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The End
The Bureau has done nothing wrong, mages are too dangerous to be allowed to live around Humans.
>>283384092She should have killed herself for real.
Not bad but MC's suddenly became competent after being a total shitter in the first chapter.
MC is giving slight Mary Sue vibes.
They've totally been fucking Mira, haven't they?
>>283384501Her job was doing the laundry.
This feels more like chapter 3 to me.
>Half of chapter 2 is just flashback of a new character whose backstory is about the same as the MCmeh, I get it already, mages good bureau bad
Meh doesn't warrant the hype. Your average edgy manga.
>>283384501They might've. Or they might've not. Who knows what kind of superstitions about mages they follow.I'm more surprised that her brother is also a "mage". Meaning male magic users exist and can pass the ability down to their children.>>283384364She already shown herself capable of precise magic application in the first chapter. Inability to save herself was mostly due to sudden stress of the situation. Now she had the time to think and plan. And it remains to be seen if her plan works at all.
>>283384173Thanks for the dump, OP. Good chapter and lets us know how things are further out, outside of the town. It's terrible that they're corrupt, but I hope her journey will lead her to a path to stop this corrupt world.
>>283383479>got caught by the government the very next chapterWay to go, Nona. Doing your dead parents proud with the saving yourself thing.
Seriously, we get it, the Bureau is full of hypocrite lying mage nazis that kill mages and hoard magic for their own benefit, and the general public does not give a shit and doxxes you inmediately without consideration the instant you're find out. NOW, if the plot does not plan to go anywhere beyond that, we're gonna have a huge axe-magic incoming as well>>283384660It's a slow start, i still think it has potential. Or at least i'm willing to stick until chapter 3
Thread magic? Prison escape? She's gotta get Stone Free.
Uvral is just another name for Project Mega Barrel.
>>283384887Mahou Auschwitz
Mira is dying violently during the escape.
>>283384364From the last chapter, mages are conpelled to use their magic regularly so she should be familiar with how to use it. She also caught one midwit unaware vs a squad led by someone cutthroat and competent. She didn't merc the guy, so that may come back to bite her.>>283384706Could be one of those instances where only women manifest actual ability while men are "carriers". We'll see.>>283384743I'm surprised that they left her to be managed by one middle-manager when she's the daughter of a mage that killed an entire squad and leveled part of a city in an instant. One whose body they probably haven't found, so they can't assume she's dead.>>283384887Would Yoshida work as a mage hunter or just be a massive snitch?
>inb4 Mira's brother is somehow the dude from the first chapter
Too much of a repeat of chapter 1 but at least it sets up the direction. Whether the story has something more interesting to show will have to come up in the next few chapters.Wonder what is Mira's magic going to be. Sweeping?
>>283385013oh fuck
>>283385013>>283385446Hair is too different.
>>283384173Thanks OP
I like how the witches power is tied to a specific tool or object, it reminds me of Tsugumomo.The story and art aren't doing much for me, but I'll give it a chance for a few chapters.
>>283385639>artI dread the moment she'll have to cut off her braids.
>>283385658Lets not think of such things. Theres already enough suffering in the manga
>>283384027Why even explain the whole plan to her?
>>283385658A story about Witches where the witches aren't absolutely Stylish is doomed to fail. This is known.
>>283385797So that the audience knows what's going on.
>>283385797Because it's fun to see people despair at their inevitable and terrible fate.
>>283385832Just start the trial, the audience can fill in the blanks.
These chapters are pretty long for a weekly series
>>283385981But then Nona's daring escape attempt wouldn't help Mira.
>>283384149Should have sewn his mouth shut.
>>283384149She should sew his mouth shut AND stab his eye anyways.Just for being a prick.
>>283385991Uhuh, first chapter 81 pages, second 60. That's insane.
>>283386005Exolaining the whole plan while the other girl listens is also dumb.
>>283384092Nona did not kill herself, she's still alive on Ewin Island.
>>283385991>>283386070It wont last I'm sure, but I could see it probably being 30-ish a week for a while maybe?It seems good so far.
>>283385991>>283386070First chapters tend to be longer just to set things up in a single chapter.Second chapters being long is less usual.I guess well get ~24 pages from now on.
wait, why would they even care if a mage killed themselves anyways? would HQ get mad because they lost a slave/patsy?
>>283386126Does HQ even know they detain them instead of immediately sending them to notAzkaban?
