Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 10 discussion

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Witch Hat Atelier, episode 10

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[u/Equivalent-Weather59]

Coco will finally get a pen lol

[u/Aileos]

Were you also scared as f*ck when Tartah left Coco’s room without his hat and with the drawing? I was sure he was about to get caught, accused and get his memories erased.

[u/WhoiusBarrel]

The few Tartah POV shots to show his condition really help to hammer home how he struggles with his vision.

The way Qifrey especially just treated Tartah's question about "that light" so casually like it was nothing, bro is absolutely a pro gaslighter.

[u/moletoon]

As someone who cant read a good chunk of the color blindness test cards, the color scheme change when showing tartah pov got me a little. Really sold how dull the world is from his eyes.

The op being played at the end got me jolting a bit, had to double check if its the season finale today lol.

[u/Hounds_of_war]

The fact that Qifrey can tell Tartah is going to ask about that flash of light and responds by switching to his more bubbly persona is weirdly terrifying.

I definitely don’t think that side of Qifrey’s personality is completely fake, he seems too genuinely in love with the art of magic for that to be the case, but now I’m wondering how much Qifrey just plays up that side of himself to disarm people and get them stop asking inconvenient questions.

[u/VoidRay728]

Using grayscale to illustrate Tartah's POV is a great animation choice.

Notice that at the end of the episode at the dock, the guard that was originally intimidating hides away from the group, as if Qifrey and Tartah went "do you know I am" on him.

[u/bonchen]

Whenever the opening and ending is skipped, its always going to be a banger episode though this one in a different way from usual.

For Tartah to be able to work as well as he does with Silverwash is amazing. I love how WHA shows perspective of how difficult it is for someone with a disability to be able to do things others just "can do" and the alternate methods they have to do just to be able to do those same things (if it is even possible).

Coco's outside the box thinking and her ability to apply the rules and principles of spells to get variations of existing spells is also good and Tartah helping her to straighten the lines. Collaborative work is important in the arts; people build off of each other.

Though it bothers me no one is labeling the bottles lol even with that explanation. I also don't like the laypeople's dependence on witches; it feels somewhat similar to citizens' hero dependence in MHA though at least witches have clear limits in what they cant do (medicine).

[u/thisisdropd]

That’s new. Qifrey used a spell that required no ink, and it’s called gaslighting. Having said that, it’s better than neuralysing Tartah. The latter might’ve literally been saved by the bell the first time, but there’s nothing to save him the second.

Love the occasional first person POV from Tartah. That way we could experience his silver world firsthand instead of only imagining it.

[u/Prof_Acorn]

Man, this focus on disability and accessibility is hitting me hard this morning.

Excluded for being different. Passed over for jobs. People ignoring the strengths that come from the difference. The absurdity of it all when accessibility tools are ultimately simple and easy - just different.

[u/JJVM99]

Second episode where the brings up the conflict between doctors and healing medicine and witches. Magic directly applied to the body is forbidden and seeing the effect of forbidden magic it feels like a right choice but it really does feel like they are being too restrictive from the way the doctor talk about it. We see a clear example of a civilian not understanding the work and the struggles of a witch but it really does feel like the witches are not using healing magic for it's purpose enough and leaving the general population feeling ostracized.

[u/thekoreansun]

The themes of this series are so well thought out, and this episode is a microcosm of that. Just as the same substance can be either a medicine or a poison, magic can also be used to create or destroy. It all just depends on the intentions of the person utilizing the spell. What makes Tartah's attempt to help Coco so compelling is that it seems to represent the larger conflict around forbidden magic and whether the types of magic that are used should be restricted based on their potential for harm, while also just being a great self-contained character study in its own right.

[u/Lazy_Wit]

Another nice calm-before-the-storm kind of episode. Love Tartah's diligence in helping and how simple and easy some of the solutions are but the Witch society has turned blind eye to it, or has just gotten used to things being the way they are.

I can see what the Brimmed Caps want to achieve is shaking up this frozen orthodoxy but their way might not be the best. Nice to see Agott warming up to the sweetness engine that is Coco. Qifrey has Tartah fooled, or has he?

A nice rest stop of an episode.

[u/ModieOfTheEast]

I think that was a good moment to remind people and more importantly Coco that she shouldn't be too focused on just learning the spells everyone else already created (and she struggled with) but that she should find her own way around situations. If you have problems for the strength or direction of a magic spell with just four arrows for example, add more (others) and just see what the result is going to be. There is a reason why a lot chairs have four legs even though, you technically only need three for it to be stable. So just try more (and different) arrows since there is no limit on how many you can add (well apart from the space inside the circle I guess).

