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Wandering Witch Manga #2

Wandering Witch 02 (Manga): The Journey of Elaina

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As the wandering witch Elaina continues on her travels, she meets a boy who collects happiness in a bottle to give to someone he loves, a bedridden young man who makes peace with his end, and a mysterious princess in the royal palace of a ruined country. When travel fatigue begins to set in, Elaina reunites with her mentor Fran, the Stardust Witch, who rekindles Elaina's passion for her journey.

192 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 8, 2020

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2,454 reviews21 followers
December 22, 2021
Le premier tome a été une excellente lecture et ce second tome l’a été tout autant. Ce manga je l’attendais avec tellement d’impatience et je ne suis vraiment pas déçue. Le format histoires courtes est vraiment plaisant et j’aime beaucoup le principe. On a un fil conducteur qui sert de lien entre les petites histoires. Ce second tome est dans la lignée du premier et tout aussi agréable à lire.

Dans ce second tome, on retrouve Elaine toujours dans ses voyages. Elle continue d’explorer le monde et surtout de venir en aide aux personnes qu’elle croise. Elle ne peut pas s’en empêcher et fait de sacrées rencontres. Ses voyages vont finir par l’amener dans une ville où elle va retrouver une vieille connaissance: son maître la sorcière Fran.

Les différentes rencontres que Elaine va faire ont été particulièrement touchantes dans ce second tome. On a tout d’abord un jeune garçon qui a enfermé du bonheur dans un bocal pour offrir du bonheur à sa domestique qui a toujours l’air sombre. Nino m’a beaucoup touché et je trouve la finalité de cette histoire assez dramatique et triste. On a également une histoire tragique lorsqu’elle finit par se retrouver dans un village où tout le monde l’a prend pour une certaine Nina. Elle finit par rencontrer Abel, un jeune homme gravement malade qui attend que la mort vienne le chercher. Cette histoire était vraiment très triste je trouve. Abel m’a fait tellement de peine. On a également une jeune femme dans un palais situé dans un pays en ruine. Cette histoire est elle aussi assez triste quand on découvre toute la vérité. Heureusement que les retrouvailles avec Fran remonte le niveau, enfin un peu de joie et pas d’histoires dramatique. Il me tarde de découvrir la suite!

Ce second tome était vraiment très émouvant. Beaucoup de rencontres et d’histoires bouleversantes. Le périple de Elaine est vraiment sans répit. Elle y découvre tellement de choses mais faut surtout des rencontres qu’elle ne pourra pas oublier de sitôt. Ce manga me plait toujours autant et j’ai déjà hâte de voir la suite des aventures de Elaine et découvrir surtout ce qu’elle va découvrir par la suite!
Profile Image for Jane Lebak.
Author 47 books392 followers
May 26, 2021
The good: the artwork was still amazing, and I like Elaina. She's at her best when she's with Fran, as in the first volume.

The bad: all three stories before she met up with Fran were incredibly dark. I was waiting for Fran's story to help her make sense of the three things that had come before, but then Fran didn't really have anything to offer in that regard. As a result, I'm left unsettled.

The third volume won't release until November, I believe, but I'll give that one a shot too. If it's the same way, I probably won't keep going.
Profile Image for Jules.
72 reviews1 follower
June 30, 2024
This has taken a very dark turn and I like it
Profile Image for Kayleigh Wiebe.
462 reviews14 followers
February 5, 2025
Disappointed in this one compared to the first. The vignette style was too short to really feel the impact of each mini story. And it was missing the whimsy and charm of the first volume. Not sure if I’ll continue on with this series, unless Elaina as a main character gets more of an ongoing storyline, or the stories are more robust.
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1,376 reviews1 follower
July 10, 2024
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J’enchaine rapidement avec le second volume de la série, car après celui-là, je n’ai pas la suite… pour le moment ! Suivre le voyage d’Elaina est très divertissant, surtout que malgré ses belles rencontres, cela finit parfois mal ou dans une ambiance assez malaisante. La pauvre, elle est encore jeune et elle se retrouve à devoir faire face à ses situations toutes seules, et sans avoir une personne à qui parler, pour comprendre, pour relâcher la pression.

