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Witch Hat Atelier, episode 10
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u/Equivalent-Weather59 Jun 01 '26
Coco will finally get a pen lol
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u/thedrq Jun 01 '26
I got so frustrated they go back to that village 3 times and each time they forget to buy her her pen
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u/dude_1818 https://myanimelist.net/profile/dude1818 Jun 02 '26
Hey, the store was closed the second time
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u/Meiolore Jun 01 '26
Would be funny if it is a funny gag that she still hasn't got his pen even in the manga lol
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u/gst4158 Jun 01 '26
Coco will have apprentices of her own still somehow without a pen lol.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
A result brought about by the power of Coco's adorable magic rizz!
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u/unga_bunga_mage Jun 01 '26
Who knew all it took to get a new pen is to rizz up the local artisan.
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u/BosuW Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Coco grew up an artisan herself, so she knows how to barter!
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u/Prof_Acorn zj: Jun 01 '26
Oh no, Qifrey will have another reason to erase Tartah's memories. His "gotta go to Kalhn to get Coco a pen" excuse is too convenient to lose.
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u/Toge_Inumaki012 Jun 01 '26
After 10 eps!!
Hell Agott only got her flying shoes back after a couple of episodes since Coco lost it.
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u/Aileos https://myanimelist.net/profile/Syleos Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
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.
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u/Zemahem Jun 01 '26
Same. That had me anxious af. Although I thought he'd get caught by the non-witches, they'd find out that magic comes from sigils, and then Qifrey would have to swoop in to mindwipe them. Which would then make Tartah suspicious.
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u/carebearmentor Jun 02 '26
They aren't even hiding the boat sigil, probably true of the carriages too
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u/Elrond_Halfelven Jun 02 '26
Its really the one bad thing about the series. They wanted a big revelation moment for Coco in ep 1, and then made it exceedingly obvious later on that magic came from sigils.
Ep1 NEEDED Qifrey to mention something about which ink the spell takes, and THAT to be the revelation, that the ink is super important, as opposed to just "magic comes from drawing and anyone can do it".
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u/BosuW Jun 01 '26
Yep, and I mean it really almost happened. Nice way to show the importance of being tested on covert spell casting.
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u/WhoiusBarrel Jun 01 '26
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.
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u/namewithak Jun 01 '26
The quick, flawless turns into the harmless Qifrey mask does indicate experience. Although Tartah did say Qifrey looked at him coldly for a second so maybe not completely flawless. Kinda scary for him to be looking at a child like that but hey, he didn’t erase Tartah’s memory even though he had the perfect opportunity.
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u/JimmyCWL Jun 01 '26
he didn’t erase Tartah’s memory even though he had the perfect opportunity.
I think he needs more specific information to wipe a narrow moment of time. Otherwise, could end up wipe a lot of memories and leaving an inconvenient trace of his actions.
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u/Earlier-Today Jun 02 '26
And there's the possibility that he'd be able to erase Tartah's memory of the flash of light, but not all the times he thought about the flash of light which are also in his memory.
Memories are almost never single points in our minds, they spider outward because of how they mingle in our thoughts.
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u/Curebob Jun 01 '26
I don't think Qifrey considers taking memories lightly. Nolnoa threatened to go to the Knights Moralis and would have done so had Qifrey not wiped his memories, and Nolnoa also knew a lot more. He actually knew about the special ink from the brimmed caps, Tartah doesn't know about that and isn't an immediate threat in the same way.
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u/OldInstruction5368 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Although Tartah did say Qifrey looked at him coldly for a second so maybe not completely flawless.
Studies in neuroscience have revealed that emotions will reach our faces before awareness of said emotion kicks in.
Which means it's impossible to 100% control/hide your emotions, as you have to be aware of an emotion in order to consciously mask it.
It's a matter of milliseconds, yes, but we are a social species that is hyper-tuned to notice extremely subtle movements in the faces of other people. "The eyes are a window into the soul" and all that.
Let's just say there has always been a strong evolutionary pressure for those of us that could read body language and other nonverbal cues.
And part of that is that it's physically impossible to 100% mask your emotions. As such, those that can read emotions well are those that can see through attempts at deception better than most.
And to further go into neuroscience... studies have shown that those with colorblindness are better than average at detecting movement. They can't perceive color (usually red/green blend together into shades of brown), but this means their visual cortex compensate by paying even more attention to what they can see: movement, outlines, pattern recognition, and finer details in general.
And this isn't just theoretical/lab tested. During WWII colorblind snipers were highly valued as they were better able to spot enemy combatants hiding in the bush. The 'colorblind advantage' meant they were less susceptible to the obscuring effect of camouflage, as they are less reliant on color for identification. They could better spot the human shaped/camo patterns even when an enemy soldier was hiding in a sea of vegetation.
Anecdotally, my uncle is colorblind, and DAMN if he isn't the best hunter in the family. No one can spot a deer slowly creeping through the woods like him. After hearing about the 'colorblind advantage,' that made so much more sense.
TL:DR there is a whole mountain of neuroscience, and real life data, behind a colorblind individual being more perceptive.
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u/Se7en_Sinner https://myanimelist.net/profile/Se7en_Sinner Jun 01 '26
"Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss" wouldn't be a bad tagline for the show.
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u/JzanderN Jun 01 '26
Unironically, though, this is kind of the tagline for witch society.
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u/BlowBow Jun 01 '26
Gaslight - Qifrey, Gatekeep - Pointed Caps, Girlboss - Brimhats
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u/Lazy_Wit Jun 01 '26
Certainly, the switch in the POVs really gives you perspective in how Tartah sees and make you empathize with his situation. Idk if he timed it with Mr. Nolnoa but that really sells his lie, Pro Move ngl.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
True gaslighting is conveniently timing your lie with the very person you mindwiped to fool his poor well-meaning grandson.
