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It's that kind of manhwa. Witches declare war against people, decimating two thirds of the civilized world. They summon monsters called Supporters and devastate human residences... but why?
The surviving humans gather those with extraordinary powers into an organization dubbed 'Witch Hunter'. Aided by a Jack O Lantern-esque supporter, Tasha Godspell is one of the strongest Witch Hunters around. True to his moniker, The Magic Marksman, Tasha crushes Witches with devastating accuracy — yet he cannot come to hate them...
An ongoing manhwa written and illustrated by Jung-Man CHO. Witch Hunter is equal parts comedy, drama, action, and intrigue, fueled by Rule Of Cool and a truly lovable Power Trio. Despite its epic scope, Witch Hunter favours character dynamics over politics; Tasha and his comrades (and enemies, and in-betweens) spend more screentime interacting than playing Mr Exposition. Also: Every man is Badass, every woman a Hot Librarian or Cute Witch, and awesome binds the universe together. You'll find little Angst here — unlike that other Asian graphic novel about hunting witches, Jung-Man Cho's title never takes itself too seriously.
You can read English scanlations online at mangafox.com , courtesy of the now-defunct Meep-Scans, their successor Manwhore-Scans and other independent scanlators.
This manwha provides examples of:
- Absolute Cleavage: Guinevere, to begin with.
- Adult Child: Guinevere, to the point Tasha calls Lancelot out about it in an omake. Tarras and Xing, being in their twenties and thus ancient by Shonen standards, count as well.
- Ascended Extra: The author notes that Tarras was originally supposed to be a 'no-name extra'. He changed his mind partway through the first volume, and Tarras has been the Ego to our Power Trio since then.
- A Love To Dismember: Used as a joke in an omake. Two witches suspect Lancelot is a necrophile when Tasha's severed arm falls out of his cloak.
- All There In The Manual: Some volumes include character profiles, which detail everything about the featured characters from height and weight to the author's personal thoughts.
- Anachronism Stew: 'Guns in a medieval occidental country' barely scratches the iceberg's tip.
- If it's set during the witch-craze, it's likely to be 1400's-1600's, and yes, that means guns and plate-armour.
- The steam train is a little harder to explain...
- Harder still, Visul's laptop. It could be Magitek, though, given that the lightbulb in Tasha's desk lamp sports a pentagram...
- At least partially Jossed. Word Of God has stated that it's all magic running everything.
- The hair blow-drier at least is specifically stated by Tasha to have been created by witches.
- Art Evolution: While maintaining the same proportions, the characters are drawn with somewhat sharper angles towards the sixth volume. Cho himself noted a change in art style on his blog.
- Author Appeal: To the point the author's editor supposedly warned him against putting too much of his 'personal tastes' into the comic.
- Get Ahold Of Yourself Man: Xing to Tasha, in a rare moment of non-subverted Big Brother Mentor skillz.
- Back To Back Badasses: Xing and Tarras.
- Badass Boast: Tarras. Even though he, Tasha, and Xing are all A Class WH, he constantly reminds them of his 'superiority'.
- Little Miss Badass
- Badass Longcoat: A seemingly standard part of the WH uniform.
- Badass Nickname: All the high-ranking WH have official aliases relating to their special ability.
- Big Brother Mentor: Subverted, in that Tasha wants none of Xing's friendly guidance. Cho intended Xing to play the role straight, but claimed it gave him an 'awkward, heavy air' and thus reworked his character.
- As of Vol 7, Xing's played this trope straight at least once. His bro, Lee, seems to play the same role towards Lancelot.
- Brother Sister Incest: Aria's fondness for her brother Tasha goes above and beyond the call of duty.
- Butt Monkey: Tarras, sort of, anyway — certainly where his elder sister Tania is concerned.
- Sort of? He's mocked by his own sister, teammates, personal assistant, and the Witch who tramples his attempts at a CMOA. The author lampshades Tarras' Buttmonkey status in an omake, where Tarras mopes in a corner about his lack of good scenes. If you revisit Monica's arc, where at least Xing respects him, you'll see just how much of a Buttmonkey Tarras has become. This Troper thinks he's verging on the Chew Toy.
- Most characters have had at least one occurance where they are the Buttmonkey - just Tarras is the frequent favourite. This Troper is inclined to agree on the Chew Toy opinion, however. Especially recently.
- Catch Phrase: Quoth Words, "Feel the weight of your sins."
- Chivalrous Pervert: Xing.
- Cool Shades: Xing's entire collection of eyewear. He's even got spares in his coat!
- Crystal Dragon Jesus
- Demoted To Extra: Poor Monica's made less than five appearances since her arc ended.
- Determinator: Tasha. Getting beaten to the point where it is physically impossible to move and having his arm which supplies him with magical energy cut off does not stop him from continuing to fight Lancelot. Or from using his magic-fueled gun.
- Designated Girl Fight: As of Vol. 9, Halloween and Aria. This Troper just knows this tickles someone's fancy.
