History Manga / FlyingWitch

''Flying Witch'' (Hepburn ふらいんぐうぃっち) began in 2007 as a one-shot manga by Ichizuka Chihiro in 2007. In 2012, ''Flying Witch'' became serialised in ''Bessatsu Shounen magazine''. A twelve-episode animated adaptation of the serialised manga aired in April 2016 as apart of the Spring2016Anime line-up. Produced by {{Creator/JCStaff}} and directed by Katsushi Sakurabi ''Flying Witch'' is [[https://www.crunchyroll.com/flying-witch available for viewing]] on Crunchyroll. Besides the twelve episode anime, there is also a set of shorts, titled ''Flying Witch Petit'', accompanying the series. These CG shorts are posted on the official YouTube channel of distributor VAP and later were bundled as a part of the Blu-Ray volumes.

* WickedWitch: played for laughs. When Makoto asks [[spoiler: Chinatsu]] what she wants to do as a witch, she says she wants to [[Literature/HanselAndGretel build a gingerbread house]] and [[ChildEater eat children]]. Then runs off saying [[JokingMode she was kidding]].

* SecretShop: Café Concurio has an illusionary magic to give the impression that it is an AbandonedOldHouse to those unaware of its existence.

At the age of fifteen, Makoto Kowata moves from her parents' home in Yokohama and to Aomori to live with her relatives. While outwardly an ordinary high school student, Makoto's involvement in witchcraft differentiates herself from her peers: she moves to further her studies as a witch, and picks Aomori because of the abundance of nature in the area. Moving in with her second cousins, Kei Kuramoto and his little sister Chinatsu, Makoto begins life in Aomori. However, things are rarely dull for Makoto: she is attuned with magical entities, and over time, begins introducing her friends and family to the magical things she encounters in her training. As she spends time in Aomori, befriends Nao Ishiwatari, one of Kei's friends who helps run her family liquor store, and Inukai, an anthropomorphic dog who specialises in fortune-telling. While life in Aomori might be quiet for Makoto, there is no shortage of adventure to be had as she explores her witch training.

''Flying Witch'' (Hepburn ふらいんぐうぃっち) began in 2007 as a one-shot manga by Ichizuka Chihiro in 2007. In 2012, ''Flying Witch'' became serialised in ''Bessatsu Shounen magazine''. A twelve-episode animated adaptation of the serialised manga aired in April 2016 as apart of the Spring2016Anime line-up. Produced by {{Creator/JCStaff}} and directed by Katsushi Sakurabi ''Flying Witch'' is [[available for viewing]] on Crunchyroll. Besides the twelve episode anime, there is also a set of shorts, titled ''Flying Witch Petit'', accompanying the series. These CG shorts are posted on the official YouTube channel of distributor VAP and later were bundled as a part of the Blu-Ray volumes.

* RealPlaceBackground: The events of ''Flying Witch'' are set in and around https://infinitemirai.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/hirosaki-region-aomori-home-of-flying-witch/ Hirosaki City in Aomori]], with area landmarks, such as the Hirosaki Castle and Park, and the Taisho Roman Tearoom, being featured as locations that the characters visit.

[[caption-width-right:350:Magic makes every day colorful, an essence that is slightly different!]]

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A {{Fantasy}} SliceOfLife {{Shounen}} manga by Ichizuka Chihiro, ''Flying Witch'' (or ふらいんぐうぃっち, Ishioka Chikai) is the quaint tale of 15-year old CuteWitch Kowata Makoto and her relatives, as they adjust to a witch living in their household, and she adjusts to living in a rural town.

The Manga was originally published as a one-shot in 2007, but is now a monthly serialized manga in ''Bessatsu Shounen magazine'' as of August 2012. Notably, the one-shot is quite different from the serialized version. An anime adaptation began airing in April 2016.

!!'''This work has examples of:'''

