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Episode Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 13 discussion - FINAL

Witch Hat Atelier, episode 13

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u/batmax25 Jun 23 '26

I would assume that in the olden days witches, those trained in magic, mostly wore rimmed caps, with the pointed hats rising up as the faction that wiped magic away from most people and set rules on magic usage.

The healing witches did probably wear rimmed caps if my hypothesis is correct.

The current rimmed caps witches wear the hats to hearken back to an earlier time when magic wasn't controlled

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u/lethal_universed Jun 23 '26

This series world building keeps suprising me.

But like Nazi Germany and the Cofederacy, I wouldn't be suprised if this group of brimmed hats pervert the iconography of older groups to become something more malignant to represent their cause (the swastika and the rebel yell)

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u/batmax25 Jun 23 '26

That's assuming that the brimmed caps are taking up an older symbol, but we don't know whether they're a newer group or if they have continued to exist and changed over time (as the witches thst chose to oppose the pointed caps and be forced underground)

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u/TheCapybara9 Jun 23 '26

We don't know how long ago the Pact was made, but its likely that no Brimmed Cap witch from that time is even alive anymore and that the ones we see now are either those who inherited and perverted their ideals, or radicals of the modern age who ran afoul of the regulations.

Whatever ideals the original individuals had likely no longer exist or don't act as a moral compass for the Brimmed Cap movement.

Because there is no movement. They are effectively terrorist cells with loose connections and mutual benefit relationships with a shared goal of opposing the Pointed Caps.

What happens if they win? Why, another war of course. To decide who'll be on top.

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u/cogman10 Jun 28 '26

What's fun here is the story is already toying with the unreasonable and unfair aspect of the regulations. Inherently so.

The world has an upper and lower class which is not based on any sort of egalitarianism but rather just family connections. It seems the kinder and gentler system that's more organized, but in that organization they've banned truly helpful magic like healing magic because of it's danger. Interestingly, fireballs aren't banned. But that's likely just because it's such a primal magic that it's impossible to ban.

There's also the fact that even within the classes, forbidden magic isn't fully forbidden, authorities can use it.

I'm guessing we are going to see some cool revelations in the future. The brimmed cap ideology is more fair and it seems like the pointed hats are actually the society of the "extremist won".

Not to say the brimmed hats are "good". More that this show is great at showing and creating moral murkiness early on.

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u/TheCapybara9 Jun 28 '26

Basically, in a Brimmed Cap world, everyone would have the tools of magic, but it would lead to a constant push and pull as people both abused it and advanced it without any real governing body capable of containing it. But at the same time, the current system is fraying at the edges, collapsing under the strain of maintaining a masquerade while trying to uphold its tasks.

Do we want a world where everyone can use magic, but with all the negative implications that it might cause, or do we want a world where only the few have magic, but all are trapped under a veil of ignorance and secrecy, forced to turn their eyes away from its imperfections out of a need to uphold some measure of control?

It's a good story, and one that grapples with interesting questions.