Majo Taisen: 32-nin no Isai no Majo wa Koroshiau
The War of Greedy Witches: 32 of the Wickedest Women Duel to the Death

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I don't mind if something is inspired in my favorite manga. What matters to me is the way it is inspired.
(I'm not an English speaker, so if there's a mistake, I ask for mercy, thanks)

The War of Greedy Witches is a manga created by the creator of Kakegurui himself, as I understand it, which I like, since I'm quite attracted to its style. The only problem is that I possibly had my expectations a bit high, since I had heard good things about this manga, although at least it doesn't seem bad to me, I will detail this better later.

I don't like the fact that ... there is a protagonist, that is very important for a manga of this category. When making a duel of 1 vs. 1 it is very important not to know who will win the fight, even more important if there are several duels and duels on which the work depends to advance. What I mean is that a protagonist sends this factor to hell, making the "essence" disappear.

This is more my own opinion, but the female characters, many of them, in all kinds of work can have more asses or breasts, but every time they can, in an important panel they nail you a close-up of this. Not bad, this depends on the viewer who is watching the work, but for me it is difficult for me to concentrate, mostly losing the thread, since I hate this type of scene, especially in a manga where they risk their lives in duels.

Speaking of the premise and characters, they are just disappointing.
In SNV they fight to save their lives and those of all humanity, using completely justified techniques or weapons, mostly without any script hole, making even someone who finds it difficult to find out what is happening. But here everything depends on luck and what magic out of nowhere is stronger, not to mention the poor motivations of the characters, without going beyond what the characters had in real life.
Not all the characters are bad, since they are given history, but never the right one, or too much or almost nothing. Jeanne D'Arc, the protagonist, has a lousy way of telling her story and an absurd greed, making her duel seem boring and pointless, long but short, to some extent unnecessary. His dueling rival has too much history for such a short fight, making us forget about the fight and it becomes even more eternal, although at least it makes us say that there are some good characters (btw, I'm not saying they are bad for being women xD , I only say this because of the way everything is told, if SNV and Majo Taisen changed their way of dueling, it would be SNV that I would complain about, so threats aside, thanks).

Someone I do have to congratulate is Makoto Shiozuka, manga artist. Before I said that I didn't like the scenes showing too much, but because they are well done they are for a while. Objectively speaking good panels, apart from the good character design in many cases, at the same time as a bit of originality, giving a design according to the personality of the witch such as Marie Antoinette or Wu Zetian. From what I am reading I have not found any drop in quality, it shows that a lot of effort is put into the drawing, and that is admirable, so if you have reached this part of the review, I am not only going to ask you how You have read this far without dying of the case, but I also want to tell you that if you like blows without meaning but beautiful to see, surely you will end up liking this manga.


As a final opinion I give it a 5/10.
Sometimes it's boring to read, being ironically the characters' past the funniest, but even so the fights are nice, with very beastly panels that are enjoyed and can surprise more than one.
I'm sorry to be a bitter one who says that this manga isn't that bad, but the fact that it doesn't convince me doesn't mean that you can't give it a try, especially if you're a fan of Record of Ragnarok.
I hope that reading this lousy review has not made you agonizing, and as a gentleman, it is my duty to wish everyone who has read this a good day, thank you and goodbye.

I am remiss to give a series by Kawamoto Homura-san, of Kakegurui's fame, such an utterly low grade. Yet, here we are; after only three miserable chapters, I have dropped this series.

Out of respect for your time, and because I have read so little of this work, I will keep this review succinct. This work's content falls into the emergent "Pseudohistorical Magical Tournament" genre. Perhaps better recognized as the "Fate: Stay/ Night clone"-genre, this genre exists around the idea of a battle tournament-- wherein loosely-historical characters fight out individual, 1-on-1-style magical battles against each other-- and wherein the winner of the tournament will be granted ... a wish. That is the absolute simplest description for this genre which a person could possibly provide, without assuming prior knowledge of Fate: Stay/ Night of the person being described to. That being said, if this sounds like the description of a single series, rather than a genre description, then you are already beginning to understand the problem, but I will continue.

To further elaborate, a near infinite amount of creative freedom is applied when pouring the lives of these historically-and-mythologically-inspired figures into a mold. Meaning, that any characters of these series, and their respective inspiration, are certain to be unlike each other in all but name, profession, and sex... and sometimes, they don't even have that much in common. This is because the formula of the author working in this genre is as follows: Reduce the 'idea' of real peoples' lives to their basest forms, remake them in the images of current marketing trends, and pit them against each other in "combat" occurring under the rules of an only semi-unique, and deliberately ambiguous magical system. This happens so grossly, and with so little respect paid to historical detail, that I would strongly argue it constitutes desecration of the dead, but I digress. As I am sure the reader can already tell, my main criticism with this series, and others like it, is not at all a moral one, but because the whole enterprise is a creatively-bankrupt cash grab.

Likewise, the magical systems and powers are also highly-stylized. These powers often fall into the category of what we Westerners refer to as "high magic," and are individually stylized so as to reflect some aspect(s) of each character's historical basis in life, or else a rough idea about their inspiration's personality and/ or a deeper-seated interest. The tournament in these series is, without fail, motivated by magic, with a promise being given to the winner of fulfilling some creatively-interpreted desire that the combatant was never able to achieve in their historical life. Besides visual interest, the flavor that each author gives to these powers and motivations is what endears readers to this genre, and here we have another problem: Again, much say is given to current marketing trends when interpreting these items, such that the noticing reader will often find powers overlapping between different series. Unlike the aforementioned issue of intellectual gravedigging, I do take moral umbrage with this practice, as this results in outright plagarism when done in a non-parodical context-- And this genre is, as it exists in 2023, almost entirely comprised of non-parodical works.

This series, in only three chapters, has suffered from every one of the above listed problems, and to a serious degree. It is completely burdened by all of the usual tropes. This is worsened by the fact of its suffering from a total lack of meaningful detail to background art: The absolute hallmark of any soulless cash grab. By the end of chapter one, and certainly midway into chapter two, I was aware that I was not reading a manga, but instead staring at a piece of shit. I was eager to be rid of it, but I decided to read onwards to the end of chapter three before dropping it, as is my rule. By the end of chapter three, the character Elizabeth Bathory uses a power which is a near-exact copy of a very-well known "Noble Phantasm" (ie: 'Ultimate attack') from the series Fate: Stay/ Night. It is such an exact copy, that I decided in that moment that reading this series this was actually worse than staring at a piece of shit. It was so bad, that I decided I had to spend a portion of my adult life, on my single day-off from work each week, complaining on the internet, and warning what I'm sure by now is an empty room not to waste their time reading this title. Do not be taken in by the character art of Shizuoka Makoto-san; you will be betrayed in every other way. It is offensively bad. It is horrible, and therefore I score it a two. Never pay a dime to these parasites, who thrive only upon trends started by greater artists, as a tapeworm survives only upon your own waste. If you do, then you are doing a disservice to all fans of visual media and literature, at large.