Let me get the spoiler out of the way
first: there is nothing that happens in this show that could really
be considered a spoiler.
Flying Witch is, in a way, Slice of
Life in its purest genre form. There isn’t really a plot, or a sense
of progress, or even much of an overarching theme the way some shows
that get tagged ‘Slice of Life’ have some other genre. And when it
comes to storytelling genres, rather than world genres (of which
“urban fantasy” applies here), I don’t think any others really
apply to Flying Witch. I’ve heard this sort of Slice of Life
referred to as ‘Slice of Nothing’ and I think that’s accurate, with a
couple of caveats. First of all, it’s not a strict and absolute
nothing. The characters, at least, do grow over the episodes, and
that’s fine. Second, it should be stressed that even if the term
sounds somewhat negative, there’s really nothing wrong with it.
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