#makoto kowata

[doyouknowthischaracter]

DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?

#dyktc polls #polls #makoto kowata #flying witch #category: animation #category: series

[marril96]

Flying Witch 1.01 | It's Been Six Years

#flying witch #makoto kowata #kowata makoto #animeedit #animeedits #my gifs #edit

[yuribracket]

Maligned Yuri Bracket: Preliminary Round!

How is Nao Ishiwatari/Makoto Kowata (Flying Witch) maligned?

No explanation offered.

How is Konatsu Amano/Koyuki Honami (A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow) maligned?

"They are both so very depressed"

How is Mayura Ransaika/Urara Ransaika (Akane-banashi) maligned?

"Urara is a secondary character and Mayura is even more of her side character, her rakugo pupil that is an absolute head-over-heels sub. Between them not being major characters and this not being a super popular series, there are only a few dedicated himejoshi that appreciate this one."

#flying witch #a tropical fish yearns for snow #akane banashi #nao ishiwatari #makoto kowata #konatsu amano #koyuki honami #mayura ransaika #urara ransaika #malignedyuribracket #prelims #tournament poll

[mahou-furbies]

Witchtober 13: Makoto (Flying Witch).

#kowata makoto #flying witch #witchtober #my art

[fictional-birthdays]

Happy Birthday! (February 22)

D (Pop’n Music)

Sonar (Pop’n Music)

Nbiri (Pop'n Music)

Mugibatake (Pop’n Music)

Masyumaro (Sanrio)

Nakajima-san (Pop’n Music)

Alioni (Seven Deadly Sins)

Avery (Animal Crossing)

Fuguki Suikazan (Naruto)

Lulu Bell (D.Gray-man)

Hamburg (One Piece)

Jerry (One Piece)

Li Chaoyang (I-Chu)

Taketora Yamamoto (Haikyuu!!)

Neko (K Project)

Priest (Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE)

Nyamirin (Mikagura School Suite)

Makoto Kowata (Flying Witch)

Takuya Nomura (Prince of Tennis)

Nyanta (Log Horizon)

Suzuka Dairenji (Tokyo Ravens)

#birthday #february 22 #animal crossing #d gray man #flying witch #haikyuu #i chu #k project #log horizon #master detective archives rain code #mikagura school suite #mdarc #naruto #one piece #popn music #prince of tennis #sanrio #seven deadly sins #tokyo ravens

[quirkycatsfatstacks]

Manga Monday: Flying Witch Vol. 3

Series: Flying WitchWriter/Artist: Chihiro IshizukaPublisher: Vertical ComicsReleased: September 26, 2017 Find it on Goodreads Summary: Makoto Kowata is a witch. Or rather, she’s a witch in training. As such, she has packed up all her belongings (and cat) to live with distant relatives. It’s a bit of a family tradition – a way of sending young witches out into the world – but in a gentler…

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#Chihiro Ishizuka #Cover #Flying Witch #Flying Witch Vol. 3 #Manga #Manga Monday #Manga Mondays #Vertical Comics

[my-anime-list]

Flying Witch

In the witches' tradition, when a practitioner turns 15, they must become independent and leave their home to study witchcraft. Makoto Kowata is one such apprentice witch who leaves her parents' home in Yokohama in pursuit of knowledge and training. Along with her companion Chito, a black cat familiar, they embark on a journey to Aomori, a region favored by witches due to its abundance of nature and affinity with magic. They begin their new life by living with Makoto's second cousins, Kei Kuramoto and his little sister Chinatsu. While Makoto may seem to be attending high school like any other teenager, her whimsical and eccentric involvement with witchcraft sets her apart from others her age. From her encounter with an anthropomorphic dog fortune teller to the peculiar magic training she receives from her older sister Akane, Makoto's peaceful everyday life is filled with the idiosyncrasies of witchcraft that she shares with her friends and family.

#flying witch #anime online #anime #f

[anipast]

I don’t want it.

