Cursed by a witch, the feral and tempestuous Guideau tenaciously searches for the culprit so she can exact revenge. To this end, she joins the Order of Magical Resonance, an organization that deals with everything connected to magic. The Order agrees to work with Guideau in return for her help solving the myriad of magic-related cases occurring across the world.
The Order's suave and mysterious mage Ashaf accompanies Guideau for the sake of successfully completing missions. As the pair traverses the land in search of that unknown witch, their experience with the fantastical world of magic grows ever more peculiar the further they advance in their journey.
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Marinate1016
Majo to Yajuu is a dark and eerie watch full of mystery, intrigue and an awesome character dynamic between the two leads. Fans of the recent Undead Girl Murder Farce will see many similarities and come out of this one feeling satisfied. After hearing hype from manga readers, I went into this one with high expectations. As a fan of dark fantasy/metal style stories I think this one really succeeds in creating an atmospheric setting with a nice adventure plot line. The journey of Ashaf and Guideau to find the original witch who cursed her, leaving her trapped in another body is so fun tosee unfold. It plays out similar to Tsugaru, Aya and Shizuku’s journey from undead girl murder farce with them helping to solve cases involving witches and other magical beings along the way. All the cases were entertaining and had some genuine twists.
The world feels very dark souls esque which I love. There’s a lot of worldbuilding and hints to a much wider lore that we sadly didn’t get to see a lot of in these 12 episodes, but there’s a lot of cool directions the story could go in in the future. The magic system is pretty standard, but the abilities were executed well. It’s not a ton of action, but the few fights there are are okayish, the animation and storyboarding outside of the first episode aren’t the best, but they’re passable. For me, that doesn’t matter as the biggest draw for this one is the journey aspect to find the original witch, the atmosphere and character interactions.
Speaking of those character interactions, that’s one of the show’s biggest draws. Ashaf and Guideau are so fun to watch on screen. You’ve got the cool, calm and collected Ashaf who won’t let anything phase him, and the shrewd and loud Guideau who due to her body swap situation, basically acts like a guy in a hot girl’s body. Aschaf often acts as the voice of reason, calming Guideau down when she’s about to go wild and keeping her focused on the task at hand. Essentially a brain and brawn type dynamic. Think of something like Inuyasha and Kagome or Tsugaru and Aya from Undead Girl. They share a lot of banter and the seiyuu do such a great job of making them feel alive. Even when there’s no action, the episodes go by in the blink of an eye thanks to them.
It’s a bit cliche, but this show really is just a “vibe”. It’s hard to put into words the feeling this show gives me. It’s gloomy, ominous, poignant and just hits me deep in the soul. Production issues aside, the story is gripping, characters are compelling and the world has a lot to offer. Sadly, like most one cour seasonals it does feel like we only just scratched the surface of this world. Onto the manga we go.
Majo to Yajuu gets 9 out of 10.
P.S Guideau is mommy.
whiteflame55
There's a good deal I like about this series. It presents an intriguing set of characters that get more interesting as the series progresses. It's got a visual style that really pops with a great deal of magical flair, and you can feel the weight of its fights. I also like the world-building and place-setting this series has done for its next season. And that's the biggest knock I have against it: it does just seem like place-setting for the next season. It's not so much that this is a slow start - we start and finish several short arcs back-to-back over the course of thisseason, all of which have their own little intrigues as various mysteries are solved - but rather that the series seems just fine getting side-tracked as often as possible.
The first two episodes set up a central plotline for the series for us to follow: Guideau travels with Ashaf under the auspices of a larger magical organization to hunt down witches with the aim of finding a specific one that cursed her and ending her. She doesn't really know what the witch looks like (I initially thought this was a Dorohedoro situation where the lead just didn't know who his target was, but it's a little more complicated in this case), but she should be able to narrow the field, get the curse removed, and return to a powerful body that Ashaf carries around with him in a coffin similar to Wolfwood from Trigun. So, what I expected was to see them run into a series of witches, gathering clues and getting closer to their goal before having some big finale engagement. And... well, we kind of get that... if you ignore a couple of other short arcs in the middle.
