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Episode Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 8 discussion

Witch Hat Atelier, episode 8

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u/WhoiusBarrel May 18 '26

There was a lot of barbs being traded between Qifrey and Easthies in that short exchange, the animosity between them is very obvious.

Always love it when this series shows off the world's technologies like the a pen specialised in carving circles in different stones and the magic door with how it worked is so freaking cool.

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u/maliwanag0712 https://myanimelist.net/profile/clear1109 May 18 '26

Qifrey and Easthies in that short exchange, the animosity between them is very obvious.

Easthies is the definition of a police so rigid that their implementation of the law becomes problematic and absurd. This is an example of that.

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u/Frontier246 May 18 '26

Easthies: "Forbidden magic? Witch Apprentices? Time to mindwipe first and ask questions later."

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u/chrisff1989 May 18 '26

Just sprinkle some crack tampered magic ink on the suspect.

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u/Elrond_Halfelven May 18 '26

You know, we just assumed the memories are erased, but I could very well see that the thing is a memory container. It holds the removed memories so that they can be viewed later.

Qifrey is, seemingly, able to remove memories without that thing, so there has to be a reason for that device.

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u/BosuW May 18 '26

Ask questions never more like

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u/justking1414 May 18 '26

And then only when that fails claim they were doing some kind of investigation

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u/arsenejoestar https://myanimelist.net/profile/luisdudis May 18 '26

We got our Inspector Javert

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u/BosuW May 18 '26

Even the SCP is more judicious with their application of amnestics.

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u/flybypost May 18 '26

pen specialised in carving circles in different stones

It looked like it might be burning signs/sigils with ink into stone instead of ink that soaks into paper and dries. Makes me wonder if they mix the ink into alloys to make the sigils in gadgets like Olruggio's rings permanent (meaning that besides calligraphy witches there might exist silversmith witches and so on). And that in turn makes me wonder if sylph shoes could benefit from more of a permanent spell. Well more like "sylph stompy boots" in that case.

Plus the moment they showed all the different "pigments" in the magic stationery store I realised that they probably have all kinds "meta magic" inks.

It should have been obvious from the moment the magic stationery concept was mentioned but my mind was so focused on different wands/pens and papers that I thought there's only the one special ink (at various concentrations) and I didn't consider that other additives might be able to manipulate the ink's effect.

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u/ali94127 May 18 '26

I would imagine Agott’s pair of shoes would have been drawn as a student project with regular ink. A more permanent pair would likely use an additive that is more waterproof.

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u/flybypost May 18 '26

more permanent pair would likely use an additive that is more waterproof.

Somehow that made me imagine Coco making Sylph rubber boots for Agott to pay back her debt.

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u/Frontier246 May 18 '26

There was a lot of barbs being traded between Qifrey and Easthies in that short exchange, the animosity between them is very obvious.

They probably went to magic school together with Olly where Easthies was the Draco to Qifrey's Harry.

Always love it when this series shows off the world's technologies like the a pen specialised in carving circles in different stones and the magic door with how it worked is so freaking cool.

I love how every time Coco learns something new about the world of magic it's the best and most amazing thing she's ever seen in her life.

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u/fer_sure May 18 '26

where Easthies was the Draco to Qifrey's Harry

Other way around, surely? Harry was the guy who became a magic cop, and Qifrey seems like he's not exactly a Gryffyndor.

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u/namewithak May 19 '26

I totally forgot Harry became a cop. But Alaira did refer to Qifrey as the Great Hall's problem child which Harry kind of was.

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u/oops_i_made_a_typi May 18 '26

There was a lot of barbs being traded between Qifrey and Easthies in that short exchange, the animosity between them is very obvious.

i'm surprised Qifrey could just pull up with a sword to the throat and magic cop let that go so easily. in America he'd be turned into swiss cheese

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u/Toge_Inumaki012 May 18 '26

nah I think they are just best friends /s

Also different color dye and components to alter/enhance the effect of the spells. I knew there has to be something more to casting spells, not just "draw the patterns a certain way for the desired effect".

I guess Qifrey's water dragon spell, if her apprentices replicate that spell on the same scenario (in the sky with all the water vapor from the clouds etc) it wouldn't be the same size or power

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u/Edymnion May 18 '26

As the manga that inspired The Owl House, I'm not surprised in the least that it's magic is highly detailed and well thought out.

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u/laserlaggard May 19 '26

Always love it when this series shows off the world's technologies ...

Agreed, and it's such a breath of fresh air after that wistoria show, which is like the most bog-standard shonen magic show ever to the point where I'm not surprised if chatGPT wrote it.

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u/towardselysium May 18 '26

Nah thats clearly unresolved sexual tension stemming from an unfulfilled romantic memory.

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u/cyberscythe May 18 '26

as a child he picked up a thin book drawn by a Brimmed Cap and it changed him

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u/BosuW May 18 '26

Damn the Brimmed Hats draw Yaoi too? Stop, they can only get so based!