An American Writer's Thoughts on Japanese Animation

To Life – Once Upon a Witch’s Death Spoiler Review

This is a show that legitimately scared me, when I was just approaching it. Not because it was conventionally scary or even related to the horror genre, but because it had some creative DNA that I know backfires far too often.

This is the pitch for Once Upon a Witch’s Death: on her seventeenth birthday, apprentice witch Meg Raspberry is told that she only has a year left to live before a horrible curse claims her. There is an out, but it’s not easy: she needs something called a Seed of Life, and according to her mentor, the only way to make one of those is by collecting a thousand tears of joy in the time Meg has left.

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