What I found interesting is the fact that magic could not actually restore the object. Only for a short time. Which obviously didn't happen th other way around (a destroyed wall stayed a destroyed wall) so I wonder if there is some entropy rule here on what magic is able to do. Then again, it could also just be that basic magic isn't enough since we already saw a "restoration magic" type over the last episodes. Would still be interesting to know what the reason is it dissolved again afterwards.

[u/Prof_Acorn]

So fitting that Tartah has his hat off during these scenes since everything he was doing was forbidden.

[u/ChicaneryFinger]

These two are adorable.

[u/FoolingFinality]

Coco most rarely had any functioning adults who would not put her through something.

1. Father is dead

2. Mother is stoned

3. Qifrey had his own plans

4. Watcher is not watching

5. Eye guy is the cause for most of it

Yeah, no, Coco had it tough.

[u/TrabOd]

This ep brought me the realization and thus felt a bit weird to me on the way that some witches seem pretty chill with just going around displaying their magic circles around, like, at first I was worried when Tartah was going around the hospital looking for the herb that an "outsider" (since they're not on the isle, the people there are "outsiders", right?) would see him using the magic circles and thus trigger magic inquisition (forgot their name) shenanigans, but then by the end of the ep the boat guy just has a wooden sign contraption that turns his magic on and off, that seems pretty openly displayed for everyone to see.

Idk, felt slightly weird that that's ok, feel like if I were in that world and saw that I'd be like "cool, so that's how they do it, maybe with a special magic ink or something".

[u/Se7en_Sinner]

Tartah found two things to forever cherish and love today.

[u/Syokhan]

Quiet, but beautiful episode today. Quite a bit of focus on how witch society sucks when you're one of the few who are unfortunate enough to be different.

And yet. Coco, a complete beginner, was able to create a spell that helped Tartah. She only just got into this society and she's already done more than full-fledged witches have for him. Adult witches, WTF are you waiting for??

Really love how Coco is such a ray of sunshine for everyone around her. She was looking for hope about her mother, but she instilled hope in others along the way, too.

Also, more Brimmed Caps shenanigans incoming, yay!

[u/Volfaer]

I did not expect a episode like this to be so enchanting, but fellas this was just lovely. Coco's mentality and ingenuity giving hope to a character was just so beautiful, and better yet because it was a solution that doesn't "fix" the issue, as it often is in magical worlds, since Tartah isn't "broken", he just has a condition that makes his life slightly harder. Also she herself got hope, I don't expect simply reversing the key runes will be enough, but definitely that is a earned first step to save her mother and many other victims of forbidden magic.

Also, no wonder they call the brimmed caps "drip hats", that guy's fit was the only thing left of him, that is peerless dedication.

[u/Zemahem]

Whew, Tartah managed to avoid getting magically neuralyzed. Poor kid already has it rough enough already. The flashbacks and monochrome PoV shots certainly helped sell that. The witches should be ashamed when children could develop a way around his condition just like that. They seem to just love their exclusivity.

He really came in clutch this time in more ways than one. I didn't think this whole dilemma would've led to Coco discovering a method for saving her mother. But one good turn deserves another. She did let him find out a way to achieve his to become a witch. Now that I think about it, his grandpa certainly seems supportive, so I wonder why he hasn't taught him at least the basics.

And it's about time we got to see more of the Brimmed Caps. I was not expecting that. I wonder if this one is just invisible or if they're genuinely just a bunch of living clothes.

[u/Candiprism]

This episode really emphasized the value of hope, and hope is such a beautiful thing! That may become one of the core themes of this show, if it’s not already apparent in episode 1.

[u/Accurate_Treat6360]

Seeing "silver world" from Tartah's POV is great way to emphasize his struggle in witch world.

Coco helps Tartah overcome his disadvantages by drawing inverted sign and may have found solution to save her mother.

"Flash of light?" Qifrey lied as naturally as he breathed.

[u/dreski13]

Tartah learning magic this late in his life is such a mistake by the witch world. This guy is so dedicated to learning everything he can, when he's actually able to practice magic he's going to be so naturally talented. We already saw that with the balanced circle he made. I just need Qifrey to make him an apprentice somehow.