Episode six of Maria The Virgin Witch, titled “Under The Rose,” is currently streaming on FUNimation for paid members. Free members can watch this same episode six days from now on February 22nd.
It is business as usual for Maria, but she turns her sights on the invading forces of England.
Ezekiel has to show up and become a killjoy by warning Maria that she will be struck down by Heaven’s wrath.
I am surprised that Maria is clueless about Viv, who has made it known that she doesn’t care how many people die in the war. Viv is a war profiteer, which does not make her any different from any normal mercenary. Viv is simply a mercenary that can wield magical powers.
The plot thickens when Joseph’s master is Count Guillaume, who is Brother Bernard’s uncle. I can see that the proverbial “six degrees of separation” is intriguing. It is likely that none of them have a clue to Joseph’s unique relationship with Maria.
I laughed at the scene where Galfa shows his disbelief that Maria is a “brat” upon meeting her face-to-face for the first time.
I was expecting Galfa to be horrified at seeing magic in work, but was shocked that he was excited and happy. The expression of Galfa’s face is like taking a kid to Disney World for the first time to meet Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
Bernard’s reaction to learning about the link between Maria’s powers and her virginity reminded me of the reaction Roger Chillingsworth had made in the Scarlet Letter. It is too much to contain after learning that Maria, branded “impure” by the Catholic Church, is actually a virgin. The Roman Catholic Church does a terrible and s—tty job in handing moral paradoxes like the titular Maria.
When you look at things from Bernard’s perspective, that revelation is funny.
This episode was all right to watch so far.
I can obvious see that the Catholic Church is manipulating its message to retain power. It also makes me question the gap between the “servants of God” and God’s actual servants like Ezekiel, who is starting to doubt everything.
When you look at it, God has nothing to do with war let alone the One Hundred Years War.
You have England fighting for the Protestants and France fighting for the Catholics, where both sides claim to be fighting for the sake of God. Maria and Michael represent two sides of the same coin as the former wants to abolish war and the latter claims that this is part of the human world.
Maria’s predicament is very gray compared to Heaven. It is a given that Heaven does not want to intervene in the affairs of human because it messes up the natural order. Maria, however, walks that line between human and celestial.
She has been warned to not use magic in the open, but she’s part of that human world as well.
