10 Second Anime - Witch Craft Works - Episode 9

Witch Craft Works - Episode 9

The Actual Big Bad unleashes her plot. Mrs. Kagari is captured. Takamiya and Ayaka have to go on the run.

Okay, if you're looking at a chessboard from the perspective of the pieces, nothing is going to make sense about what is happening and where you're going. This week, the Actual Big Bad lets us look at the whole board, and now this crazy show makes sense.

The Tower Witch Week End asks Mrs. Kagari to meet, which was the urgent business she had to attend, leaving Chronoire in charge of the school. She has fashioned a huge magical time bomb to take advantage of the Workshop Witch's protection spells on the regular inhabitants of the towns they live in. Week End had sent all these little Tower Witches to cause a little chaos, with the strategic goal of using up Mrs. Kagari's magic. Workshop witches are indeed overpowered, and the little bit of citywide damage was not enough to tax Mrs. Kagari at all. But the chaos also served as a distraction to allow Week End to finish creating her spell, which is supposed to be powerful enough kill all the citizens in town. This will definitely be enough to use up all of Mrs. Kagari's magic.

Meanwhile, Ayaka decides it's time to train Takamiya to use his magic. Her training methods are as cold and harsh as she is. Heh. Here, let's throw you off the tallest building, and while you're falling to your death, think of something big and strong to protect you. Okay, how about a huge white Ayaka wearing a nurse uniform and glasses? No good? The kind of magic Takamiya brought out evidently matches the White Princess Evermillion, but we haven't seen her in a while.

Mr. Mikage and Chronoire saw this large familiar appear, and calmly talk about the 2nd of 5 seals already broken inside Takamiya. It still seems odd to me that Mikage is hiding this secret from Mrs. Kagari, just as Ayaka is doing. Ayaka wants to keep the quiet school life going, but what is Mikage's deal, other than wanting to take Ayaka's place in protecting Takamiya? That's also still creepy...

At Week End's lair, she finishes explaining her plan to weaken Mrs. Kagari, with the goal of capturing Takamiya. At least the little Tower Witches knew that much of the plan, even if they had no way of completing the goal themselves. Week End sets off the bomb, explosions rock the city, Mrs. Kagari runs out of magic, and the 5 Crafting Witches really in charge of protecting the city assemble at the emergency base.

Kasumi, Rinon, and Touko we know, and we meet two others for the first time. Their goal, without Kasumi knowing, is to incapacitate Ayaka so they can lock both her and Takamiya up for safe keeping. This makes sense as a contingency plan if they ever lost the protection magic of the Workshop Witch. They are placed in a magic dampening cell similar to Ayaka's timeout cell.

Mrs. Kagari is locked up too, and won't regain her magic for a week. One of Week End's teddy bears has already found Takamiya's location, and she's headed there. Even without magic, Ayaka knows how to blow up stuffed animals, and with the explosion, they've blown a hole in their cell wall. Will they go on the run for a week? Or does Mrs. Kagari actually know the seals have been broken, and Evermillion is her trump card? And will a suddenly remembered memory of Takamiya telling a young Ayaka her future signal a death flag? Things are about to get hectic in the last few episodes.