In the sense of freshness and viewing, there is no need for all of you in the Mad Poihat room to sit on the TV and wait for the first episode of "The Flying Witch" to play. A considerable number of people present have seen the content of this sentence more than once, and the rest of them have also seen at least part of the picture of the work.

However, there is no difference between broadcasting on TV and showing it in-house, but if you ask what the difference is, most people will answer only with the word "feeling".

When a work produced by an individual or group can be displayed to a considerable number of people through a public platform, then its significance to the producer naturally exists. When something that is naturally demonstrative is realized, it at least breeds an emotion called "satisfaction."

Everyone involved in the animation has their names on the opening or ending credits, and it's a pleasure to be able to find your name in the Staff list - at least for young animation companies like Mad Poihat, whose second title is the first time that many of the young names appear.

When the line "Original: Mad Poihat" first appeared on the TV screen, it also meant that the first episode of "The Flying Witch" began to be broadcast.

The conversation in the conference room was instantly silenced.

In the Mad Poihat anime, Miyayo uses a strategy of hiding his name as much as possible, not because he loves the word low-key, but because if he really wants to label all of them, those three words will appear too often.

Original work, original characters, series composition, planning, music, supervision, art background...... Although these are all co-ordinated work, with so many names, it always seems that this animation is all done by himself.

With a soothing soundtrack, bright graphics, and a slowly cutting story, although too much effort has been put into the so-called "selling point", "The Flying Witch" is still the kind of animation that needs to be watched quietly and calmly, and its real adaptation to the crowd is actually very niche.

However, it is not the kind of cute series that can be expressed enough to attract the audience with limited space and circular plots. From a purely technical point of view, everyday works are the kind of low-difficulty works that save money, but their stories are really the most difficult to express...... This kind of work either doesn't do well or doesn't sell well, or it doesn't get a good reputation.

The most difficult part of the production of all daily animation is actually how to keep the work fresh, and the difficulty of its story composition lies in how to express the less ordinary and interesting parts of the daily life.

And the way the "flying witch" solves this problem can be said to be very ingenious, or it can be said to be the most simple and crude - although we are village girls, we can do magic, isn't this enough?

Of course, this also brings new contradictions, because ordinary life and magic, which is "synonymous with miracles", are contradictory, so it is difficult for the two to get close and combine them.

As a result, the work "The Flying Witch" limits magic, and the magic in the anime is the kind that is "beyond the everyday" but also "just beyond the everyday".

The "witch" needs the freshness of magic to adjust the rhythm of the animation, rather than using magic to create a macro or detailed world view.

In order to become a witch in her own right, fifteen-year-old Kihata Makoto took her demon black cat Kitta to Hirosaki City in Aomori Prefecture, and lived in the home of a distant relative, Kei Kuraki, and began to practice witches in this town.

Because of being overheard in her conversation with the black cat, Kei's sister Chixia is afraid of the sudden "guest", but under pressure from her brother, she has to accompany Kihata to go shopping.

On the way to shop, Kihata picked up a broom and flew up...... This not only reveals that this seemingly ordinary girl is actually a "witch", but also transforms the "hostile" Chixia into a loyal embrace.

Later, Kihata transferred to a local school, met a new friend, Nasu Ishiwatara, and on the way home together after class, she pulled out a mandrake that looked like a tentacle monster and gave it to this classmate as a "symbol of friendship...... Of course, this mysterious creature was ruthlessly rejected by the other party.

In this case, the interesting point is in this mandrake, and the slightly embodied witch wooden banner conflicts with the values of ordinary people.

A visit from a youkai named "Haruno's Porter", a magic class with Sister Kihata who travels around, a witch who turns into a fox during the day after accidentally ingesting potions, a café that hires ghosts as waiters and hosts all kinds of strange guests, a whale that travels the world in the sky, and a fish swallower who comes with the Sandman Festival...... The Flying Witch is accompanied by these "fresh things" throughout the story.

Other than that, this anime really puts its focus on art. Although the previous Black Rock Shooter also paid attention to the depiction of background details, relatively speaking, it still needs to be played in the original painting, and the important part of the character movements needs to be fully expressive. But "The Flying Witch" does not have this kind of part, one is long and one is short, and its picture style is also highlighted.

Overall, its graphics have a striking-eyed feel.

Because of the previous on-site shooting, it maintains a considerable degree of restoration of some of Aomori's on-site scenes, and the difference between the painting and the photograph is that it can allow itself to be expressed in a more subjective degree, and the delicate place is delicate, and the treatment of the light can also get the desired result more cheaply.

The 24-minute episode lasted about half an hour, and with the commercial breaks in between, it was quickly finished with applause in the conference room.

In general, the production of the first episode fully met the expected standards, and there were no obvious quality problems with the pictures and paintings...... This is inevitable, if the first episode with the most sufficient production time is problematic, then the number of subsequent episodes can only be described as a disaster.

"At the same time, our animation is definitely the best in terms of graphics, and I hope that viewers who like 'The Flying Witch' will be able to watch him on HDTV." Miyadai made an unreliable summary in a joking tone.

"Why didn't you say you were going to show it in the theater?" Iwami Mai asked rhetorically.

"So...... It's not quite right, but 'Witch' is an anime made by TV standards after all......"

It's all nonsense, and you can't make any demands on the hardware facilities used by the audience, right?