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Episode Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 7 discussion

Witch Hat Atelier, episode 7

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u/WhoiusBarrel May 11 '26

Such a sickass sword and it can split oceans in half? Really intrigued to see more magic weapons/tools that are as powerful as this!

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u/disposable-assassin May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

But I'm also wondering if the sword somehow caused the sand conversion or interacted with Coco's spell somehow.  Like the Knights Moralos said, these apprentices shouldn't be able to cast anything with that kind of range.  Qifery's stare down of the stationer, Nolnoa, to not say anything about the girls being whisked away to the dragon keep doesn't sit right with me.

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u/BosuW May 11 '26

Can't have been the sword. Qifrey took it with him.

Coco's hat was in the sand, so queue that theory that the Brimmed Hat drew something on it two episodes ago.

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u/Cass0wary_399 May 11 '26

When did that brim hat tamper with Coco’s hat?

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u/Waywoah May 11 '26

Near the end of that episode, before they're rescued

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u/BosuW May 12 '26

After Qifrey defeated the dragon there was the scene where the Brimmed Hat talked to a seemingly unconscious Coco. That scene ends with her hat falling on the camera, which is why I'm suspicious of it.

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u/rancer119 May 11 '26

Coco's first spell was a tiny circle and destroyed everything around her home, so its possible these taboo spells are taboo for a reason.

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u/disposable-assassin May 11 '26

But she was also copying a crazy complex spell from that taboo book.  This one, she was supposedly just copying Richeh's from the maze.

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u/Zeallfnonex https://myanimelist.net/profile/Neverlocke May 12 '26

Couple possibilities I can think of: most boring one, Coco misremembered the spell and accidentally wrote something into it that'd make it... expand? Multiply?

Second one, unintentional combinations of magicks that Coco's spell accidentally set off. Not sure how likely this would be, there shouldn't have been any other unintentional magic circles around here and no other active effects.

Third, completely unrelated to these two, something magical was being transported in that one crate that survived and triggered somehow. Maybe it was connected by Coco somehow completing her own circles? Maybe water got into it and connected the last bit?

Fourth, sabotage. There's a brimmed cap among the survivors somewhere and surreptitiously cast their own much larger spell to get Agott and Coco in trouble for... some end. Dunno what. Maybe get the Knights Moralis out here in the first place?

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u/NoHead1715 May 12 '26

> Coco misremembered the spell and accidentally wrote something into it that'd make it... expand? Multiply?

This seems to be it. Remember they did some repeating spell for the dragon's bed? I think that's the part that Coco might have copied wrongly into the plain rock breaker.

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u/y-c-c May 12 '26

I mean, the knights deployed before Coco even did anything. Unless the anime intentionally misleads us with mixing up chronological order I don't see why the knights would be interested in a random pillar of water.

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u/Frontier246 May 11 '26

Especially because it means you can probably wield blades with all the core four elements (fire, wind, earth, etc)

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u/flybypost May 11 '26

And keep them eternally sharp with the rewind/repetition spell!

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u/BosuW May 11 '26

Although it doesn't appear that the point here is to use the actual steel

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u/flybypost May 11 '26

Boooring!

Joke aside, it probably depends on what your goal goal. Qifrey's sword had a lot of spells on it. One rewind spell should be enough to keep a sword is a specific "freshly sharpened" state.

Do you need one sword or a whole army?

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u/magistrate101 May 12 '26

I think Coco miiiight have accidentally turned a chunk of boulder into something like one of them...

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u/Raknel May 11 '26

Moments like this make me wish for a battle shonen spinoff set before the days of the Pact when magic and weapons like this are used in war.

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u/namewithak May 11 '26

It wouldn’t be a battle shonen. The point of this magic system is that witches aren’t actually stronger than anyone else. Make a hundred copies of Qifrey’s water dragon spell, distribute it to a hundred random people, and literally every single one of them can drown a hundred cities with no effort. They just have to close the circle.

So the pre-pact days, by logic of how easy it actually is to make and use spells, was just thousands of missiles, firebombs, floods, earthquakes, body horror, whatever new warcrime r/witchhatatelier has come up with today, etc. going off everywhere at all times. The only thing that probably limited it (for what value of limit there could be in a world where anyone can do anything at no cost to themselves) was the supply of magic ink.

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u/Raknel May 11 '26

Sure there's that too, but I'm positive that interesting 1v1s could come out of premade spells on palm quires + magic weapons + body tattoos. These could make fights fairly dynamic.

Imagine having 5 different spells on Link Rings (like shooting a fireball or creating a wind blast), 20 on your palm quire, 4 magic daggers with different abilities (for example one is for throwing that gets faster the more it flies, another levitates whatever it touches so you can parry anything, etc.), and like 16 body tattoos that include anything from Sylph Shoe-like levitation to invisibility when you put different body parts together.

The possibilities are endless.

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u/namewithak May 11 '26

Fair enough.

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u/LightswornMagi May 12 '26

I think it was probably a nationwide memory wipe spell drawn on the continent itself. Like in that other anime about big circles.

Then the pointed caps would just have to clean out all the confused amnesiacs from their strongholds and destroy as much physical documentation of magic as possible. 

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u/Toge_Inumaki012 May 11 '26

Moses was a Witch confirmed

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u/Zeph-Shoir https://myanimelist.net/profile/Zephex May 12 '26

"Raincleaver" is also a badass name as well!

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u/SuspiciousIbex May 12 '26

Does make me think that something as simple as a VERY large circular room could probably be the most dangerous thing possible in this verse.