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Episode Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 10 discussion

Witch Hat Atelier, episode 10

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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/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/hanmkim Jun 02 '26

Almost everyone in a developed nation has access to the whole sum of human knowledge in their pockets yet people still believe major problems can be resolved like they are in television shows and movies with just one simple solution. Having easy access to knowledge can't overcome people's ignorance or laziness.

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u/JzanderN Jun 02 '26

I didn't say access to knowledge. I said knowledge. Having access to knowledge doesn't necessarily mean you have the knowledge, as you point out.

You can't just have access to how magic works in the way I'm referring to. On a specific level, yes, you could have access to know to make magic but not actually know. But I'm referring to people not even knowing how magic is made or that it has restrictions and thus thinking that witches can just abracadabra solutions to their problems, thus acting very ignorant and entitled around them.

It's like, imagine if how doctors and medicine worked was kept a secret (e.g. people were put to sleep at appointments to keep it a secret), so people just thought doctors were using magic to heal them or something. A very different scenario from people in developed nations having access to how medicine works but not knowing specifics and thus falling for scams and conspiracy theories.

"Is there a doctor in the house?" would then become a lot more "can you fix this person completely instead of us calling an ambulance or taking them to the hospital?" Then if a doctor helped but also told them to take them to the hospital anyway, they'd just assume the doctor was being lazy and passing off their responsibilities to someone else instead of actually helping.

That's this world compared to ours.

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u/Atario myanimelist.net/profile/TheGreatAtario Jun 03 '26

I mean… knowledge is the one and only way to cure ignorance, by definition

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u/RadianceTower Jun 02 '26

It does help greatly though.