2016 modern fantasy, shounen manga adaptation in 12 episodes:
AniDB.
Makoto the trainee witch moves to a rural town in Aomori prefecture to
live with her (non-magical) relatives.
This is thoroughgoing pastoral slice-of-life stuff: it's not even
that challenges are resolved by the end of the episode, it's that they
barely exist at all. Kei, the member of the host family closest to
Makoto's age, may be beginning to think about a relationship with his
schoolfriend Nao, but after some initial suspicion of this newcomer
sharing Kei's house Nao doesn't get jealous, or cut Makoto dead, or do
any of the sillinesses that usually happen in these things. Is the
ghost who works at the local supernatural creatures' café painfully
shy? Being friendly to her will deal with that.
Two cats get their own voice actors. Even though all they say is
variations on "maow".
Mostly this is a praise of slow, small-town living, and the beauty of
nature. While things happen, they're not plot-type things: they're
more likely to be "oh, let's go and visit the sky-whale that's flying
by today". There's little story progress beyond the introduction of a
few extra characters, and the relationships are basically static,
which I thought was a bit of a shame.
I certainly can't say this is great anime, but it's one of the more
enjoyable series I've seen lately. "Nothing Happens" appears to be an
anime genre of its own (see also the various Aria series), and this
is a fine example of it.
No sequel has been announced.
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