Luna lives in the forest all alone, in a poison house shaped like a mushroom. Poison weeps from her skin, she eats poison, for God's sake, but her disgraceful state lets me relate to her in the first episode of Champignon Witch. So the fantasy shoujo series approved by Witch Hat Atelier creator Kamome Shirahama and loved by pseudonymous Honey and Clover artist Chica Umino has been taking up my time.
Luna is so sad, Shirahama comments while watching Champignon Witch, and while reading the news, I've been sad. But while I notice myself getting shorter with people, Luna never alienates herself. No matter what happens, she shuffles into town to deliver handmade medicines with Minos, a button-nosed calf who turns into a respectable cow on command, leaving poison mushrooms like cupcake sprinkles on everything she touches. She can't be touched, either – except while doing chores like shearing Merino, the bipedal sheep with wool like meringue – because she is, literally, toxic to the core. But that's part of her charm.