To be fair, all the side-tracks the series takes are interesting in their own rights and do establish more of the rules and basic concepts of this world, particularly in who can use magic and how. In one particularly interesting aside, we follow a necromancer and get to see what a completely distinct type of magic can do. It's honestly some of my favorite stuff in the series.
But that's the problem: I don't think the central plot has gotten interesting. They've run into a few witches, dealt with a variety of magic, and bent the rules a bit with the curse so that we can see what Guideu's original form looks like. And yeah, it leads to some cool stuff. The problem is that I don't have much reason to get behind Guideau. I know next to nothing about her motivations beyond wanting her body back. Ashaf remains a bit of an enigma. Honestly, we get to know more of the side characters better than we do these two. And that's not necessarily a big deal, but there's also very little in the way of character growth for either of them, and even when we arrive at key climactic moments, they just don't have the emotional heft to make them feel terribly meaningful.
Finally, while I wanted to give this a higher score, it ended up being brought down a little by its final couple of episodes. The backstory helped establish a bit about their background together, which is nice, but it felt like an odd arc to leave us on. Combine that with an exposition dump from Ashaf that sets up some very interesting bits of worldbuilding that I'm legitimately excited to see in S2 and, honestly, it made the ending feel like more of a tease for S2 than anything meaningful to this season.
Still, I enjoyed the ride. I want to see more of these characters and learn more about them. I just wish they'd focused their efforts better in this season.
LegionIscariot
The Witch and the Beast. Ashaf and Guideau hunt the supernatural. Guideau is in it to hunt witches. Specifically a witch that put a curse on her. Ashaf is a cool headed spellcaster. He's the brains who also knows how to talk his way out of sticky situations. While Guideau is the muscles, and a hot head. Who punches her way out of sticky situations. The way the 2 main characters are total opposites create a great dynamic between the two. I find the way Guideau's fights are choreographed can be lacking. They are not fun to watch and are anticlimactic. Bad choreographed fights is unfortunatelya common problem with action anime.
I wont get into too much specifics but for example at one point this very super powerful enemy is unleashed...and the entire fight is just dull.
The way Ashaf "fights" tend to be more interesting. Since he's not over powered. He's just clever.
Its a very nicely written anime. Cool characters. Interesting powers. The art style is nice to look at.
Maybe the flow of the story needs improving.
kchakrak
The show revoles around Ashraf and Guideau (mostly) and this world of witches and magic. There is an absolute ton of worldbuilding here and I feel we haven't even seen the surface of what's going on. I honestly can't remember a series (perhaps other than Magus Bride) with more immediate depth. Weirdly even the D&D and RPG loving sides of my brian got a kick out of this. Our protagonists are what drew me in though, they're stylish and cool with an element of mystery. There's both an odd couple and buddy cop thing going on, with an element of hostility. Probably worth noting this isn'tnormally my thing, but therse are complicated characters whose stories are unlocked slowly so that drew me in. Their complicated nature does mean they're not all good, which might be a turn off for some, but if you like Elias from Magus Bride you might really enjoy these two, as both of them have that same air of grey morality.
I loved the art style and felt it worked really well for both the quiet and action-filled moments. The world building is excellent and the action is really exciting. This isn't top tier but it's a highly enjoyable watch due to its cast and world. I really want to see more of this world, as I've said many times by now, and that can't be bad.
pii_per
I've read the all of the volumes that have come up, getting my currently favorite arc in print. I will say this, like I've said in my review of the manga, but, this show is for those who can appreciate worldbuilding and not need immediate gratification for everything. Hilariously enough, everyone thought the first episode set the pacing for the remaining episodes, but, no, it isn't as cliche as people were just reaching for it to be (which, only when you jump to that conclusion could you make an error like this, disregarding the tone of the show). ADAPTATION (9/10) Since it's based on a manga whichI've read, I can appropriately score it to be a near perfect adaptation. The scenes are identical, and nothing is removed or added on to change the show's direction. This is good, if you liked the manga (and vise versa if you're wondering if you want to get into the series --- with better art to boot).
