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Episode Witch Watch - Episode 8 discussion

Witch Watch, episode 8

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u/EyeDeeAh_42 May 25 '25 edited May 25 '25

They really came up with one of the most powerful spells and decided to use it for Kanshi suffering, huh?

Also, gotta love Shinohara's penchant for creating wildly age-inappropriate children's shows that somehow make it into the main plot. Sket Dance had "Futari wa Nervous" which was like 90% marriage/relationship drama and 10% magical girl show.

And here we have painfully awkward soap opera Ottoman.

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u/VASQUEZ_41 May 25 '25

there are more shows that are age inappropriate in witch watch

shinohara is really good at writing stuff that's completely unrelated to the main premise

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u/Coyote_Shepherd May 25 '25

Plus some parents have some really skewed views of what is and isn't age appropriate.

My parents were religious and deemed a bunch of cartoons to be the work of "The Devil"....but then they had no issues with Buffy and Angel and Charmed and Roswell etc etc.

They only ever relented after I took them to see The Secret World of Arrietty and my mom recognized Carol Burnett's voice on the spot while my dad was complaining about having to read some of the subs in the film, despite it being English dubbed.

Mind you, there was also a lot of "Oh that's an adult thing" that got snuck into a lot of kid's stuff back when we all were younger, that we didn't pick up on until we were muuuuuch older....and that's why stuff like DS9, Farscape, and B5 have aged so well.

So "age appropriate-ness" is a bit...wibbly wobbly...until you go to some massive extremes.

I think kids would see this Ottoman stuff and think that the mom and dad were sad because the dad was so busy being a super hero that he didn't have time for mom at all. So he'd do whatever he could to make her happy when he was home. One such thing was turning into a piece of furniture for her to rest her feet on, after she'd probably had an already busy day. She enjoyed that too because she was always smiling when he did it.

So the kids wouldn't pick up on ANY of the adult stuff, until they'd gotten older and were...informed...of it and THEN they'd look back at that stuff and go "Ooooh!" just like how some of us did with the relationship between Worf/Miles/Julien in DS9 during the "Bar Association" episode.

No one really sees certain things until they've either had experience with those things or have been told by others that those things exist within a certain context/situation in the first place.

It's just like how they probably wouldn't pick up on HOW BAD the time dilation stuff was in this show, just like how kids wouldn't have picked up on it when Star Trek Prodigy did that stuff....and that show was kind of made for kids but also adults...similar to this show.

Heck, even some adults need stuff pointed out to them and that could actually be why the parents within the Witch Watch Universe don't actually have a problem with Ottoman at all.

It's because they just don't know...or maybe...they're still kind of kids themselves in a way?

shrugs

Or I'm wrong, but anyway that just happens to be how I feel about it, what do you think?

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u/Frontier246 May 25 '25

They really came up with one of the most powerful spells and decided to use it for Kanshi suffering, huh?

What If The Flash/Flash Time but a psychological horror?

Also, gotta love Shinohara's penchant for creating wildly age-inappropriate children's shows that somehow make it into the main plot. Sket Dance had "Futari wa Nervous" which was like 90% marriage/relationship drama and 10% magical girl show.

And here we have painfully awkward soap opera Ottoman.

Kids stick around for the Superhero action, moms stay to watch the angst of a married man serving his wife as an ottoman, dads are disappointed every time the cute co-workers flirting with him turn out to be Kaijin.

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u/WeldingButterfly May 25 '25

and you say that time goes rushing by

but it seems so slow to me

and you see a blur around you fly

but it takes too long

it seems so slow to me

and time keeps dragging on

- Jim's Big Ego, "The Ballad of Barry Allen"

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u/Coyote_Shepherd May 26 '25

Reminds me of Kingdom Come Flash, good song!

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u/mmcjawa_reborn May 25 '25

Weirdly I could see something like this existing as a full sentai parody anime (and I would probably watch it lol)

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u/mekerpan May 25 '25

Somehow that Ottoman show seemed wildly off-the-mark (except for the fights) -- but funny.

Query: why did the show's director not notice that the performance was a big hit with the audience?

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u/Aliensinnoh Jun 01 '25

Also, gotta love Shinohara's penchant for creating wildly age-inappropriate children's shows that somehow make it into the main plot.

Just when I had gotten lulled into a false sense of security that Witch Watch was a tame show and was watching it on the Shinkansen. I did a real quick pull of my iPad off the tray table there.😭