The Weekly Stuff #465 - Witch on the Holy Night (Mahoutsukai no Yoru) Visual Novel Review

<p>The second season of our anime podcast, <i>Japanimation Station, </i><a href="https://youtu.be/MQOgnSvwmwc">is coming to a close tomorrow night</a> with a jam-packed season finale, and we’re bringing you a big chunk of that episode today with our deep dive discussion of <i>Witch on the Holy Night </i>(aka <i>Mahoutsukai no Yoru), </i>the visual novel based on Kinoko Nasu’s first unpublished novel, originally released in Japan in 2012 and released worldwide in a 2022 remake. The remake landed right as we started recording this season of <i>Japanimation Station, </i>and we talked about it at some length in our <a href="https://youtu.be/xBiuqbJnDIE">Top 10 Video Games of 2022 episode in January</a>. So we definitely wanted to do a bigger episode about it at some point, and this is that episode! <i>Witch on the Holy Night </i>is something of a ‘Rosetta Stone’ for the Nasu-verse, featuring all of Kinoko Nasu’s character types and major themes in a single, smaller-scale story, and it’s simple one of the best and richest visual novels ever made.</p><p>Support the show at Ko-fi ☕️ <a href="https://ko-fi.com/weeklystuff">https://ko-fi.com/weeklystuff</a></p><p>Subscribe to JAPANIMATION STATION, our sister series about the wide, wacky world of anime: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/japanimationstation">https://www.youtube.com/c/japanimationstation</a>  </p><p>Explore our archives and subscribe to The Weekly Stuff Podcast on all podcasting platforms:</p><p><a href="https://weeklystuffpodcast.com/">https://weeklystuffpodcast.com</a></p><p>Follow <i>The Weekly Stuff Wordcast </i>newsletter for regular updates and extra content! </p><p><a href="https://weeklystuff.substack.com/">https://weeklystuff.substack.com</a></p><p>Ending music by Thomas Lack <a href="https://www.thomaslack.com/">https://www.thomaslack.com/</a></p><p> </p>