>>287472071
most likely adapted by a slop studio

RIP good threads. The animeonly newfags and shounenshitters will be insufferable

Have they actually explained why the continent they hailed from didn't have any knowledge about magic and no magical phenomena in the first place?

>>287472071
But why

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>>287472071
YES YES YES

>>287472172
It says Eight Bit. Is that good or bad?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Bit_(studio)
I've only watched IS and Evol from over a decade ago, but those were animated well (albeit CG-mecha-heavy). Never watched Mahouka or Slime Tensei, although both are/were pretty popular.

>Hayamin as Siasha
YES

The designs don't seem to be emulating the manga art style, unfortunately. Need a frontal shot of Siasha to judge further.

>>287472071
holy shit thats maybe too early? also why does he look weird.

>>287472071
>>287472172
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma6twUC12To
wow it looks kinda bad

>>287472679
it looks terrible. what a waste.

those character design look bad, the budget went to hayami saori

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>>287472071
https://www.anime-witch-mercenary-official.com

PV:
https://youtu.be/Ma6twUC12To

Audio drama:
https://youtu.be/K8Y_vY0aR6M

I still like the manga artstyle more, but this looks... serviceable. Zig might take more getting-used-to, ironically. The voices are perfect though.

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>>287472679
>>287472722
Dios mio...

>>287472172
What a fucking waste, this could have been the next big thing

lol who care adaptions can suck my dick mango 4 life

>>287472172
What a fucking waste, this could have been the next big thing

>>287472924
The manga is already an adaptation. The anime got greenlit before the manga started and was supposed to come this year.

>>287472071
Nice. The manga is entertaining for the most part, though it suffers a bit from the mc being hypercompetent, while everyone else lacks higher brain functions, when he's around.

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>>287473007
Dayum. The reactions ITT remind me of when the Maoyuu anime chose to adapt from the LN designs rather than the manga ones.

>>287472621
That's the Slime studio and people love that shit

lol who care adaptions can suck my dick mango 4 life

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>>287473160
Beast Tamer did that, although it's easy to understand why given that the charger designs in the LN have a ton of frills that would have been needlessly difficult to animate in a low-budget, single cour isekai. Also every version of it sucks ass so it's not like it matters. But the dragon bitch was REALLY hot in the LNs.

witch and beast anime when?

>>287472071
Isn't the witch in this a psycho?

>>287472071
The dude looks like he'd be completely submissive to the witch

>>287472679
>>287472722
it's backwater sword saint and mobkara all over again
I'll still watch it

>>287472071
I like the manga, I hope this adaption doesn't fuck everything up

>>287472071
meh another witchslop

>>287472829
>this could have been the next big thing
Lmao don't kid yourself, I read a good chunk of it and it's not very good. Not a bad read, but not good either. Suffers from being written by someone who has very little life experience.

>>287472071
good time to have a witch fetish

>>287473557
Sort of just a bit more crazy than a normal woman. But a cute, very much a cute 2D.

And also a acts like a yandere girlfriend.

>>287472722
she cute

>>287476321
Looks prettier in the manga.

>>287472826
I haven't taken a look at the PV since I'm at work, but what's wrong with this frame? Looks normal to me

>>287472826
I haven't taken a look at the PV since I'm at work, but what's wrong with this frame? Looks normal to me. Cuter than she is in picrel here >>287472722

>>287472332
>explained
It's the setting dingus.
And they did have 'magic' in form of witches.

>>287472071
I'll never get over how the weird little bait and switch they do between the initial premise and where it goes immediately afterward. I wonder if it'll be even more jarring in anime form.

>>287472722
>>287472621
Zig's hair needs a rework, and the animation looks really cheap, but fingers crossed it's just very early work.

>>287472071
One of the very few actually readable isekai sloppa. Sucks that witch gets written out of the story all the time so that temu guts can look cool soloing jobbers.

>>287478351
So we don't get romantic moments between the mercenary and the witch? I was expecting some kind of battler and Beatrice

>>287478610
There are little moments sort of but Zig is just as dense and autistic as any other MC.

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>>287477583
It's not terrible per se, but the eyes look smallish in the continuously oval head (kinda like Frieren's style), and it's a zooming shot into the face as her hair blows around, emphasizing the head shape underneath, all while she has that intense stare. You get kind of a jumpscare effect with a visceral NOT MUH SIASHA if you were used to the cute manga style.