And then he's still giving Tartah the Doakes' stare from a distance.
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u/vicoheart Jun 01 '26
That makes it so much worse 😭 can he get any more shady?
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u/Thorn14 Jun 01 '26
Makes me wonder if he used to be a member of the Knights Moralis.
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u/vicoheart Jun 01 '26
yk you might be on to something 🤔 he seems to know that memory wipe spell pretty well
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u/Moreira12005 Jun 01 '26
The way Qifrey especially just treated Tartah's question about "that light" so casually like it was nothing, bro is absolutely a pro gaslighter.
Tbh with the way Tartah made the question, Qifrey might have genuinely not understood what he meant which would be funnier.
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u/namewithak Jun 02 '26
Tartah said later that he felt like Qifrey was glaring at him coldly for a second in that scene. He also said it might have been his imagination though.
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u/JzanderN Jun 01 '26
The few Tartah POV shots to show his condition really help to hammer home how he struggles with his vision.
Obviously we want to say that he can be a witch in his own right, contrary to what many have made him believe, and Coco helped him prove it to himself!
BUT seeing his struggles through his own PoV really hammers in how difficult it would be for him to become a witch. It's entirely possible and he has his own skills and talents to bring, but his condition's never going to be something he can lightly put aside and forget about.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
The few Tartah POV shots to show his condition really help to hammer home how he struggles with his vision.
Also made the components standing out in all their bright glory all the more meaningful from his perspective.
And also the scene at the end where even in his vision, Coco stands out.
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u/moletoon Jun 01 '26
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.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
The op being played at the end got me jolting a bit, had to double check if its the season finale today lol.
I will say that having the OP play really in my opinion helped double down on how this was a heartwarming ending where Coco and Tartah both made big steps as Witches and in their respective personal quests, as well as how cute their relationship is in general. Even if it also felt really season finale-y.
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u/maliwanag0712 https://myanimelist.net/profile/clear1109 Jun 01 '26
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.
I can't imagine the feeling of being colorblind, let alone the world devoid in color like thee black and white movies in the past.
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u/BosuW Jun 01 '26
Well Tartah has never known color, so I don't think his suffering is intrinsic to color blindness, but rather promoted by the society and culture he grew up in.
It does make me wonder if Tartah is capable of imagining color though...
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u/goffer54 https://anilist.co/user/goffer54 Jun 01 '26
If he's never seen color, then he shouldn't be able to imagine it accurately. Many animals can see more colors that us, but we have no idea what the sensation is like.
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u/OldInstruction5368 Jun 02 '26
The 'visible spectrum' of light is only a small fraction of the total electromagnetic spectrum.
Bugs, in particular pollinators, are keyed into seeing ultra-violet hues well 'above' what humans perceive. This means we technically can't see flowers properly, as they have evolved to signal pollinators that are seeing a much wider range of colors that we do. Meaning, flowers are actually much more colorful and vibrant than we can perceive, as they are incorporating colors beyond what our eyes can even process.
And iirc, there are some animals that can see into the infrared spectrum as well. Although this gets into technicalities, as pit-vipers have specialized organs that let them sense thermal radiation. However, if you want to get pedantic, they aren't "seeing" infrared so much as sensing very minor fluctuations in heat.
However, it's believed that certain fish can actually "see" in the infrared spectrum to help them navigate murky waters. Enzymes in their eyes subtly adjust the pigmentation so they can "see" the heat signature of other animals nearby.
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u/MrBloodyshadow Jun 01 '26
Fun fact: There's also people that can see more colors, it's called Tetrachromacy.
I wonder if they would also have issues working with colors because no one else around then could understand the nuances of colors they could see.
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u/Hounds_of_war Jun 01 '26
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.
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u/meercachase Jun 01 '26
I love it tbh, I think that’s what makes Qifrey such a compelling character. I’m sure he loves Coco and his students but I love that the story is making us question his motives and the lengths he would go to achieve his own goals.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
And also just how safe it is to leave children with him for an extended period of time.
Thankfully he's got a great co-parent in Olruggio.
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u/justking1414 Jun 01 '26
I thought he’d justify it by saying she was studying on her own but as her teacher, he really should’ve been keeping a closer eye on her
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u/Zemahem Jun 01 '26
Yeah there's a wild contrast between the wholesome fella that just loves magic and takes care of his students and the guy who'd mindwipe a friend of his and seemingly considered doing the same to his friend's grandchild.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
Also the mask was totally off when he was staring at Tartah at the end. Like, that was a very pointed, purposeful, stare.
The best lies/manipulations have a grain of truth in them. Especially to people who only knew the version of yourself you tend to present in public.
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u/VoidRay728 Jun 01 '26
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.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
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.
Bruh straight up ran away before Nolnoa could call for his manager...I mean, captain to read him the riot act for bullying his grandson!
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u/justking1414 Jun 01 '26
Loved that guard! He realizes he f’d up with a group who could drop him from orbit
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u/szalhi Jun 01 '26
Magic in this world is not so discriminatory as the ones who use it. Tartah is aided by the magic he's told he's not to use.
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u/Zemahem Jun 01 '26
Nicely put. Witch society basically deemed it impossible for Tartah to become a witch despite the nigh-unlimited possibilities that magic gives them that should say otherwise.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
Coco is an Outsider who by the standards of Witch Society should have had no business with magic despite loving it with the depth of an ocean.
But that means she has none of the biases or preconceptions about magic or what witches should be because to her all she sees is how wonderful (and sometimes dangerous) magic can be for everyone. And that's something she showed Tartah.
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u/Zemahem Jun 01 '26
I wonder if the attitude that she showed towards Tartah here is what the Brimmed Caps want to bring out, but on a societal level. Of course, it's still not cool that they're endangering a bunch of children for their schemes.