>>283386158Oh, right they are just keeping them to work for a while weren't they?I guess maybe that's why they dont want HQ to hear about it, since someone will probably come down to inspect and see they've been dicking around.
Who will they find first? Mira's brother or Nona's mom?
I prefer my persecuted witches to be jaded and sleepy.
>>283386201I have a feeling the mother won't be found anytime soon.
>>283384048Does the ankle thing supress her powers? She could use them now, or while she was doing laundry to kill them.I'd guess it doesn't supress powers or they would have given one to the MC, it's just GPS.So I wonder if Mira Mira's power is just lame.
>>283386312At the very least I like that she wants to search for her instead of just thinking she's dead.
>>283386182>oh no, you are using a mage to work for you! That's not allowed!>except when we use mages to work for us >>283385446>no! It's not the same!
>>283383832>only 4 guards at the baseSeems like it would be ridiculously simple for either of them to kill all the guards and then find the keys to turn off the gps tracker.
>>283386401Use specimen to further SCIENCE!orUse specimen to do laundry.
>>283386401>mage being used for experimentation>using mage to do your menial choresthere is a difference
>>283386429>>283386470Yes, one will not lead to an experiment gone wrong.
>>283386511Yeah, but one is being done with the permission of the Bureau. The other is just some lazy dipshits in a backwater
>>283384173I really don't see why the Mages wouldn't just rise up and wipe out all humans that want to oppress them.One mage is as strong enough to wreck a city. This is one of those fantasy settings that uses X-Men logic, where it works on an internal logic that magic only appeared a few generations ago. So magic users are rare and fragmented and hunted down from the instant they appeared.
>>283386583that, or maybe the average mage isn't a walking WMD?
>>283383479Tch fucking uselessWeird way for a narrative jump too
>>283386401Yes, police officers aren't actually allowed to ignore the law and turn random criminals into their slaves.
>>283386583>I really don't see why the Mages wouldn't just rise up and wipe out all humans that want to oppress them.Because then you have no story. Or the story would be about humans trying to rise up on the mages that opress them. Butt the author wants to draw a story about a mage overcoming the opressing humans.
>>283386620Bro the Mage in question used fucking Comb magic not nuke magic. Every mage is a walking WMD. They should have taken over the world and fucked and outbred regular humans to extinction.
The transition from chapter 1 to chapter 2 feels off somehow. Like it's not messy but it's missing a few parts.
>>283386620Her mother was for all appearances an average mage that spent her life untrained as a housewife and later average townsperson. She wrecked an entire street in one attack and only got captured because she was protecting her weak daughter. Two adult mages could rule a kingdom. Regardless of what worldbuilding is done later on, this series basically has the X-Men ruleset as its structure. Functionally, the story only works with the logic that magic is new, mages are randomly scattered around, the government immediately knew what they were and immediately started a panopticon to hunt them down. So you have a society where magic is not an ingrained part of its function and mages aren't able to form any groups together to wield their power. Otherwise, mages would obviously rule the world.
>>283386737I'm sure Mira Mira is a jobber.
>>283386770>>283386737I guess the X-men scenario makes the most sense then.
>>283386583They're retarded
>>283386062But then she'd be the prick.
>>283384173I am sorry but the chapters has same pitfalls as the pervious one, just more localised now.Firs thing that instantly sticks - if I did not know better, I'd think the bureau guys writen as if they were catching random jews (lets be real, manga really goes hard on whole concentration camp thing), and "mages" were retconned and rewritten somewhere much later in the story. Because bureau don't treat those they catch like mages at all, they treat them like regular humans.>caught a girl>supposedly know her name, she and her mother ruined entire city block>don't cuff her, don't restrain her arms/fingersYou'd think you really want prevent mage from summoning/using/holding a wand, like thick leather gloves or other form of finger restraint. Like anti-magic cell barely fucking works, at best it prevents magic from getting out, which won't help against like 80% of usecases because rule is too literal.Which leads us to the second issue - the anti-magic police is once again both overly competent and absolutely retarded at the same time. They are written as clearly competent and well-equipped group, have all those perfect tracking tools, all the tech to contain mages, but at the same they are utterly retarded with zero detainment protocols or actual working tools to prevent captured mage from holding a wand. All at the same fucking chapter.I will also have to point out that one guy freely opening cages without a backup standing behind with a gun, in case of sudden violent attack, which is also infuriatingly retarded. It is not exactly safe thing to do even in regular prison, and there he is dealing with mages that CAN SUMMON THEIR WANDS EVEN WHILE BEING JAILED.