Ce nouveau tome est coupé en quatre parties, et il faut bien l’admettre, les trois premières sont vraiment très tristes, parfois, on ne s’y attend même pas. Heureusement, la dernière est plus que joyeuse, et permet de reprendre du courage tant à Elaina qu’à nous lecteur. Après tout, même s’il existe des séries dramatiques, celle-ci n’a pas l’air de s’y prêter à première vue. Toutefois, la réalité est tout autre, puisqu’un voyage ne peut être que joyeux ou avec de belles rencontres. Est-ce que ses (més)aventures sont un signe pour Elaina ? Après tout, elle a choisi de devenir sorcière afin de pouvoir voyager comme le personnage de son livre préféré. Ses mauvaises expériences ne montrent elles pas, que la réalité est différents des contes de fées d’une certaine manière ?

Pour le coup, je me demande quel est vraiment l’intérêt des sorciers dans cette série. Certains deviennent livreurs ou professeurs par exemple, mais quel est l’intérêt d’avoir autant de sorciers ? Le rang le plus élevé, les sorcières ont une petite broche qui semble leur donner un statut particulier, mais pourquoi ? Il n’y a pas vraiment de monstres à combattre ou d’ennemi à affronter, donc j’avoue ne pas trop comprendre. Même si la magie est utile au quotidien, et même si Elaina voyage beaucoup, on ne voit pas trop son utilisation quotidienne dans une ville par exemple. J’aimerais bien découvrir cet aspect-là du coup.

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Profile Image for Casey.
678 reviews12 followers
June 26, 2021
Eliana's world is one where hopes go to die. I had a hope that I might find a reason to care about Eliana -- that died. I had a hope that I might care about ONE of her adventures -- that died. I had a hope that ONE character out there might be empathetic to me -- that died. I had a hope that the manga might inspire me in some way to want to read the light novels after taking a look at the manga -- that died.

For whatever reason, I just don't really care much for Eliana or her travels. I may still, at some point, try the light novel as the source material is nearly always better than the adaptation. But I am in no rush whatsoever to make it happen.
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82 reviews2 followers
September 8, 2024
J'ai beaucoup aimé ce tome !

Elaina est une sorcière voyageuse alors les histoires et les rencontres s'enchaînent. Dans ce tome, plusieurs histoires sont émouvantes et difficiles. Il a montré à Elaina les côtés négatifs des voyages et l'a amené à réfléchir à la raison de son voyage à la fin du tome.

Le côté attachant du personnage principal fait vraiment le charme de ce manga. Les aventures ne font pas dans le grandiose et la magie est utilisée avec parcimonie, mais Elaina est adorable !

La dernière aventure plus légère de ce tome et ses retrouvailles avec une vieille connaissance étaient bienvenues après les épreuves précédentes.

Hâte de lire la suite !
Profile Image for John Ross.
182 reviews
January 20, 2022
as the artist says, heavy stories from the first novel

These wandering Witch stories are interesting in the way that sometimes our POV character isn’t really a part of the story being told. This becomes less so as the series goes on as I recall, but in this volume our wandering witch just finds a couple of dark fairy tales already nearing their conclusion and just observes them in a Schrödinger’s cat way.
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2,648 reviews13 followers
February 25, 2021
This volume got quite a bit darker than the previous one but yet still had that hit of innocence and kindness.

I really do like the format that this series is, something I havent read before as its told more as a dairy than as a flowing story (even though it seems to be in chronological order so far)

The final chapter was really nice too, looking forward where elainia goes from there.
Profile Image for S.N. Arly.
Author 7 books16 followers
May 2, 2022
Another delightful collection of Elaina's journeys. A few of these were not in the anime, possibly because they were pretty dark, and at least one got a more open-ended resolution in the anime. At this point we can also see that Elaina isn't as entitled and full of herself as she is in the anime.

Looking forward to book 3.
Profile Image for Moriah Venable.
1,374 reviews33 followers
July 7, 2022
I really enjoyed this volume. And I was happy to see a character from the first volume.

Similar to the first volume, the design is cute but the stories have a serious tone. As soon as we met an amnesia princess in a castle, I knew the reason was not going to be a good one.