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* BeatPanel: Akira and Chisa smiling at each other when Chisa implies she's going to beat him with a bat for his blood.
* BigNo: Akira, screaming as Chisa comes after him with a bat.
* CovertPervert: Matsumoto remarks that Chisa is probably a B-cup after giving her a piggy back ride to the infirmary.
* CuteAndPsycho: Chisa, when she picks up a bat, smiles at Akira and tells his she needs two liters of a man's blood.
* CuteWitch: Chisa.
* DodgyToupee: Their teacher, which Matsumoto proves by snatching it off while invisible, to both his and Chisa's horror.
* DroppedAfterThePilot: Both of the characters in the One Shot, Iidzuka Chisa and Matsumoto Akira are completely absent from the serialized version.
* EyeOfNewt: The recipe to Chisa's love potion, which includes 20 centipede feet, 3 meters of spider's thread and other wierd ingredients.
* FlyingBroomstick: Chisa uses a pretty modern one, but she isn't very good at it and crashes into a tree near the beginning.
* FriendlessBackground: Matsumoto has one due to being new at his school, and he asks Chisa to be his first friend there.
* GivingUpTheGhost: Akira after Chisa scares the crap out of him.
* ILied: Chisa when she 'confesses' to Akira. Also about needing the blood in the first place.
* InTraining: Chisa says she's an apprentice of an apprentice witch. Chisa says this was [[BurnTheWitch originally used by witches to escape execution]].
* LovePotion: Akira asks Chisa to make one when she mentions it exists. It turns out it was to make his cat love him.
* MagicItems: The chalk that can make you invisible if you draw a circle with it and stand in it.
* TheMasquerade: Averted, or maybe downplayed. It seems the existence of witches and magic isn't widely known, but neither is it kept hidden.
* NewTransferStudent: Matsumoto Akira.
* OrdinaryMiddleSchoolStudent: Matsumoto Akira, until he meets Chisa.
* SpellBook: Chisa is seen reading one in class when he's supposed to be doing classwork.
* TwinTails: Chisa, who is notably not Tsundere but is quite girlish and cute.
* WeirdnessCensor: Two students see Akira and Chisa messing around with her invisibility chalk and assume it must be done with some kind of optical illusion, rather than magic.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Chisa's high socks.

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[[folder: Tropes Appearing in the Serialized Manga]]

* AndAllIGotWasThisLousyTShirt: Akane flies off to UsefulNotes/BurkinaFaso. When she comes back she tells Makoto she got her a souvenir...and hands her a T-Shirt that just says Burkina Faso on it. It takes Makoto a few panels to realize this was the souvenir, and something way better wasn't going to produce itself.
* AsleepInClass: Makoto in chapter 7, when she has her weird dream.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Pheasants seem to instill this in everyone, even Kei's dad.
* BagOfHolding: Akira and the Harbinger of Spring has it.
* BestialityIsDepraved: A minor example PlayedForLaughs. When Nao meets Chito, she remarks that she's cute. Makoto translates her resultant meows to Nao as, "Right back at you!" Nao is slightly disturbed but says thanks.
* BetrayalByInaction: A benign example PlayedForLaughs. When Makoto accidentally summons a murder of crows, her sister's response is to pull a ButNowIMustGo and leave without helping her fix it.
* BlandnameProduct: Pooky for Pocky.
* BlatantLies: PlayedForLaughs.
--> '''Kei''': (about Makoto to his sister) Chinatsu...you don't remember, do you? You were only three the last time you saw her, after all. This person is...[[BlatantLies your real mother]].
--> '''Chinatsu''': Mommy! *Hugs Makoto*
* CatsAreMean: Chito is not actually mean, but there is a panel that shows her standing just outside of the range of a dog's chain while it barks at her, just to mess with it, and Makoto accuses her of bullying. Later the dog gets revenge when it [[OhCrap pulls its restraint from the ground]] and [[WhosLaughingNow runs after them]].
* CelestialDeadline: Akane turns her friend into a [[PettingZooPeople humanoid dog person]]. During the day she's furry but at night she returns to normal.
* CleverCrows: Makoto's sister teaches her and Chinatsu a spell to summon a crow, and remarks that during war times, crows were summoned and used to spy on the enemy.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Chinatsu while looking at a run down abandoned house that was supposed to be a trendy cafe.