>>283384173Unnecessarily long chapter, you could have done the same thing in 30 pages or so instead of 68.
>>283386583My real concern with this type of worldbuilding is that, logically, the mages should be the ones in charge of society.Imagine this hypothetical:There are two hunter-gatherer tribes: Tribe "A" and Tribe "B." Tribe "A" can shoot giant fireballs, lift boulders, and bring down rain. Tribe B cannot. Which tribe do you think would be more successful?What about their descendants? When both tribes gradually transition to agriculture, Tribe A would still be able to accomplish far, far more. While Tribe B is starving after a drought, a single individual from Tribe A can just summon up rain and fix everything that way. Tribe B sees Tribe A's success, and so they start asking for help in exchange for goods. Centuries pass, and Tribe B's descendants have become completely reliant on Tribe A. Tribe A can do everything that Tribe B cannot. Tribe A can give Tribe B orders, and Tribe B has no choice but to obey. If Tribe B tries to rebel, Tribe A obviously shitstomps them because, again, Tribe A can shoot giant fireballs and Tribe B can't.In other words, you have a society with a deeply entrenched caste system where the mages have all the power and the humans have none.I get that they're trying to do a Holocaust analogy here, but having the Jew stand-ins be actual walking WMDs just doesn't make sense.
>>283387215to be fair, these guys are like backwater retards who are abusing their position to laze around and probably aren't keeping up to standardsthat's why they don't want anyone else from the Bureau showing up
>>283384173Crafty lass. Also>>283384343You better not have spoiled this shit. I am picking this one up.
>>283387321Their laziness should have been their end the moment a competent mage showed up.I guess Nona is that competent mage.
>>283386583They really should not have written mother as a walking catastrophe, it rises a lot of questions about power scale, without exactly bringing anything to a story expect the fact protagonist's mother is now a ruthless murderer that killed counltess random citizens that weren't even cheering for the death squad.>be john, a hard-working guy>some mage has a chimpout during police raid>come back home>your entire district, neighbours and famity get COMB'ed for no reason at allWho in the right mind would even side with a mother here. It was such a weird thing to do.
>>283384092She just kicked the chair seconds ago. No way she's already dead. The guard is just stupid.
The fuck do you MEAN there are only 2 chapters released!?
>>283387321I get that that was the idea, but so far EVERYONE from Bureau is fucking retarded. It was the same in the pervious chapter where they were just interrogating mage-sympathisers (who might or might not have been mages) in the open street.>>283387393Reminder that Nona and her moder leveled a city block. You'd at least be cautious about someone like that even if you are a lazy sleazy motherfucker.Whole "corrupt prison guard is an asshole" thing usually runs purely on a power imbalance, which isnt present in current situation like at all.
>>283387399NTA I see no evidence the mom killed innocent bystandersYeah some buildings got leveled but I imagine everyone she wasn't specifically aiming for had enough time to book it out of there
Any naked tits yet?
>>283386770>>283386620They literally said that the mom was a powerful mage, she's obviously an outlier.
>>283387502Anon we see three-store houses being shredded like a paper. Mom clearly did not care about what is she doing, where is she aiming or how much damage it does.Also unless you are betting that guys that execute people in the middle of the street have a tendency to pay up for collateral damage - having your house effectively ruined is a life-ruining experience for a few generations even by some miracle noone died.
>>283387548I will defend that anon for no reason as you are technically right, and remind you that we are in SJ manga. By chapter 30 powerscale will be thrown out of the window.The fact you can scale COMB to this level makes actually destructive magic a continental catastrophe level of threat, like fire, floods, earthshakes and all that.And I hope we won't get abstract conceptual shit this time, even if glass repair kind of already tiptoeing into that area.
Where do you think the story is going after they escape?>they travel around as fugitives looking for mom and brother, meeting other witches along the way and showing random peasants that *not all witches* are bad>there's a whole hidden society of witches living in the shadows, they get to not! Hogwarts and the series turns into witch SoL>they team up with the magic nazi bureau for some contrived reason
>>283387686There is pretty much inevitable witch resistance group who are probably as exagerrated and outright evil as a bureau. Which may both lead to Nona/Mira joining them or joining that one captain as a "lesser evil".Series going SoL will be one of the most bizzare twists though.
Mira is gonna die next chapter after she reveals she can't leavd because they made her "unclean" and she sacrifices herself so Nona escapes.
