アニメ「Witch Watch!」のテーマソングについて
And then they also recently made a song, PLAYERS, celebrating PlayStation's 30 years anniversary.
I'm like still shocked PlayStation's 30 years old. Actually, that's like pretty upsetting to me.
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I'm Cisco, an American otaku.
In this podcast, we share our reviews of anime and manga through our distinct perspectives with commentary on Japanese culture, history, and language.
Cisco.
Yeah.
By now, a lot of people already have watched Witch Watch!, and we are not exceptions.
Yeah, I guess that's true.
Now it's time for us to dig deep into the world of Witch Watch! theme songs.
Let's do it!
Because there are a lot to unpack.
All right.
Like, you know Uosobi, right?
I do know Uosobi.
But who really they are? Who are really they?
No.
Who are they really?
Who are they really are?
No.
Who are they really?
Who are they really?
I think that's right.
Yeah. Or like, what does the lyric say in the opening theme song?
Nope. I have no idea.
And why is it perfect for Witch Watch?
Well, yeah. Okay. I feel like I can handle that.
And we also give you the reasons why you can't skip the opening.
Okay.
You always say it.
Yeah. That's like my shinnen.
That's like my true belief is that real otaku don't skip the opening.
Yeah. So we're going to talk all about it, plus today's word of the day.
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No, they don't.
Yeah.
No, they're just trolling us.
Really?
Yes.
I'm like, what makes those people think like that?
Like, have you listened to my English?
Like, AI can't do this.
I think that's probably true.
I think AI would have a hard time producing your English.
Right. It's like, I don't know. It's bizarre.
I mean, yeah.
Anyway, we are organic.
Super crunchy.
It's fair to say we don't rely on AI to generate any content for this podcast,
but that's because I'm too lazy to even use AI.
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You don't want to even know how much time I spend.
So we are not AI.
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Take that one comment that was like,
Yeah. Anyway.
All right. Let's talk about opening theme song.
It's called Watch Me by Uosobi.
So we finally got to see it now that it's on Netflix.
It's about damn time.
We talked about, you know, going to the Witch Watch Watch Party experience at the previous episode.
So you should listen to it first and come back here.
But yeah, we were very, very frustrated with opening.
Yeah. I can't believe they didn't show it.
We can finally watch it. And it's been great.
Yeah, it is really good.
I really liked in the second or third episode, they did the opening as animators draw it.
Right. And it was like really different and very cool looking.
And it was just kind of really neat to get to see that.
I mean, I feel like with having watched Zenshu kind of recently,
like I was pretty prepared to see like that level of sort of breakdown of how the animation works.
But it was still I just thought it was very neat.
I don't think I've ever seen any other show do that before.
And it was very cool to see it.
Do you know the concept opening?
No.
It's like Nico was trying to make opening even better.
She used her magic.
Oh, got it.
And it was a fail.
Got it. Well, that's pretty par for the course.
Yeah. They did that on the episode of three.
Nice.
Which was early. And I was like, what's happening?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was really a neat idea.
It was cool. And all the like, you could see how animators kind of made.
Put it together. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. So like, I've never read the original manga before.
And you've read the whole thing.
Yeah.
It's still going.
I've been following this since it started.
That's amazing.
I know. I feel like kind of low key proud of myself.
And you say that like each scene in the opening anime is like actually comes out later in the story.
オープニングの意味
Most of them do.
Yeah. A lot of the a lot of the shots in the opening reflect like mini plot lines that will happen to different parts in the show.
And so, for example, in the most recent episode where Kanji gets the like 10 times speed put on him and then he like can't communicate with anyone.
And it's like he's like having a mental breakdown and stuff.
There's a scene in the opening of him arranging what look like lollipops or like cake pops or something in like the form of the words which watch.
Oh, like a super sped up speed.
Oh, I see.
So that's like that shot is a reference to that particular spell.
Okay.
There's like them being on Kan and Niko channel.
There's like the Morihito gets trapped in a manga.
Like all of those are spells that she eventually uses.
And so it's referencing different things that come up.
But yeah, because this is one of the first anime where not only have I read the whole manga, but like I feel like I remember it pretty well.
The sort of like call outs in the opening theme, you know, and the opening animation are all stuff I'm already aware of.
So, yeah, I think I think they do a pretty good job, like including some stuff that's for sure going to happen in this season.
I'm curious as to whether this is a two core anime or just a one core.
Yes, it's two core.
I think this might go on until September.
