Sep 17, 2024
Tohru is a high school student that has so little presence that even his family sometimes forgets that he exists. This invisibility results in him accidentally seeing a witch transform. See, when a witch’s magic is exposed to a human, the witch gets hit with a curse that greatly limits her magical powers. The only way to lift that curse, is to grant a heartfelt wish from the human that saw her magic. Thus, in order for the witch, Raza, to get her power back, she must grant Tohru’s wish. Unfortunately for her, his wish isn’t something that magic can easily grant. He wishes to
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become someone that is no longer invisible so he can confess his feelings to his crush, Tsumugi. Raza finds this an enormous pain in the ass, but she’s got to do what she’s got to do so she decides to help him.
This manga starts off as exactly as you would expect, full of rom-com fluff. Raza’s wild and arrogant personality is a lot of fun. Tohru on the other hand is much more passive and earnest, so the two make a really amusing combo that have really good chemistry. Though the initial premise is centered around Tohru’s crush on Raza, it’s pretty clear from the start that things will eventually progress to Raza being in love with him too. After all, one of the core mechanics of this manga is Raza having to absorb magic powers from Tohru through kissing him. The two have pretty great relationship development and Tohru has some pretty solid character development too.
What surprised me was how plot oriented this manga became as it progressed. Things got much more complicated than I thought. Tohru, Raza, and Tsumugi get pulled into a conspiracy involving the magic world, and a considerable amount of the manga is focused on them trying to get to the bottom of it. A number of side characters are introduced as a part of this, and though none of them are fleshed out all that well they definitely do make things more interesting. There’s also some pretty interesting world building, with things like ‘Uselesses’, magic users who can only use one type of magic and are thus discriminated against, and some hidden aspects to witches granting wishes. There’s also ‘L’s magic’, which is supposed to be a sort of legendary impossible magic, though to be honest the explanation was convoluted and just confused me. Still, overall the plot was well written and paced and worked incredibly well alongside the slowly progressing relationship/character arcs.
Unfortunately, all of this comes to naught because the manga was axed and ends with nothing resolved. Tohru’s character arc was very much still in the middle of things. The love triangle surrounding him involving Raza and Tsumugi was also just getting to the point where things really got moving. The identity of the big bad is revealed to the reader, but they haven’t even close to have been dealt with yet. There are loads of mysteries that are left unsolved and lots of foreshadowing that went nowhere. The ending was immensely dissatisfying. This isn’t the sort of manga where a non-ending makes the entire manga feel pointless, but it’s still incredibly disappointing.
The art in the manga was great. The style is eye pleasing and fits the story well and the quality overall is pretty good too. There are also lots of great character designs, mainly on the witches. The translation was pretty rough. There are loads of small but clear mistakes throughout and some parts have really strange wording.
tl;dr: A manga with good romance, good comedy, and a surprisingly good plot, but one that just straight up does not have an ending.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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