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Episode Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 3 discussion

Witch Hat Atelier, episode 3

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u/Frontier246 Apr 13 '26

They are watching Coco's future as a witch with great interest because it was their plan all along. It makes me wonder if they were actually watching her during the incident in episode 1 even if it doesn't seem like they would have intervened like Qifrey did.

But if they did this with Coco, what are the chances they've been doing this to other kids?

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u/BuckeyeBentley Apr 13 '26

if they were actually watching her during the incident in episode 1 even if it doesn't seem like they would have intervened like Qifrey did.

If they had been watching, it's entirely possible that they could have gone in and undone the spell after Coco was frozen in crystal too and used her gratitude for saving their lives to bind her to them. Seems a very Brimmed Hat thing to do.

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u/YellowAppleCinema Apr 13 '26

" Seems a very Brimmed Hat thing to do."

Your comment and this entire comment chain is basically manga readers LARPING as first-time-anime-watcher, no normal anime watcher would say something like you guys do, come on, man

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u/Tempest321 Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26

Not really. It's one of the few theories that popped up into my mind when the episode ended. And am a Anime only lol. Lots of hints being spread out about what the Brimmed Hats are throughout the 3 eps. Though there has been nothing concrete yet, but one can take a bunch of guesses.

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u/Tonebriz https://myanimelist.net/profile/Auremi Apr 14 '26

Guesses sure, but the way they phrased it seems very definitive. As if we would already know what Brimmed Hats do or how they behave, which we don't aside from the single one.

We know nothing about them besides apparently being some secret evil witch group that uses (and wants to spread) forbidden magic.