The Cat Witch's Guild is an urban fantasy webcomic created by author Musubiki
, centered on the life of Mochi Catbelle, a teenage witch who has just inherited the title of Cat Witch (the most powerful witch possible) along with her new familiar Pom who has guided and taught each Cat witch before her. Currently, the comic tends towards slice-of-life comedy as it explores the daily life of Mochi and her interactions with her best friend (and romantic interest) Lime and her other classmates. It can be found on webcomic site Webtoons, right here.
This show provides examples of:
- Aerith and Bob: A minor example, but while every other character in the comic has very clearly food-inspired names, Oscar has a food name (referencing an Oscar, a type of fish) that doubles as a perfectly normal name, making him look out of place at first glance.
- Amusing Injuries: Pom scratches Mochi's face up when Mochi attempts to leave the house dressed blatantly as a witch—because it's Halloween, and Mochi has been going as a witch every year to throw off suspicion. The wounds are played off for a gag in the next scene.
- Animal Motif: Every witch gains their magic from bonding to a corresponding magical animal and is identified by that animal. The Cat witch is the most powerful, but other witches bonded with other animals exist as well, such as a Crow witch.
- All There in the Manual: As the comic is only a few episodes in, most of the specific information on the world-building and characters of the comic is found on Musubiki's tumblr.
- Bland-Name Product: There's "Scarfy's Chocolate" chocolate bars, Choke-a-cola soda, Pintendo video games, and Snap-tarts note
- Berserk Button: Apparently, disrupting English teacher Ms. Ube's class more than once is enough to have her sprint after the offender, completely enraged, for long enough a sub has to come in and finish the lesson.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: On her tumblr, Musubiki has stated that this is one of her favorite jokes and she's eagerly looking for opportunities to have all her characters break the wall.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Coco, the new girl in school and Mochi's new friend, is loud, cheerful and is totally up for a fight at any time. She threatened her way into being class president, and the only thing stopping her from attacking Oscar after he rats her out about sneaking in late to class is Mochi restraining her.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Mochi and Lime have been friends since childhood and are greatly hinted to have mutual crushes on each other.
- Conspiracy Theorist: Oscar, of the "almost right" variety. Within hours of meeting Mochi he casually interrogates her, trying to figure out if she's a supernatural creature—notably, a werewolf, a vampire or a witch, with the latter being right. He also believes there's a witch in town and mentions the "M-32nd Regiment," which from context seems to be a common in-universe conspiracy theory revolving around witches.
- Deliberately Monochrome: Most of the episodes are fully in black and white with liberal use of patterns to fill in for colors. Averted with the shorter bonus "Color Special" episodes, which, as the name suggests, are in full color.
- Establishing Character Moment: When Mochi and Lime first meet him (or rather, re-meet him, as they knew him as kids) Oscar responds to the question "Who are you?" with "It's me!" before Lime recognizes him, showing off his Cloudcukoolander tendencies.
- Everyone Can See It: Both Coco and Oscar peg Lime's crush on Mochi pretty much immediately after seeing them interact.
- Mathematician's Answer: Oscar isn't necessarily wrong saying "It's me!" to the question "Who are you?" as he certainly is himself. But that wasn't the answer Lime was looking for.
- Noodle Incident: While chasing after Coco for disrupting class by coming through the window, Ms. Ube somehow runs into an industrial termite tent, which leads her to being hospitalized. How that led to her being severely injured is unspecified. Coco is completely fine, which only adds to the confusion.
- Symbol Swearing: Varies from swear to swear. "Ass" is fully symbolized (rendered as @$$) while "Fuck" just has an asterisk in place of the U.
