Will enrolls in the magic academy to fulfill a promise he made as a child. However, he has a fatal weakness in a world where magic is supreme: he can’t use magic at all. Will uses his sword, which he is good at, to fight the walls and monsters that stand in his way. Will he be able to rise to the top of the tower at the top of the wizarding world?
In addition to the story woven with a dynamic worldview, this work has been attracting attention for the quality of the illustrations in the first episode and the coolness of the action scenes. This time, we asked Oomori-sensei and Aoi-sensei, who are in charge of the original manga, about the birth of “Wistria” and their impressions of the anime.
–Please tell us how “Wistoria of the Staff and Sword” was born and what was the inspiration behind it.
Original author Fujino Omori (hereafter, Omori): To put it bluntly, the project before “Wisteria” was having difficulties. I temporarily dropped that project, and after much deliberation, I came full circle and tried to create something very straightforward, which was “Wisteria.”
–What’s interesting about this work is that even though it’s set in a magic school, the main character is Will, who can’t use magic.
Omori: I’m more of a light novel writer than a manga author, so I thought the setting of a “protagonist who can’t use magic” was pretty standard. I didn’t feel too uncomfortable about the idea and was able to propose it.
In addition, I have been admiring Aoi-sensei’s incredible artwork ever since before “Wisteria” was released, and I felt that the action of moving around and using a sword would really stand out, so I think it was inevitable that it turned out in its current form.
–Why did you decide to team up with Aoi-sensei on “Wistoria”?
Omori: It was love at first sight for me.
Manga: Aoi Sei (hereinafter, Aoi): (laughs).
Omori: Actually, the person I was originally going to ask to draw the manga had to leave the project due to various circumstances. However, the quality of his drawings was so high that I wanted to work with someone of equal or even higher quality. While searching with my editor, I came across Aoi-sensei.
Aoi: I think you searched for about two or three years?
Omori: That’s right.
–What kind of work situation were you in at that time, Professor Aoi?
Aoi: “Wistoria” was my first serialization, so to be honest, I was unemployed before that (laughs). However, while I was working on the work before Wistoria and on Wistoria itself, I was hired as an assistant for Blue Lock, and I worked there until just before the series started. After that, I received the Jump PAINT Drawing Manga Award, and it was about time to aim for serialization, so when I heard about the “Wistoria” manga through my editor, I was skeptical.
I made some drawings, but Oomori-sensei is the author of “DanMachi (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?)” and I thought, “No way! There’s no way this will be chosen.” However, my editor casually told me, “It’s been decided” (laughs).
Omori: I have no skills in manga drawing, so I was trying to write a manga original as if I was a beginner. So when I found Aoi-sensei, I was so surprised that I thought, “There’s someone like this even before the series has started!”
Aoi: It’s truly an honor.
–It felt like discovering a precious gem in a mine.
Omori: Or maybe it was the genie of the lamp. I remember saying to my supervisor, “I’m not going to let such a great person slip away again.”
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