>>283387677>even if glass repair kind of already tiptoeing into that area>Nona will learn healing magic by sewing flesh and bone back togetherThis could be interesting if the manga actually makes it that far.
>>283383535That's a crazy speed feat WTF
>>283387634Ehhhhhhhhh I guess you have a point.Part of me wants to dismiss it with something like "they deserved it lol," but it's obvious the story isn't going for a "us vs them" theme considering that Nona's human friend was unironically loyal and only "betrayed" her when her parents were literally held at gunpoint.Then again, buildings get destroyed all the time as set-dressing to these kinds of stories where we're supposed to assume no innocent people got hurt.
>>283384027>>283384048Fucking pigs deserve to die
>>283387859*in these kinds of stories
>>283384092>>283384121I'm already liking Nona, she's got the guts to act and do what it needs to be done
>>283384121I assume someone already made a u19 joke in another thread somewhere, but I'm making it here anyway.
>>283384149She needs to be more bloodthirsty, sew his eyes and mouth, these Niggers deserve it
>>283386583>>283387317
>>283387859Yeah, I understand that its not exactly uncommon trope, and I am reaching with whole "mother is a murderer" thing, but its was still unusual to see something of that scale in a story-focused work. Especially from a member of protagonist "side", chaotic mass destruction is usually reserved for villains or at least anti-heroes.
>>283383699>FlashbackYup we got a new companion, welcome to the party MiraMira.>>283384027These guys are comically evil
>>283388014Wrong use of that quote.Grant Morrison is referring to pedantic and irrelevant details. These >>283387317 >>283386583 are about the story’s core conflict.
I'm disappointed MiraMira wasn't their sex slave. Doesn't make much sense desu.
>>283388014That ain't the same. Asking for banal details like, "how does magic create something from nothing without causing insane nuclear reactions", is different than questioning the premises of powerful mages being hunted by a 19th century police state instead of running the country. Who does a brake job on the Batmobile is irrelevant to the story, how magic works on a physical level is irrelevant to the story right now, but sussing out the necessary logic of the premise of a manga where city destroying witches and wizards (who don't even appear to be that rare) are hunted down and killed by guys with bolt action rifles, is reasonable.
>>283388113Did the Nazis fuck the Jewish women they imprisoned?
>>283388113Prolly one of those ratings things where violence and gore is acceptable, but sexual violence is verboten. >>283388151WW2 was basically a raping competition.
>>283388151I remember reading an account where Auschwitz guards singled young women out in a crowd and had them strip (this was in middle of winter btw) before they sent them into the gas chambers
>>283388165I mean it has a teen plus rating, and a lot of other J+ manga with that rating feature sexual violence.I imagine Hakuri just doesn’t want to add sexual trauma on top of everything else Nona went through lol
>>283388014He's referring to kids asking how Chakra works or how magic works. Or how Ki is obtained.Kids don't care for that kind of detail. yeah it's nice if it's explained later on after the first volume but it's not needed.
>>283388151According to my japanese cartoons, yes
>>283387756I really, really hope they don't try to go for a "both sides are bad" theme, because they have lost any room for that with how fucking evil the bureau is. They have gone out of their way to make me hate these guys and want them dead.If anything, I hope they go for moral nuance on an INDIVIDUAL level. The guy in pic for example. If he really is Mira's brother, what he says can be recontextualized as a victim trying to rationalize his own trauma and ascribe some higher, nobler meaning to it that simply does not exist in reality. That's fine and good.Or even a lot of the human civilians can be written as people who WANT to help the mages, but live in a world that makes it impossible to really be their allies. You got hints of that idea with Nona's friend Lovi in chapter 1 (she obviously cared deeply about Nona, but still ended up betraying her through no fault of her own). It'd be a more interesting spin on what Nona's mom about how humans can't be trusted.
>>283383458Well, this ch2 is off to a grim start.>>283384121>>283384149>>283384173Nice. Hope she kills him before leaving.I like that she had enough guts and initiative as a heroine to pull this off in the same chapter, instead of just continuing to suffer until something else happens. Guess I'll keep reading.It'd be neat if it turns out she can pick the ankle-lock with her needle next chapter, but maybe that's too easy. Getting the keys shouldn't be too much harder though, given there's only four guards onsite. KILL THEM
>>283384576After they've been soiled with semen!
>>283383424What's "witchriv"?
