Line #5 Manga/MajoNoShinzou


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3	When she travels in snow-covered forest, {{M\|ysticalWhiteHair}}ika [[ABoyAndHisX and her lantern]], [[SnarkyNonHumanSidekick Lumiere]], find a girl named Karen. They travel together and then find a small church in a middle of the forest. A sister welcomes them, and offers them a place to stay. In there, Karen tells them about rumours of "[[TheHeartless Heartless]] [[ShroudedInMyth Boundary]] {{Wi\|ckedWitch}}tch".
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5	That night, Mika wakes from her bed, to find out....
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7	[[NastyParty That the nun is a criminal aiming to rob them, and has already killed Karen.]] Then she stabs Mika....
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9	Only to find out that Mika is the rumored "Heartless Boundary Witch". [[LiteralMetaphor Heartless]], in terms that [[HavingAHeart "Her sister stole her literal heart]] [[HeadlessHorseman and she's out to get it back...]] [[TheAgeless for about 500 years."]]
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11	[[AndAnotherThing Oh, and she's a witch.]] [[MuggingTheMonster Which means that the con didn't really work out....]]
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13	After burying Karen's body, Mika continues her journey....
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15	And that's for the first chapter.
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17	''Majo no Shinzou'' (''Witch's Heart'' in English) is a GaslampFantasy about a witch who's tirelessly seeking her heart, and her impact upon people she meets. Created by Matoba, it was serialized in ''Gangan Online'' from 2012 to 2016.
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19	!!This manga provides examples of:
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21	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Nina ceases to exist, and Mika is sent to the future, 14 years later and holds the ceremony of the Holy Spirit. The earthquake occurs and Lumiere saves Mika from falling debris. After Lumiere changes into his human form, Mika thanks him while smiling happily, proving that the Mika that he and Ritsuka loved no longer exists. However, Mika is alive and well, and Lumiere believes that the number of things that he treasures has increased. With the "witch's heart" beating within him as well, Lumiere and Mika walk back home together, leaving footprints in the snow.]]
22	* BloodMagic: Mika can use her blood to create ''anything''.
23	** ImaginationBasedSuperpower.
24	* [[CantHoldHisLiquor Can't Hold Her Liquor]]: Mika goes "puff" only after a sip of enriched juice (sweetened with brandy).
25	* CuteBruiser / LittleMissBadass: Despite being a witch, Mika is well versed in variety of weapons, and strong enough to knock a wall with oversized bludgeon.
26	* CuteWitch: Mika. Her sister also (may) count.
27	* DeathSeeker: Mika's reason for wanting her heart back is so that she can gain her mortality.
28	* DoubleEntendre: When Mika and Lumiere first met,he said that once a month he likes to spend the whole night with a cute girl. Mika, as well as the audience, thinks that Lumiere does something inappropriate with the girl. However, Lumiere meant that he cuts loose by dancing.
29	* GaslampFantasy: With a bit of MedievalEuropeanFantasy thrown left and right.
30	* GorgeousPeriodDress: It's a GaslampFantasy, after all.
31	* MadLove: One of the main reason Mika's sister stole her heart.
32	* AMagicContractComesWithAKiss: [[spoiler:[[WrongGenreSavvy Lumiere]] [[InvokedTrope believes wholeheartedly in this,]] [[ForcefulKiss this is the reason how his transformation trigger is a kiss.]] Mika, who planned the trigger to be a fingersnap, is rather upset, especially [[SacredFirstKiss since it's her first kiss]].]]
33	* MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler:The dragon renamed by Mika as Lumiere before they contracted.]]
34	* MoreThanMeetsTheEye / HiddenDepths / BaitAndSwitch: One of the main theme of the manga is that there are always a layer hiding something from our perception, and one should not judge from first impression. Shown the best by [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Mika]], who's ''very'' possibly had literally SeenItAll.
35	* [[spoiler:OurDragonsAreDifferent: They can shapeshift into human.]]
36	* OurGeniesAreDifferent: In one story, Mika meets [[{{Bishonen}} a handsome man]] and his genie, who takes shape of a beautiful girl. There are stories about [[GenieInABottle Genie in a Lamp]] who can be [[PinkIsFeminine "summoned with languange of flower"]]. [[spoiler:Actually, it refers to the {{Bishonen}} [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide guy]], who is actually the ''real'' genie. The girl is the one who summoned him out of desperation, and because of [[BrokenBird her]] [[HopeIsScary circum]][[ConditionedToAcceptHorror stances]], cannot ask for wishes. [[BenevolentGenie He still followed and helped her out of concern and duty.]]]]
37	* OlderThanTheyLook: Besides Mika, Lumiere and Ritsuka - a magician's apprentice - count as well.
38	* PoisonousPerson: In a story, a young girl tell Mika a (supposedly) secret story about a fisherman who met a princess from a conquered kingdom, who becomes this after her mother (the queen) was forced to drink a poisonous concoction while pregnant with her. The princess ended up poisoning people who involved at her birth. To [[spoiler:supposedly]] prevented another victim, the princess is locked up in a dungeon on a small island. The fisherman ends up met her after she accidentally got lost in the sea, and guided by the light from the island. Over time, they grew close, until one day a nasty storm causing the island to got flooded, in which the caretaker of the island simply left her for dead. The fisherman runs at her side, willing to free her and stay together with the princess, knowing full well of the consequences. [[spoiler:It is heavily implied that the young girl is the daughter of the fisherman and the (ex) princess, who manges to [[EarnYourHappyEnding Earn Their Happy Ending]]. [[WrongGenreSavvy Lumiere]] thinks that [[ArtisticLicenseBiology the poison in the princess body is simply eroded with salt contained within the sea wind over time, just like the poisonous flower who became inert near the sea]]. [[SeenItAll Mika]] [[note]]who is an expert at things like magical stuff ''and'' pharmacological stuff[[/note]] simply [[OccamsRazor chalks it up]] to HumansAreBastards.]]
39	* PygmalionPlot: Chapter 30 is the manga's take on the play [[Coppelia]], about a man falling in love with a lifelike doll named Olympia.
40	* TheStoic: JustifiedTrope, since she's TheAgeless, so she had to or getting too broken to function after a couple hundred of years.
41	* TakingTheBullet: Julia, Mika's teacher and the one who took her in, [[spoiler: protected Mika by throwing herself in front of her and took a knife to the chest by a villager. This was due to the fear that Mika was taking the lives of others in order to survive.]]
42	* [[Really700YearsOld Really 500 Years Old]]: ...And still [[CantHoldHisLiquor can't hold her liquor]].
43	* RichBitch: The noblewoman who refuses to open waterworks for her farmer subjects [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney since metalworking is more profitable.]] [[spoiler:[[JerkassWoobie She develops this attitude]] [[FreudianExcuse as coping mechanism]] [[GoldDigger with everyone around her,]] [[OrphansOrdeal after her parents passed away,]] [[LonelyRichKid only cares about her wealth.]]]]
44	* WeAreAsMayflies: How Mika feels about her relationship with people she meets. [[spoiler:Also, Lumiere source of {{Angst}} before he meets Mika.]]
45	* WhenSheSmiles: When [[CuteWitch Mika]] ''genuinely'' smiles, you'll be guaranteed to go [[CutenessProximity d'awwwwwww]].
46	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: See DeathSeeker.
47	* YoungerThanTheyLook: Ritsuka, despite looking like he's in his 20s like Lumiere, is actually a minor.
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Context Manga / MajoNoShinzou