Yeah, so I have a feeling that they'll change the opening after the first core because the stuff that's referenced in the first opening is not that far into the story.
And I think they're going to want to make a new opening for the parts of the story that come after this, especially that include more characters because the cast keeps getting bigger.
How many chapters are there so far?
I would guess there are over 200 just on like my like intuition.
Yeah.
The most recent chapter was 203.
Wow.
That was pretty close.
Amazing.
音楽ビデオの分析
So I don't know if you've watched this, but like we watched Watch Me music video recently and it's super cute.
It's very cute.
It's really, really closely tied to the anime, which is neat.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
But with like flying words and stuff.
Oshinoko music video was kind of like that.
It's similar, yeah.
It's the same, you know, by Yosobi, too.
Yeah.
And then I like Nico's dance.
Yeah, Nico's so cute.
It's like a very TikTok, like Instagram, like aware, made music video.
Yes, I agree.
So that people can dance to it.
Can do it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And have you checked the lyrics?
No.
So I did.
All right.
It's cute.
It's really cute.
It's the prospective of Nico toward Morihito.
So she says like,
迷惑ばかりかけるけど
Right.
いつもさんざん困らせちゃうけど
それでも隣にいてくれる 君のずっとそばに
Yeah, so, you know, I always make trouble for you.
And I like, you know, I make your life super hard, but you always stay with me.
Yeah, I mean, it's it's exactly I mean, this is what Yosobi is known for, right?
They like take a work of literature and transform it into a song.
So they're perfect for manga that's being turned into anime because they can capture what's going on in the story and put it into words.
I mean, you know, that's been true in all of the anime theme songs that they've done.
None of them are just like one off songs that happen to relate to the anime.
They're all about the story of the manga.
Right.
英語の使用
There are so many English words or phrases.
Yeah.
Like, watch me do magic or try, try, try or happy, fancy, fall in love with you.
Only you.
Yeah, it's a lot of English.
There's a running gag that we haven't encountered in the anime yet in the manga of like people talking like the characters from English textbooks in Japan.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, it's like really specific.
But as someone who had to teach those lessons, I know exactly what the author is trying to like talk about.
So maybe it'll come out in an episode later in the season somewhere.
I wonder whether one of the reasons there's so much English in this is that same kind of reference point of like, you know, they're in high school.
They all have to take English.
Right.
Like, you know, it's one of their main classes.
The English teacher isn't like a main character in this anime or manga yet.
But like, you know, their homeroom teacher is like a major character.
And we've only had one episode of her so far.
But she's hilarious every time she's on the show.
英語の歌詞と音楽スタイルの探求
So I don't know who's teaching them English and whether it's her or whether it's somebody else.
But there are references to like the English textbook characters.
It was like Japanese accent.
I don't know what I mean.
It's in the manga.
So they don't have any accents at all yet.
Oh, I see.
They talk in really stilted ways.
And they look like they have like a different art style.
I don't know.
There's some spell that's like related to this.
This is a pen.
Yes, correct.
There's like a series of gags about that.
Oh, funny.
So like Yoasobi made a lot of anime theme songs.
Gundam.
Oshinoko.
Idol Idol.
Freerun.
Freerun.
Beastars.
Beastars.
I think Beastars was the one that we first know about.
I think that's the first time we encountered them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And like for sure, the Idol song is the one that really put them on the map in everybody's
mind.
It was a huge hit worldwide.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then they also recently made the song Players celebrating PlayStation's 30 years
anniversary.
I'm like still shocked PlayStation's 30 years old.
Actually, that's like pretty upsetting to me.
Yeah.
Vividly.
It's one of my most powerful memories is getting the Sony PlayStation for Christmas in a particular
year where my family like didn't have enough money to like buy Christmas presents.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And, you know, I got like underwear and socks that Christmas from my parents because like
there was no margin at all.
But my grandparents who like very rarely gave me anything chipped in and like bought a PlayStation.
And I had psyched myself up that I wasn't going to get one.
So the fact that I got it was like a huge deal and it was one of the only Christmas presents
ever where I was like genuinely very surprised to receive it because I was pretty aware that
my my family was not going to be able to do that.
And so getting it was like a huge, huge deal for me.
So it's been 30 years they made a song.
And like you said, they started making music based on novels.
And the composer Ayase was in charge of the like project.
And he was looking for a singer who can sing like Vocaloid.
I mean, like I do have to wonder if you want a singer who can sound like a Vocaloid, why
not just use a Vocaloid?
