The Witch and the Beast

📖 SYNOPSIS

Burning with rage and trapped under a witch's curse, Guideau is a feral girl with beast-like eyes and only one goal: find the witch and make her pay. To do that, she partners with Ashaf, a calm, well-dressed mage who literally carries a coffin on his back — and no, they don't explain that right away. The two work for the Order of Magical Resonance, an organization that handles magical incidents across a dark, steampunk-tinged world. In exchange for Guideau's help solving cases involving witches and cursed towns, the Order agrees to help track down the one who cursed her.

The dynamic between these two is the core of the whole thing. Guideau is violent, impulsive, and barely restrained. Ashaf is measured and secretive. They shouldn't work together, but they do, and watching them navigate towns plagued by magic — complete with an intricate system of rune-based 'Lettering' and large-scale magical disasters called 'Paranomena' — gives the show a procedural edge layered over its revenge plot.

This is a 12-episode TV series from 2024, adapted from a seinen manga, and the tone leans hard into dark fantasy with real gore. If you liked the grimy supernatural world of Dorohedoro, the monster-hunting atmosphere of Claymore, or the violent style of Hellsing Ultimate, this fits right in that space. It doesn't hold your hand, and it doesn't soften its edges.