>>283388014Alfredbros...>>283389449What's "Blue Box"? Find out in a few years.
>>283389449It comes after Witchriii but before Witchrv
>>283386583This chapter already showed that there's materials thay resist magic, and mages are not much different than humans in terms of survival needs.If an army of mages goes off, eventually humans will organize and figure out the best way to deal with them is not to walk into the blast radius by the hundreds. A bullet in their blind spot kills them just as good as a human, and evetually they need to eat, sleep, and rest. A rotating platoon of well-trained hunters can badger a smaller army of mages until they drop from exhaustion, if they don't have a way of poisoning them or something first. Or starve them outright because nuking cities without a logistical backup is bad for maintaining food and we haven't seen a mage that can magic up nutritious bread and clean water.In short, numbers matter and so far it looks like humans vastly outnumber magi.
>>283389577There are magic materials that resist magic, and this is something we were indicated is a new development last chapter. Magical tools humans can use being a new invention. >guns kill wizardsGuns kill humans too. If they're so powerful, there's nothing stopping wizards from using them and using them better than humans ever could. A magical super soldier that can wreck a neighborhood in an instant is not any weaker if they carry around a magically enhanced machine gun while they're doing it. Hell, they're likely to even have magical body armor sooner or later. All simple tech like a gun does, is make any given mage way more effective. People don't have infinite morale to take constant losses against a superior force and then not give up. The first time a mage wipes out an army with their magic is the moment the vast majority of humans are going to give up fighting them for a generation. Guerilla warfare isn't enough to upset the balance of power when one side has literal magic. Are these humans all willing to starve themselves to death too? They eat the same good as the mages do. To starve the latter, you'd need to destroy all your own food too.
>>283389577Re: numbers, a lethal disease where 1 in 20 victims is a mage is already considered enough of an indicator to put the family under suspicion. So the mage population must be well under 5%.
>>283389973The gov't doesn't seem to mind false positives. If anything, their system of prison labor encourages it. And their agents don't have much empathy for civilians, even if they were unaware of another family member being involved in magic.
>>283388107>>283388142>>283388315Nah, this is exactly what he's talking about. You couldn't pay kids to care about history. If it's explained later in the story, great, but only an autistic adult would let this ruin their immersion in the meantime.
>>283390260Yeah Yeah anon. We know it's probably an evil cabal of wizards who rule over the muggles who oppress the goody two shoe mages.
>>283389501>What's "Blue Box"? Find out in a few years.School's gym
The original oneshot felt better than this...
>>283384092>>283384121>>283384149>>283384173How come she has more balls than the average shonenshit mc?
>>283386298>only 2 chapters translatedfor fucks sake
>>283390720>>283386298nevermind there are 4 translated chapters.But the group only uploaded those to comick.io...that's dead nowfor fucks sake
>>283390720https://cubari.moe/read/gist/cmF3L292ZXJ1bmRlcnRocnVzdC9tYWpvdG9reXVyYXN1L21haW4vTWFqb1RvS3l1cmFzdS5qc29u/
>>283390793fucking thank you.It's fucking ridiculous that since MD got purged and now comick is dead as well no one appeared to fill in
>>283384027What's even the point? If there's no witnesses and you're willing to completely lie to the public anyway, then you don't need a scapegoat unless you're going to do a big show execution or something to assuage the public. It's not like they need an excuse to shuffle her off to ze campz.
>>283390824I see it as an opportunity to tackle my backlog of completed series.
>>283387859I'd like to assume Nona herself didn't know how powerful and scary witchers could be until she saw her mom do that.
>>283388014No, kids will ask you everything and then ask why 5 times for each answer.And fiction is supoosed to have rules and work under the limits of its rules. Otherwise you get boring deus ex machina solving everything when the plot needs it.
>>283391033How long until>waaah>I don't want to kill the humans!!
>>283386298>>283390793You have my deepest gratitude.
>>283384027This series so far has a massive fucking exposition problem. It was already evident in chapter 1 with how it unsubtly beats you over the head twice in a row with ten pages' worth of how mages are hunted only to then show stuff that makes all the exposition redundant, but it's still showing up. There's literally 0 reason for this guy to explain this to her besides making the bureau look laughably, comically evil.
>>283391033>more ballsNot really.
>>283392828This is exactly what cops do worldwide, though.
>>283392828Yes, the art is good, the story is fine, but the actual execution lacks. Hope the author gets better along the way.