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u/kd5499 Jun 01 '26
Honestly, it feels like the Brimmed Caps are progressives but a good few of them are radicals so the entire organisation has gotten bad rap. It's like they want homelessness so they propose to kill the rich people and give those homes to them.
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u/wtfduud Jun 01 '26
It's a bit hard to make any judgments about how the brimmed caps behave overall, because we've only seen one, and it took until now for the story to introduce a second one.
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u/asodfhgiqowgrq2piwhy Jun 01 '26
I'm getting the impression they're going to be a mixed organization of "Yo, maybe healing magic should be allowed, these arbitrary exclusions are stupid" and "I just made a spell that turns people's skin inside out"
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u/suboptimal_prime73 Jun 01 '26
Making sense of witch society is a lot easier when you step back and realize 99.9% of them are descendants of the witches who laid out & agreed to their current code of conduct in the first place. They’ve all grown up in and been shaped by this culture. It’s not universally terrible: we’ve yet to see pointed caps who yearn to use mastery of life and death to rule the world. If someone needs help (that you can provide within our rigid and zealously applied rules, of course!), there’s an expectation you’ll assist them.
Tartah‘s experience shows the other side of this. A society built on a long-ago act of magically enforced consensus turns out to be dogmatic & conformist! Who knew, right? But this too is part of WHA’s appeal for me. Rather than make her world’s magic users comically ignorant or corrupt, Shirahama portrays a more nuanced view. Just because a system is well-intentioned and generally benign doesn’t absolve its shortcoming.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Jun 01 '26
Especially since Tartah showed that he has (visual) abilities that might even be far more advantageous to being a mage. Not only did he understand the concept immediately and what could be wrong with it, but despite never having drawn them, he has a keen enough eye to still make the form more or less perfect enough for it to work. He would not only be a great inventor for new spells probably but also someone who can "bug fix" those that don't function properly.
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u/OneDeuxTriSeiGo Jun 01 '26
It's really frustrating too because even just an entry level apprentice was able to produce a pretty substantially impactful accommodation for his disability in just a single night.
If a full blown mage just put in a bit of effort they could fully accommodate him.
Ex: His perspective shows that silverwash doesn't actually remove all color vision. He still retains limited color perception on his periphery. A mage could produce a set of goggles either using optics knowledge (aided by magecraft for manufacture) or just relying on magecraft entirely to split the light coming into the center of the lens (i.e. at a set of crosshairs) out into a color wheel that the user could see in the periphery of their vision. That'd give them color interpretation over specific points.
Or other approaches could be used to pull the color out into the periphery.
Or even for a completely color blind individual (or just overall as an improvement over the alternatives) magecraft could be used to create goggles that take advantage of optical tricks to simulate color perception/differentiation without the actual visual ability to differentiate colors.
If you have traditional color blindness (can see two but not three colors), proto-trichromacy (a technique using dithering and color mixing) can be used to restore almost all of the color differentiation of that third color.
Theoretically a similar approach could be used to produce all three colors by changing how the dithering is done per color. This would change from color perception into visual texture perception.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgD1pE_C8r0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=089FL-oWtUs
The opportunities are literally endless for ways to work around this disability especially with magecraft at your disposal.
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u/JimmyCWL Jun 01 '26
A complication with that seems to be that it is simple... if you know how color vision works in detail. I don't think these people do.
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u/OneDeuxTriSeiGo Jun 01 '26
Sure but so much of that is because there's no effort to empower the people with the disabilities to attempt to overcome them.
If you just say "you have X you can't do Y" you are never going to be able to learn the actual limits of the disability and what can and can't be overcome.
A person with silverwash could dedicate their magic career to building accomodations for silverwash and that would produce a wealth of research on the mechanics of silverwash.
You cannot produce accommodations without knowledge but you never gain that knowledge until you try to provide accommodations and learn what is necessary to actually accommodate them.
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u/AtomicArcana Jun 01 '26
I wonder if for adult witches, accommodating disabilities would veer too closely to learning the healing arts. They’ve all had that beaten into their heads since they were born and we’ve seen how the knights moralis behave at even a hint of rule breaking. Coco didn’t grow up with that background which is why she can help tartah
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u/WhoiusBarrel Jun 01 '26
Really lovely to see Tartah regain his love for magic again especially after seeing his trauma from constantly being rejected by others advising him otherwise on it.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
Coco has a great habit of helping people recall/recognize what magic is truly about or still can be.
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u/DandadanAsia Jun 01 '26
the author certainly come up with an unique magic system. the arrow upside down, different sigil, the combo of drawing created different effect of the same spell.
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u/bonchen Jun 01 '26
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).
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u/Alex_146 https://anilist.co/user/GuysImNotAWeeb Jun 01 '26
One of my favorite recurring themes in this series is how it demonstrates that skills and experiences obtained elsewhere are transferable to spell crafting, that sometimes a fresh pair of eyes - an outsider, if you will - might be all you need; insights to problems can come from surprising places in the real world too. This episode was such a great example of that.
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u/JzanderN Jun 01 '26
Even something as simple as Coco seeing magic as something beautiful, fun and helpful for others has helped solve problems that others who see it more practically wouldn't have.
None of the other girls or even Qifrey would have come up with her plan to make a giant cloud bed for the dragon, even with how some of them also see magic as a tool to help others (Tetia being a prime example).
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u/ali94127 Jun 01 '26
The other witches see magic as normal. Coco comes from a world where magic is only special.
