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* CompressedAdaptation: The anime, while generally faithful, removes all elements and chapters that aren't strictly necessary to the plot, blending some of the exposition details into different scenes on occasions and greatly shortening action scenes. That includes skipping chapter 2, 3, and 5 of the first volume (chapters mostly focused on one-off story arcs). It helps to make the early plot kick into gear more quickly, but also means the two protagonists spend less time together and that a lot of lore details and foreshadowing elements are left behind.

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* CompressedAdaptation: The anime, while generally faithful, removes all elements and chapters that aren't strictly necessary to the main plot, blending some of the exposition details into different scenes on occasions and greatly shortening action scenes. That includes skipping chapter 2, 3, and 5 of the first volume (chapters mostly focused on one-off story arcs). It helps to make the early plot kick into gear more quickly, but also means the two protagonists spend less time together and that a lot of lore details and foreshadowing elements are left behind.
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** At the end of volume 3, [[spoiler:the humongous mass of mana summoned by Lanaku continues to inflate and spiral out of control even after his and his mages' deaths, forcing the Young Tinâsha to absorb all of it to prevent the destruction of Tuldarr.]]

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** At the end of volume 3, [[spoiler:the humongous mass of mana summoned by Lanaku continues to inflate and spiral out of control even after his and his mages' deaths, forcing the Young Tinâsha Tinasha to absorb all of it to prevent the destruction of Tuldarr.]]
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* NoOntologicalInertia: Averted, as it is shown several times that summoned entities don't just go away when their summoner dies.
** Il volume 2, a Kraken terrorizes the waters near a coastal town because a pirate hunted by Als died just as he was summoning the monster from the northern seas, which meant the creature would be stuck in the area as long as the (now underwater) summoning circle wasn't destroyed.
** At the end of volume 3, [[spoiler:the humongous mass of mana summoned by Lanaku continues to inflate and spiral out of control even after his and his mages' deaths, forcing the Young Tinâsha to absorb all of it to prevent the destruction of Tuldarr.]]
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* CompressedAdaptation: The anime, while generally faithful, removes all elements and chapters that aren't strictly necessary to the plot, blending some of the exposition details into different scenes on occasions and greatly shortening action scenes. That includes skipping chapter 2, 3, and 5 of the first volume (chapters mostly focused on one-off story arcs). It helps to make the early plot get to the point more quickly, but also means the two protagonists spend less time together and that a lot of lore details and foreshadowing elements are left behind.

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* CompressedAdaptation: The anime, while generally faithful, removes all elements and chapters that aren't strictly necessary to the plot, blending some of the exposition details into different scenes on occasions and greatly shortening action scenes. That includes skipping chapter 2, 3, and 5 of the first volume (chapters mostly focused on one-off story arcs). It helps to make the early plot get to the point kick into gear more quickly, but also means the two protagonists spend less time together and that a lot of lore details and foreshadowing elements are left behind.

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* AdaptationDistillation: The anime, while generally faithful, removes all elements and chapters that aren't strictly necessary to the plot, blending some of the exposition details into different scenes on occasions. That includes chapter 2, 3, and 5 of the first volume (chapters mostly focused on one-off story arcs).


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* CompressedAdaptation: The anime, while generally faithful, removes all elements and chapters that aren't strictly necessary to the plot, blending some of the exposition details into different scenes on occasions and greatly shortening action scenes. That includes skipping chapter 2, 3, and 5 of the first volume (chapters mostly focused on one-off story arcs). It helps to make the early plot get to the point more quickly, but also means the two protagonists spend less time together and that a lot of lore details and foreshadowing elements are left behind.
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* AdaptationDistillation: The anime, while generally faithful, removes all elements and chapters that aren't strictly necessary to the plot, blending some of the exposition details into different scenes on occasions. That includes chapter 2, 3, and 5 of the first volume (chapters mostly focused on one-off story arcs).
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* KnightInShiningArmor: Oscar presents as this − a brave, powerful, righteous and hypercompetent heir to the throne respected by all his subjects. In private though, he's also prone to leaving the castle on a whim to go on dangerous quests for fun and tends to have a dubious idea of consent when interacting with Tinasha.