I don't know.
They wanted a real human.
I also I mean, I'm not actually a very big fan of Vocaloids.
Like I don't really like how they sound.
So I'm very glad that he used a real human.
I mean, I can see the ways in which people might say she sounds like a Vocaloid, but
I don't I'm not sure I agree.
But she can go really high tune and she can nail the like tunes really well.
She wanted to be a singer and she put out like herself singing on Instagram and the
Dots Ayase found her and then she reached to her like, hey, want to sing a song?
Wow.
That's like a that's a real success story.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So they've been doing great.
And I actually read one of the books first.
Like they were like, I can't remember which book, but the book contained four different
stories by different authors, which I really enjoyed.
And then I headed to the Internet and then watched each music video.
And it was a really interesting experience.
When you read books like you imagine that you like what the kind of characters, what
kind of a scene there is and everything like it pretty much like kind of similar to what
I imagined.
So they've been doing that for a few years.
Yeah.
But they are releasing the English version for the version of Watch Me.
Oh, OK.
We listen to a little bit.
Yeah.
And then it's hard for us to understand.
Yeah.
Melody, because we both understand English and Japanese.
Right.
So like to me, like a lot of parts, I didn't understand what she was singing.
Correct.
But some parts really like sounded like Japanese.
Yeah.
I think even when she's singing in English, it's actually it's not that her pronunciation
is poor.
Her English pronunciation is pretty good.
But because she's singing so fast, I often mishear the English that she's singing for
Japanese instead.
And so I don't usually have that problem.
But with with her particular performances, I think also because I've almost always heard
the Japanese version first, I keep expecting her to sing in Japanese.
音楽と言語の壁
And so my brain is like trying to put the sounds together into Japanese words rather
than English ones.
So like, although I don't I don't think she has a strong Japanese accent.
A lot of the times the way she is stressing words and especially like not really leaving
spaces between words because all of the songs are super fast, makes it kind of hard to like
figure out where to cut the words and like process them correctly, which I mean, whatever.
That's sometimes true with rap music, too.
So many words are coming out at once that it's like trying to figure out like which syllables
make the words up can be difficult.
But I appreciate that it's in English.
But without looking at the lyrics, I can't understand what they are, even though it's
in my native language.
Yeah.
I think they do this so that non-Japanese speakers can sing their song.
Yeah.
I mean, like I think it's cool that they do it, especially given that they can.
But also like, don't you want people to enjoy the music in the original version?
You know, I mean, that's my bias as someone who knows Japanese, right?
But like, I think it's it's always cool to make like a translated version so that a wider
audience can enjoy it.
And also, like if you're doing it so other people can sing it like or you could encourage
them to like sing it in Japanese and like learn another language, because that's a great
thing to do.
And doing it via music is often pretty fun.
Yeah.
日本のCD市場の特異性
So they are releasing the physical CDs.
Wow.
Okay.
And on June 25th, and it comes in a really cute box featuring Witch Watch with a like
key keychain and a short novel by Kenta Shinohara.
Wow.
Yeah.
So it's like a novel.
Is it an anime or it's a manga?
No, it's not manga.
It's like a book.
It's a booklet.
About Witch Watch?
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
Or just like unrelated.
Could be.
Like something I imagine something like from Nico's point of view.
Sure.
It's just like a bonus goods.
Yeah.
Something I assume.
I don't know the details, but like it looks really cute and I'm surprised people are still
selling CDs.
Yeah.
I found out from a student presentation this year that Japan still relies on the sale of
physical music media more than I think any other country for sure more than any other
country in East Asia, but I think potentially more than any other country anywhere.
Why is that?
I think there are probably a couple of different reasons.
One of them I think is that record companies in Japan have not figured out the transition
to digital music and are afraid of losing revenue and profits.
Another for sure is the prevalence of idol groups in Japan and the system whereby you
earn tickets to go do handshakes is by buying CD like physical CD media or voting for the
election.
Right.
Yeah, exactly.
So there's so there's like some some like a bigger than just the CD forces going on
there.
I think Japan has a lot of inertia when it comes to things like this.
Like Japan is slow to abandon like forms of media that have died out literally everywhere
else.
I'm thinking of the MDs here in particular, which like never existed in I think any other
country except Japan.
Really?
Yeah.
Like America never got micro discs.
Really?
Yeah.
I used to own one.
I loved it.
I bet you did.
So I mean, so that I think like Japan is like slow about like changing from one thing to
another.