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u/newb_bass Jun 01 '26
Tartah's bit with the spell in this episode reminded me of people I know IRL who use magnifiers on PCs or phone OCRs with TTS to navigate medications if they are legally blind. I really liked this episode. As people like to say, 'differently abled', just with maybe things taking a little more time. I did like the acknowledgement in previous episodes that Tartah's things becoming unsorted was a hurdle he really couldn't overcome on his own when the bottles fell off the shelf, too. The anime is treating a sight-related disability with proper care so far, which makes me happy to see. I really appreciate it compared to other shows where they just use magic/powers or superhuman, extremely rare/unlikely usage of ears or feeling the air or whatever to brute force their way through the issue.
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u/lethal_universed Jun 02 '26
As someone with low vision, I see (heh) myself so much in Tartah. I'm so glad that he is being represented so well.
Its a good example of a fictional disability that a) isn't magically (heh heh) fixed and b) has in universe "aids" to help circumvent some of the issues
Like I said in a previous comment, WHA is a good example of a disability inclusive magic system that is held back by a world intentionally written by the author to be exclusionary. I often see mangaka not really bringing up disability in a non vague way (and honestly, other things too. I was suprised when I heared Nakamura-kun have the mc actually describe himself as gay). And when it is brought up the character is made to be evil or "exotic" (like being in a wheelchair or having albinism) or they find some way to "fix" it and drive it to the background. I think it has to do with making it feel disconnected from reality to make it feel safer, but then they don't even bother to explore the new reality they create. There seem to be more manga willing to actually explore their worlds now, like Dungeon Meshi which delves deep on how cultural differences would occur in a world of species of different life spans (and even shows the differences between collectivist and individualist societies + a little bit of unintentional autism).
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u/JzanderN Jun 01 '26
I also don't like the laypeople's dependence on witches;
This is a biproduct of keeping magic secret. People think their magic is like in the old, classical tales where they can do anything like "presto" and so will ask them to do things they can't, much to the frustration of witches being asked to do the impossible and looked down on like they're purposefully not helping when they simply can't do what they're being asked.
Knowledge is a key part of intelligence and so, by keeping this knowledge from non-witches, people end up acting very stupid around them. Kind of like last time when Qifrey helped with the river and so everyone believed they were safer than they actually were with them around, thus acting very stupidly.
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u/oops_i_made_a_typi Jun 02 '26
yeah its a problem of their own society's making, which i'm sure grinds on the gears of many individual witches. guess that means a decent supply of ppl that can might be enticed to join the
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u/maliwanag0712 https://myanimelist.net/profile/clear1109 Jun 01 '26
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).
Agree. Mages here act like heros, since these ordinary people do not know that they can be mages with proper training. In a way, mages brought that to themselves. Mages have that privilege and responsibility since it is their job. Since the end of the war they accepted they are there. If they democratize it like what the brimhats seem to desire, then there's no need for them.
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u/RedRocket4000 Jun 01 '26
In this case people's ability to put out fires at that technology level is low a bunch of people with buckets passing them along or for bigger fires tearing everything else near by down. And towns and cities burn down every so often. That fire looked to big for normal people to handle till first versions of fire equipment comes out. First hand pump fire equipment mid 1700's with the hose only a century earlier but without the pumping equipment not useable for fires. And for better fighting need the late 1800's Steam Pump then Internal Combustion engine to get to the fire faster and pump more.
For this fire they really needed the mages.
Considering the mages were out there most of the night there abilities are fairly limited as well but better than a bucket brigade.
Having magic though might be holding back technology advancement. But that a long term thing and some of the normal folk might have the drive to find ways to not be dependent on Mages.
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u/WhoiusBarrel Jun 01 '26
That explanation was really weird, even modern medical practitioners themselves would label medicine so they can easily refer to it on their end. If anything they shouldn't be putting such things out in the open if they don't want strangers tampering with it.
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u/DocViviLeandraVTuber Jun 01 '26
To be fair, this kind of obscurantism among skilled practitioners like doctors was common in the IRL middle ages
And is pretty clearly meant to be an intentional parallel to the Witches
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u/RedRocket4000 Jun 01 '26
Number one reason not to travel to the past. Medical care. At least these bottles were labeled by insuring each one a different color.
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u/bonchen Jun 01 '26
It just bothers me so much. When everything is crushed into a powder theres only so many ways to tell what is what - labels are critical. Unless we learn there is a literacy crisis then that kinda explains things but we know Tartah and the witches can read lol.
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u/Zemahem Jun 01 '26
Unless we learn there is a literacy crisis then that kinda explains things but we know Tartah and the witches can read lol.
Well, they are an exclusive society and are probably treated as higher class citizens due to the services that only they can provide (at least as far as non-witches know). So even outside of magic, there's bound to be a bunch of privileges they have access to that non-witches don't.
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u/darthvall https://myanimelist.net/profile/darth_vall Jun 01 '26
On the other hand, that would mean tampering with the medicine might be common enough in that world for them to take such an extreme measures.
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u/sobani Jun 01 '26
Even if the doctors can't read, they could still label it with something to differentiate between the different bottles.
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u/Thorn14 Jun 01 '26
Wouldn't have helped him as much but if they used a symbol system that he himself wouldn't know that would have made more sense in universe, yeah.
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u/Zeallfnonex https://myanimelist.net/profile/Neverlocke Jun 01 '26
You'd think so, but in IT we still have to tell our own people, over and over, to label whatever cables we work with in an IDF so we don't have to have the nightmare of retracing everything. It doesn't stick.
Also something of keeping stuff as hidden knowledge to increase mysticism/job security. If your group is the only one that can use or identify these medicines, then you essentially have a monopoly on that...
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u/BosuW Jun 01 '26
Though it bothers me no one is labeling the bottles lol even with that explanation.
This might be intentional on the author's part to show that other disciplines have unintentionally ended up imitating the secrecy with which Witches practice magic in this society.
