Journal with Witch Episode 10-11 Reaction! | 違国日記

This show is so good ❤

the point deduction is a thing that actually happened in Tokyo Medical University to limit female entrants and it was definitely a huge scandal when it was exposed

I don't think Emiri is trying to actually end her friendship with Asa but I do think she has conflicting feelings about their relationship. On one hand they are childhood friends, but on the other Emiri feels like she cannot confide in Asa about her sexuality because she thinks Asa wouldn't take it seriously. She's creating a mental barrier between herself and Asa, but because Asa's parents are dead she also feels like she can never let her go, because she cares about Asa's well-being. This show is brilliant in portraying the fact different people have different shit going on in their lives and we're all just trying to square the circle and live the happiest lives we can achieve, under the circumstances we often have no control over.

10:14 This was a big scandal that actually occurred in Japan in 2018. It was found that multiple medical universities discriminated against women applicants. For example, it has been reported that Tokyo Medical University secretly reduced female candidates' scores since at least 2006, and it was found that they would also bump up the scores of male applicants to reduce women's enrollment numbers to about 30%. Additionally, Juntendo University set higher passing marks for women based on the claim that women matured mentally faster and as such had better communication skills resulting in an unfair advantage in interviews, and Kitasato University had a similar system prioritizing male applicants. St. Marianna University of Medicine was also found to have discriminated against female applicants, but they denied the claim despite a court ruling indicating that they did in fact rig entrance exam scores against women and repeat applicants from 2016 to 2018. Some university officials and admission staff explained the reasoning for these discriminatory practices was an unspoken understanding that female doctors would work fewer hours of stop working altogether due to marriage and childbirth, which could lead to staffing shortages at hospitals. Following this scandal, acceptance rates for female applicants at medical schools have shot up, to the point that in 2021, the female acceptance rate exceeded that of male applicants for the first time. Further, the percentage of women enrolled in medical schools was over 40% for the first time in 2023.

Asa's singing was great. The show started with her singing the opening song, and now Episode 11 had her singing the ending song, which was a nice touch.

Asa's journey in discovering whether she wants to stand out or not has been going on for a while now. It started, at least after her parents' deaths, with her desire to keep the fact that they died hidden at her middle school graduation, as she wanted to not stand out. Yet when she started high school, she immediately revealed that her parents had died in order to stand out to her newly met peers. Now, in Episode 11, Asa is voicing this particular struggle and seeking advice on how she should live her life.

i feel like they been droopping hints she likes girls all season. the movie she makio let her borrow and was suppose to be fried green tomatoes which is primarily about a lesbian couple thriving through the 50s a time when being openly gay would be very hard

It seems like Asa's dad is one of those guys that is very "I want to be a father, I want to help raise a child" but he thinks that just being physically present and contributing money is enough. It takes so much more than that to raise a child and I really feel for her mom that this is what she ended up with when she just wanted to be 'normal'. I'm thinking the thing with Emiri was more of an intrusive thought than any real desire to end her friendship with Asa. Like it just came to mind and now she ruminates on it, like 'why did I think that at that moment, is that really how I feel somewhere deep down?' but I don't think it's how she actually feels. And yeah there was definitely a flirtatious element to that scene of her with that girl. I just hope she's able to find happiness, whatever that means to her. Oh dude the chocolate boxes in the US now? You want that 30 piece? Fifty bucks. Seriously. The little ones with like 5 or 6 pieces are pricey even for that amount now too. At least in my area that's how bad it's gotten lmao I loved that line about doing what you want to do when you want to do it. It can be hard to just push forward to do that especially if you feel some doubts about it. I'm one of those people that once I'm sure of something about myself, I can't hide it lol which was hard af realizing I was not straight. Like sometimes you gotta hide that for safety and I'm in a damn glass closet because I just can't hide parts of myself that feel important to me. I love that they had Asa singing the ending song, it's such a nice song!

In the manga, it was clearer on the message about sexism, showing that it affected both girls and boys. That scene of the guy quitting the baseball club was part of a larger sequence about guys living in a suffocating toxic male brain environment, always needing to show off, sexualise women for prestige, prove themselves a s being a "man" and so on. It was an internal monologue of Makio hearing about Chiyo from Asa, and noticing how this society is suffocating the youth (both male and female) by perpetuating this. I think the show portrays it's ideal form of masculinity in Kasamachi, who is a grounded, well adjusted guy who is confident but also able to be in touch with his emotions.

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The end scene of episode 11 reinforced my thoughts of episode 9, as I commented before, Asa has just been so depressed and exhausted that she does not have any energy for thinking deeply. Everything is connected, and taking the time to think things through helps you take a stand and make decisions and that's what Makio is trying to encourage Asa to do.

I wanted to say thank you for continuing to react to this series. As soon as I saw Ep1 I knew this show was a treasure and was disappointed to see none of the other react channels watching it this season. I can kinda understand cause the season is super packed. I'm hoping more people discover this show over time.

0:05 If you are curious why Emiri is like GL, I think you should rewatch Eps 7 during the scene where Emiri discusses her confusion about love with Makio, Makio gives a movie For Emiri, Makio wanted to show that differences are not entirely bad, in the film entitled "Tomatoes" with a picture of a green tomato, that's a reference from The American film entitled "Fried Green Tomatoes" is an adaptation of a novel, I forgot the full name, although in the film it is not too explicit, but in the novel it clearly shows the closeness of the characters From both characters

7:33 that's not like mutually exclusive you know