10 Second Anime - Witch Craft Works - Episode 8

Witch Craft Works - Episode 8

Ayaka learns to be a middle school student, but it was all a dream? Or not? And the former student council president isn't done with Takamiya yet.

This episode seems to be a bit of a breather, but it's still ridiculous. In a flashback, we see two of the student council members back in middle school being asked by Mrs. Kagari to take care of her daughter when she attends their school. Ayaka has a cross-hatched scar around her neck that we've never seen before, and it appears that she's never been socialized to participate in class and be in groups of people. However, during the flashbacks, we see elements that certainly don't belong. Like penguins everywhere, the Tower Witches appear as their younger selves, and Chronoire's alligator familiar also makes appearances. The flashback ends when Ayaka finally finds which school Takamiya has been attending and she sees him for the first time. Then Takamiya wakes up, and the flashbacks are all just a dream he had. But are they? The scar we've never seen before is now on Ayaka's neck when her collar is loose. Although the scar's appearance seems inconsistent, because when Ayaka is in the nurse outfit, the scar is gone. The show has alluded to some kind of accident or incident that happened to Takamiya and Ayaka causing some memory loss. Perhaps with the seals breaking down, those memories are coming back.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Takamiya is very happy to have all the Tower Witches living with them, much to the annoyance of Kasumi. If thing at home have settled into a new normal, things at school have not. Suddenly, a bear-suited gang of delinquents invades the school and starts vandalizing it, and social order breaks down quickly. The attack coincidentally happens on the day Mrs. Kagari was away on some business and has Chronoire stand in for the Chairperson. But since she stands for chaos, like all good Tower Witches, she doesn't do anything stop the destruction. Mr. Mikage is down for the count in the infirmary after falling unconscious somehow. And Kasumi is also somehow absent. Strangely, Ayaka is also doing nothing about the vandalism, instead she's telling Takamiya that this is happening because his approval rating as the new Student Council President is so low. Ah. Something ridiculous and contrived is going to happen.

The vice-vice-president Touko explains that Bear-Killer Rinon, the gang leader, has been provoked to attack the school by the ex-president, who told her terrible lies about Takamiya, even claiming he "used her up as a woman and threw her away." Well, sisterhood roars, and all that. Rinon challenges Takamiya to a fight after school. Ayaka gives Takamiya some pointers on how to beat Rinon, and cheers him on.

Fight-o, Takamiya-kun! The fight is over pretty quick, because Ayaka figures Takamiya just won't be able to hit a girl. After taking some hard punches, he dodges Rinon's finishing punch, tackles her, and decides not to punch her back. Then, the lights go out, the Tower Witches descend, but they end up getting taken out. Still weak. That's when Ayaka appears and delivers the actual finishing blow. The crowd watching the fight believes Takamiya is the winner when the lights come back on, and the witches wearing their robes pose him standing victorious like Weekend at Honoka's or something. Normal people can't see witches in their robes, right?

Later, we find out it was all a plot set up by the former president to improve Takamiya's approval ratings with the blessing of Ayaka, in exchange for giving her some kind of role back in the student council. But in trying to convince Rinon to attack the school, she told those lies about Takamiya as a joke, but Rinon took them seriously, and because the ex-president was still a little hurt over being deposed, she let the lies stand. Again, it turns out there are no real bad girls in this show, not even Rinon. She's a friend of all the girls from middle school too, and would have been in on the plot just because Ayaka asked her to. Well, Rinon didn't like that she was lied to, but I'm sure she'll forgive her friend soon. In the end, it all turns out in Takamiya's favor as he is known and feared as the one who took down Bear-Killer Rinon.