#virgin witch maria

[jeremy-ken-anderson]

Villains with Bad Arguments

Maria the Virgin Witch is at once as silly as and a lot deeper than its name would suggest.

Unfortunately one of the places where it tries to be deep is in various antagonistic forces telling Maria not to try and stop the prolonged, brutal war between the Franks and Britons using her magic.

There are decent reasons they could point to, and sometimes they do mention them in an offhand way, but the main arguments they offer are:

Angels: This is the way things are. You're upsetting the natural balance of things.

This one's called out in the show, as Maria points out that she is of the world, ergo shouldn't her actions be considered part of the world's natural order, and also wtf do they mean people dying of plague praying to a god who is definitely there but opts to do nothing about it is The Plan?

Priests, other Witches: You're never going to achieve your goal. You're wasting time you could be spending making money or getting knocked up. Also when you stop the battles the mercenaries get desperate and attack people which is totally your fault.

The first argument skirts close to reasonable - It's unlikely that a single person, even with Maria's bonkers magic, can end the war on her own - but it's also like telling a doctor they'll never eradicate all disease. Like, Fine, but meanwhile there's a disease in front of me and I can treat it, gtfo my way.

Forest Spirit/The Devil?: This entity takes the opposite tack to the priests, which I guess is fitting. It says, "hey, if you succeed you'll be out of work."

This is frankly the stupidest of all the takes presented so far. One of my favorite comics back when I was in college had a therapist who said she wanted to build tools her patients could help themselves with so they didn't have to come back to her forever. Asked whether she was just putting herself out of work she replied that if it eventually meant the world didn't have anyone who needed a therapist anymore she'd go find a new job quite proudly.

You see what I mean? It's not that there aren't arguments to be made about the girl trying to use huge dragon summonings and explosions and walls of fire to stop a war with minimal violence. (At the least, people could redirect her toward things that would achieve what she claims to want more effectively.) Rather, it's that the arguments that are being made are boneheaded, often taking the tack that maybe war is better than no war, actually. Which is an utterly indefensible position, just on the face of it. Making the argument is functionally an immediate own-goal.

[doyouknowthisanime]

Do You Know This Anime?

[lirios26]

Coquette girl

[nootingextras]

Maria Icons

Thank you, Kitten, for the commission!

Series: Maria the Virgin Witch Count: 1,900 Type: 100 x 100, Base Icons NSFW?: Blood, Bruising Credit: Like or Reblog, Editing is allowed Link: OneDrive

Preview:

[misspjsuperior]

The symbol of the essence of creation, often expressed in the simple form of the vesica piscis. According to Christian legend God incarnate himself, like each of us, was born to die. And not of some vapor, not descended from the heavens fully formed, but of the flesh and blood of a human body as a helpless baby, an animal among other animals, apes that we are. There is magic in the mundane. There is a sanctity beyond the golden halls of the great papacy that cannot be tainted by the water, swear, blood, and shit of impoverished birth in the mud and straw of the barn. That which is deemed filthy is where the holy persists the most gloriously.

Maria Rosa

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illustrated and modeled here by PJ Superior

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[dummy-dot-exe]

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[ladyloveandjustice]

I finished Maria the Virgin Witch, which is a solid anime with a fun main character that not only has witches (always a plus) but legitimately examines how bullshit enforced purity standards are and the harmfulness of fundamentalist Catholic dogma, but the most important thing about it (jk) is it gives one of the most impressive ladies-carrying dudes moments I've seen in a while- not only is he twice her size, he's wearing (partial) armor, AND she's carrying a bigass heavy looking solid gold (?) cross she just looted in one hand and not breaking a sweat..incredible. That's talent. Biggest twist in the anime. She deserves better than this garbage man she has to haul around.

[animebw]

...son of a BITCH, of course Maria the Virgin Witch was directed by the same guy who directed Code Geass. Absurd mishmash of campy/horny anime bullshit with deliriously ambitious sociopolitical storytelling? That's the Goro Taniguchi special!

[joyejoyu]

Gale the Virgin Witch!!

[thelynxnamedeco]

Today I have an interesting treat:

Maria the virgin witch, vol 1.

