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This probably isn't anything knew, and I know that some rosegarden fans have theorized this already but I just want to know, what is your take on the idea that if Oscar gets his semblance, it will be related to or because of Ruby in some way, shape or form? Because I feel as though at this point, it might be possible with all that he was/is going through.
I actually wrote out my thoughts about this a while back and they haven't really changed!!
but tl;dr:
if Oscar was going to unlock it to save his own life, he would have done it by now. Boy has been through the ringer.
both times his semblance has been teased, he was talking to Ruby
the attachments these two characters have to each other are always highlighted. I can absolutely see Oscar unlocking it if he's at risk of losing her again.
In the epilogue, Oscar admits that he feels even less like himself without Ruby around to remind him of who he is. Very difficult to tap into a power that's an extension of oneself when you're alienated from it.
My only new thought since the og post is with regard to point 2. The first time the semblance conversation comes up, it's about both Jaune AND Oscar... and when does Jaune unlock his? Oh right. Saving Weiss from a fatal wound after the conviction he won't let another one of his friends die after losing Pyrrha at Beacon. Which could mean nothing. 👀
Soooo it's been a hot minute since I made a post about Ichi lol
Honestly, I didn't really have much to say until the last chapter, since the last few months have been a slow build up of new themes, characters, etc, and i didn't see much point commenting until we got a clearer view on things going forward.
But oh boy, do i have some thoughts on it now. I hope y'all enjoy this long ass post full of my wild theories and speculation lol
For one, i love Hakari, they seem really interesting as a new Majik.
Though I have to admit that a large part of it comes from the fact that i, too, also deeply dislike Fujimine, so this scene immediately endeared me to them lmfao
In general, i find her to be obnoxious and kind of grating.
That's not to say that I think she's a bad character- in fact, she feels like a parody or a play on the idea of an overpowered self insert OC/Mary Sue. Specifically the kind that forces themselves into a story and selfishly makes everything about them, with little care for anything else around them, treating the story and characters around her as little more than playthings.
Even her powers lean into that - they make people believe that she's always been in their lives and that they've always loved her, when in reality she just showed up and is brainwashing them.
If Fujimine is supposed to be a direct parody of that, then I think she's a clever one.
However, she's still a particular archetype of character that I don't particularly vibe with, so it felt very cathartic when Hakari shut her down like that.
But as the chapter continues, we see Hakari continue their rant about how much they hate Witches, especially ones like Fujimine, and how they will never let any Witch ever acquire them-
- With the very next scene focusing, very pointedly, on Kumugi.
As if to drive the point home, Ichi is even staring right at her.
This seems to heavily imply that Kumugi will be the one to acquire them later in the arc.
Kumugi herself hasn't really had a focus since the Ichi's Debut ball. Which happened almost exactly a year ago irl, now.
But we've seen her simmering frustration slowly growing in the background. It's shown up after every major event that's happened so far.
We know that Kumugi has a drive to prove herself, and actually enjoys a challenge. But her desire to grow was stifled by her sister.
Now that her sister is no longer pushing her down, Kumugi is free to do what she wants. And she wants to do right by Team Desscaras.
But... She's spent so long letting her sister walk over her out of guilt, suppressing her own desires and potential, that she's struggling to find her footing again.
Watching Amadoro admit to feeling useless and frustrated over her recent failures caused Kumugi see herself in her. And it spurs her to try and help.
Ichi recognizes this immediately, and offers to help, which causes the rest of Team Desscaras to join her.
It's an incredibly wholesome moment.
Let's put a pin in this for now.
I wanna go back a little bit, to this moment between Ichi and Fujimine.
Once she learns about his connection to Desscaras through the student-mentor contract, Fujimine wastes no time trying to kill him.
Ichi, despite the brainwashing, instinctively responds to her bloodlust by stabbing her in the neck.
This sets off a scene where Fujimine calls Ichi's humanity into question.
And it... Deeply bothers him.
There's still a lot we don't know about Ichi. But few things get under his skin like this - in such a direct, obvious way.
