Madan no Ichi
Ichi the Witch

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Ichi is a mountain child. To survive he learns to hunt in said mountain where the law of eat or be eaten is all there is.

He accidentally acquires a magik one day and becomes a witch... in a society where only women can have magic.

The interesting part here is that this isn't a reset button. Ichi just shifts his focus from hunting animals to hunting magical creatures (magik) using the same principles. This contrasts with an entire society built on arcane practices.

I want to note that the author (Nishi Osamu) is also behind Mairimashita! Iruma-Kun, a story about a human boy in ... demon hogwarts. They very much are into the displacement thing, I call it displacement because "fish-out-of-water" doesn't work. You need to keep splashing the fish with "because plot" or it'll die. But with Osamu the person introduces ideas and practices to the new world/society and things develop from there with both parties learning from each other.

It's a well written manga, even more focused compared to Iruma-kun and the artwork is amazing.

Also, like iruma-kun, the adults here are responsible. They don't endanger children just because this is a shonen. Something so basic yet I rarely come across it in this genre.

This manga follow the successfull Shonen Jump model for manga, taking a bit from a lot of successfull stories in a way that even seems to be engineered to be the most generic possible.

The artstyle is good, not overly "edgy" as most of modern manga are, having a more a Magi-like one, with some things very commom in comedy mangas.

I'm all against the story starting with a already super strong protagonist, as he seems to be too stacked already in the 10 first chapter, and in this it really take any weight that anything in story could have.


For the worldbuilding its a magic world with ... monsters and a magic association, nothing new but its cool but the characters...if u have read any Isekai where the guy go to world where the womans are the only one that can do something and he is the only male that can the thing they do, u basically will already know ALL the character tropes used.

As for the protagonist he is basically Tanjiro2.

It's easy to read, and i hope become better, because right now its still a bland manga.

New shonen jump series made by famous authors and artists and everyone is praising it like the coming of the second Jesus. So it should be good, right? Hmmmm, I think not.

First of all, this manga has terrible storytelling and pacing. chapters 1-3 were spent on a lot of infodumps and expositions with no actual progress. there is no such thing as a goal, premise, or even a protagonist's motivation other than "I want to hunt" ahh, so what ? that's all ?

Then, in chapter 4, the so-called world-building is introduced. which shows the capital city but then the author threw it away ... without explaination about it and wasted time with many unnecessary chapters with lame jokes and a few bland characters that I found very boring and had zero impact, nothing, nothing at all, just a fillers after fillers and finally, my patience ran out on this dumb shark chapter that (still) didn't do anything to the story or plot at all and decided to write this review.

Now let's talk about the characters, which is what people praise the most. I myself found them quite funny at first but they got old quickly due to the lack of stakes, tension, consequences. everything is convenient for them just because, and the result is that these characters seem more shallow than they really look

Seriously? why should I care or sympathize about these characters if nothing will happen to them anyway?

I mean, quirky character doesn't mean a good character and this series is an example of that

The setting is incredibly generic and just something I've seen a million times before. people hate exorcist manga and accusing them of being uncreative and uninspired, but of course, they will swallow this sh*t.

In terms of art, I think it's average and not as good as many people say and the action scenes and choreography still need a lot of work

I don't want to call this series "suck" right now, but if it doesn't get better, so I can't help


TLDR : This series has garbage pacing and below-average execution, there no direction, no substance, nothing happens. overrated art with poor action scenes and does not deserve to receive such high praise

Edit : I read up to chapter 11 and this manga is as dumb as ever that i decided to drop it. this series has no substance. there is no direction or plot other than things happening randomly. the characters besides the black woman have no characterization whatsoever and Ichi is an incredibly boring protagonist to me

If this is successful only because the author's (and artist) name is carrying its ass, then shonen jump is done for

Believe me, if something like Iruma that I quit after the first chapter because it was so bad was serialized in shonen jump instead of champion, which is considered the weakest of all Shonen manga magazines, it would definitely be canceled at volume 3.