>>283386114Maybe that will get the writer to actually use those pages well.
Uvral is a sex dungeon where they breed mages
>>283387423Actually real hanging instakills by breaking your vertebrae, though yeah this is a short hanging so she'd be suffocating instead if she did it for real. Did you know irl we switched from standard drops to long drops because too many people were being decapitated via hanging? Now we have a long drop table that calculates the length of the rope based on your weight so it doesn't rip your head off.
>>283384432How? Tricking one jobber guard doesn't mean shit
>>283393045Who is "we" and when is "now", if you don't mind me asking?
>>283392624Already happened in this very chapter.
>>283384092This shit is stupid. Everyone in this world is paranoid of mages and the dude just runs in.
>>283393090>Who is "we"Humans as a society.>when is "now"The contemporary period.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Table_of_DropsAlthough I guess most countries don't do hangings any more. Instead you have lethal injections, which are actually way more painful to be on the receiving end of but they look cleaner and don't traumatise people as much so the government sticks with those.
Oh hey. Chapter 1 thread was archived while I was posting on it so I'll go ahead and copy what I meant to write there here instead.>>283215447It's really weird that it feels the need to infodump the same worldbuilding twice in a row, both times in a clunky and forced way, but then is also bit by the "need a hook" bug so it goes all out with plot that makes said infodumping redundant. You could legit cut maybe five to ten pages and the story would be better. I am also annoyed that it feels the need to frontload this much setup already. Introducing and then killing off so much cast (even though the mother is still probably alive) just because it's afraid audiences won't be interested if it takes its time, so it goes from 0 to 110 extra quick. That said, it did do a good job with Lovi's whole mini arc despite it being so condensed, the art is nice enough, and the comedy elements were good. Wands seem to make this a jojoclone power system wise but that's not an issue. Character work seems solid, but the overarching plot could be very cliché and trite. I'll keep an eye on it since it's at least pretty to look at, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
>>283393251Yep, pretty much on point.
>>283393216>Although I guess most countries don't do hangings any moreI find it hilarious that France was still using the Guillotine for capital punishments, until they were abolished.
>>283390793How do people find these? Just looking at random threads?
>>283393531For series translated by /a/nons, yeah. Put a filter in the catalog so you don't miss the threads for series you like.For groups that used to upload to MD or comick, many of them seem to use discord for their releases. So eventually it ends up on the aggregator sites.
>>283393480The guillotine might legitimately be one of the most humane methods of execution available even if it's very bloody. I would honestly take it over the firing squad.
>>283384908The majou cries out as they strike you
The "people born with superpowers thanks to their genes fight fascism" premise really dont work because in reality the ones with superior genes win and are the ones oppressing
I think saying "this should have been written like that instead" is inherently cringe, but I'm going to do it anyway because it's really easy to take shots at the writing here.If you're going to have a lengthy flashback about new girl's brother, you may as well include the "he was sentenced for a Bureau member's crime" bit in there as something the guards already taunted her with, which feels way more reasonable than them randomly dropping the info on her like that. Then when she's taken away you can instantly make it clear the same is happening to her.If the plot is going to be about braids girl and new girl, and I really hope new girl doesn't just die next chapter because that would be silly at this point, and if you need your first chapter to have something to draw in readers, then you could just start chapter 1 with braids already in her cell, or on the run, and make her backstory a flashback, which not only cuts down on the exposition needed because we start already aware of the way mages are treated but also means new girl is now also aware of the protagonist's sob story which builds their relationship for free.
I don't have as much of a problem with "why don't the mages just rule themselves" as everyone else seems to have since I think there are plenty of ways you can justify that if you write well, but what I really want justified is why they're persecuted in the first place. A lot of people are drawing X-Men comparisons but there a mutant discovering their powers is oftentimes a dangerous occurrence, some of them remain dangerous to others just by the passive nature of their mutations (like guy whose power is literally just that everything around him dies), and some of them undergo drastic physical changes. Here mages look entirely human, and have precise control over magic that is literally just a net positive as far as we've seen. There's no apparent reason to hate them besides "the Bureau said so" which makes me question how the Bureau got in power in the first place.
Another problem with the manga is that it hasn't given the reader to breathe from the grimderp. Grimderp or depression mode is fine but when you are a weekly or bi weekly manga you need to give time for the audience to breathe.You can only do concentrated depression mode when it's a movie, preferably a short one.
>>283383424Her mom is hot. I bet the soldiers made a good use of her sexy body before excecuting her.