Ichi is genuinely stressed about this idea, that he's not truly "human."
Which, this moment made me notice a pattern among Team Desscaras.
Gokuraku turned himself into a cyborg in order to achieve his goal of killing Bakugami. It didn't matter if everyone hated or feared him. He didn't care how far he augmented his body.
Bakugami even directly states that Gokuraku "isn't human anymore."
Later on, it's implied that Desscaras was willing to set aside her own humanity for the sake of becoming the greatest Witch ever, to fulfill the promise she made to Libro.
Hitsugi calls her more of a demon than a Witch.
Once again, someone on Team Desscaras has had their humanity called into question by their enemies.
The only exception so far is Kumugi.
If anything, Kumugi is painfully human.
There's some hints that she might be far more powerful than she appears (look at what she did to Spica), but that potential hasn't been unlocked yet.
Right now, she's just a girl trying her absolute best.
Unlike Ichi, Dess, and Gokuraku, who are all heavy hitters with terrifying strength, Kumugi provides support for the team. She writes everything down, keeps notes, taught Ichi a little bit of magic, and tried to use a little of her medical training to help Minerva.
And - I'm not sure if this is connected or not, but I thought I'd point it out -
Hakari's "home" looks like a giant tower of gifts lovingly piled on top of each other.
It's an especially strange design for a Magik that seems to hate humans so much. You'd think they'd have a much more intimidating home - but maybe that's just stereotyping.
But you know what is interesting?
The first character in the series to bring up the concept of giving gifts is Kumugi.
The series spends half a chapter appreciating the emotional weight gifts have, and demonstrating why they're so meaningful.
Kumugi even bought her sister a gift.
And that was before she gained the courage to stand up to her - before she's able to let go of her guilt and stand tall.
Kumugi just... Wanted to give her sister a gift, bc she loves her.
So, it's interesting that Kumugi is implied to be the one to acquire Hakari, seeing how she's the one who explained to Ichi, the main character, how meaningful presents are - while Hakari's home is a walking tower of gift wrapped presents.
Something else I wanna point out -
Hakari actually praises Amadoro's strength of character for prioritizing the hostage's lives.
They immediately take the praise back, but it's curious how something like that would catch their attention in the first place - enough to comment on it. Especially for a Magik that claims to hate humans so much.
And when Amadoro attacks, her weapon is transformed into a bunch of... Balls, blocks, and cones?
Are those... Supposed to resemble children's toys, maybe? Tho it could be a coincidence.
There also seems to be an implication that normal weapons wouldn't work against Hakari. Amadoro is able to work around this, bc her weapon is crystalized magic and not something truly physical, but that's an exception.
But if that's the case, does that mean that Hakari's trial can't actually be accomplished using weapons?
Before more can be explained however, the fight is interrupted by Fujimine.
But some things I want to note:
Hakari hates witches. This seems to stem from the idea that all Witches treat Majiks like slaves, so the source of this hate is righteous fury on behalf of other Majiks.
They have a special hatred of Witches with qualities similar to Fujimine - that is: arrogant, possessive, overconfident, and patronizing.
Hakari compliments Amadoro for her bravery and care for the hostages.
Putting it all together, it feels like Hakari places a lot of weight on the kind of person someone is. On their attitude, morals, and actions. They take special notice of these things.
Plus:
Their house is a walking pile of... gifts?
They turned Amadoro's weapon into a harmless bunch of cones, balls, and blocks.
Hakari says that they "won't ever let any human acquire them." The scene then cuts to Kumugi, with the implication being that she's the one who will acquire them, due to the law of dramatic irony.
Which, if we follow that train of thought, seems to hint that Kumugi will do something to prove herself to them, which will be what causes Hakari to let themselves be acquired by her.
Now. The bigger question. What could Kumugi do in order to prove herself worthy of acquiring Hakari?
Furthermore, what on earth could Hakari's trail be, where accomplished and powerful Witches such as Amadoro and Fujimine can't beat it, but someone as comparatively weak and inexperienced as Kumugi, can?
Well.
This is a longshot, but what if it's some kind of true act of kindness towards a Magik?