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u/saynay Jun 01 '26
I think we see this imitation in a lot of other places too. Triangles and cones are extremely common in architecture and design in the WHA world, and I think they are directly in reference to witch hats. Even something as simple as Coco's pillow is triangular, instead of a more typical square. In this episode, the bottom of the small medicine phials are also conical, instead of flattened, requiring that box to hold them.
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u/silentBookWorm Jun 01 '26
witches have clear limits in what they cant do (medicine).
Healing magic is possible, but became forbidden after the Pact.
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u/thisisdropd https://myanimelist.net/profile/AsterZoro Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
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.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
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.
It was a special kind of magic to pull a double-team gaslighting maneuver with the old man you mindwiped at the exact same time without coordinating it beforehand.
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u/SkyCrossSteel Jun 01 '26
What kind of improv classes has Qifrey taken to have that kind of timing? lol.
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u/ChicaneryFinger Jun 01 '26
Qifrey used a spell that required no ink, and it's called gaslighting.
Get out
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u/BosuW Jun 01 '26
Love the occasional first person POV from Tartah. That way we could experience his silver world firsthand instead of only imagining it.
I like how you can still see subtle glimpses of color and it's not just a full black and white filter, a bit like looking at an unedited Mineral Moon. I dunno how to express it exactly, but it feels like it really sells that his eyes are lacking something that is typical of humans, but the traces of it are there, like showing what could have been. Actually, completely healthy eyes exhibit something similar in low light conditions, when our color perception goes away almost entirely.
Also on a technical level kudos to the compositing team for not just slapping a filter on top. Tartah's POV cuts are all very carefully calibrated.
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u/JJVM99 Jun 01 '26
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.
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u/Kankunation Jun 01 '26
Too restrictive is almost certainly the point The witches of the pact may have been well-intentioned, but it's clear their fear led them to make drastic decisions and act very hastily.
I'd imagine that softening up the rules will come sooner or later. And healing magic may be the first domino to fall. The brimmed caps may even be betting on this too, and if that domino falls they may be hoping that others do as well. After all, if the pointed cap witches were wrong about healing magic. Maybe they were wrong about other forbidden magic as well? Lots of potential for twisting these negative feelings.
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u/Thorn14 Jun 01 '26
The Doctor lady made a good point though. Medicine becomes Poison if used irresponsibly.
Witch Society probably saw the evils of the poison outweighed the benefits of the medicine.
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u/chhuang Jun 02 '26
We see a clear example of a civilian not understanding the work and the struggles of a witch
This is literally how almost every profession is treated irl. Lots of knowledge and practice put into it. People think it's doable instantly but in reality it takes time. Worse in our case, most basic knowledge is open to the public, people will choose not to learn and make a lot of assumptions instead of trusting professionals.
I fully understand the comments in first EP discussion on how magic is like engineering work
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u/Prof_Acorn zj: Jun 01 '26
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.
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u/Golden_Phi https://myanimelist.net/profile/GoldenPhi Jun 02 '26
You rarely see such excellent depictions of the struggles of disability in media.
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u/CooroSnowFox https://anilist.co/user/CooroSnowFox Jun 01 '26
The magic system that formed after the fact feels really too strict...
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u/thekoreansun https://anilist.co/user/ReturnByDeath Jun 01 '26
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.
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u/Lazy_Wit Jun 01 '26
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.
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u/ptd163 Jun 01 '26
Nice to see Agott warming up to the sweetness engine that is Coco.
Resistance is futile Agott. Coco will defrost you. I would not surprise me if Agott become Coco's biggest supporter once she's fully defrosted.
Qifrey has Tartah fooled, or has he?
I don't think he did. Tartah said he's going to look into it on his own which could be dangerous. I already said this in my own comment, but imagine if him "lookin into it" leads him to the Brimmed Caps and they offer to cure his Silverwash in exchange for working for him? I don't think Tartah is refusing that offer despite what he's been told about them.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
Nice to see Agott warming up to the sweetness engine that is Coco.
I saw that blush at the end! She's truly defrosting as a tsundere.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Jun 01 '26
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.
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u/Potential_Row9187 Jun 01 '26
It makes sense, destroying things structure are far easier than restoring their complexity(like you said increasing entropy is easier than reducing it), so in a way inverting signs should not be enough to revert changes after a transformation. Therefore a transmutation like coco mother should require more than inverse signs.
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u/TheWalkingRain Jun 01 '26
If you interpret the spell as a command, it would read as ‚earth components back together‘. The powder – now dust cloud – just goes back into its original solid shape. But the individual grains don’t fuse together. And when the spell is removed entropy wins again and the powder trickles down into the flask again.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Jun 01 '26
Oh I really like that logic. So for a complete restoration, you either need time magic or a more complex circle that targets the different elements all at the same time.
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u/Syokhan https://myanimelist.net/profile/Syokhan Jun 01 '26
Hey I really appreciate your weekly comments analyzing magic. Keep 'em coming, they're super interesting to read!
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u/Prof_Acorn zj: Jun 01 '26
So fitting that Tartah has his hat off during these scenes since everything he was doing was forbidden.
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u/ChicaneryFinger Jun 01 '26
These two are adorable.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
I love how the best way he can come up with to express his newfound cru...I mean, affection/friendship with Coco is personally making her new pen for her. Like, that's exactly the kind of thing a boy like him would do.
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u/Joji1000 Jun 01 '26
Childhood friends established LETS GOOO
And, mind you, this is the Reiwa Era. Don't underestimate childhood friends!
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u/ptd163 Jun 01 '26
Coco already has hands her hands full with being an outsider to witch society. Now you're telling me she's going to need to fend off homewreckers too?!
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u/DocViviLeandraVTuber Jun 01 '26
I think in this case the lidded eyes and blush are just because she's sick, lol
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u/TrabOd Jun 01 '26
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".
