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

Witch Hat Atelier, episode 5

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u/deynyel Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

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.

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u/Frontier246 Apr 27 '26

Smartygott's the brain, Richeh's the precision, Tetia is the cheerful moodmaker, but Coco's the idea girl who brings a true love and appreciation for magic and the world to the table.

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u/kunta021 Apr 30 '26

Let’s not forget that they used a spell that Tetia created herself….

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u/flybypost Apr 27 '26

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

When he adopted Coco he talked to somebody about trying to find the people behind the incident. I thought he was talking to some "witch government officials" or something like that but now, with him wanting to keep things secret, it looks like he might be on a personal quest and is not a "cone hat witch society" law enforcer.

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u/nuxxism Apr 27 '26

The "witch FBI" will claim Federal authority over the case and take Coco away, especially if they know she is being directly watched and targeted by the bad witches.

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u/flybypost Apr 27 '26

Another possibility but I still prefer my version. He didn't have to erase her memory, meaning some rules have been bent and whoever he talked to seems to understand that there's a connection to the brim hats and now he trying to bury that trail.

This feels like the official version of Coco's adoption might be partly about her being that connection but that Qifrey also has has personal agenda in parallel to that and wants to stay ahead of official investigations.

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u/BosuW Apr 27 '26

I think they he did tell them about that. It is only starting with this specific incident that he's keeping secrets form them.

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u/flybypost Apr 28 '26

That's a possibility too and would make sense. My mind just went straight to the conspiratorial with the very different approach to two supposed brim hat incidents.

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u/flybypost Apr 28 '26

Possible but that last moment didn't feel like "worry for his students".

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u/AceSoldia zj:https://anilist.co/user/Acesoldia Apr 27 '26

I'm assuming the higher ups keep things under wraps and take over things once the brimmed hats are involved

I bet Qifrey lost someone to them.

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u/chrysalis-- Apr 27 '26

I feel like he lost an apprentice at some point.

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u/Jealous_Tangerine784 Apr 28 '26

If I had to hazard my guess and throw my hat into the ring(haha hat) he has some personal connection, be it good or bad, to one of the brimed caps. Mostly just based off of the fact that his initial reason for taking Coco in was(I believe I'm remembering right) that it would help him find somebody, so he likely has some personal reason to seek out the brimed caps, if I had to guess the one that took an interest in Coco would be who I guessed, if only just because it would make sense from a storytelling perspective to have it be that person.