* ComicalOverreacting: When Chinatsu wants donuts for taking Makoto to the grocery store Kei says no, but Makoto tells him it's okay it'll be her treat. He then makes a very serious, angry face and says, "No!! I want donuts too!! (It's not fair if only Chinatsu gets them!)"
* CuteGhostGirl: the ghost waitress of the Witch Cafe.
* CueTheFlyingPigs: PlayedWith and justified literally. Akane reveals that Witches used to fly on pigs.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The super creepy Harbinger of Spring, who is actually a NiceGuy and some kind of spring nature spirit.
* DietEpisode: Averted. When makoto's friend expresses she thinks she's gaining weight, Makoto advises her that not eating enough is unhealthy and that being heavy can [[BiggerIsBetter make you more popular with guys]].
* DominoRevelation: Strangely, Chinatsu (or Kei, it's hard to tell from the panel who says it exactly) is surprised to find ghosts exist, this after taking witches and other supernatural beings in stride.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Discussed. After Makoto has a weird dream about Nao, she decides it means Nao has good luck and discusses it with her and Kei on their way back from school.
* DreamIntro: to chapter 7.
* {{Expy}}: The Shore Rabbit is basically mute [[Manga/MagicKnightRayearth Mokona]].
* TheFairFolk: The Harbinger of Spring is described by Makoto as a Spring Fairy, though he isn't actually very fairy-like.
* {{Flashback}}: To Akane turning her friend in a PettingZooPerson.
* FlyingBroomstick: A lot of the witches ride them.
* GhibliHills: Where Kei takes the gang foraging. Makoto gets [[NatureLover really pumped up about it]].
* GiantFlyer: The flying whale. It's big enough to have ''trees'' and ''ruins'' on its back.
* GoneHorriblyRight: A benign example, but when Makoto's sister teaches her a spell to summon a crow, she ends up summoning a ''huge murder of crows'' instead of just one, because she forgot that a [[EyeOfNewt witch's hair]] is too powerful to use (this even after Makoto made a point to ask if it was okay to use her own hair.)
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Makoto whips up a potion for Inukai that is supposed to turn an animal into a human temporarily so she can take on human form during the day. Instead of making her look more human, it makes her look even more like an animal.
* HauntedHouse: There's a carnival one at the cherry blossom festival Makoto, Chinatsu and Kei go to. They have to force Kei into going.
* HermeticMagic: Spells and rituals are more of a folk magick type you could probably find in a {{UsefulNotes/Wicca}} new age book.
* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Akane about Chintasu to Kei.
--> '''Akane''': Kei, can I keep her? She's too cute.
--> '''Kei''': Uh, you'll have to ask my parents...
* JokeItem: The candy Akane teaches Chintasu and Makoto to make with a spell. All it does it make you act like a laughing or sobbing drunk when you eat it.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Inukai, who as it turns out ate the chocolate that turned her into a dog person of her own, drunken free will despite Akane's protests.
* MakeMeWannaShout: The Mandrake in chapter 2 initially.
* TheMasquerade: Downplayed. Makoto acknowledges that you're only supposed to tell related friends and family that you're a witch, but she'll tell just about anyone and [[PaperThinDisguise doesn't hide it at all.]]
* MagicalRealism
* MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality: Downplayed. There is a fairy-like creature called the Harbinger of Spring who brings the spring season, but it isn't gone into detail what repercussions this has on how the setting works.
** By chapter 36, the Harbinger of Summer shows up. [[spoiler:If he's tardy in his work, there will be random occurences of very localized heavy snowfall due to matured unpicked 'winter roots'.]]
* MistakenForRomance: Kei with Makoto when he introduces her to Chinatsu.
* ObviouslyEvil: [[SubvertedTrope The Harbinger, except that he's not.]]
* PaintingTheFrostOnWindows: The Harbinger of Spring who delivers spring.
* RealDreamsAreWeirder: Makoto has a weird dream (in class even) in which she's sitting on a bench in Yokohama with a conch on her lap and Nao walks over claiming she swam there from Aomori on the other side of the country, and then shows her a mole on her neck that looks like a stamp that says "Excellent Luck" when you zoom into it. She decides this means that her friend has good luck.
* RealityEnsues: Chinatsu wonders if Makoto will ride her broom to school, but Makoto says brooms actually dig into your crotch so they are too uncomfortable to ride just for everyday.
** Later, Akane reveals that the reason it was hurting is because she was doing it wrong. You are supposed to use the broom to make your whole body levitate, not just sit on the flying broom.
* RealPlaceBackground: ''Flying Witch'' is set in and around [[https://infinitemirai.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/hirosaki-region-aomori-home-of-flying-witch/ Hirosaki City]] in Aomori.
* RepeatCut: When Makoto wants to be introduced to Kei's friends, he insists twice it's not a good idea.
* SecretShop: the Cafe run by witches in chapter 13. It has an illusion over it to make it look like an AbandonedOldHouse to people who don't know it's there.
* ShapedLikeItself: Kei and his mom watch Makoto doing a spell and both remark [[CaptainObvious "Oh! Very witch-like!"]] to which she replies, "I am a witch...SweatDrop"
* SmallTownBoredom: Averted. None of the main characters express that the small rural town is boring, not even Makoto who moves there from Yokohama, but Makoto spices things up with her witchiness anyway.
* SummonMagic: Makoto's sister teaches her and Chinatsu a spell to call down a wild crow.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The Courier. "H-hey young miss! I'm not a suspicious person! I'm not going to kidnap and eat you!"
* TragicDropout: subverted by Akane, who dropped out to go to UsefulNotes/HongKong and see Creator/JackieChan.