#flying witch #furaingu witchi #makoto kowata #nao ishiwatari

[hellionosphere]

#ふらいんぐうぃっち #Flying Witch #Anime #GIF #Makoto Kowata #Chito-san #Reaction #Cat #Black cat #Witch #Familiar #Flying #Excited #Waving

[laguzmage]

Flying Witch is not a universe where science and magic are at odds, but rather one where a witch will cast spell of analyze DNA sequence

#flying witch #makoto kowata

[vesperion-kiri]

#flying witch #slice of life #manga cap #makoto kowata #witch

[marril96]

Flying Witch 1.01 | It's Been Six Years

#flying witch #makoto kowata #kowata makoto #nao ishiwatari #ishiwatari nao #animeedit #animeedits #my gifs #edit

[animiconz]

makoto kowata | flying witch icons (300x300)

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#makoto kowata #flying witch #makoto kowata icons #flying witch icons #anime #anime icons #twitter icons #icons

[kayabuki]

@ishiduka007: 弘前さくらまつりが中止になっちゃたので描きました。 #弘前さくらまつり #ふらいんぐうぃっち

#flying witch #kowata makoto #makoto kowata #chito #author's art

[taperwolf]

Folklore deep cuts in manga and anime!

Ishizuka Chihiro writes and draws the manga Flying Witch, which became a manga in 2016. It's about a young woman, Kowata Makoto, who is living with the family of a relative in the traditional way a witch proves her independence; an elevator pitch might be Kiki's Delivery Service but aged up to high school and in the rural Japanese district of Aomori. Witches in this series operate on the western model — predominantly but not exclusively female, flying on broomsticks, in touch with nature and herbalism — but also deal heavily with the sort of spirits, monsters, and small gods that seem to litter Japanese folklore.

In the second chapter (adapted into the first episode of the anime), Makoto is walking home with her new friend Nao when she finds an interesting herb — a mandrake.

Mandrakes are long-established in Western occultism and folklore. The name comes from the Greek mandragoras, and may refer to any of four species of plants of the genus Mandragora, the briony, some varieties of ginseng, and several less-related plants. The root is often forked, and sometimes looks like a tiny person — and often was manipulated to look more so, either by shaping the root as it grew or by carving it afterwards. The plant turns out to have a powerfully alkaloid chemistry, similar to the related henbane, belladonna, and tobacco, and as early as 45 CE, there are references to it being used as a soporific and anaesthetic.

In folklore, it came to be regarded as having powerful magic, the man shape taking on humanlike properties — and the most obvious magical property of it is its scream. This is part of what made it into the manga: when you uproot a mandrake, it screams. In some tellings, the scream is so loud that it strikes the hearer dead, and therefore special precautions have to be taken when harvesting the thing. Which is all surface stuff; here comes the deep cut: Makoto says something interesting when she's looking for the plant.

Yep, "characteristic smell of ammonia". Which is referring to one of the precautions you traditionally have to take. In the words of Flavius Josephus (in his The Jewish War, circa 75 CE; bolding is mine):

[I]t is not easily taken by such as would do it, but recedes from their hands, nor will yield itself to be taken quietly, until either the urine of a woman, or her menstrual blood, be poured upon it....

So there's your ammonia scent there. It's really just as well that the magical properties are toned down a bit for the manga.

#folklore #flying witch #makoto kowata #mandrake #some of the other harvest methods include things like getting an animal to pull it out which kills the animal

[quirkycatsfatstacks]

Manga Monday: Flying Witch Vol. 2

Series: Flying WitchWriter/Artist: Chihiro IshizukaPublisher: Vertical ComicsReleased: June 27, 2017Received: Library Find it on Goodreads | Summary: Makoto Kowata is a witch. Or rather, she’s a witch in training. As such, she has packed up all her belongings (and cat) to live with distant relatives. It’s a bit of a family tradition – a way of sending young witches out into the world – but in…

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#Chihiro Ishizuka #Cover #Flying Witch Vol. 2 #library book #Manga #Manga Monday #Manga Mondays #Vertical Comics #witch #witchy