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* KnightInShiningArmor: Oscar presents as this − a brave, powerful, righteous and hypercompetent heir to the throne respected by all his subjects. In private though, he's also prone to leaving the castle on a whim to go on dangerous quests for fun fun, has the delicacy of a sledgehammer and tends to have a dubious idea of consent when interacting with Tinasha.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Witches being ReallySevenHundredYearsOld sort of muddles the meaning of "generation", but even taking that into account Tinasha is the youngest witch (around 400 years old) while her best friend Lucrezia is the oldest (well over 1000 years old), and they met when the former was still just a teenager. Even in the present, Lucrezia shows way more maturity and social awareness than the sometimes clueless Tinasha.

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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Witches being ReallySevenHundredYearsOld sort of muddles the meaning of "generation", but even taking that into account Tinasha is the youngest witch (around 400 years old) while her best friend Lucrezia is the oldest (well over 1000 years old), and they met when the former was still just a teenager. Even in the present, Lucrezia shows way more maturity and social awareness than the sometimes clueless Tinasha.Tinasha, giving them a big/little sister vibe, if not a mother/daughter one.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Witches being ReallySevenHundredYears old sort of muddles the meaning of "generation", but even taking that into account Tinasha is the youngest witch (around 400 years old) while her best friend Lucrezia is the oldest (well over 1000 years old), and they met when the former was still just a teenager. Even in the present, Lucrezia shows way more maturity and social awareness than the sometimes clueless Tinasha.

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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Witches being ReallySevenHundredYears old ReallySevenHundredYearsOld sort of muddles the meaning of "generation", but even taking that into account Tinasha is the youngest witch (around 400 years old) while her best friend Lucrezia is the oldest (well over 1000 years old), and they met when the former was still just a teenager. Even in the present, Lucrezia shows way more maturity and social awareness than the sometimes clueless Tinasha.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Witches being ReallySevenHundredYears old sort of muddles the meaning of "generation", but even taking that into account Tinasha is the youngest witch (around 400 years old) while her best friend Lucrezia is the oldest (well over 1000 years old), and they met when the former was still just a teenager. Even in the present, Lucrezia shows way more maturity and social awareness than the sometimes clueless Tinasha.


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* KilledOffScreen: At the start of volume 4, it is mentioned [[spoiler:that Leonora didn't survive her fight with Queen Tinasha 400 years ago in the new timeline, which serves to indicate that even without becoming a witch, Tinasha is still ''insanely'' poweful.]]


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* TimeAbyss: It is mentioned that Leonora met Unay when she was already 400 years old, and that he has been following her for at least twice that amount of time, making her much, ''much'' older than Tinasha. As a result, she only feels a deep boredom and disinterest for a world that, in her eyes, has barely changed in a thousand years.
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* NoodleIncident: Tinasha mentions several ones during her early years as a witch, from cursing people with her songs to covering an entire castle in vines to to [[BadassBureaucrat being the prime minister of a country.]] All with the gravity of recounting her afternoon stroll.


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* PrankGoneTooFar: Near the end of volume 1, after Oscar catches Tinasha "kissing" with Als from afar (they were actually just pretending), he tries to scare her as a punishment [[spoiler:by using a magic-nullifying bracelet to make her powerless and lifts her up to put her in his bed in what very much looks like a rape attempt. While he didn't mean to go further than that, the situation awakens Tinasha's deep trauma, gives her a ThousandYardStare and makes her mana go out of control, forcing Oscar to acknowledge that he went way overboard this time.]]
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** Unay, Leonora's right-hand man, takes the "undying" part very literally, as he has been obeying his master of his own volition for close to a thousand years after she saved his life and helped him accomplish his vengeance, even agreeing to have his body modified in the process.

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** Unay, Leonora's right-hand man, takes the "undying" part very literally, as he has been obeying his master of his own volition for close to a thousand years after she saved his life and helped him accomplish his vengeance, even agreeing to have give up his human body modified in the process.
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* UndyingLoyalty:
** Although Tinasha may not return Oscar's romantic feelings (at first at least), she nonetheless takes being his protector ''very'' seriously and can get absolutely brutal if someone even dares to threaten his life. Of course, developing actual feelings later on only solidifies it.
** Unay, Leonora's right-hand man, takes the "undying" part very literally, as he has been obeying his master of his own volition for close to a thousand years after she saved his life and helped him accomplish his vengeance, even agreeing to have his body modified in the process.
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* RunningGag: Oscar keeps asking Tinasha's hand in the most incongruous moments, partly because he's serious and partly [[ItAmusedMe because he just likes to tease her.]] To push the gag further, he keeps doing it [[spoiler:''even after they're already married''.]]


