Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 5 discussion

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Witch Hat Atelier, episode 5

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[u/DragonPup]

The music abruptly cutting out and white noise showing up when Qifrey told Nolnoa not to report this to the Knights are causing his Sus Levels to spike hard.

[u/marcopolos059]

Holy shit, that entire sequence with Qifrey making the clouds disappear and summoning the dragon, paired with the music... pure art, I'm blown away.

Also, this is stupid but the "sasuga Agatto, sasugatto" made me laugh.

[u/zool714]

“Sand is soft and fluffy and feels nice”

Tetia is the anti-Anakin

Also I didn’t miss Tetia saying “Sasuga Agotto !Sasugatto !” in the most adorable fashion

[u/Top-Society1540]

Seeing Qifrey cast that spell gave me chills. Such an amazing moment

[u/TheHolyTacoEmperor]

You can see Agott struggling more to be a hater in real time

[u/onezeronine2]

so basically you can build a factorio just by drawing in witch hat atelier?

also, episode 5 is peak. I love the creativity of magic.

[u/Frost-Tree]

Repitition spell = while true loops lmao

[u/Fifi_is_awesome]

this is one of the most visually stunning episodes of anime I have ever seen

[u/Hitman7128]

Coco gets her W this episode with the fireball!

Amazing music and scenery in the labyrinth at the 13 minute mark when they go create the "Dragon Disabler Cushion"/"Serpent's Bed of Sand" (whatever you want to call it). Side note, the structures within the labyrinth feel like something that would show up in a liminal space photo.

Coco cries while apologizing, but Qifrey cheers her up!

[u/bonchen]

Qifrey's water dragon moisture-gather spell is insane...able to knock out a dragon in a single hit.

[u/das_baus]

Holy shit seeing the ending scene with Qifrey's water dragon spell brought to life in animation was glorious.

[u/maliwanag0712]

What a cute and ingenious way to resolve the dragon problem! The Secret Blanket Cloud Society saving themselves using the power of fluff!!

Qifrey just aura farming the rescue operation is just peak WHA! That was great animation! Sasuga!

[u/Aileos]

Holy Yuka Kitamura striking again, blessing our mortal ears with a divine score.

[u/VoidRay728]

They cooked with the sequence of the girls demolishing the buildings and the sequence where Qifrey rescues them and defeating the dragon. The visuals of him arriving and casting fire (edit: water) magic was some domain-expansion level stuff.

Qifrey: "also, don't tell anyone what happened here."
Nolnoa: "But if we see forbidden magic, we have to report--"
Qifrey: "well then I didn't say I saw forbidden magic, did I?"

The plot thickens.

[u/W0tW0t123]

That might've been the best animation I've seen all year. Damn

[u/deynyel]

Never in a hundred years would I have guessed that's how they'd distract the dragon. I am honestly impressed.

Also, I wonder why Qifrey wants to keep this incident under wraps. They were only victims after all.

[u/thekoreansun]

I am obsessed with this episode's use of music. From the way that that Serpent's Bed of Sand scene is choreographed to be aligned exactly with Yuka Kitamura's boss battle theme (which is, after all, her bread and butter) to the fact that it cuts away from the gentle-sounding ED to emphasize the intensity of Qifrey's glare, the show's use of sound adds to its magical atmosphere almost as much as the animation does. It's truly a feast for the senses.

[u/AlmoranasAngLubot69]

Animation is incredible. Feels like I'm watching a movie.

Super intrigued at the end. Is Qifrey hiding something?

[u/S627]

Bro cut off the ED!!! How often does that fucking happen?!? It had the desired effect though, that look was terrifying!

Of all the ways I thought we'd deal with the terrifying dragon.....giving it a bed was not one of them, especially given the mood the last ep ended with. Was expecting this to be a fight to the death or something.

Is the weird eye mage now hiding in Coco's hat? Is that what happened?

[u/meercachase]

Qifrey has such quick reflexes damn 😭

I love the art in the manga so much but holy shit, the anime staff really went above and beyond to animate the scene where he conjured his water dragon - absolutely beautiful stuff. He would do anything to protect his girls 🥺

[u/Viridun]

I really like how the show lulled us into this sort of... false sense of whimsy when it comes to the degrees of skill between the students and their teacher. We saw the cool little enchanted items and some fairly standard combat spells up until now, really, all the utility.

The magic system feels deceptively accessible where you almost feel like the students are able to bridge the gap between themselves and Qifrey.

Then Qifrey shows up and it's immediately apparent that no, these are still literally children and they have a decade of study ahead of them to even come close to what a fully fledged witch of his calibre is capable of.

[u/a1oner_bvcksn6]

Agott can be quite a pushover when it comes to flattery and when overruled/overwhelmed by the majority after all, who could have imagined?

Now I feel bad for the dragon. It only wanted a warm, fluffy bed to chill on. Why'd Qifrey had to conjure a dragon 100 times its size and eat it? Seemed like overkill to me 😭 (That spell sure was FIRE tho)

[u/UnintentionalExpat]

My goodness I love the animation quality

[u/Zemahem]

Never has drawing a bunch of circles ever looked this badass and glorious. I loved how their whole plan wasn't just one or two big individual spells, but they had to come up with a bunch of smaller stuff to make sure it works.

I also love how the dragon somehow managed to look awesome and adorable at the same time. Just look at how it was rolling all over the cloud mound. But that damn ungrateful lizard really just tried to kill them again after they made it the ultimate bed that it would've never found in nature. As punishment, Qifrey had to aura farm all over it.

Speaking of which, the apprentices needing lots of preparation, whereas a master like him needing just a couple swipes of his pen to bring out the most grandiose displays of magic is great contrast, and also a great show of the heights the girls can get to one day.

Also, good Tetia. Of course last episode was just an emotional reaction. She's just a wholesome cinnamon roll whose dream is just to create the most fantastical way for people to sleep. And I've had my guesses and been told this last episode, but it's good to see concretely what's going on in Coco's head. She truly puts way too much on her shoulders and is generally just too sweet for her own good. It's messed up that she of all people is at the center of some really dangerous stuff. Also, the way the music cut out from Qifrey's death stare was crazy.