ANIMATION (5/10)
Ok, so, it's serviceable. But, it does a lot to hide things, and some of the characters' faces are weirdly drawn. The fight scenes are rather short as well. And often, I wondered if it was Crunchyroll or not being weird because the voices sometimes did not line up with the animation. But, when I see the trailer for Magilumiere and think back to K Project, I just wished that a different studio picked it up. If this was done by Bones or Madhouse, it would catch so much more attention.
ART (8/10)
Although the animation is its weakest, the art is fantastic. We get that nice defined lines of newer manga with a dark tone. Considering the source material being black and white and to my knowledge, no special colored pages, the art and color are fantastically well done. The character design is exactly what I expect (though the "Beast" is a bit toned down for my liking). But, there is the exception for certain scenes where the characters are in goofy positions.
STORY (8/10)
So, the world-building is the strongest part of the story. It sucks you into a fantasy world that no isekai could ever (because it's not the typical kingdom western fantasy settings).
CHARACTERS (8/10)
The characters are likable. Some may say they're archetypical, but, I don't believe that to be true. Not when there's clear reasons why one of the main characters act the way they do. It's not archetypical, it's balancing. I mean, what story has two main characters that see eye-to-eye on every little thing? Anyway, the side characters are more characterized, though, this is on the basis that the two main characters are traveling on a journey (Kino no Tabi). However, the growth is slow (apologies to those who want character development after one episode after one epiphany).
VOICE ACTING (8/10)
So, yes, they sound exactly how they should. I didn't exactly have too much expectations, though it did remind me how much breath and drawls some voice actors put into their characters and how it sometimes bothers me. But, I didn't get put off enough for me to stop being immersed in their acting. Though, there was some goofiness in the background characters (definitely noticeable in the English dub), but the side characters were excellent as well.
OVERALL
As with most 7+ anime on this site, if you are intrigued by the description of the anime, you'll probably enjoy it. For this one, it is a lot more story/writing/world-building focused (with it being more like a prologue to the main bulk of the story), so, if you couldn't stand Frieren, don't waste your time. However, to a general fan of anime, I wouldn't say this is a waste of time to watch. So, if you have the spare time, watch it, then read the first volume of the manga.
mayoiko
I want season 2 please por favor onegaishimasu.. also this should have been a 2 cour anime!! ok here is the overall ratings.. Concept: 9/10 Story: 8/10 Art/Animation: 9/10 Character designs: 7.5/10 The theme of this anime is dark fantasy, just witches, dark magic and goth, it's delicious, my kind of food (anime), I love it. This is one of those anime that I enjoy watching in one sitting without getting bored, one of those anime I would watch an episode after episode just keep going because it keeps me curious, too bad it's only 1 cour, though I know why, most people aren't into these type of anime. HoweverI love it and will never be bored of it, especially with the ending like that, I really want to see season 2 happening.
I can't stress enough how much this anime should've been 2 cour, the pace isn't slow or fast, it's just right, it's enjoyable, it is good. This is a good anime. Simple as. I would go as far as saying this anime is the best new anime for winter 2024, and as I'm typing this of course this anime is so underrated at the moment.
This anime has similar vibe with Kuroshitsuji, but instead of demons, it's magicians, witches and monsters, the world setting is more interesting and variative, at least when comparing the anime. Basically if you love gothic, magic, witches (pretty girls) and action combined, this is for you.
SacredArrow2000
If there was only one word to describe this anime...it'd be 'disturbing'. Not based off of it's story alone (though it did handle rather gruesome plot-lines, even for anime standards), but combined with it's menacing score, vivid art style and the relentless misery that each and every character underwent, the overall feeling viewers received was simply unsettling. However, there were random insertions of beauty and sentiment to mask character depth. In terms of the overall plot, it was rather fast-passed, a lot of time was dedicated to world-building and how the Witches and the Order blended together in everyday life. The two main characters Guideauand Ashaf, were shrouded in mystery and their baseline motives were left unclear. As a result, audiences empathize more with the supporting characters then either of them. Their efforts in finding one particular Witch seemed wasted, throughout the whole season, there were no answers to several important questions. All and all, it was a large build up with relatively no pay off. Considering that this was the initial release, the plot may continue further if they are granted a follow up season (but that feels unlikely).