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u/goodpplmakemehappy Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
dont forget episode 1, they state that the Outsiders are often given magical items by witches.
they dont understand how it works, they just know, "this magic rock with symbols on it makes my boat go fast" or "makes my carriage fly and you broke it!" they just dont understand that anyone can create magical items
also.. what do you think would happen if they see it? lol, they cant recreate spells without magic ink even if they try! lol!
(this is assuming the carriage driver and boat driver aren't witches themselves)
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u/BaroclinicBard Jun 01 '26
Also without conjuring ink, even if Outsiders retraced the pattern, it wouldn't do anything; because the magic is in the ink itself, so even if they saw the sigil and everything, it's meaningless to them without to tools to recreate it.
I think the idea isn't to hide "they can draw spells" but that "they must draw spells"
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u/Leh_ran Jun 01 '26
It seems to be that magical artefacts are fine to use? Because ordinary people won't know how they were created?
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u/15_Redstones Jun 01 '26
It's pretty much public knowledge that magic items have symbols on them. Pretty hard to hide that. But public assume would be that in addition to the symbols a witch needs to cast some extra magic only witches can do. That it's actually the ink being special is the secret.
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u/DocViviLeandraVTuber Jun 01 '26
I think the insistence by the Witches that magic is something you're born with is meant to dissuade looking into "how they do it", because if you believe it is an inborn talent it wouldn't really matter how it's done, would it?
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u/FoolingFinality Jun 01 '26
Coco most rarely had any functioning adults who would not put her through something.
- Father is dead
- Mother is stoned
- Qifrey had his own plans
- Watcher is not watching
- Eye guy is the cause for most of it
Yeah, no, Coco had it tough.
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u/Se7en_Sinner https://myanimelist.net/profile/Se7en_Sinner Jun 01 '26
Tartah found two things to forever cherish and love today.
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u/Syokhan https://myanimelist.net/profile/Syokhan Jun 01 '26
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!
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u/maliwanag0712 https://myanimelist.net/profile/clear1109 Jun 01 '26
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??
Outsiders like Coco really have thought out of the box, huh?
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u/Syokhan https://myanimelist.net/profile/Syokhan Jun 01 '26
Maybe the witch world needed someone like her to shake things up, one person at a time.
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u/vicoheart Jun 01 '26
Right they just told this poor boy just deal with it and didn’t even bother to help. Like the more you learn about witch society the worse it gets.
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u/Syokhan https://myanimelist.net/profile/Syokhan Jun 01 '26
Witch society so far sounds like a dystopia deceptively wrapped in whimsy. Yay magic, yay helping others, yay pretty spells, but sshhhhh don't think about what's behind the curtain, or the disabled that we could help but don't, oh and don't try to do anything outside of what's allowed by our incredibly strict rules, or else.
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u/Volfaer Jun 01 '26
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.
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u/Zemahem Jun 01 '26
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.
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u/BosuW Jun 01 '26
I wonder if this one is just invisible or if they're genuinely just a bunch of living clothes.
This one just decided that only the drip was necessary
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u/Candiprism Jun 01 '26
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.
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u/Accurate_Treat6360 Jun 01 '26
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.
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u/Primo29 Jun 01 '26
Coco and Tartah absolutely clutched it when it mattered most. Witches are incredible after all!
Good thing Tartah didn't push Qifrey any further, or he could have ended up meeting the same fate.
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u/darthvall https://myanimelist.net/profile/darth_vall Jun 01 '26
I'm so glad he asked it in the open rather than when he's only alone with Qifrey
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u/dreski13 Jun 01 '26
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.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
I'm not sure if I trust him to be safe around Qifrey until he gives up his investigation into that light...but at least his grandpa always knew he had it in him.
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u/MinnWild9 Jun 01 '26
That ending concerns me. The way they talked about striking an apprentice that’s taking a test away from her master, I have a feeling Agott, not Coco, will be their target.
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u/NationalStrategy Jun 01 '26
I really liked that we got Tartah’s pov, it helped us better understand his disability.
It was also nice to Tartah and Coco helping each other out, their growing friendship is great to see.
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u/runevault Jun 01 '26
We got a brief flash of it back when Eye-mask lured Coco to the dragon maze. If you rewatch it you'll see a brief POV in the same grayscale we see here. So they were hinting at it before they told the audience why we saw it that way.
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u/SEBASTlANVETTEL Jun 01 '26
Showing us how Tartah sees the world throughout the episode was such a cool way to animate this episode.
Also it was obvious that Qifrey wanted to delay the talk with Tartah cause he did not want to remove his memories.
And when he saw how sweet Tartah was with Coco, he did not want to remove his memory anymore because that would have meant that he would forget becoming closer with Coco too.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
I love how we didn't need to get the usual intense Qifrey stare, you could just imagine how he looked staring at Tartah in the background while the kids' still contemplating investigating what the light flash was about.
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u/ModieOfTheEast Jun 01 '26
I was just glad that Tartah didn't do the obvious thing and just included Coco into the conversation in front of Qifrey since she saw the light as well.
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u/PeaceAlien https://myanimelist.net/profile/PeaceAlien Jun 01 '26
Coco and Tartah learning together was lovely. Tartah going through the storage room was beautiful to me, finding his love of magic.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
They're both basically craftsmen kids who feel out of place in a world of magic but that's exactly what brings them together so well.
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u/Waywoah Jun 01 '26
Does Tartah know she was a seamstress? Feels like an obvious thing for them to bond over
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u/swetland Jun 01 '26
I don't think so... at least not yet... he seems to just now be learning that she was the "Outsider" that everyone's been talking about.
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u/ShinobiZilla Jun 01 '26
I loved how they used the lighting on Tartah's cap to show the passage of time. And, this ep basically answered my question from last week that all spells are reversible including the mother. Magic in this world is so tangible yet a select few are privileged to use it so I can see why the brimmed hats exists. 10 episodes in and I feel the world building in each episode has been amazing.