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* SpoilerCover: The cover of the novel's 3rd volume makes it no secret [[spoiler:that Tianasha and Oscar are going to marry.]] Not at the beginning or the middle either, but in the second-to-last chapter of the volume. Of course, what makes the read interesting is ''how'' it gets there, not if.
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* EatingTheEyeCandy: In volume 2, when Tinasha brings Oscar to a secret underwater cave for his birthday, she takes a good, long look at his shirtless body while he dries himself after swimming, all with a smile on her face.

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* EatingTheEyeCandy: In volume 2, when Tinasha brings Oscar to a secret underwater cave for his birthday, she takes a good, long look at his shirtless body while he dries himself after swimming, all with a smile on her face. A significant moment, as for the first time ''she'' expresses desire for ''him''.
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* EatingTheEyeCandy: In volume 2, when Tinasha brings Oscar to a secret underwater cave for his birthday, she takes a good, long look at his shirtless body while he dries himself after swimming, all with a smile on her face.
-->'''Tinasha:''' So pretty...
-->'''Oscar:''' What is?
-->'''Tinasha:''' You.
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* TheAgeless: All witches have more or less stopped aging at the time they became witches. Or at least, their aging is considerably slowed, enough for Tinasha's body to have only aged a few years after four centuries. It takes [[spoiler:a brutal and near fatal injury against the Magic Beast]] for her body to age up slightly in the healing process.

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* TheAgeless: All witches have more or less stopped aging at the time they became witches. Or at least, Tinasha became one [[spoiler:at the age of 13]] and only aged up a couple times to heal near fatal injuries. It is later made clear that witches ''can'' resume their aging if they decide to, however. [[spoiler:Which is considerably slowed, enough for Tinasha's body what Tinasha opts to have only aged a few years after four centuries. It takes [[spoiler:a brutal and near fatal injury against the Magic Beast]] for her body to do when she marries Oscar, so that she can die of old age up slightly in the healing process.by his side.]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality:
** Superior and supreme magic creatures exist on a plane removed from the material world and usually never interact with humans... except for Travis, who finds them endlessly fascinating and will bring misery on those who pique his interest with no other motive than sheer curiosity.
** Leonora only cares about revelling in the absolute freedom she enjoys as a witch and entertaining herself to relieve her boredom. The consequences of her "games" are of little concern to her.
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An anime adaptation by studio Engi covering the first three volumes is to air in 2024.

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An anime adaptation by studio Engi covering the first three volumes is to air in premiered on 9 April 2024.

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* BlessedWithSuck: Oscar's curse is actually a powerful ''blessing'' which protects any child of the Farsas bloodline with incredibly potent magic. However, the magic is so potent it will overwhelm the body of normal women before a pregnancy can be brought to term.



* CurseEscapeClause: Curses are shaped by word and intent, which allows the caster to build in or exclude an escape clause.



* InterspeciesRomance:
** One chapter in the first volume is focused on a water spirit whose human lover betrayed her centuries ago, leaving her in despair and causing her to steal Lazar's soul after falling for him. Alas, Oscar has no choice but to slay her to save his friend, despite Lazar wishing to stay with her out of pity.
** Centuries-old witch Lucrezia is implied to have been in a relationship with Sen, an ancient millenia-old (albeit human-shaped) spirit, in the distant past.



* InterspeciesRomance:
** One chapter in the first volume is focused on a water spirit whose human lover betrayed her centuries ago, leaving her in despair and causing her to steal Lazar's soul after falling for him. Alas, Oscar has no choice but to slay her to save his friend, despite Lazar wishing to stay with her out of pity.
** Centuries-old witch Lucrezia is implied to have been in a relationship with Sen, an ancient millenia-old (albeit human-shaped) spirit, in the distant past.
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* AlternateSelf: The second half of the series follows [[spoiler:different incarnations of Tinasha and Oscar after the original Oscar altered the timeline and prevented the destruction of Tuldarr 400 years ago. Their stories are still meant to link back to the originals' stories, however.]]