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Is this the Tinasha of our generation?

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>>287478610
You do get lots of romance teasing. Witch is dere as fuck with Zig since he changed her life, and his professional protectiveness of her sometimes feels like he's getting more attached than he realizes.

They shouldn't have gotten on the boat.

>>287478965
Both cute witchus with long, black hair.

>>287479076
Here dere is adorable and sometimes she's surprisingly agressive with him, but in a very innocent way. And yes, the moments where he's surprised because he catches himself being extra involved with her, or surprisingly effected by something she does, are nice.

Manga or ln

Hogwash

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>>287478965

>Girl lead's name is Siasha
>Rhymes with Tinasha
>Both Witches

GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME

>>287481053
Enjoy your hair brushing. We still need some lap sitting though.

>>287478965
hopefully not. that adaptation was a pointless speedrun

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Remember to dangle your witchfu when she gets over-excited, it calms them down.

Is there romance?

>>287483170
Do you consider basically one way yandere romance to be romance? MC is basically asexual (at least for what it'll cover and the next season if there is ever one, haven't read past it).

>>287477775
>start off as an interesting vagabond story
>immediately transition to a native isekai where magic is common, no one cares about witches, and everyone's an adventurer
At least Zig is still a mercenary. I thought he was going to become an adventurer too.

>>287483793
That would defeat the point of the title if he was an adventurer (and no one would give a shit about this series). The guild/adventurer shit alone made me want to drop the series in the first place (especially with the amount of autists within the guild).

>>287472071
I will only watch episodes with Isana.

Just read all 66 chapters, I'd say It's above average. The setting is a bit weak, the art looks like your generic isekai, the characters are okay even if not really original, the story is entertaining enough to not be boring even if it lacks direction circling around the mafias. Wish there were more stakes but that may came in upcoming chapters they did hint at the origin of witches and them potentially hiding within human mages society. But as it is now it's not enough to really praise.

It's Guts Berserk befriending Emilia Re:Zero, going on a journey to the Dark Continent HxH that has generic Isekai adventure guilds and Fantasy Yakuzas.

I thought I read witch from mercury and my body went into fight or flight mode

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>>287472071
I saw 'Witch' and 'Merc-' so thought this was something else for a second...
>>287484801
same

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Why won't they adapt the good stuff, are they afraid to fuck it up. Low efforts adaptations are not worth it when the manga are already excellent.

>>287484961
Why would you wish for a shitty anime adaptation? Only normalfags wish for trash like this because they can't be bothered turning pages apparently so they'd rather have shittier art with random ugly cg and slower pacing because it's easier for them to consume the product when it's visual slop.

>>287485136
It's normal to want to see an animated form of a series you've enjoyed reading for years. It's a marker of success

>>287483793
It makes me wonder if he came in with the original premise and the editors immediately bullied him into making it super generic high fantasy or if he wanted to do the generic high fantasy all along and he pulled a bait and switch on the editors. Either way it's a shame because the main characters have a nice dynamic, but it feels kinda wasted on adventurer guild autism. Not that it's the worst adventure guild autism I've read by a long shot, but still.

If its not isekai I'll check it out.

>>287473359
>he haven't seen the original witch and the beast mercenary anime

>>287485227
Biscuit Hammer's adaptation was worse than getting no adaptation. It's like when Queen Bee adapts an h-manga you liked. Getting nothing is better than getting a butchery.

>>287485427
Biscuit Hammer, Helck, Ubel Blatt all fell to the curse of adapting a complete manga years late. These are on going so they should be safe

>>287472679
it was supposed to come out this year but got delayed, yikes

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>>287472071
Another fantasy series adaptation? Cool.
If we're talking about fantasy series, I'm still salty we only got the first two books of The Beast Player adapted into anime and not the rest. Same for Moribito. Why can't fantasy series get good adaptations? I wonder when The Dragon's Daughter will get an anime adaptation we already got one for Yatagarasu.

>>287484801
>>287484851
This is going to happen a lot, huh.

>>287484961
>half naked girl
>loli
yeah, not suited for modern audience

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Anime never. If I ever get enough anime to fund an anime, it'd be this.

It sucks that that the comfy manga dump threads will be full of faggots almost from now on it certainly when it airs.

>>287488493
That's a murderhobo

>>287485346
It always felt like he wanted to do 'not!Guts gets isekai'd to JRPG Wizardry land' coz the early chapters are kinda tacked-on in hindsight.

i like to self insert as zig

it's nice to read a strong male character who isn't an edgelord.