On a more positive note, the animation was decent (though certain action scenes felt under budget), and the english dubbed voice acting was also well-done, each voice fitting their given character. It held true to the action and supernatural genres, but the story itself was not well written (Simply didn't hit the mark).
Wouldn't be considered a waste of time, but not a top tear anime.
Momma_Yp
The fact that this anime has so many negative or mixed reviews truly tests my faith in the MAL community, simply because I enjoyed it so much. This one is really a hidden gem, I stumbled upon it on a whim and thought that the short synopsis and cover art looked interesting, and WOW am I glad I gave it a chance. Admittedly the first few episodes aren't the greatest, even though I still liked them, the show truly shines as the viewer is given more glimpses into the dark and supernatural world of "The Witch And The Beast." As others have pointed out the worldbuilding is absolutely phenomenal. It's quite rare that I'm so enchanted by an anime's lore and world that I transition to the manga after finishing the show, but I simply couldn't help myself after finishing this one. The magical system and the lore associated with the witches, mages, necromancers, church, The Order, etc. seems quite deep and complex once you get further into the series. I like that the anime doesn't shy away from violence and gore as this accentuates the evil actions of the villains and occasionally even the protagonists.
I've seen some people criticize the animation but I personally had zero issue with the animation and actually thought it was quite sharp, although I have to admit I don't have an eye for these things. In terms of the writing and dialogue it's nothing special but I didn't think it was bad either. For the most part, the interesting relationships between some of the characters make up for any shoddy writing decisions. My main critique is that the second protagonist, Guideau, is too much of a one dimensional character who lacks any real depth (so far).
Overall, I urge viewers to at least get to the six episode mark before making their decisions on this anime's quality. If you're someone who enjoys dark, grim, and gritty anime with horrific super natural villainy, then you will almost certainly enjoy "Majo to Yajuu."
VarmintLP
Watched it thinking it would be an great anime but then the story felt a bit blant towards the end. I liked the idea of witches put curses and they can be cured in multiple ways. However somehow the main character in the suit always seems to have the exact trick up his sleeve and pulls the solution rabbit out when he feels like it. Because of this it makes the story predictable that he find some solution to whatever problem popped up that day. This results in a bit of mixed feelings. Animation looked great but the story is flat.
Animembn
This anime is truly amazing! The storyline is full of surprises and very interesting from start to finish. The main characters have depth and development that makes the audience connect emotionally. The visual design and animation are beautiful, with details that enrich the viewing experience. The music also enhances the atmosphere and emotions of each scene The battles and action in this anime are very exciting and full of strategy, making every moment tense. Apart from that, the values of friendship and cooperation are displayed very well Overall, this anime is one of the best I have ever watched in this genre. I'm really lookingforward to season 2 and can't wait to see how this story will develop further! For anime fans, this is a must watch!"
Pizzamorg
As I rolled credits, I was left with pretty mixed feelings for this show. On paper, this show should absolutely be my jam, combing a bunch of stuff together that I really like. But the animation is just so… mediocre. And you can get away with that in a lot of genres, but this is an action heavy show, where almost all of the action is bad. And don't get me wrong, the actual art style is excellent. In fact, the whole show just has this intangible cool factor about it. Characters are well designed. Everything oozes with style. But then they’ll set up confrontations,and I don't know if it's just poor direction or the strained feeling budget or what, but these battles are basically never good. Really stiff and static, oftentimes a little incoherent and there are moments where it just feels like they slid in a coloured splash page from the manga in the place of actually animating the fight scene.
It's looking like a season 2 probably isn't happening either, so I do plan to pick up the manga, as I assume it will have everything I liked about the series and I won't need to worry about the animation. I probably recommend you give this a skip, and just read the manga instead.
jfcjustwork
This is an anime that will feel right at home with the likes of Hellsing and Black Butler. There's a fairly conventional human society that exists alongside a little bit of magic and monsters and secret organizations of magic and monsters fight them to protect humanity. Unlike the other two shows, the magic is a little more central to the way the society operates and people are generally aware that such things exist. The show itself is basically power fantasy with some tragic backgrounds and an occasional attempt at being vaguely poetic or philosophical (again, like Hellsing and Black Butler). There are a few story arcslasting 1-3 episodes each, and in each case an overpowered protagonist ultimately resolves the arc after goofing off for the sake of "collecting information" (or, more realistically, dramatic tension).
