Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina
What started as a slice-of-life anime revealed its true color, and boy, the anime doesn’t hold back from showing its gruesome side. Note: The following contains spoilers for Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina season 1 The most unpredictable anime of 2020 has to be Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina and, there is a reason legit for that. From the very first episode, we meet the witch-in-training Elaina, who resembles Kiki from Kiki’s Delivery Service , but soon enough, the narrative throws the slice-of-life genre out of the window, like it never existed in the first place. Episode 9 of Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina shifted its narrative from joyous slice-of-life series to a gore and more brute action anime in just nine episodes. Many believe that this forceful shift in the narrative was unnecessary. However, considering the series’s structure, many openings and routes are used to merge two different atmospheres in a single string. Fans w...