There’s only two episodes of Witch Watch out right now, but I’m certain that the character I relate to most isn’t bubbly teenage witch Nico, her stoic ogre familiar (and childhood crush!) Mohito, or any of their classmates. It’s actually their homeroom teacher, Ms. Makuwa — who in addition to having to wrangle a class full of magical teenagers, also has to pretend to be #cool in front of them.

In the episode where Nico and Mohito attend school together for the first time, Ms. Makuwa leads the class in a simple icebreaker, where each student introduces themselves with a fun fact. She kicks off the introductions with her name, but stops herself from blurting out that her favorite thing to do is to read manga.

Instead, she saves face(???) by over-enthusiastically announcing that she enjoys mambo dancing instead.

Ms. Makuwa does not want a class of teenagers tearing her to shreds for enjoying manga, so she keeps it a........

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