The main character, Gideau, is a mostly one-dimensional thug with a dark past whose only interest seems to be punching things. She stands in stark contrast to the more eloquent and brooding Alucard and Sebastian. Perhaps this character will be developed to have a little more depth in future seasons, but it doesn't seem promising.
There's nothing especially wrong with the anime. It knows what it's trying to be and it does a serviceable job of it. If you like Hellsing and Black Butler and are looking for more of the same, you'll probably like this. I'm not sure it has much to offer anyone else though.
Chrast
Ok so this anime was an actual masterpiece to me, awesome animation, awesome story building, very interesting and unique characters. The main problem I see people having is completely because of their preferences. The start of the show follows a "several short independent stories" approach which don't reslly have any story progression. It is though very clearly buildup to a beautiful story and world but most get bored by then and drop it, while I found those episodes very enjoyable nevertheless. It ends up to people heaving specific preferences that were not met and crying about it. Reminds me a lot of the Journey of WitchElaina that had the same way of storytelling. If you want constant plot twist new major villains or whatever shounen brainrot you probably won't like it, if you can appreciate short stories and world building for what they are, you'll love it.
Gabriel_Souza_
Majo to Yajuu is a good anime, and definitely worth your time. It has a really good story, with good main and supporting characters. Not a revolutionary story, but still well done. The characters are realistics and some of them are very unique. When it comes to animation, that is the lowest point of the series: there are no fluid scenes nor design consistency, despite the character designs themselves are very good. However, music, direction and composition save the technical aspect, so there are still impactfull scenes, even without good animation. I recommend watching it! It's not a finished story though, so I hope we get a second seasonsoon!
ReginSix
The witch and the beast is a good anime to watch so if you have some time I definitely recommend it. The story: The story is interesting to me, it is not the best and has been done before. Still I find they changed it up enough to be enjoyable. Unfortunately they left the ending open in anticipation of a season or part 2. There is some filler in this anime, it might be used in a sequel as a plot point but they were very enjoyable to watch. The magic system is nicely implemented into the world building. The magic makes sense and feels powerfullbut also feels like it can be countered relatively easily.
The side characters dind't feel tiresome but they also didn't feel new. All in all they did a good job supporting the main cast and moving the story along.
The animation:
I like the animation, there wasn't anything bad I noticed about it.
The OST:
I like the OST used in the show. It was incorporoted into the scenes well. It wasn't the best but it certainly isn't bad and it does feel impactfull.
All in all I like the story but I think there is a lot of room for improvement, which is why I give this a 8/10.
joemaamah
At another site, I pronounced this the Wolfwood and PowerxMadoka show. If you know what that means, you can just stop reading now, and go about your business. This really started off with a bang, and it easily passed my 3 eps test. But the producers couldn't keep things headed in the right direction. As time wore on, these MCs became less and less believable. and the Helmet of Disbelief was already stretched pretty thin. New characters get added, and never really go anywhere, or are not connected to the plot except haphazardly. While there is an overarcing plot, it's pretty thin. The series ismore episodic, or a number of short arcs, than anything else.
I did like the art work throughout; dark and brooding, but quality. The animation started out top notch, but slowly started to fade after ep 3. By the last couple eps it was looking a little sketchy. Got the impression the budget got slashed somewhere along the line.
The VAs weren't too impressive but weren't horrible by any means. Just kind of 'meh.' The MMC was supposed to be restrained but came off bland. The FMC displayed bipolar syndrome by bouncing between insanely enraged to brooding, pouty little snot. One character introduced towards the end of the series was simply annoying. There's surely some misdirection involved in these performances.