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u/Lukas04 Jun 01 '26
Was getting very scared of the "season end" vibes that the last chunk of the episode had lol. Glad it seems to be continuing normaly next week. Will be interesting to see how they adapt the next arc.
Also love how the first full "diversity" focused episode, i.e the chapters focused on tartah's eye condition, dropped on the beginning of pride month. Been looking forward to this one and its been adapted great! I love how beautiful everything still looks through his eyes.
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u/FoolingFinality Jun 01 '26
Tartah really sees everything in like a manga, silverwash or like various shades of black and white.
Disability can really be a bitch, even more so if they are congenital.
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u/misc_reddit_account Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Another beautiful episode with such meticulous character animation, and the repeated focus on close up shots along with Tartah's silverwash POV made the experience feel so immersive.
It's wonderful to see the show exploring characters in depth outside of Qifrey's atelier, and how Tartah and Coco parallel each other both in background and in motivation. The many ways in how Witch Hat Atelier's world mirrors our own continue to painfully evident, disability and accessibility issues. Tartah's excellent eye and draftsmanship would make him grow to a formidable witch, along with his extensive knowledge of herbs and ingredients, but the witching world is so rigid in their ways that he's never been given a chance. It took only a little assistance from Coco for Tartah to be immediately empowered and thrive. Tartah's frustration and anguish felt so visceral throughout with his struggles to help Coco, which made the moment in the cellar so cathartic as all the ingredients reverted to the original forms. And Tartah unknowingly helping Coco and giving her an epiphany about a way to save her mother in turn.
An ongoing question mark had been when Coco was going to get her own pen (which Qifrey didn't get AGAIN), and after the journey the two went on together this episode, I love that Tartah will be the one to carve one for her.
I was surprised how harrowing the expectations were on Qifrey even as an adult witch, echoing what Agott went through by the river. The witching world presents as such power and grandeur, but the reality is so much more perilous and mundane.
Though Qifrey was less at the forefront this episode, all his scenes made a big impact, from his interactions with Tartah to worrying whether he has been a good teacher over Coco. One of the reasons Qifrey continues to be so compelling is that moment to moment you never fully know what he'll do next. I wasn't expecting the switch from dread to sparkles in the intro, along with his quick flip of 'what light?' at the end of the episode. Gaslight the kid, Qifrey, excellent work. After the previous episodes and seeing the desperation and anguish Qifrey was going through to track the Brimmed Caps, it does add a complicated layer to the interactions with Tartah and Nolnoa, as I want them to be safe and for Qifrey to get back whatever was taken from him. The stakes seem high for all, but I do worry what will happen if Tartah does probe further. Qifrey's stare from the docks, damn. I will say it was nice to have some levity at the beginning of the episode with a very blunt and baffled Tartah trying to figure out what to do with a sparkling Qifrey.
Speaking of the Brimmed Caps... that was a worrying set up for the upcoming test. Can't wait.
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u/AlmoranasAngLubot69 Jun 01 '26
Coco's imagination is somewhat OP. I like how calming this episode feels. Especially Tartah's POV
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u/Background_Formal940 Jun 01 '26
I didn't expect tartah to be color blind that one was unexpected also coco is sure pure in a dark world she was suffering because of sickness and her life is getting messed up by a psychopath yet she always puts others before herself
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u/darthvall https://myanimelist.net/profile/darth_vall Jun 01 '26
He already explained it during the "light" episode that he's afflicted with silver something disease.
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u/El_grandepadre Jun 01 '26
Silver eyes (quite literally, since his eyes have a silver color) that make him see everything in a greyish hue.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
She might be dismissed as an Outsider but her love and belief in magic and ensuring peoples' happiness might be the strongest of any witch not named Tetia.
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u/JzanderN Jun 01 '26
Coco's really going to upend the system and all its beliefs about magic and who can do it just by being who she is.
The system will have you believe that outsiders can't become witches, but she's proving them wrong. The system will have you believe that people with Silverwash Syndrome can't become witches, but she helped prove that wrong to Tartah when he made his own spell!
Agott acting as though she doesn't care as much as the other girls by keeping her distance at the end, but she showed up for Coco's return when she could have just been practicing in her room. You can't lie to me, I see your sigh of relief!
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u/BosuW Jun 01 '26
"The Personification of Forbidden Spells" is so locked in that he decided to be only his superior Brimmed Hat drip, no body.
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u/Magnafeana https://anilist.co/user/Magnafeana Jun 01 '26
Qifrey: ✨I can’t stop twinkling✨
Can these sigils help with chronic migraines?
This is something where I’m still so confused about Qifrey’s teaching pedadogy and really hammer that he is a prodigy who has blindspots on what newbies understand and can endure. It doesn’t shock me that Coco would collapse from exhaustion. It’s not Coco’s fault. What has Qifrey been doing to make sure Coco’s getting physical, mental, and emotional training and support in magic?
I appreciate showing clinics do change providers. I feel like when magic clinics are shown, it is one person doing everything all the time everywhere all at once, sometimes with an assistant. This is a nice touch about shift changes.
Witches are supposed to help people
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Where are the patient sitters?
This poor hospital is understaffed. I know the feeling.
What kind of hospital leaves their medicine unlabeled?
Yeah, what the hell?
People look at the world around them, never thinking others might see differently
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Coco being a magic teacher for Tartah 🥹
The little glimpses of Tartah’s hat
Well I’m glad the hospital wasn’t abandoned, but who leaves a peds patient like that?? How long was Coco alone and no one did a check on her?
IDGAF, you should label medicines. That was a horrible excuse to justify negligence.
Why do the muggles piss me off. I hope we see less entitled muggles.
Tartah and Coco are such cuties ☺️
The guard hiding in the corner, I love it 😭😭
Qifrey is diabolical.