It can't be something shallow or obligatory, it has to be genuine.
Plus, Hakari seems... sincerely upset on behalf of other Magiks' suffering? This isn't a common attitude among Majiks. Many keep to themselves and dislike or avoid humans and even other Majiks, and friendships among them isn't exactly the norm. We've seen exceptions, but those seem to be firmly exceptions.
If Hakari truly believes all humans are selfish and terrible, wouldn't it make sense that their trial is something that they believe a human would never be able to accomplish?
Now, with those ideas laid out, how would Kumugi go about accomplishing this particular trial?
Well.
Hakari has this lil' guy around them, named Sukemaru. They get quite a lot of focus this chapter, mostly with slapstick humor between them and Hakari.
But...
What if Kumugi proved herself by protecting Sukemaru? Sacrificing herself to save them?
That would go against all of Hakari's beliefs on humans.
Bc here's the thing -
The source of Kumugi's motivation for this arc - the very reason why the team is going to support Amadoro on this mission in the first place - is because of her empathy.
She has no connection to Amadoro herself. There is no logical reason for her to get involved.
However, she understands just how frustrated Amadoro must feel. And seeing someone experience the same kind of shame and regret made Kumugi want to reach out and help them in return.
Once again, she's the odd one out among her team. She isn't motivated by injustice or anger, like Gokuraku and Desscaras. And she wasn't abandoned in the woods and left to die, like Ichi.
All three of them had something traumatic happen to them as children. Some outside force came in and changed everything, which made them dedicate the rest of their lives to surviving and getting stronger, to overcome what they experienced.
But Kumugi caused harm to someone she loved - her sister - and the guilt ate at her for years. And the wound may be gone now since Spica had it healed, but Kumugi still spent a majority of her life feeling horrible for what she did.
This made her grow into a deeply considerate person, bc she was so anxious about how her actions might trouble others. Caring and empathy became second nature to her now.
Hell, the reason she suggests buying a gift in the first place, is bc it's a great way to show someone that you care about them.
It's why she wants to become more useful to the team, bc she doesn't want to be dead weight. She wants, more than anything, to help however she can.
So the idea of her befriending Sukemaru and putting herself in danger to save them... doesn't seem too crazy, imo.
It doesn't have to be Sukemaru either, just... The idea of her going out of her way to save or protect a Magik. Bc we know those on World Hater's side will absolutely get rid of anyone who turns on their goals. (Looks at Kizashi)
Plus, the arc seems to be putting Kumugi and Fujimine in direct contrast with each other.
Fujimine starts the chapter by saying no one else but her is allowed to acquire Hakari.
Meanwhile, the chapter itself hints that Kumugi will be the person to do just that.
She's also the complete opposite of the kind of person Fujimine is, at least in Hakari's own words.
Kumugi isn't arrogant, possessive, overconfident, or patronizing
She's polite, kind, anxious, and patient.
While Fujimine is obsessed with "sharing" her love with everyone and getting it in return, Kumugi didn't even think she was worthy of praise at the beginning of the series, and tried to stop Ichi from speaking so highly of her until he convinces her otherwise.
In fact, he's shown her consistent affection, support and trust since the day they met, much to her confusion. As far as she's concerned, she's done nothing to earn this kind of attention, but Ichi gives it to her anyway.
This is in stark contrast with Fujimine's extremely entitled attitude.
They even have some visual parallels in their designs, with Kumugi having short hair with long pigtails, and Fujimine having long hair with short pigtails.
If Kumugi does acquire Hakari, I wonder how Fujimine will react.
Kumugi is the most normal person of Team Desscaras. All the others have had their humanity called into question in some way or another. But Kumugi almost acts like a grounding force - if not for the whole team, then at least with Ichi, who always looks so content and happy just to be around her.
She brings out a young, bright eyed, boyish side of him that no one else can. And she does it just by being around him, no magic required. He's absolutely charmed by her, for reasons only he knows.
