Disappointed because I was expecting a great tragedy.

The first arc was good, but full of plot holes. After it, they changed PoVs to other witches' romance, which I really didn't care at all. The story became dull and hard to read it. Actually, the whole story is full of plot holes. I would like to know more why the first arc happened that way, more about the witches, why some people are immune to magic, but there's very little explanation about most things.

The characters... the male ones are either male chauvinist or some cute and innocent guys who fell in love with witches. The female ones are just innocent girls who wants to love and have powers. The romance overall is very silly and repetitive, except for the first story.

The art is really pretty. This webtoon is from 2015 and ended in 2018, but the epilogue chapters are from 2022 and the improvement was insane. I'll look forward for this artist's next work.

About the webtoon. Well, I guess I wasn't the target audience.

Depressed author wrote a depressing story, beautifully written

If you like nuanced love stories with longing, then this one's for you.
It's like an anthology of sorts with connected characters portraying the different facets of love and life. You can't help but pray for the happiness of the characters and cry with them.
Absolutely loved it!

There are multiple arcs in this story. Among them only one arc (Philippa and Colin) is my favourite. I read it completely just for this single arc. I cried multiple times , atleast it had a good ending so that I am not in depression.

... Last updated on January 13th, 2023, 9:24am

Not my kind of manga. Its different arcs focus on a different character. Makes it difficult to completely feel for the characters and feels more like side stories/fillers. The type of tragedy in here isn't one that makes you sob but leaves you feeling empty and hopeless.

I think this series is about how immortals lives their life.

And i understand that if its just Philippa ark it would be too short and the last chapter would not be as good as it is now, but at least make it worth the while, not just put on some cheap show to pass our time.

Depressed author wrote a depressing stroy nothing more

I think this might be one of my favorite webtoons, actually. It's basically the epitome of "beautifully tragic" and it feels exactly the right length, even as it left a lot of endings open. (This is how you successfully write an open ending!)

I particularly really like how the witches are portrayed here, beautiful even in their inhumanity. I think it's one of the most successful portrayals I've ever seen of a group of supernatural, immortal beings and how they live their life. And even as they're wonderfully inhuman, their plights somehow still manages to tug at the audience's heartstrings. I'm not a cryer, but this webtoon definitely made me tear up a few times.

Of course, if you're expecting this series to be about Philippa and Colin, well, it's not, really. It focuses on those two the most (especially in season 1), but it's primarily about the witches themselves and their individual loves and how they live through human society, even as human society remain hostile to them.

It also has some really neat critiques of sexism and really leans into the feminist reclamation of witches and what they represent. Definitely an unexpected bonus! It's also not heteosexist at all, and while many of the witches fall in love with men, some are clearly in love with women, and one witch is only interested in sweets (ha).



So, yeah, definitely worth a read, particularly if you're interested in tragic yet beautiful stories. ...There are some happy endings for some of these witches and their loves, but even those are kind of marred by... the inhuman immortality of the witches. So even with the happiness, there's always a tint of tragedy running through them, but that's what makes this series so worthwhile, I think.

It ends on a hopeful note very abruptly. Worth a read, you even get a story of every witches love life and their happy(?) bittersweet ending

I truly wasn't prepared for what I was about to read, but loved it so much. Each of the history it's good on it's on way. And the way they interect with each other it's subtle and marvelous.
Just loved it