The Subtle Brilliance of Journal With Witch
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Season aired: Winter 2026 Number of episodes: 13 Watched on: Crunchyroll Translated by: ? Genres: Slice-of-life, Drama Thoughts: For all of the people’s complaints about analyzing anime for political and societal commentary, Journal With Witch comes swinging in with both. It’s also a coming-of-age anime about grief and one of the best-directed shows of Winter 2026 despite an already stacked season of wonderfully produced and directed anime. Makio is an author. She’d describe herself as a loner, hunched over her computer and tapping away every day until one day, she gets a call she never thought she’d get in her early thirties. Her older sister has died, leaving behind a tween girl. Despite how estranged Makio had become from her older sister, Makio extends an empathetic hand to her niece, Asa, offering the girl to live with her. Despite how opposite their personalities are from each other, Asa and Makio slowly settle into a new routine — one filled with navigating grief, life, and difficult relationships. I am vehemently against the idea that anime or any entertainment is devoid of political or societal commentary, for the simple reason that every story created is within a society. A society’s difficulties, biases, and beliefs inevitably trickle into the story. One of the easiest examples I can give is how a reader can always distinguish fanfiction written by Americans from that of other cultures: because only in American fanfiction will the idea of worrying about hospital costs and healthcare come up as much as it does. Journal With Witch, however, is different from…
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