Box Wood is a Witch introduced in the Magia Record anime. She was originally exclusive to the anime until it was implemented alongside Kuroe in late March 2022.
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The witch of stone-dwelling fish. Her nature is sequestration. A witch who collects particular kinds of garbage within her Labyrinth, and builds a nest with them. She loves the time she spends cooped up in her tube-shaped nest more than anything else. She typically just swims around the interior of her nest, but should any pesky-looking intruders show up, she’ll unfold her neck frills and attack them with body slams. She was instantly torn in half by the witch of sandboxes, but it’s not as if she’s particularly weak amongst witches. Apparently, the sky inside her Labyrinth is filled with pasta as an imitation of the pasta-shaped god she once saw.
Etymology[]
Box Wood is the hard wood of the box tree [1].
Familiars[]
Minions of the Stone-dwelling Fish Witch. Their role is to be flotsam. Unborn lives that drift into the Witch’s Labyrinth. They and the Witch generally don’t interfere with one another, but should an intruder arrive, they’ll cooperate with the Witch to eliminate it.
History[]
Box Wood appears for the first time in episode 1. She haunts a train and Iroha finds about her existence through a girl whose cat was sucked into the Labyrinth. Iroha and Kuroe enter the Labyrinth to take down the Witch but only save the cat.
The next day, when Iroha and Kuroe were again inside the train, everyone had already received a Witch's Kiss and tried to dissolve Iroha and Kuroe. Iroha fights Box Wood's Familiars and enters the Labyrinth again. However, Box Wood instead travelled with Iroha in Kamihama City. There, she accidentally entered Zenobia's Labyrinth and fought each other, but Zenobia won by tearing Box Wood down.
Trivia[]
- Her name is officially translated in the first anime guidebook as "boxwood". She is the only Witch whose name is officially translated into English.
Gallery[]
 Box Wood's settei from SHAFT's Twitter |
 Box Wood comes for Iroha  Box Wood in Runes  Box Wood avoids Iroha's magic arrows  Box Wood's Familiars catch up with the train  Close-ups of Box Wood's Familiars  Box Wood wanders inside the ball  Box Wood inside another Witch's Labyrinth |