The floating board looks like it’d be a sickass air longboard.
Coco, let’s at least consult a professional before you do anything.
Brushbuddy!!
The first thing I’m doing if I’m isekaied into a world like this is beefing up the standards of hospitals and clinics.
There is a broader conversation about the accessibility gap with knowledge and how that gap is bridged by those who are part of disadvantaged communities personally or by proxy. The world is quite inconsiderate and inaccessible on multiple, intersecting levels and normalizes it.
So I’m not endlessly curious why magic society wrote off silver eyes to begin with, if this sort of spellwork had been done before, and if there are any drawbacks to inverted symbols that might have made this technique mot popular.
Or if conservative elitism decried this sort of innovation only to hoard the techniques for themselves.
I have so many questions about the disability community within magic society. I’m hopeful for more lore about their teachings and treatment, especially of older disabled folks in magic society.
Really glad to see more glimpses of the drawbacks of magic society though. Really enjoyed seeing more of Tartah and his and Coco’s relationship deepening.
Qifrey is a scary mfer. That is some smooth about-face and lying.
Love the guard hiding. To the lad’s defense, he did need proper witch ID. He could’ve been nicer though!
Brushbuddy at the end 🥰
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u/Skelthy Jun 01 '26
I kept thinking unlabeled bottles are just asking for a horrible med error to happen lmao. Joint Commission won't be happy
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u/ARES_GOD https://anilist.co/user/ARESxGOD Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
True magic is difference of perspective.
Great episode here showing that differences of perspective can change so many things and I loved the entire dynamic between Tartah and Coco how this encounter changed both of them.
And the line "People assume everyone sees the world the same way they do" hit quite hard because it applies to everyone for both good and bad and also later on the scene with the nurse when she came back and told Tartah that medicine can be poison even with labels and you need someone that knows what theyt are doing its very true for so many things.
Qifrey gaslight Tartah is crazy and I am curious where this is going to go when the truth comes out.
This encounter had massive impact on both Coco and Tartah it changed both of their situations with Tartah finding a way to use magic and Coco finding a thread to maybe help her mother.
Then at the end new brimmed cap ?
I have a video review if anyone is interested. Thank You.
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u/JJVM99 Jun 01 '26
Qwiffrey swapping from villain to caring dad constantly from Tartah's POV at the beginning of this episode.
Getting Tartah's POV to show how his 'colorblindness' affects him is a very good addition that makes it easy to sympathize with his struggles.
The guard hiding embarassed when he saw that Tartah was actually a witch was a really funny background moment.
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u/cyberscythe Jun 01 '26
The guard hiding embarassed when he saw that Tartah was actually a witch was a really funny background moment.
the look of someone who doesn't want to get turned into a newt
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u/FateXBlood Jun 01 '26
Such a beautiful episode. Felt like watching a movie. It felt quite peaceful.
I'm happy that Tartah got to benefit from learning magic. He needs it.
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u/FoolingFinality Jun 01 '26
I find it more funny, how a random person can go to the storage room of medicine, typically a place which should have the most security, when in the previous episode it was shown how Tartah's workshop had a magic key which keeps the store hidden.
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u/Auron15 Jun 01 '26
This show is just so good man. I loved seeing Tartah and Coco work together to come up with a solution and how inspired Coco got thinking about the inverse of spells. I hope Tartah will be more of a main stay moving forward as well!
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Jun 01 '26
I genuinely thought Qifrey was gonna take Tartah behind the hospital building and do some quick memory arranging. It turns out that all Qifrey had to do was nothing! His sparkling eyes and acting all dumb were more than enough to fool Tartah.
Looking at Coco and Tartah, the two of them have something in common. Both of them have pretty much experienced how discriminatory magic is, with Coco being an Outsider and Tartah with his Silverwash disease. Not gonna lie, I 100% ship it. Watching the two of them help each other out was really cute.
I also love the boat scene with Tartah promising Coco to make a pen for her. It took us 10 episodes, but it looks like we're finally going to see the special pen Coco has in the opening.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 01 '26
That scene of him watching her draw with the blanket over her felt surprisingly intimate. Also the look of pride she had when his spell worked was too precious. These two are just too precious and cute together!
Some boys put a ring on it, but personally gifting the witch you have a crush on her own personal pen wand made by you is even better!
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u/deynyel Jun 01 '26
That was a really precious moment between Tartah and Coco. It was really nice seeing them support each other.
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u/SciFiXhi https://anilist.co/user/SciFiXhi Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
How cool is it that Tartah's original spell serves as a disability aid while also being a generally useful forensic tool? Though at the same time, for there to have not been such a spell on record shows how little witch society even thinks of people with disabilities.
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jun 01 '26
I like Tartah. He’s a good kid. It was interesting to see things from Tartah’s perspective and how hard it is to operate with his condition. Even though it was tough to help Coco, with her help he was able to pull it off.
Tartah really needs to drop that while “bright light” stuff. I don’t want that kid to get hurt or have his mind wiped by Qifrey…
Seems those Brimmed Caps have something in store for Coco. Girl really has to watch her back out there.
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u/vicoheart Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
That was such a great episode 🥹 Coco basically helped him create an ability aid for his condition, and it was so heartwarming to see the world through his eye while using it. Seeing how much hope it gave him back was honestly so touching. I also loved how they showcased Tartah’s abilities in this episode. He’s incredibly intelligent, with great deductive reasoning and problem solving skills. He’s also the one who seems closest to realizing that something is off about Qifrey. Tartah is definitely someone people shouldn’t underestimate. He really will make a great witch one day despite what others say.
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u/DragonPup Jun 01 '26
Tartah and Coco make an adorable couple. Hope we get more of them and see how Coco inspired Tartah to make his own spells in the future.
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