>>283383424Rape when?
>>283395304What's the bottom left one?
>>283384092>drawing people getting bloodily chopped>ok>drawing a girl commiting suicide by hanging>ok>drawing a girl getting sexually assault>that I can not doWhy has this been the case in these past decades?
>>283395276Joking aside, the mom had a great design. Hope she returns in some form. Even as flashbacks to her teachings.
I'm going to keep reading this because the time investment for a weekly manga that's literally just started is minimal, and if you told me this was getting an anime adaptation I'd even consider watching it to see if they handle the plot better and if things look cool, but I cannot envision a universe in which I recommend this to anyone. And I don't even think "it's only two chapers so far" applies with chapters this long.
>>283395404We live in a society.
>>283395443Her design in the one shot was pure sexo. Too bad, the author scrapped it for a modest one.
>>283384501>They've totally been fucking Mira, haven't they?If you could get away with raping a prisoner would you do it /a/?
>>283395569It's not legally rape if they're not legally a person.
>>283395404There isn't really a reason to include sexual assault in this manga on top of everything else already going on. We already know the Bureau is evil, it's been beaten into our heads. The COMBing and Nona's fake suicide showcase some of what the mages can do. What use is there in adding a rape scene? Wanting to jack off to it isn't enough of a reason.
Those braids are nice, but if she wants to be taken seriously as a witch she needs a hat.
>>283396220You're right. The rape will be saved for when the evil leader of the evil Bureau shows up, to show his evil is beyond the mere "shooting innocent people just because" evil of his underlings.
>>283384149she can just sew hist mouth and eyes
>>283396299>when the evil leader of the evil Bureau shows upA good antagonist could do wonders for the story, so far we've only seen goons and incompetents.I want to see a zealous inquisitor villain played completely straight, going full Malleus Maleficarum against the witches.
>>283395113It's pretty easy to justify hatred for all mages by simply having one mage do something horrible and then say "any mage could do that at any moment!" like they did with 9/11.
>>283394914Hiding that brother tidbit kept her more docile until her usefulness was over.>>283395113The glasses girl asked Nona if they practice blood magic, cannibalism, and demon pacts, so there's that sort of superstition floating around.>>283395271Having Nona hold onto her resolve and pull off that trick at the end was just enough fuck-yeah to keep me onboard. Otherwise I agree watching her get shat on by the setting just makes me feel bad.>>283395404I would've dropped if they went there. Not all rape is hot, if you know what I mean.
>>283388057>>283392828>comically evil>when this is just stuff that happens in real life
>>283397425It's comically evil when it happens in real life too. Reality has the benefit of having nothing to prove by virtue of its nature. Fiction has higher standards. Factual truth has no need to be believable, but stories need verisimilitude.
>>283383616She got plapped
>>283397425Do people get summarily executed in the street by the Gestapo where you live?
>>283397531Sounds like a viewer expectation problem. What people thought was too dumb for fiction is turning out to be not dumb enough for real life.
>>283383588So the implication here is that he takes her out of the cell for sexual pleasure right?
>>283395276The hell is this edgy shit?
>>283397543No, but the cops definitely pin unresolved crimes or crimes by untouchable higher ups on random poor people or the mentally ill even in first world countries.
Miramira was raped by the guards and it will be revealed in the next chapter when she uses her magic to kill one of them by ripping off their penis.
>>283398385After the comb and sewing needle magic, scissor magic wouldn't be surprising.
>210 postsActually impressive considering it is a new manga
>a world that magical jews being oppressed and sent to not-Ausz under totally not-Nazi regime Oy vey
>>283399585the big bad is obviously another witch
>>283383588>>283395304>>283383616>>283397542https://files.catbox.moe/yibyv7.png
>>283402067
>>283385797The writing in this is incredibly dumb. They're using too much exposition and being far too heavy handed with how bad things are for mages to the point where it's almost comical. It's as if the characters can't help shoving it in the readers' faces as if to say "Look at how corrupt our system is! LOOK AT IT!!"
>>283398456>scissor magicIt would also make for a good counterpart to Nona's needle and thread magic.The question is if Mira^2 even knows how to use her magic yet.
>>283397628You being retarded doesn't excuse fiction being retarded too. Grow better standards.
WitchrivMore likeBitchriv
>>283384149What's the point of her taking off her choker for the fake hanging here?
>>283404145She used it for the double bind.
