Secrets of the Silent Witch

At first I thought it started a little slow and boring but I soon realized that it was just my bias. It quickly won me over with it's personality, or should I say, Monica won me over with HER personality. I love a good anime where the protagonists are full of character and merit, and Monica is no short of either. She is cute, witty, most of all shy and precious, but her supporting cast does an incredible job of keeping her grounded and supporting her the way supporting cast are meant to!!!!!

In a catalogue of overused mage tropes she definitely shines brighter than dull and boring comparables like frieren who are one dimensional and down right a drag to watch. Monica is a sweet and charming girl with no lack of faults of her own but that's just what makes her so likeable and relatable! She may be shy but she doesn't stray from her values and that makes her a truly loveable main character, she is willing to LEARN and make mistakes along the way, she is willing to GROW and listen to others. The supporting cast is Lovely and some of them will shock you the same way they shocked me, along with Monica some of them will make you feel, sometimes good and sometimes bad and that's what makes them GREAT. That's what a true supporting cast is supposed to do, unlike the non-existent supporting cast in one dimensional anime like solo leveling for example, where there IS NO memorable cast. Secrets of a Silent witch does so many things right, that's why I can confidently say it has Great level writing. It's one of the main reasons why I ended up loving this anime even though it was far to short. I sincerely hope we get a season 2 because this is a lovely masterpiece.

It's pretty much perfect anime No unnecessary annoying fight proper story The mc is unique I have never seen an mc like her like pretty unique and I love that This anime has soo much potential to be a great anime just need a proper continuation after this great start. Animation wise amazing. Charecter development is good too. Just little slow but it doesn't bother me at all.

I have watched quite a few shows with premises not too different from this one, which tend to be very boring and disappointing. This was a pleasant surprise.

In most ways, the story seems like an average slice-of-life romance with an overarching political/detective plot (similar to Apothecary Diaries), rather than an action fantasy, which was a great decision by the writers.

The animation, while not being very stylized and occasionally having the typically bad Japanese CGI (even if very rarely), is nice enough to look at and fits the vibe of the overall show, while still delivering good moments in action scenes.

I enjoyed the characters and the setting. The stakes in the story were not particularly high compared to many other similar shows that pretend to have high stakes, while featuring the typical OP black-haired MC who could destroy the whole world if he so pleased, winning every fight with ease.

Sadly, I struggled to stay entertained for long. After the third episode, the charm wore off and left me bored and uninterested. There are no real stakes, with an overpowered MC like this (in terms of strength/power) dealing with mundane struggles.

The main character just felt like a fusion of Bocchi (Bocchi the Rock!) and Frieren (Sousou no Frieren), but in the process became less funny and less interesting to watch grow.

The dynamics and relationships between the main character and the side characters are the second-worst issue, in my opinion. The character interactions, while logical and sometimes quite funny, are lacking in depth and substance. Running gags are not charming enough and feel dragged out and annoying after a short while. All the side characters feel like they are just there as convenient plot devices with the illusion of personality attached to them.

The biggest issue in the show by far was the dialogue. As is common in anime, the dialogue is pretty bad: exposition dumps all over the place, with characters just stating everything they feel in a mostly logical and straightforward way. The characters tend to just stand there and talk to themselves about sensitive information.

A badly executed moment I want to call out specifically occurs about six minutes into the first episode. After we already had enough information to deduce that the girl we have been following is the Silent Witch-by paying attention to her nervous and anxious attitude, mixed with her skill and knowledge in mathematics-we could already understand that she is the Silent Witch and doesn't talk because of her anxiety. Yet the show decides to waste two minutes of its runtime to show us irrelevant and redundant information while exposition-dumping.

Overall: I'm glad the story is not cheap power-fantasy slop and was enjoyable for some time, but there are not enough stakes, nor enough interesting side characters to show more sides of the main character. A fine show to watch and, in animated fantasy, a 7/10-but in general TV shows, I can give it nothing more than a 5.

The world building, art and animation are OK and what you would expect from a mainstream big budget anime project, but the protagonist is despicably frustrating to watch. I get it, it's meant to portray what people with social anxiety and there are numerous other anime with this theme which are enjoyable and pay off with character development and empowerment. This anime? We're already through the whole season and there is still an unfathomable and implausible disparity between her actual OP status and abilities and her self esteem. It makes it practically unwatchable.

(12+) Solid anime with good animation, a decent story, and well voiced. That being said, there wasn't anything to really make it stand out either except for the maid (the maid's always steal the show in anime somehow) and there was a twist about halfway through the series that I didn't see coming. This curveball did not push the series into greatness, but I would recommend a watch if you have some free time. The Silent Witch's difficulties in conversing with other people wore a little thin over time, but it didn't detract from the series in any meaningful way - at least for me. I also liked a very minor character that was pretty funny (the supposed "evil" noble that "bullied" the Silent Witch, but they didn't really have her on enough). Not a waste of time by any stretch, but not an amazing anime either.

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