is the name of my favorite TV program over here (in Japanese it’s 魔女の２２時 or “Majo no Nijuniji”). Every Tuesday at 10pm, I run into our tatami room and turn on the TV knowing that it’s going to be an enchanting hour. And no, it’s not some run-of-the-mill show about the supernatural or some shit like that (I had to curse there for alliterative effect. Please forgive). It’s so much better. Just watch!

As you can see, the “witches” here are just normal ladies who discover some magical solution to their beauty dilemmas and then go on national TV to share their secret! In this particular episode, a Korean woman living in Japan becomes so stressed out by her job that her skin goes all kinds of bonkers and she starts to grow a third eye (I might have mistranslated that last bit). Then all of a sudden, her friends and students start telling her that her skin looks gorgeous and they want to know what she does to it and tell them now, now, now! She realizes that it must be the leftovers she’s been eating of the Korean soup she makes for her habitually hungover husband. The “Pugoku,” which takes 3 minutes to make, (Here it is. I know you want it.) has transformed her skin and now it’s baby soft and “puru-puru” (like “purin” or pudding- that’s a good thing).

Oh, and the reaction when she makes her big reveal? They do that on every single show. Don’t you just love the collective “EEEEEEEEEEEHHH??!!”? And if you’re very observant you’ll see that Haruna Ai, the woman I love and have written about before, is a member of the panel. So many reasons to watch! What are you doing still reading this silly blog? Get your very intelligent and attractive selves over to YouTube right now for some more witch watching.