With as many problems as I had with this title, I still found it entertaining. I really wanted to enjoy it much more, though, as it held so much promise in the beginning. Sadly, promises are meant to be broken. So while I hoped this was going to be 90th percentile, in the long run the best grade I could give it would be 79/100; a C+, almost a B-. So while the title is not beastly, it's hard to decide witch to give it; a recommendation or not.
erdem07
Watching this anime felt like starting the Supernatural TV series from the middle seasons — intriguing but initially confusing due to missing context. Maybe "intriguing" is a strong word here. It's more like you want to like it, but it’s hard to fully enjoy. Another comparison would be watching Uncle From Another World, but in this case, the “uncle” is the director or writer. There’s a story and lore you could appreciate, but events and info seem randomly inserted as they see fit. Story-wise, if you don’t expect a masterpiece, it’s okay. Let’s talk about the characters. We can say there are two main characters. Oneis an unlikeable, one-dimensional character, while the other feels like a cool side character whose storyline you would enjoy — except that we are already in his storyline but we don't enjoy. Because we don't see much about the characters.
I don't care about the art that much and the voice acting was decent though I can’t say I particularly enjoyed it.
MaiDeNaBysS
The plotline/premise is a lot like Dorohedoro and Undead Girl Murder Farce, except this is incredibly generic and shallow shonen action cringe that takes itself way too seriously while failing miserably to actually be seinen. These characters are all cardboard cutouts we learn almost nothing about and what we do learn amounts to: generically evil witch, generically persecuted good witch, generically evil executioners, generically good mage society, generically angry MC, etc. Shonen trope hell. If it weren't shonen it would actually put effort to have meaningful character depth to give any of it emotional weight. The world is generic. The interactions are contrived. The exposition is cringe.The pacing of everything is slow, practically just slow fps sloth dialogue to monotonously overexplain exposition and feelings stretching out everything with filler within filler. (For example: the cringiest scene where MC retardedly didn't kiss the witch to be able to immediately overcome all obstacles because partner spoonfed some dumbass excuse not to, so instead MC is flung out a window while having an entire conversation with the witch about the power of cringe and tryharding drawing out 2 seconds into the most cringe conversation that painfully refuses to end...) (The story randomly jumps into an entire filler arc following characters completely unrelated to the MCs and plot.) (It also takes 1 episode to introduce a plot hole since each witch body has a max lifespan of 200 years, the witch's grandmother was murdered for sealing the fire 417 yrs ago yet her granddaughter witch and her mother witch could've lived for no more than 400yrs combined at the absolute max. So we have a witch dedicating decades of her life to an absurd plot to kill innocent people as revenge for a woman she never knew who died over 200 yrs before she was even born, literally hamfistedly retarded being the very thing she hayes all conveyed via braindead exposition dump mid-fight. All when she could've just done this decade long plan in 1 night from the start but Main Character Syndrome dictates that it must be exactly the night the MCs show up on a job to see her for no reason. The ending mystery involves the exact same contrivance baddies doing the a retarded plot for half a year to betray exactly when the MCs show up when they could've just done it in 1 night from the start.) The writing is unbelievably dumb.
Some people claim that the art is bad compared to the manga, but I checked and past the first few pages' bait and switch, the manga art is mostly terrible. The way the mangaka draws black haired MC is hilariously bad. This anime is frankly good art/animation quality, and the voice acting of the dub has good emotion and all, just sucks the dialogue is mostly exposition.
All that said, this anime is underrated/better compared to most cringe shonen here, probably so must dislike because it opens with a random goofy giant shark running through the city on 2 legs, dumb as hell cringe for no real reason but it more or less foreshadows exactly how cringe the author's storytelling/worldbuilding is. This season ends up being mostly just a pointless introduction that goes nowhere as bait for s2/manga but based on the mile-wide inch-deep multiworlds of generic fantasy cringe story the author set up, I'd assume 'vampire world' is just going to be more jumping-the-shark shonen trash. (*I checked and it is terrible)
It really could've been good if not for the writing. At least it's above the mountains of shonen/rom-com/SoL trash.
Peachhoneybuns
This definitely started out weird and confusing but after the first 3 episodes I was so drawn in I had to keep watching. This very much feels like the other mystery solving animes but with more supernatural themes to it. It's definitely got some blood and death so don't watch if you can't handle much of that. But again as each arc/mystery goes on I just want to know more and more about the main two. Now that this season has ended (at a very open ended part of the story) I can only hope it is popular enough to eventually get another season Definite recommendationsfor those who like Undead Girl Murder Farce and In/Spectre
