For years, fantasy has been stuck in a mass-produced frenzy of iskai power-maxing—a frenetic mix of modern life and magic that often feels more derivative than daring, telegraphed entirely by those long sentences, tell-it-all titles. Thankfully, the genre is finally starting to get out of this predicament and remember what it used to be: wonders, witches, and worlds. A stat sheet HUD is not required to represent character growth or tell a good story.
Currently, both anime and manga are together a deep old-school fantasy renaissancewith series like Delicious in the dungeon, Ice Cream: After Journey’s Endand Witch hat workshop leading the charge. But that doesn’t mean plating a fish-out-of-water formula from Isekai’s dark ages has lost its appeal. When done right, it still reads – and Bad Spotfusing the witchy, whimsical magic of classic fantasy with the magic of modern influencer culture, the new manga proves that the genre can still feel both familiar and refreshingly strange.
Bad Spotby Hall Jiangfollows Sada, a witch isolated in a haunted forest that only stupid livestreamers can enter in the hope of getting good content…that’s how the story begins. After scaring the bejesus out of the intrusive houseguests, Sada sees them drop the smartphone (or, as she puts it, “the little glowing board”) as she flees into the night. Like putting an iPad in front of a child and watching their little brains melt into all the bright colors in real time, Sada is instantly fascinated by the glamor of social media and all the cute influencers sharing cute pictures for likes. After years of feeling unseen, Sada decides to enter the city and make an impact.
Everything is pretty sweet for Sada, and that’s thanks to her The Princess Diaries– a shopping spree in the big city without having to pay high prices at the stores she robs because she doesn’t have the money – thanks to her spells on cashiers to get a five-finger discount – and uses magic to filter her phone’s camera so she can get the best angles for her growing social media presence. However, her growing fame quickly inflates her, and she makes the big mistake of pretending to be a witch.
While fans take Sadan’s ill-advised moment of transparency as a joke, his witch confession backfires on Hana, a demon-powered woman who is immune to magic and despises witches so much that her double-tap thumbs-up on Sadan’s posts first become Sadan’s Twitter fingers. A serious look instead of becoming a cheerleader the chaos of social media and online fame for Oshi No Ko, Bad Spot as he goes from enemy to lover goth and pink house meme characters enter each other’s worlds on a wild journey where the excitement and danger of social media and witchcraft collide.
What drew me to it Bad Spot so it’s a fun little manga with a unique vibe reminiscent of early romcoms. If I had to compare this weather to anything, he it feels like a mix Enchanted, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Leslie Hung’s Snot Girl. Bad Spot effortlessly balancing the initial promises of comedy and drama without one overshadowing the other. It also doesn’t hurt that the manga’s cute Hana and Sada dynamic is pretty gay (appreciated). There’s no need to crop, overanalyze, or enhance screenshots like other series that connect gags and yarns to piece together a quirky story that will keep geek fans stuck in their heads and on to the page.
while Bad Spot Doesn’t turn off the airplane runway lights, Hana and Sada seem like a guaranteed end game at the end of volume one, Jiang definitely does her big thing, putting enough blushes, stolen glances and odd couple sparks between them, channeling the same flirtatious promise. Sumiko Arai The Boy She’s Interested In Isn’t A Boy At All.
If anything, TGSWIWAGA (“Green Yuri” In short) is a perfect twin Bad Spot‘s seductive, witchy, sapphic vibes. Where only Green Yuri feels like high school Nana actually undertakes the wretched longing of its leaders, Bad Spot It reads like getting (somehow) even more yuri-tinged Kamome Shirahamaslept beforeWitch hat workshop series, Eniale and Dewiela. Honestly, this is as good a quote as any new manga meant to inspire meme ready Google search “That’s right Bad Spot is he gay could hope.
Considering that Jiang is already a household name among yuri fans, writing the spicy, toxic yuri workplace series. Black and White: Tough Love in the Officemost likely Bad Spot It won’t leave people with the odd impression of whether or not its opposites will attract horror icon names. work on the remix.
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