The World's Strongest Witch ‒ Episode 6
While episode five of The World's Strongest Witch had a weaker narrative but delivered the digital age optimism I've come to expect from the show, episode six flipped that ratio and delivered a video game trope bucking narrative that's equally endearing.
Beginning with Lorna desperately trying to skip through an ad for a siscon video game so that she and her new occultist friends can finish making mayonnaise using a recipe she found online (man, this is an anime-ass anime), we're treated to a scene of these powerful RPG archetypes eating raw mayo and quickly realizing the mistake they've made. Then Lorna travels to a seaside town where the villagers fear the enigmatic and fearsome “Wednesday.” This, of course, just turns out to be the day of the week in which monsters attack the community as it's the site of a weekly occurring quest for players to grind experience and items.
Granted, as a man who's been playing RPGs since he was a child and has been consuming internet comedies that poke fun at this media for just as long, this gag is tailor made for me, but it still inspired a chuckle. The logistics of RPG worlds have long required a hefty suspension of disbelief, and it's fun to see the denizens of an otherwise throw-away RPG town react appropriately to the Sisyphean curse of monsters ransacking their town every week for the sake of a video game protagonist who exists entirely outside of their orbit. It was also a fun twist that the town's shady-seeming adventurers' guild is actually just filled with folks who are deeply burnt out after having to fight back monsters every week with no end to their toiling in sight.
The highlight of this episode by a mile is the blue-haired guildmaster who immediately starts fangirling over Lorna, with her letting out an appreciative shriek that's going to live in my brain for the rest of the week when she meets the young woman. This being a power fantasy LitRPG series, Lorna effortlessly dispatches the monsters that have been plaguing this town for what could have been generations, and erects a wall that will help them fend off future attacks more easily. Even as I knew this gag was coming, the villagers' and guild master's dumbfounded reaction and I'm curious if there will be some unintended fallout in the next episode to Lorna easily solving the problems that have defined this community for an untold amount of time.
Even if this episode's structure was familiar, it was still just fun enough to be a good and thoughtful comfort watch. We even got another all time Lorna quote in, “Thinking's too hard, so I'll look it up on the Internet.” This was a breezy romp that, ironically, improved my Wednesday and that's about all I need from a show like The World's Strongest Witch.
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Lucas DeRuyter has more games that he wants to play than he does free time to play them, which makes him the ultimate gamer in 2026! However, you can catch his forays into gaming by following him on Bluesky and checking out his writing portfolio. You can also see the most frequent application of his sick gamer skillz (typing quickly) by checking out ANN's This Week in Anime column.
The World's Strongest Witch is currently streaming on Crunchyroll.
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