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** At the end of the same volume, [[spoiler:meeting the young Tinasha in the past and saving her from Lanak's ritual causes no less than the erasure of his own timeline, including himself.]]
* PenPushingPresident: For all his incredible combat prowess, there's a surprising amout of scenes of Oscar doing paperwork behind his desk while Tinasha helps him or serves him tea. It's also meant to add a sense of daily mundanity to his life and relationship with the witch.
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* ChekhovsTimeTravel: In volume 1, several hints seem to indicate that [[spoiler:Valt comes from a different time]] and volume 2 tells a story passed down in Elze's village about a swodsman who travelled back in time to save his mother from a sad fate; despite Tinasha explaining that time travel isn't theoretically possible under the rules of magic. [[spoiler:At the end of volume 3, Oscar is accidentally transported 400 years in the past and ends up altering history by stopping the horrible tragedy that turned Tinasha into a witch, thus erasing the original timeline entirely [[CessationOfExistence and himself with it.]]]]

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* ChekhovsTimeTravel: In volume 1, several hints seem to indicate that [[spoiler:Valt comes from a different time]] and volume 2 tells a story passed down in Elze's village about a swodsman swordsman who travelled back in time to save his mother from a sad fate; despite Tinasha explaining that time travel isn't theoretically possible under the rules of magic. [[spoiler:At the end of volume 3, Oscar is accidentally transported 400 years in the past and ends up altering history by stopping the horrible tragedy that turned Tinasha into a witch, thus erasing the original timeline entirely [[CessationOfExistence and himself with it.]]]]
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* ChekovsTimeTravel: In volume 1, several hints seem to indicate that [[spoiler:Valt comes from a different time]] and volume 2 tells a story passed down in Elze's village about a swodsman who travelled back in time to save his mother from a sad fate; despite Tinasha explaining that time travel isn't theoretically possible under the rules of magic. [[spoiler:At the end of volume 3, Oscar is accidentally transported 400 years in the past and ends up altering history by stopping the horrible tragedy that turned Tinasha into a witch, thus erasing the original timeline entirely [[CessationOfExistence and himself with it.]]]]

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* ChekovsTimeTravel: ChekhovsTimeTravel: In volume 1, several hints seem to indicate that [[spoiler:Valt comes from a different time]] and volume 2 tells a story passed down in Elze's village about a swodsman who travelled back in time to save his mother from a sad fate; despite Tinasha explaining that time travel isn't theoretically possible under the rules of magic. [[spoiler:At the end of volume 3, Oscar is accidentally transported 400 years in the past and ends up altering history by stopping the horrible tragedy that turned Tinasha into a witch, thus erasing the original timeline entirely [[CessationOfExistence and himself with it.]]]]
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* ChekovsTimeTravel: In volume 1, several hints seem to indicate that [[spoiler:Valt comes from a different time]] and volume 2 tells a story passed down in Elze's village about a swodsman who travelled back in time to save his mother from a sad fate; despite Tinasha explaining that time travel isn't theoretically possible under the rules of magic. [[spoiler:At the end of volume 3, Oscar is accidentally transported 400 years in the past and ends up altering history by stopping the horrible tragedy that turned Tinasha into a witch, thus erasing the original timeline entirely [[CessationOfExistence and himself with it.]]]]


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* MeanwhileInTheFuture: Completely averted at the end of volume 3. [[spoiler:Once Oscar is sent back to the past, there's no return to the present, and he evenually realizes that from the moment the time travel orb activated, the timeline he knew was gone.]]


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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: When [[spoiler:Oscar is accidentally sent back in time]] at the end of volume 3, he's faced with a hard choice: [[spoiler:save the young Tinasha from Lanak's ritual 400 years in the past, or let it happen to preserve his present where he's HappilyMarried with her. He chooses the fomer.]] Though by the end, he realizes that he never had such a choice to begin with − [[spoiler:from the moment the time travel orb activated, history was already irrevocably altered and the timeline he knew was gone.]]

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