So pitting Kumugi - someone who brings out Ichi's endearing humanity simply by existing - against Fujimine - who thinks Ichi is just playing as a human, and wants to see him fully corrupted - is a very interesting choice.
No idea what may come of it, but definitely interesting.
One last crack theory, bc I couldn't figure out where to put it:
What if Hakari's tower is some kind of safe haven or home for weak Magiks who don't want to be acquired? It might explain the tower's appearance as a friendly pile of gifts, Hakari turning weapons into (possibly) toys, and the presence of at least one smaller and weaker Majik around (Sukemaru).
Ichi the Witch Author Interview in popstyle! - Summary/Translation
So yesterday (Feb 4th, 2026 in Japan), a newspaper article came out with an interview with Usazaki-sensei and Nishi-sensei about Ichi the Witch!
As far as I'm aware there's no public way to view it, but there's like, a newspaper archive you can pay to access in Japanese... long story short, I was able to find it! Here is some of the interesting stuff (imo) that we got from that interview!
[Edit, March 7th 2026: There's now a public official upload of the interview in it's original Japanese, which you can read here!]
(DISCLAIMER! I am still learning Japanese! A lot of this translation is done by me checking machine tl's and cross referencing them with dictionaries! Please understand there may be errors, that the information presented here is best as I understand it and may be incorrect, misinterpreted, or updated later if I find it to be wrong! Thank you for patience with me!!)
Quotes when used are from Google translate + my own adjusting and referencing.
Comments that are Mine and not in the article are marked in Blue!
Ichi now has over 1.5 million copies in circulation! (Including digitals)
Volume 7 (jp) will come out on March 4th
[From Nishi] The series idea came from Nishi wondering why there were magic women [witches] (majo, the word for witch in japanese is the character for magic and woman), but no magic men. (Statement also made in the author comments in volume 1)
[From Nishi] Originally, the idea had been about a boy who wanted to become a witch, and a knight who protects witches. However, Nishi thought a world with Living Magic would be more interesting. She also thought it would be more interesting if Ichi was "Outstanding", so she decided to make him only interested in hunting.
[From Nishi] "Ichi doesn't have anything. He doesn't have any dreams, he doesn't have anything he wants to do. He's just living day by day[...]"
On account of the last point, Nishi gave him the Death for Death code. She wanted it to be easy to understand (repeatedly a point of emphasis Nishi makes in interviews), and based it off the Code of Hammurabi (eye for an eye). Regarding death for death, Nishi says "But I don't know if that way of thinking is right. It's a very dangerous way of thinking. I'm looking forward to seeing how (that mindset) grows and changes."
Nishi does the panel layout (storyboards, wiki article here) for the series, and Usazaki says Nishi conveys the composition well. Like Nishi's, Usazaki prioritizes readability as well as ensuring fans can see the faces of the characters they like clearly and appealingly. She wants the series to look beautiful and works really hard to make it that way even though the series is weekly! It's tiring, but she enjoys drawing (THANK YOU USAZAKI SENSEI WE LOVE YOU USAZAKI SENSEI!!!!)
Nishi designs the majiks by thinking of an attribute (fire/water/etc), or things that make good attacks. Then, using that kanji as a basis, she builds the Majik around what's most interesting or useful (story wise, i think.) to create an animal or such. She wants to make it simple to understand for even children.
[More under the cut i just don't wanna decimate ur dash. do you love the colour of the ichi interview]
Uroro was inspired by Howl's Moving Castle. Additionally, the throne element of his design was Usazaki's idea, because "it's the king magic"
WHM is designed as the complete opposite to Ichi. Nishi's inital design had them a more gentle, smiling character (early Kiriwo like maybe), however Usazaki designed a cold eyed, not smiling character, and Nishi thought that fit best, so they went with that.
On the subject of Majiks, Usazaki likes Kizashi bcs of their movement expression options and less human design.
Witches each have their own motifs (which we already knew but its neat to see them mention) , like plants and animals and stuff.
Nishi says that Majiks are not necessarily enemies, and that she wanted to have the freedom to have Majiks be enemies and allies so that readers wouldn't get bored.