And I think it's it's probably mostly the music industry that like doesn't want to have to
accept the change and like move to digital music instead.
Whereas like America was sort of forced to do that by Napster and, you know, file sharing
sites in the early 2000s.
I'm sure there's plenty of pirating going on in music in Japan, too.
But I think those other components helped keep it like, you know, the physical music
business popular in Japan longer than everywhere else.
It's weird, though, like you can rent CDs in Japan.
That is not a thing in America, but you can't rent very many CDs.
There's like only some CDs become available for rent.
And then like other CDs are kind of outrageously expensive.
But Japan has a really big retail market in CDs where you go and buy used CDs.
It's all stuff that I think I mean, the used CD thing is a thing in America, too.
物理メディアとデジタル音楽の違い
But yeah, I think physical media is kind of gone in the US.
You still like CDs, I have to say.
Yes, I do.
Well, I don't know if it's because I like Japan.
And so I like appreciate the way things are doing there.
But I like the idea that people can't take my music back away from me.
I think it's, you know, with with digital music, especially like because I sort of came
of age in like the DRM years where like you only sort of owned things ever.
You buy it from Apple Music or iTunes or whatever.
And then like, it wasn't really yours.
You can only play it on up to five devices at a time.
You had to like cancel it off the old devices in order to be able to play it on a new one.
And that meant that like, I wound up with like a I don't know, a small handful of songs that
I can't listen to anymore because they're like registered to devices I no longer own.
I really do.
That made me very skeptical of digital music.
And I like the idea of a CD better and that like you own it, you know, it's yours and
people can't be like, oh, we decided you like don't have the rights to this anymore.
I agree.
Like I to me, like I use Spotify a lot for the podcast.
But to me, like Spotify, Apple Music, they are like floating somewhere in the air and
you can't really grasp it.
We've definitely complained about this before.
Go back and listen to some of our earlier episodes.
We hate the cloud.
A cloud.
Okay.
We hate cloud.
We hate the cloud.
Yeah.
I think it's it's suspect when you don't own your own stuff.
Okay.
I was gonna I thought you were gonna talk about library.
Oh, yeah.
Well, so American libraries do rent out CDs.
Yeah, it's free.
It's free.
And it's probably like a bit of a gray area whether or not you can rip those CDs and then
keep them after you return the CD.
I think probably notionally, you need to delete the music when you return the CD.
But like, if you're not putting it up on file sharing sites and spreading it to other people
dot, dot, dot.
That's all I have to say about that.
Yeah.
And if you go to the like a main LA Public Library, they have a huge section of CD.
And then if you find ones that you like by renting them, you can then choose to go out
and buy them.
Right.
Right.
Exactly.
Very cool like way of introducing people to music.
It's so old school compared to like Spotify now, but all the things that exist in digital
format could be gone tomorrow and there is no way to recover them.
Physical media will be around like I mean, you can destroy physical media too.
But it's a lot harder.
It's a thing that you own in a way that you don't really own anything that's just digital.
エンディングテーマのタイトルの違い
All right, then let's talk about ending theme song.
I think it's called find your magic in English, which I didn't know.
It's a title in Japanese called Mahouwa Spice.
Mahouwa?
Mahouwa Spice.
Huh.
Okay.
So it's a very different title.
Yeah.
They're not even close to the same thing.
Okay.
Can you translate?
Sure.
The Japanese title is Magic is a Spice.
Uh huh.
Does it sound weird in English?
I mean, like it kind of implies that you're going to use it to cook because the notion
of I mean, that's what spices do.
They make things like taste better or more interesting.
And so, you know, people will say there's like a saying in English, hunger is the best
spice.
Right.
And we use spice idiomatically to say like, you know, we're going to take a relationship
and spice it up.
There are ways in which it's not used literally all the time.
But Magic is a Spice does really sound like it's going to be for cooking in a way that
I don't think is really what it's about.
Anyway, it's not find your magic even a little bit.
Those are wildly different things.
Maybe that's why they changed the title.
I haven't listened to the lyrics closely enough to know like, which one is a quote unquote,
better title.
I know they say spicy like a couple of different times in the closing.
And also the animation of the closing has them going on a camping trip where in Japan,
a big part of going on a camping trip is cooking food.
Yeah.
And so it seems like there's a pretty close connection there between the idea of magic
is a spice that like makes life or you know, everything else like more interesting or better
血液型と性格の文化
tasting.
That translates I think into English, the idea of like magic is a spice that like, you know,
the spice of life, right?