>>283404165That still doesn't make sense to me. She's not using the bars at all so there's nothing the choker offers that wouldn't work by simply threading the rope through them. However on second thought the actual reason is probably that her passing the thread through the bars would be a massive plot hole.
>>283403616Reality being dumber than fiction is a pretty good excuse.>>283404145Damn Anon, I'm a massive chokerfag and I didn't even notice she was handling it there. I fucking kneel.
>>283404145>>283404246Magic can't escape the cell, thread is magic, thread can't go past the bars. You see it here >>283383535 too, she can only touch the part of the gun that's inside of her cell.
>>283389449>What's "witchriv"?And how do the Japanese pronounce it
>>283405409I would assume "Witch reeve" is the intended pronunciation. Like the riv was short for river. But you never know with the Japanese.
>>283405272Why does a girl in early modern era fantasy land have a choker anyway? And how many chapters until it's broken from the inside?
>>283402067whats this one?
>>283383616Puta
>>283386583It's why Gonron egg seems more interesting to me>Actual gods using their op powers to submit humans
>>283405409ウィッチリヴUeecchi Reevu
>>283383616How, are ningens using anti magic condoms? LMAOOOOO retarded story
>>283406108Mayne it's witch lib as in liberation/liberty
>>283406708translators are retards once again
>>283406708ヴ was invented specifically for vu-sounds to distinguish from ブ being ambiguously bu or vu.
>>283396220The show the real monsters: the MAN
>>283406882Translators didn't make the title.
>>283406882Witchiv is the original title.
>>283406882It's not translato, it's japs being consistently ass at the Engrish titles they assign to their manga
>>283406915>>283406108>inb4 it's because the protagonist is the "WITCH" that fell into and was found by the "RIV"er
Please no yuri.
Please yes yuri
THERE ONCE WAS A WOMAN NAMED NONA, WHO WAS QUEEN OF THE WITCHES. SHE HAD FAME, POWER, AND WEALTH BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS. BEFORE THEY HUNG HER FROM THE GALLOWS, THESE WERE THE FINAL WORDS SHE SAID:"MY FORTUNE IS YOURS FOR THE TAKING, BUT YOU'LL HAVE TO FIND IT FIRST. I LEFT EVERYTHING I OWN IN WITCH RIV."
Needs more rape.
>>283384364She doesn't do much in the first chapter and when she sees her mom kill a bunch of those nazis she obviously realizes there's more you can do with it. We also already know she's creative with her magic because she used it to fix glasses and her clothes already in addition to saving her friend. There's nothing really out of character here.
>>283397425They usually don't explain this shit to your face at least
>>283390634Typical feminist trash.
>[fragile male ego intensifies]
Why do males hate witches so much?
I just fucking love thread creation/manipulation abilities. So much fun stuff you can do with it.
I just call it the Witcher IV
>>283413511Because the big hats only work for women.
>>283415134Found the janny
>>283415134Well depends on how powerful it is. Here Nona was able to sew glasses together without any seams showing.I wonder if she can sew people back together after they get cut? Or sew different things together like a mouse and an ear.
>>283409357whether or not theres actually yuri, two female leads means every thread is going to be yurishit
>>283412370Guess we have to call the Nu Star Wars good now guys.
>>283415626Old SW was also bad though.
>>283383616Magic onahole.
>>283384092>>283384121metal gear....
>>283415506Huh?
>>283415626Nobody complained about Leia's balls in the originals (or if they did they were faggots), and Nona's not even at that level of sass yet.
>>283416148>I just fucking love thread creation/manipulation abilities. So much fun stuff you can do with it.
>>283383616Anyone else find it somewhat amusing that you’d think it’s implied she’s being routinely plapped But then the next panels she’s just sweeping floors or some shitUnless… I’m a brainlet
>>283416977Nah. Not every bad guy is sex crazed. They were legit brainwashed into hating mages by a godtier mage. Happens all thr time in these type of stories.
>>283416977Shh, somethings are better being left out or implied to reader's imagination, anon. This also allows ero doujin to do the work.
>>283417024It’s more common in these sorts of stories that even if there’s a group of people looked down upon in the society in the story’s setting That becomes even more of a reason for them to be graped Because to the grapers, they don’t see it as them doing something immoral to a person with rights It would also create an interesting dichotomy with someone being born half breedBut thankfully it seems the poor girl’s only being regulated to floors, laundry, and then getting blackmailed for something she didn’t do