- Dead Little Sister: Tasha's, though she's not so much dead as turned into a Witch.
- Did Not Do The Research: Guinevere, Mordred's mother ?!! This Troper seriously hopes this was done on purpose, for a good reason (or just the lulz). After all, considering Aria's behavior, it's not like the author could have been squicked by the fact Arthur had a son with his half-sister...
- Elemental Powers: Vihyungrang can command the spirits of Earth and Fire.
- Eyepatch Of Power: Words.
- Evil Twin: Xing's got/is one, depending on how you look at it.
- Fan Dumb: Certain fangirls' reaction to Varete's impaling Ryu Hwan in Ch. 46.
- Foe Yay: In chapter 15, Tasha dreams about Varete. The current Fan Wank is that she's his mother, however.
- Goggles Do Something Unusual: Ryu Hwan's seemed to just be cool-looking but useless, but chapter 42 revealed they can actually track mana.
- Good Witch Versus Bad Witch
- Hide Your Lesbians: Averted hard. So, so hard.
- How We Got Here: First pages of the sixth volume. Two volumes later, we're still waiting to see how Tasha managed to get his arm ripped off.
- Hot Mom: Guinevere, and how!
- Hot Witch
- Ho Yay: For a skirt-chasing fiend, Xing's attachment to Tasha seems a little bit conspicuous.
- Lee's manservant, Eunwon, shows a depth of understanding and devotion towards him that got This Troper's fujoshi friends raising eyebrows.
- Words and Cooga. This pairing used to be the stuff of Slash Goggles, but this page seems to have added some substance. Who's your little 'pet', Words?
- Palgeuk and Vihyunrang have amassed enough Foe Yay to warrant fanart. Go back ~10 pages at one of JMC's blogs and you'll find a goldmine of Witch Hunter fanart.
- Impossibly Cool Clothes: Must be the reason why there's so few cosplayers...
- Improbable Age: A Class WH Tasha and his rival Cooga are only sixteen years old.
- Ki Attacks: Implied to be the nature of Xing's abilities.
- Lampshade Hanging: Visul calls Xing out on his uncanny attraction towards Tasha.
- Law Of Chromatic Superiority: Played with◊ when Ryu Hwan convinces his supporter that boasting a red horn will make him three times more powerful. Seems like JMC has heard of Char Aznable.
- Les Yay: Eclipse Shadenon and her teammate Alv Bronte.
- As of chapter 36, witches South and Poine.
- Loads And Loads Of Characters: Minor characters, really, but loads all the same.
- Medieval European Fantasy: More or less.
- Also, the Empire of Bailong. Based of medieval Korea.
- Albion is entirely European, however. Except for the plate armor.
- Nice Hat: The witches' hats. A witch's hat is the source of her mana.
- Not So Stoic: The only thing that seems capable of deeply affecting Words is a good wine.
- No Fourth Wall: Tasha takes Tarras down a peg by mentioning he barely did anything until Volume Two.
- Pastimes Prove Personality: Subverted, in that the characters' Informed Attribute hobbies seem mismatched with their personalities. For example, the egotistical Tarras is a loving gardener who names his plants.
- Personality Blood Types
- Power Limiter: Tasha and Ryu Hwan, most prominently.
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Cho makes explicit references to Britain and Arthurian legend around Vol. 6. The Bairong Empire is more-or-less analogous to China.
- Flat Chested Girl: Monica, Ran, Linda, Halloween and Aria. (Doesn't prevent some of them from getting really sexy.) Xing gets kicked in the head and buried alive for pointing this out.
- Played For Laughs: Lots of things.
- Power Trio: Taras (Id), Tasha (Ego), Xing (Superego)
- Rule Of Cool
- Samus Is A Girl: Halloween.
- Shout Out: Xing, Lee and Yue hilariously reference Dragonball in a yonkoma.
- Slasher Smile: Cooga, Words' loud-mouthed disciple and fanboy. Also Tasha when he removes his limiter and upgrades to S-Class. He sports one as well during his recent battle with Lancelot.
- Spell My Name With An S: Until the first three profile pages were scanlated, most of the English fandom misspelled Tasha's surname, Tarras' first name, and Xing's full name.
- The Mole: As of Vol. 9, we're still unsure whether or not Words is The Mole or a Double Agent. Eunryu seems to be this, what with being an S-Class WH and North's henchman.
- The Stoic: Words Blondy von Worth (yes, really) hasn't smiled on-screen to date.
- Stripperiffic
- Theme Naming
- Walking Shirtless Scene: While he doesn't go entirely shirtless, Xing's post-uniform upgrade outfit shows off his abs and biceps. Fanservice at its finest!
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: And purple hair, and silver hair, and pink hair...
- Yandere: Wai halo thar, Aria!
- Yonkoma: Jung-Man Cho treats us to a funny one the end of every chapter.
- Recently, they're just regular Omake.
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