>>287489101
>tacked on throwaway set up is more compelling than the actual story
Many such cases

>>287472071
Looks good, will be watching.

>>287472071
Is this the series where the guy gets annoyed with this girl one girl harassing him at the guild so he slips a laxative into her drink

>>287491804
Yes.

>>287491804
He does it the first time they meet because he thinks she's trying to use magic on him

>>287491804
It's funny but holy asspull that came out of nowhere

>>287490571
With his origins, it's a miracle he didn't turn out that way.

>>287492118
Edgelords don't last long in difficult situations, far too easy for them to bite more than they could chew.

>>287473557
A witch is fundamentally a different creature from a human so she finds it hard to empathize with humans.

>>287491945
Her ass was certainly pulled to the nearest latrine.

>>287480489
Please reply

>>287493410
The official TL of the LN has content past the manga, 2 volumes ahead i think.

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What's the point of physical reinforcement magic if some guy with no mana can surpass it by regularly working out?

>>287493487
those people depend on magic too much

>>287492905
Not really, they seem physically and temperamentally human other than having stronger magic and longer lifespan. Siasha's totally easy to get along with if you aren't an asshole.

>>287493487
He's using the mantis-shrimp punch gloves there.

>>287493410
I really like the manga's art, so I'd recommend that. Still need to check out the LN myself sometime.

>>287493487
To show that everyone on that side if the world relies on magic too much. It's been a while since I read it so I might be remembering wrong but I think that's why Isana starts working out without using magic.

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>>287472071
So when le Cervan get its anime?

>>287493487
>physicality & skill
When it comes to this Zig is clearly genetically gifted. Additionally, from an early age, he had a life that has built him towards it, and on top of both of those things he purposefully for them. He's got all the three major aspects, other might have one or two of these. Kind of like how modern elite athletes compete at a level where you need to be gifted with both natural talent, genetic potential and also be exceptionally trained

>>287493757
Isana a cute.

>>287493712
>Siasha's totally easy to get along with if you aren't an asshole.
Yeah, but that's because she wants to get along with people and wants to integrate. She doesn't really feel an internal inhibition to causing harm or murder like a normal human would which is why she has to make an active effort not to kill people over an annoyance.

>>287494340
*purposefully trains

>>287494345
I think she isn't any worse than a human with her life would be. It's not that the witch brain is naturally more murder-prone, it's that they've had to live outside the law their whole lives and routinely kill to survive.

Gave this a read because of the announcement and realized I had read a few chapters a long time ago.

Agreed the tone shift is weird and there's some clear lack of direction at the start of the series. The mentor appearing and disappearing that abruptly felt like the author was fully dedicating himself to isekai vibes rather than the grimdark ones the manga starts with.

Also the art quality has a pretty big slip in the last third of the released chapters.

>>287472722
I know nothing about this but she's sexy

>>287496034
I think the biggest art problem is Zig himself. He's built like a space marine but mid-fight panels he spontaneously loses a shitton of mass and often looks like a different character altogether.

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>>287493487
powered by 2scoops and leaving humanity behind

the slopfactor of this is ramping up, author is losing control of his setting and power level bullshit is starting to take hold

>>287496071
Agreed. You can tell the artist isn't at their best drawing big fight scenes. They're the weakest part of the art and I hope they're getting some sort of help to improve on/integrate them better with their drawing style.

>>287496212
The big fights are actually one of my favorite parts of the art. It's picked a comfy level of choreography where you can follow what's going on, spot how the mobs are trying to maneuver before they're shut down, and have nifty blow-by-blow exchanges without feeling like a drag on pacing.

>>287495172
>It's not that the witch brain is naturally more murder-prone
I mean everything we know so far kinda points towards that.
>witches are universally hated to the point there's execution squads the moment their presence is known
>Sasha feels nothing over killing or hurting humans
>She's very quick to resort to violence
>She's excited over being targeted by a serial killer
Even the "good-natured" witch we're seeing causes terror and destruction on a whim and thinks nothing of it so it's easy to imagine what drove humans to risk attacking them on sight just to get rid of them asap.

>>287496864
Siasha's whole reputation as a witch was that she only killed in self-defense, and yet retards still kept going after her. I wouldn't assume humans necessarily had a good reason for what they do.