Elaina learns more about the world. I am hoping to get volume 3 soon.
Profile Image for Sombre Grimoire.
1,536 reviews21 followers
November 4, 2022
Ce manga est vraiment un plaisir à lire.
Ce que je retiens surtout de ce tome, c'est une particularité que je n'ai pas souvent retrouvé ailleurs.
Elaina voyage, mais là où elle voyage (et on avait déjà quelques exemples dans le premier tome) on se rend compte que tout ne fini pas systématiquement bien.
Ce tome était vraiment très émouvant et fort sur ce point-là.
Profile Image for DonutKnow.
3,357 reviews49 followers
December 15, 2024
I didn't think I would reading such dark tales in this series! I was also of two minds, because as a passing traveller, Elaina does not get directly involved in the outcomes of the story- what happens in the lives of these characters afterwards is like a leaf flowing away in the wind. I respect and am kind of outraged at it at the same time... 🤔
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70 reviews
July 13, 2022
I really enjoyed this volume and following Elaine’s journey as she continues her travels meeting up with her old master was good to see what she was also doing. I can not wait to continue with reading these.
Profile Image for Emmanuel Nevers.
403 reviews8 followers
August 24, 2021
In this Volume, Elaina discovers her purpose. I really am loving this series.
666 reviews4 followers
January 23, 2022
I really don't like manga that consist of self-contained short stories. Especially not when they're this dark.
Profile Image for untitled lullaby.
1,076 reviews6 followers
January 2, 2024
I think this might be better than the first one…barely though. The protagonist is less annoying and the stories are slightly better, the pacing is a little better. Idk
Profile Image for Aurora.
3,678 reviews10 followers
did-not-finish
May 22, 2024
Yeeeeaaaaaah I got one chapter into this volume, which featured an enslaved woman killing herself for ~poetic tragedy~ reasons, and decided this series is not for me!
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2,585 reviews27 followers
March 21, 2025
These stories were much darker than the last volume!
Profile Image for Krystal Caloia.
1,140 reviews3 followers
September 14, 2025
Elaina is kind of a snob. I'm not a fan of this.
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Profile Image for Desirrae Thomas.
126 reviews7 followers
January 8, 2026
This was surprisingly heavy?? Like a lot more traumatic than I expected from the Wandering Witch, ya know?? It was good, and the depth was there. But damn. Heavy.
Profile Image for Mark.
2,816 reviews274 followers
December 13, 2020
Elaina’s travels take her to a village with a dark secret, a different village with a sad not-so-secret, and then a castle with the darkest secret. At this point you might be wondering what the heck is going on, but it turns out that isn’t a secret at all.

I quite like the format of this series - Elaina shows up, inserts herself in a vignette, spends time with people, then travels again. If anything, this book encapsulates the strengths and weaknesses of the narrative structure while also acknowledging them.

The first three stories are all depressing as hell. The middle one is slightly less depressing, but only by degrees. The first really emphasizes how inexperienced Elaina still is - she should have seen the results of one party’s actions differently than she did. It’s the perfect ‘perceived thoughtful gesture goes horribly wrong’ story.

The middle one is the weakest story, so I’ll skip on to the third, which is a gruesome old-school horror story wrapped in a mystery and an age-old tale of forbidden love. This one has trigger warnings for lots of stuff that would be spoilers, but let’s just say torture and (separately to that) woman-specific violence (not the r-word, but still very bad). This one is about how tragedy warps people, basically.

By this point I was at the level of ‘this is good but I’m pretty depressed now’. To my surprise, the book addresses this in the fourth story, which is all about the nature of being a wanderer like Elaina and it deals with her getting over her own trauma from seeing so much bad stuff.

It’s actually a really clever touch to see our narrator/point of entry into such downer stories be as affected as the audience. Rod Serling she is not - ask your parents - Elaina is there and she has seen some things and then had to deal with what she leaves behind when she goes.

I love the inclusion of an old friend and the interesting little society that’s set up in the city. By the time we’re finished, Elaina has found her love of travel again and she’s off, hopefully to somewhere a bit cheerier. If anything, she’s at least coming to accept that her transient nature means she can’t do much of anything except hear the stories of those she meets.

3.5 stars, rounded down for being three quarters of a huge bummer, even if I really enjoyed most of the stories. The lack of variety really doesn’t do it any favours, even if the fourth chapter smartly addresses that very fact. Definitely one of the stronger anthologies I’ve enjoyed - the author IS very good at quick world-building and good at characterization which helps a lot. Solid.
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75 reviews
July 27, 2021
Pretty dark, actually, compared to the first volume. Still good, though.
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