days, and even his garments don’t dry quick sufficient after a wash.
Magic goes awry between Kanshi and Nico, resulting in issues.
Watching how he reacts to this case and the way Nico and Morihito attempt to assist him within the little methods they will is completely hilarious. The narration from Morihito describing Kanshi’s day-to-day life and all his struggles was particularly humorous. Moreover, it exhibits an incredibly correct and intricately reasonable show of how issues can be for those who instantly turned ten instances quicker.
Your mind would work quicker, different individuals would communicate extremely slowly, time, or a minimum of your notion of it, would turn into warped, and your metabolism would make you eat each thirty minutes. It’s all of the extra spectacular that the episode additionally exhibits how Kanshi discovered to talk and stroll significantly slower to regulate, and the hilarious a part of how he needed to readjust when the results of the spell finally wore off.
These particular particulars make Witch Watch Episode 8 extremely entertaining and spotlight Kanshi’s persona. He doesn’t take note of particulars, overlooks every part, speeds by means of life, and will get punished. Oddly sufficient, this makes him essentially the most entertaining character within the anime, as he’s unequivocally himself, and each dumb factor he does is humorous.
Whereas not as flashy as earlier episodes, Witch Watch Episode 8 is extremely entertaining, genuinely hilarious, and properly animated. It could be attention-grabbing to see future episodes concentrate on the opposite major characters, particularly in such a equally entertaining method.
Witch Watch Episode 8 is out there now on Netflix and Crunchyroll.
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Witch Watch Episode 8
8.5/10
TL;DR
Whereas not as flashy as earlier episodes, Witch Watch Episode 8 is extremely entertaining, genuinely hilarious, and properly animated.