>>287497632
>I wouldn't assume humans necessarily had a good reason for what they do.
Understandable position to take in our modern world where stereotypes are taught to be malicious rumors that come from nowhere rather than collective pattern recognition.

>>287472071
Zig kind of gives off a Geralt of Rivia vibe..

>>287497786
Real-life humans were scared of witches that literally don't exist.

>>287497850
Yeah that's actually not too far off.

>>287497932
Those fears also came from collective pattern recognition. Misguided in that case but essential for survival and functioning societies in many many other cases. Like Xenophobia which is a protection against harmful foreign influence. Given that we know that witches are incredibly dangerous in universe it's more likely to be one of the cases in which the pattern recognition came to the correct conclusion.

>>287497632
>I wouldn't assume humans necessarily had a good reason for what they do.
I really hate this mindset and cannot wait for its mouthpieces to die out.

>>287497932
People who call themselves witches and kidnap children to drain their blood for occult rituals do exist and that is 99% of the people who were burned at the stake for witchcraft. There's records of this.

I hope he sticks with the staff and doesn't go back to retarded double ended swords. Or gets a pollaxe or anything other that gay and specifically chuuni fantasy weapons

>>287497850
>falls in love with meme Dark Souls 2 sword
>makes a manga where Geralt uses it
kinda based

>>287496864
>She's excited over being targeted by a serial killer
Wasn't she letting off steam because the guild had been blocking her from ranking up and/or some party was taking all the posted jobs she wanted several days in a row?

>>287498079
I mean, humans are never beating the allegations at this rate.

>>287498113
>"Experience daily proves how loath they are to confess without torture."

>>287498452
>and/or some party was taking all the posted jobs she wanted several days in a row?
That was a different arc, no? She let off steam there by punching them and ripping a house in two.
The serial killer thing was her just wandering around at night and then she got upset because he ran.

>>287498541
Ah true I jumbled the two up.

Kinda weird how everyone goes on about how Zig is the king of all fighters but nobody ever talks about Seisha's magic (besides some very recent comments about how she manually casts). Guess she isn't all that special in terms of output, but also is at the same time?

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>>287494340
>Isana a cute
She really is

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>>287472071
nice, beefy big swords are always welcome. pity some series with 'em are slow on updates (berserk) and some even got axed (broke mercenary)

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>>287498913
when I saw her for the first time I thought she was Flare

>>287498785
I chalk it up to the fact that the manga is all about sucking off temu guts. He never once got bailed out or saved. He always outsmarts and/or outfights everyone. Watch is secretly OP so she's simultaneously a worthy simping target for gary sue mc and not stealing his thunder.

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Elicia my beloved

>>287499447
>gary sue mc
That's pretty harsh when the most recent chapters show him fighting good guys and taking a lot of damage

>>287499447
He's a veteran mercenary, it'd be strange if he wasn't outclassing everyone else.

>>287499479
Hopefully, scatfags won't flock to her after the laxative incident.

>>287499782
Yea, it's not unreasonable that a battle-hardened battlefield veteran can excel at smashing up "kids" who only fight monsters. There is a a fair amount of MC power, but it's not as bad as the typical overpowered teenager in shonen.

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>>287498785
They just assume she's a really gifted human. The guild girls have mentioned a few times that their ranking system isn't set up to promote her as fast as her powerlevel deserves.

>>287498785
The weird thing is that they don't perceive her as a witch, while from zig's perspective she basically feels like a human shaped monster, even if she's cute.

>>287501592
One could theorize that maybe witches don't natively spawn on their continent where magic aptitude is more evenly-spread.

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>>287496121
>>2scoops
>only 2
SIX SCOOPS CMON LET'S GET BIG

>>287499843
The one time where a toilet scene would be a disservice.

>>287502895
That would make her stand out even more. She regularly goes "all out" in public but no one ever says shit about her skewering like 30 things at once or swinging around 20 foot stone fists and splitting entire houses.

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>>287472071
I want The Witch and The Beast back

>>287505178
artist is a diaperfag, there's no way that isn't intentional

>>287499447
How big or important a place is their current base of operations? That should generally influence the power level of the people in it. The strongest would move to a region with threats and pay befitting their strength.

>>287505379
seems like they're still in Starter Town since they're just getting acclimated to life in the new continent, but there's no reason for them to leave (yet). After 60 chapters here and the way the story has progressed, I don't really see them leaving the city for quite awhile unless something major happens during this mafia fight that forces them out of the city.

