Majo to Yajuu

So far I’ve only read the first volume and the series looks like it as potential so I’m going to keep reading and see if the score improves but so far it’s somewhat underwhelming. It’s not boring in any sense (at least not to me) and the art and premise are fantastic but so far I feel like it hasn’t quite lived up to that potential. One main issue is it seems to be leaning heavy into secrets and mystery but almost in the wrong sense. So far both mages and witches have been confirmed to exist at least and yet so far nothing about how those two things are different has been explained. Normally that wouldn’t be to much of an issue except the series seems to be telling us that witches are inherently bad. The male lead seems to be hoping to find a “good” witch and the First evil witch’s supposedly witch grandmother was supposedly good if we can take her word for it. But so far at least despite those two factors witches seem pretty clearly stuck in the evil category which means knowing the difference between a witch and a mage feels important. They also go like halfway into explaining who/what our female lead actually is but then just stop like they realized halfway in that they weren’t supposed to be telling us this yet. That’s what I mean when I feel like they aren’t going about their secrets well enough there telling us to little for us to feel satisfied or understand but to much for us to accept the mystery. All that said though I still enjoyed The first volume and the story seemed to be improving near the end of it so I do plan to keep reading to see if it manages to continue the trend and capitalize on its potential. If it does I’ll come back and update it’s score Accordingly