On the question "What's a memorable scene you put a lot of work into", Usazaki says the end of the bakugami arc with that battle and all. Nishi backs this up saying that while Usazaki is known for beautiful quiet scenes, she can also draw excellent battles, and that everyone can see how wonderful they are and praise her.
In terms of pairing up for Ichi the Witch, Nishi started Ichi conceptually while working on Iruma, but as she was working on Iruma, she said she wanted Usazaki to do the illustrations, and an offer was made to her. At the time, Usazaki had been doing her own storyboards so wasn't sure about having someone else do them. She asked to meet and talk with Nishi, and was interested by the storyboards she received.
Nishi says that, as a writer, she'd always wanted to try writing for Jump. After she started trying to do that, she found Usazaki was illustrating for Jump, so everything worked out really well there. Having serialized Iruma for eight years (plus it getting an anime and 4 spin offs and one of those spinoffs is getting an anime and--) she feels pretty secure in that so she wanted to regain a sense of urgency, which she definitely feels in jump, where she can't let her guard down. She's happy about this. (nishi sensei mentioned wanting to challenge herself in a magazine interview about mostly iruma and a bit of ichi a few months ago. terrifying nishi. you're amazing we love you.)
[Usazaki on becoming a Mangaka] She grew up reading magazines like nakayoshi, hana to yume, and then jump. She really liked One Piece, and joined the art club at her high school. From there she started posting on Social Media, etc.
[Nishi on becoming a Mangaka] She always loved drawing, and after knowing a guy in high school who wanted to be a mangaka, she submitted a manga to an award and recklessly moved to Tokyo after graduating. She won that award, got a serialization, struggled a lot with that serialization and then became an assistant to learn more.
Usazaki cites "Tsubasa" by CLAMP, and "NGLife" by Kusanagi Mizuho as inspirations.
Nishi cites "Hellsing" by Hirano Kouta as an inspiration
In terms of mindset, Nishi says she doesn't assume people will read what she writes, and so she works to make eyecatching illustrations and spreads, and making something people Want to read.
Nishi also says that whenever Usazaki submits a really good manuscript she wants to write an even better story, so it synergies well.
Both of them say they want to go as far as they can! Please support the series (I WILLLLL!!)
Notes on all the characters!
Ichi:
"Completely different from the character I first designed, who loved magic and wanted to be a witch." (Nishi)
WHM:
"Fluffy clothes and hair." (Usazaki)
"At the end of their fight with Ichi, they looks like they're smiling. I wonder why." (Nishi) (YEAH I WONDER.)
Desscaras:
"I just told Usazaki to design her with the 🥺 emoji and black hair and Usazaki came back with the perfect design. Genius!" (Nishi)
"She's a strong and cute character, I love her." (Usazaki)
Her design was completed within 5 hours of Nishi and Usazaki's first meeting. (perfect from birth...)
Gokuraku:
"He was originally going to be a tsundere, but instead I made him a 'sexy older brother (oniisan) lol'" (Nishi) (I swear on my life that is exactly what she said. I would never lie about Nishi calling Gokuraku sexy.)
"I love his freckles they're so cute" (Usazaki)
Kumugi: "We made her at the same speed as when the seralization started" (Nishi)
The article also mentions the giveaway they're doing but lets be real none of us are eligible so! That's the end of that! Thank you for reading all this! I would post the full article in jp but that is against tos and I'm not trying to get banned from jp newspaper archive. If you're interested in the raw though, shoot me a message and Ill try and help you find it! This is most of the interview, though some things that were just laying out the setting or repetitive I opted not to mention. you're not missing anything.
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...Bruh could have drawn something cuter and more "lovey dovey" if my mood ain't this bad and my thoughts ain't this spiraling. I've risen from the grave LOL, yes I know, still mediocre than ever (at least I tried! Kekwww)
Glad it is finally an off work day, but it is not over yet, life's still going, evil still keeps walking around... But hey, a little bit of hope won't hurt, huh?
Also, it's 2026 and these two are still yearning I am going to flip any moment now aaaaaaaaaaaa
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