Author seems to be in this for the longhaul so just for the sake of expanding the world they will have to leave for some reason so the worldbuilding can resume and the story progress. Seisha's magical abilities are at the heart of the plot and once the duo have the new continent's common sense there's no reason to stay in Default Starter Town.

>>287505215
>diaperfag
What the fuck does that mean

>>287472071
i thought the current trend was super assassins?

>>287498913
>0 friend
lmao

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>>287505379
The lady in chapter 3 said it's the biggest city in their region, whatever that means.

>>287498493
And the dead kids in their homes? And the blood found in bowls? And the books describing blood rituals?

Nah all fake. Because she wouldnt confess to what was easily provable WITHOUT her confession. Oh and btw those confessions were forced as an attempt to save her soul.

>>287498785
There are plenty of times when people mention her power and are very scared of it. As shown several times so far her output goes WAY beyond what any of the other magic users can do. Frankly nearly as many people are scared of her as they are of Zig.

>>287498785
Zig has gotten into more fights with major names in the city, Siasha only ever bullied some weak faggots and the one group left town immediately after she did that.

>>287498913
>>287507208
White Lighting Princess? More like White Lightning Dork

>>287509166
Provide a source link if you've got one.

>>287503626
Why?

>>287506149
Siasha is a super mass murderer.

>>287489101
That is unambiguously the premise if you look at the light novel (i.e. the original source material). The events covered in the early manga chapters fit within the "Prologue" section of the first LN. "Chapter 1" is about them getting on the boat and making the journey over.

Oh, more gundam?

>>287510681
Yeah, it's another series about a saucy girl who ends up controlling a giant robotic humanoid weapon.

>>287498913
This elf was built for bullying

>>287510661
So mangaka is responsible for making the intro seem more substantive than it really was?

>>287472071
Stupid sword design.

>>287511852
She does indeed get bullied.

>>287499624
He wins a 3v1 by non-lethally incapacitating them while being at an informational and magic disadvantage. That falls squarely in gary sue category. There hasn't been one encounter that feels like he wouldn't be able to pull through solo. On the flip side, whoever was with him (be it witch or some other client) would be fuck without him.

>>287499782
>>287499917
It's very unreasonable that he always comes out on top with how different regular earth continent is compared to magic continent. This thing is doing the equivalent of presenting the strongest gladiator that has ever existed as the smartest and most valuable asset in a modern warfare scenario.

>>287511996
No you inferior brain is responsible for that. They're already fighting monsters on magic continent in chapter 2.

>>287514048
>Non-lethally
Only because they have healing magic. And to acheive his victory he had to sacrifice much of the equipment he had prepared beforehand, take some really heavy damage, and leave the person he was hired to protect on her own.

The main reson he comes out on top is that by nature he avoids having to go against something that might be too much for, and his ability allows him to sense when that might be the case even when he isn't expecting it.

If the story starts bending to allow him to do whatever he wants as opposed to him adapting to the circumstances dictated by the plot, then he'll be a gary stu. And honestly the only moment that was close to that was the moment he got a free meal and a job out of being tailed by a mafia princess.

>>287514048
Well I enjoy reading a non-autistic, non-edgy, strong, competent character as opposed to another edgelord, 'deconstruction' or pissweak pants shitting literallyme.
If you don't that's fine but you can't really complain that this isn't a realistic story or portrayal when it's not meant to be possible IRL. Also the term 'gary stu' is generally taken to mean no personality, but he has a clearly definable personality. It's just the story includes him being basically superhuman. But so is Isana, so is Sia and then there's monsters and shit. It shows that he wins because he's intellect, uses strategy, has superhuman physicality and is extremely skilled. It's that kind of story, and it works for entertainment. If it doesn't entertain you but annoys you instead don't read it. Go read Meguru or something where he struggles in 1v1 matches, where injuries are very dehabilitating and so on. But most of those characters do not have more, or more definable, personality than Zig if that's actually what you're after.

>>287514048
Zig almost dies to Isana. A first-class adventurer would probably beat him.

>>287514068
For what it's worth, chapter 1 and 2 are extra long and they run into some giant worms at the very end of the chapter 2. It's chapter 3 where they fully reveal that the new continent is full on JRPG land. The first chapter just feels like an introduction to a different story and setting. Maybe it would be more coherent if they'd done it via a flashback after we're settled into the real setting, rather than doing an immediate neckbreaking pivot.