Sure.
Why not?
I see.
I don't know.
It's a weird name.
We explained last time, but like it's a blood type of the members.
So the lead singer is type A, the rest are O's.
So she's intense and the rest of them are laid back?
I don't know if she's intense.
But isn't that like the stereotype about those blood types in Japan?
I don't know.
What do you say about me?
I'm A. I wouldn't say anything about you personally,
but I think the stereotype in Japan about blood type A is that they are very focused,
can be kind of intense about like the sort of perfectionists, right?
Like about like getting stuff done.
Blood type B is more active, right?
Like has like big plans and ideas, but doesn't always like execute them.
They have like their own interests and they're not interested in other stuff.
They don't work with others well.
Yeah.
Selfish.
Whereas A like kind of like, are you trying to say something about me?
They don't work with others as well, whereas I think blood type A does want to work with
others and like get along.
Not necessarily.
Oh, interesting.
Well, blood type O is the laid back one that just like goes with the flow, right?
Easy going.
And A.B.?
And A.B. is unique and different because we don't really understand A.B. because it just
evolved as a blood type.
Yes.
Yeah.
And by the way, most of Japanese people know their own blood type.
Yeah.
It's really common.
So like when you go to Japan and like have a conversation, people might ask you, what's
your blood type?
Especially if they're interested.
Right?
Yeah.
It's kind of like what's your sign?
Yeah.
Like everyone knows their star sign, but everybody knows their blood type.
Yeah.
Or like Chinese zodiac.
Yeah.
People know the Chinese zodiac better.
Yeah.
Anyway.
アニメテーマソングの特徴
So what did you think about this song?
I like the song.
It's cute.
It's upbeat.
It's like, it's very anime theme song.
Like I will say that.
It is.
Yeah.
Like it really, the vibes are like very much, this is an anime theme song.
It sounds like other anime theme songs that I've heard in the past.
So it doesn't stand out as being like hugely original or anything, but I like it.
It's cute.
And it matches the vibe of Witch Watch really well.
So I appreciate that.
What did you think about the color of the animation?
It's very different from the opening.
I guess that's true.
The ending feels more mellow, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like that.
I mean, usually want the ending to be kind of mellow.
Yeah.
I can't think of like super intense endings always, but that's true.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like that.
It's like a little bit more toned down.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's do word of the day.
Here we go.
Otaku.
Word of the day.
Today's word of the day is ani-song.
Well, that's pretty verbatim, right?
Huh?
You barely even need to translate that.
Really?
Yeah.
Would people figure out?
I think so.
Yeah.
It's literally the first three letters of anime plus the word song.
Yeah.
That's like a portmanteau that kind of works in English.
It's true that I haven't heard people say ani-song in English ever, but yeah, I don't think anyone
would be like, like, oh wait, what does that mean if they knew about anime and theme song?
Yeah.
So anime song is ani-song.
So like a lot of Japanese people call anime theme song ani-song, short and everything.
Yeah.
Japanese people like shortening everything.
Yeah.
It's really true.
When I was listening to Witch Watch podcast, the main voice actors who plays Niko and Morihito,
they were both trying to shorten Witch Watch.
It's like, Witch Watch is short enough.
It's only two syllables already in English, but in Japanese, it's like four.
They were trying to settle with like we-wo or something.
We-wa?
We-wo.
We-wo?
We-wo.
Oh, because it's watch?
I think in English, we-wa would make a lot of sense, B-U-I-W-A.
I also like the idea of calling it chi-chi.
Oh yeah, they were saying that.
Not chi-chi.
Chi-chi.
Chi-chi.
Yeah.
It's different.
No.
Not chi-chi.
Yeah.
Yeah.
アニメオープニングの重要性
So like, you know, My Hero Academia is too long for Japanese people.
So what do they call it?
Guess.
I don't actually know.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
What is it?
Hiroaka.
Hiroaka.
Uh-huh.
It's like an idol or something.
Interesting.
No.
In English, it's M-H-A.
Kind of boring.
I agree.
It's not as fun as, what is it?
It's like, uh?
Hiroaka?
Hiroaka.
It's like, uh?
Hiroaka.
J-J-K is kind of the same way, right?
Yeah, J-J-K, it's just the letters.
Also, like, I think Jujutsu Kaisen's really interesting that they did not try to translate
it into English even a little bit.
Like, Juu-Jutsu.
I think probably there are a lot of Americans—this is just a guess—who think that Jujutsu Kaisen
is Jiu Jitsu Kaisen. And they're all doing like Jiu Jitsu.