* WitchSpecies: Averted. It seems anyone can be a witch if they study to do so. Akane says it's not unheard of for normal people to become witches.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: All the witches in the series use their magic almost exclusively for fun things rather than anything serious.
* UnexpectedlyAbandoned: Zig-Zagged with the Cafe that supposedly sells great cake, recommended by Akane. They go to it only to find the building messed up and abandoned, only to find it's actually an illusion cast on the building to keep it secret.
* TheUnintelligible: Kei and Chinatsu's father, but only to Makoto, who isn't used to his regional dialect.
* UnwantedGiftPlot: Subverted. When Makoto tries to give Nao a creepy mandrake as a present, Nao straight-up refuses it.
* YouAnsweredYourOwnQuestion: Chinatsu
-->'''Chinatsu''': Mako...what's the number for 110?
-->'''Makoto''': *looks confused* Huh? 110 is 110...

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* AdvertisedExtra: The Harbinger of Spring features prominently in the intro, but outside a scattered few mentions, is only in one episode.
* BrickJoke:
** In the second episode Kei warns Makato not to pick butterbur flowers near utility poles because dogs pee on the poles. At the end of the episode, a dog is seen peeing on the pole during a walk.
** Kei jokingly remarks how Nao's screams [[ItMakesSenseInContext will scare away bears]]. Few scenes later a frog jumps on her, triggering a panic attack. Cue instant cut to a bear fishing far away, picking up the noise and running scared.
* ConspicuousCG: All vehicles are very obviously made using CGI.
* CreditsRunningSequence: There are a few groups of the characters shown like this in the opening, first in silhouette then fully.
* FestivalEpisode: Episode 4
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The "incantation" written on the envelope in Episode 3 is just the Hebrew word for "bird". (Despite Hebrew having a perfectly serviceable word for [[spoiler: crow]].)
* {{Iyashikei}}: one of the best examples of this genre.

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* WickedWitch: played for laughs. When Makoto asks [[spoiler: Chinatsu]] what she wants to do as a witch, she says she wants to [[HanselAndGretel build a gingerbread house]] and [[ChildEater eat children]]. Then runs off saying [[JokingMode she was kidding]].

* CatsAreMean: Chito is not actually mean, but there is a panel that shows her standing just outside of the range of a dog's chain while it barks at her, just to mess with it, and Makoto accuses her of bullying. Later the dog gets revenge when it pulls its restraint from the ground and runs after them.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The super creepy Courier Of Spring, who is actually a NiceGuy and some kind of spring nature spirit.

* TheFairFolk: The Courier Of Spring is described by Makoto as a Spring Fairy, though he isn't actually very fairy-like.

* MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality: Downplayed. There is a fairy-like creature called the Courier Of Spring who brings the spring season, but it isn't gone into detail what repercussions this has on how the setting works.

* ObviouslyEvil: [[SubvertedTrope The Courier, except that he's not.]]
* PaintingTheFrostOnWindows: The Courier of Spring who delivers spring.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Chito is a female cat, though it's not easy to tell just by looking at her appearance or the way she acts.

** Later, Akane reveals that the reason it was hurting is because the broom was the only thing flying. You are supposed to make your whole body fly, not just sit on the flying broom.

* GiantFlyer: The flying whale. It's big enough to have ''trees'' and ''ruins'' on it's back.

* RepeatCut: When Makoto wants to be introduced to Kei's friends, he insists it's not a good idea. ''Twice.''

* BrickJoke: Happens in the second episode of the anime. Kei warns Makato not to pick butterbur flowers near utility poles because dogs pee on the poles. At the end of the episode, a dog is seen peeing on the pole during a walk.

The Manga was original published as a One-Shot in 2007, but is now a monthly serialized manga in ''Bessatsu Shounen magazine'' as of August 2012. Notably, the One-Shot is quite different from the serialized version. An anime adaptation began airing in April 2016.

* FriendlessBackground: Matsumoto has one do to being new at his school, and he asks Chisa to be his frist friend there.
* GivingUpTheGhost: Akira after chisa scares the crap out of him.

* SpellBook: Chisa is seen reading one in class whens he's supposed to be doing classwork.

* AndAllIGotWasThisLousyTShirt: Akane flies off to UsefulNotes/BurkinaFaso. When she comes back she tells Makoto she got her a souvenir...and hands her a T-Shirt that just says Burkina Faso on it. It takes Makoto a few panels to realize this was the souvenir and something way better wasn't going to produce itself.

* HermeticMagic: Spells and rituals are more of a folk magick type you could probably find in a {{Wiccan}} new age book.

* SecretShop: the Cafe run by witches in chapter 13. It has an illusion over it to make it look like an Abandoned Old House to people who don't know it's there.

'''This work has examples of:'''

* CelestialDeadline: Akane turns her friend into a [[PettingZooPeople humanoid fox person]]. During the day she's furry but at night she returns to normal.