An interesting story about a witch in medieval times who is frustrated at the French and English fighting so she takes it upon herself to disrupt the "natural order" because war (at least in her back yard) is bad. She does this by summoning giant dragons and serpents and even uh.. summons her succubus and incubus to seduce the higher ups and convince em not to fight haha. It's an interesting tale and at the end of the first vol we see that the angels aren't too happy with her meddling and it appears god has put a lock on her, as long as you are a virgin you can continue to be a witch! Will she continue her love exploits with the Frenchman who woo'd her or will she stay true in her idealology of "war bad"?

I think this manga was cute, with some pretty interesting graphic shots of fighting and a few shadowy shots of lewd acts (idk if this would step over the guidelines from ecchi to hentai) but they are far n few between in the first vol. I do think I will continue this one down the road, it's got a very nice art style with it. I'll also say my version for some reason actually feels like paper instead of the plastic type you'd get from the higher ran manga like Naruto. I don't know why but I like it!

Good stuff, belongs on the shelf.

[popcorn-an-artist]

I wanted to watch a fun and funny anime and I choose this. Yeah was more serious compared to what I thought it will be like. However I loved the story.

[jeremy-ken-anderson]

Virgin Witch Maria

There’s definitely some Reed Richards Syndrome in this anime -

A state where the protagonist and those like them have such world-changing abilities that it’s silly and vaguely offensive to leave the world they’re in just like our own. It implies a ridiculous incompetence, foolishness, selfishness, or some mix of the three. It’s a low-magic world...but the witches are not at all low-magic witches.

- but also there’s something fun about the tonal whiplash? The knights and mercenaries and conscripts of the French and English armies are attempting to have their dirty, bloody war with all its terror and hostage-taking like the wars they had here in our world, and then a witch shows up and demands everyone stop fighting and to make sure they listen she summons a fucking dragon and forces everyone back to their own sides by drawing big walls of fire all over the battlefield. It’s bonkers.

There’s also this really interesting dynamic that is partly the standard trope (church has political power and hates witches, peasantry is quietly fine with witches but scared of church) but you also get a sense of the witches themselves as a semi-political entity unto themselves, forming into guilds and teams here and there and sometimes working with nobles on either side of the war.

In the face of all this, having a lot of Maria’s motivation tied up in her romantic and/or sexual awakening as well as her youthful notions of pacifism makes her a loose cannon, and you see that people in the universe actually think so.

It is also enormously to the series’ credit that basically everyone they’ve given screen time to is someone I want to see more of. Even the named scumbag mercenaries. Everyone’s just fun to watch, and the way they’re bouncing off of each other is interesting so far.

[mindful-mango]

Maria and her familiars from Maria the Virgin Witch! Drawn in 2016, this was also my first attempt at digital coloring back in 2019. As with my other old art, I've gone back and tweaked it to my current standards. Also, this is a very good show!

[nootingextras]

Viv Icons

Thank you, Kitten, for the commission!

Series: Maria the Virgin Witch Count: 437 Type: 100 x 100, Base Icons NSFW?: Blood Credit: Like or Reblog, Editing is allowed Link: OneDrive

Preview:

[misspjsuperior]

They call her “Vag!na Mary” even tho “Vulva Mary” would be more anatomically appropriate.

But for the past ten years I’ve called her Maria Rosa, ever since she came out of me in my first year in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles (aka LA). Today I walk with Her upon my body through Dutch gothic cathedral gardens on some various errands. So much has happened in these expanses of time and distance between here and now and there and then across the incredible gamut of tragedies and miracles alike.

The divine (sometimes seemingly absurd) mysteries like that of Maria have saw me through the whole way. I’ve survived vibrantly after having writhed on the thresholds of ruin, poverty, chronic illness, post traumatic stress. Despite it all there is also joy, friendship, beauty, and as much good luck as bad, strengthened by cunning and bravery. Many changes. The only constant is change.

After all this time and new creations I still got Maria tapestries etc for others too but how may you lay claim? Be bold enough to holler at me to get what I got. Don’t be afraid to let me know what you desire. 🌹

[manga-vs-anime]

Maria the Virgin Witch