Jiu Jitsu is like a type of grappling and like fighting
that was like one of the bases for I almost said MHA. What is
it called? Like the fighting that's really popular now? You
definitely don't know this, but it's like the one that had like
UFC, but there's like a short and it's I don't get camera
what it's called. It's something HA or it's something it's
something that ends in a mixed martial arts MMA. There we go.
I think like, that's why I want to call it MHA. But it's MMA
mixed martial arts is based on Jiu Jitsu. And like Jiu Jitsu
and Jiu Jitsu are not that different to an American here in
Japanese. Jiu Jitsu is curse, right? Like curse technique, but
like, Americans definitely don't know what the hell that is. Or
Kaisen. I'm not even sure what Kaisen is made up, I think. I
mean, the sen is probably fighting right or war. Yeah,
but a kai is not regular kai. It's a different kai. Like I've
never used it. So it's like, it's like a totally made up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't know what Americans think it
means. Like, they don't even really explain it in the show as
far as like, I don't know. I didn't read the very beginning
of the manga very closely. Maybe it's like clear or something.
But yeah, I think that one became JJK because everyone was like,
I don't even know what this is. Okay, tell me what is the
golden Otaku rule? Always watch the opening theme song. Why?
Well, we have talked about this on another. Yeah. Okay. Partly
it's because there are hints in the opening about most anime and
like where the story is going. And this is just me personally,
for me, some of the pleasure of getting to watch the opening
over and over again is to recognize characters that come
out in the middle of the anime and be like, Oh, I know that
dude now. Like, oh, that's what this was trying to say. Like,
oh, it was like, and so occasionally, there will be
hints in the opening about where the plot is going that can help
you like figure stuff out ahead of time. And even when there's
not, it's always fun to like, not know who someone is, then
like get them revealed in the middle of the story and then be
like, Oh, now I know about that. And so like free run, which I'm
still in the middle of, like, I definitely am getting that vibe
from like watching that opening over and over again. But that's
what's happening in that shot, right? I mean, any songs are
usually pretty singable. You'll also be maybe being an
exception. It's pretty hard to sing. And like, but I think it's,
you know, by the end of an anime, you should be able to
sing along with the theme song. And if you can't, you're not a
real otaku. That's like part of my like, what it means to be an
otaku. Yeah. And so my anime club students sometimes feel
pressed for time, you know, they want to like get as close to the
end of a show as they can. And so they'll they'll ask to skip
the opening theme song. Sometimes I let them because I
feel bad that we're not going to get to the end of the show. But
I always like give everyone like a big side eye and like
chastise them for not being true otaku whenever they skip it.
Didn't you guys like sing like song?
Yeah, when we got to the end of the buchi the rock, I printed
out like, like a, like an ego or no emoji version of the
opening, like lyrics, and gave them to all the kids in the
anime club. And we all sang along in the last episode.
Could they sing? Yeah. Oh, cool. We've listened to it. Like, you
know, whatever 12 times or something. And like, that's, you
ウィッチウォッチの魅力
know, it's a pretty straightforward rock song. It's
not too fast. Like, you know, you've heard it a bunch of
times. And it was cool. Like people actually saying I was
blown away. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I will say the last
thing about any songs is if you go to karaoke in Japan, they will
often have a category that's just like all the anime songs
right here. That's so true. And you just scroll through the
anime that you know, and like find it would be like, Oh, this
was 20 years ago. I'm gonna sing it. So yeah, it's really fun.
Anything else you'd like to add?
I'm just excited to watch the rest of which watch I like how
they've been handling the anime so far. And I hope the second
cores anime theme songs can live up to the first one.
I have a feeling which watch might be Shinohara sensei's last
series, because he doesn't want to do any more rush to finish
each episode every, you know, week is hard. Yeah, absolutely.
And he's done like three. Yeah, yeah, including which was so we
might just like enjoy. Good for him as long as last. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, it's still it's still going strong. I wonder if it'll
end. I don't want to give any spoilers. So nevermind. But
there's like a there's a process happening right now in the
manga. And I wonder if when they get to the end of the process,
that'll be like the end of the story, or whether they'll keep
it going a little bit longer after that. I wouldn't mind
either way. I've really enjoyed reading which watch I would be
sad to see it go. And also, I feel for the guy who's drawing
it 200 chapters is a lot. And you know, he's definitely earned
some good retirement if that's what he chooses to do.
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