Vignette Witch! ~Joshi-ka no Mahou to Isekai Seikatsu~ - Vol. 1 Ch. 3 - Welcome to the Vignette

[Thorn14]

I hope there's a better ending than Daily Life in TS School. the conflict felt like it just escalated without ever resolving itself. even if it ended up as yuri ending.

It helps that there's a very clear defined goal here.

 

[GaikoTekina]

It helps that there's a very clear defined goal here.

Yeah it has a clear goal (the first thing we saw in chapter) but they also have a thing where they can expand the story once they were able to get out of the Vignette (assuming all of them becomes a girl) and now will try to live in the real world as one.

 

[MidnighTea]

I hadn't thought about it, but you're right. Breaking through the Vignette is not likely where the story ends, I can't imagine the witch council or whatever will be happy just watching Marianne and a flood of her students just run wild. I think in addition to having a clear goalpost for the story, Vignette Witch has a nice mix of both mystery and suspense.

Suspense being, yeah, what happens if/when they break through the Vignette. if Konpachi's feminization magic is totally a subversion of the rules of this world, where did it come from? Will it remain a talent exclusive to them, or will the others gain access to it? Or... God help us, what if Marianne ultimately does? Does she really only want disciples with the intent of breaking through the Vignette or does she have a larger plan? I can't imagine she'll just want to go back on the lam.

On that note, Mystery. We have no idea Marianne's crimes might actually be. I find it unlikely she's being truthful about it just being a misunderstanding, but it's also not like the ones jailing her are being remotely reasonable either -- those were some seriously total war tactics. It remains to be seen if they resorted to all the collateral damage due to a moral failing or if it was a Godzilla Threshold level decision they were willing to make in order to contain Marianne.


So yeah, unlike TS school which kinda just stumbled through introducing its premise, Vignette Witch very much laid some very solid foundations. I think we're going to see a similar storyline play out too, with different boys one by one accepting their fate as witches. Like a more downbeat, intense version of TS school's conflicts.
(but almost certainly occasionally uplifting because that's how Kaneko Naoya tends to write TS characters; expect at least some of them to be eggs, mark my words. That line about beards vs ribbons that exist in a guy's heart is going to come into play in some way beyond just poetically alluding to Konpachi's transformation.)

 

[Narehate]

danganronpa joke ending moment

 

[NinjaGoemon]

Lol being so trans you just awaken to magic and change.

Guess everyone should start drawing lots to see who gets the TG magic. Otherwise it'll be a bloodbath.

 

[Dradruin]

Why is nobody mentioning that Marie Anne looks like watered down Liebra?

 

[MidnighTea]

Because I for one have no idea who you're talking about.

 

[Monstrengo]

I'm willing to bet all of your money (but none of mine) that this extra person is another witch that somehow got caught up in the teleportation spell (or sacrificed herself to get Marianne - probably Ginger who never forgave her for that three hour tour on the Minnow).
Or it could be a witch that had been teleported there a thousand years before (I'm also willing to bet all of your money that time passes by in a different way in this world from Earth, ala Narnia), and she by chance found the school.
Also, where's the school nurse that is so essential to the echosystem of school dramas?

 

[Porg]

Also, where's the school nurse that is so essential to the echosystem of school dramas?

That's gonna be one of the teachers. Author won't leave any male authority figures, that would just be weird.

 

[Zblurth]

So, how will they choose who gets to be the reserve boys for baby making?
Rap battle? Draw lots? A battle royale perhaps?

Are you versed in the art of sea slug reproduction ?

For the curious here a wikipedia link on it... And yeah it is called Penis Fencing for a reason

 

[KagamiGaSuki]

This plot is absolutely no suprise coming from this aurhor. And I still find myself going LETS FUCKING GO.

 

[Y0UR_U53R]

Gentlemen, there's a spy in their midst.

 

[MasterSomething]

I like that the author put the two main characters from ts high school as cameos here.