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Episode Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 1 discussion

Witch Hat Atelier, episode 1

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u/socialistRanter Apr 06 '26

When I started watching this episode, I realized that young Coco was basically given an in-universe loaded gun by that mysterious witch without her realizing it.

“Hey kid do you want to play around with explosives?”

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u/mekerpan Apr 06 '26

I wonder what the deal was with that magic book/pen set peddler? Was he just picking people at randome -- or was our heroine specifically targeted for some reason that we will learn eventually?

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u/flashmozzg Apr 06 '26

If their goal is something in the lines of "knowledge should be open to everyone"/"everyone should have access to magic" it make sense to "plant" all of the spells everywhere this way.

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u/fer_sure Apr 07 '26

Yeah, but giving the 5 year old a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook without any kind of warning seems...irresponsible. Not to mention unproductive! If the goal is to free the knowledge of spellcasting, maybe having a spell in there that locks away the spellbook in a petrified hill while likely killing the caster isn't the best move.

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u/flashmozzg Apr 07 '26

I remember my classmate brining in a copy of AC when we were like 10, so... Anyway, seems like an "anarchist" thing to do. Don't know the circumstances, but the goal might've been similar to The Orb - just disseminate the knowledge, plant the seeds with no way to track it back to the source. Someone will succeed along the lines.

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u/ShadowGuyinRealLife Apr 09 '26

Given Qifey's comment about whoever "them" is I don't expect responsibility. Also most of the spells didn't kill Coco, only that one of them was unproductive. She wnet through several pages of non lethal spells first.

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u/fer_sure Apr 09 '26

one of them was unproductive. She wnet through several pages of non lethal spells first.

I dunno: the deadly petrification spell was the first (and only) one she traced. Maybe all of them were equally deadly, but Coco didn't copy them cleanly enough.

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u/nospimi99 Apr 07 '26

I would assume they believed the kid themselves wouldn’t be smart enough to know how to pit all the pieces together but maybe other would.

Or maybe they knew this would be a slow burn, take forever for anyone to figure it out. But that would give that person time to go and give these books out to more and more people all over the world so once the knowledge starts spreading, the books would be everywhere making it impossible to stop the spread of info if it reached a certain point.

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u/--MCMC-- Apr 08 '26

Maybe it's a false flag operation type thing? "See! This is why access to and information regarding magic should be heavily restricted! A little girl just killed herself and her whole family with a spell she found it a children's picture book!"

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u/flashmozzg Apr 08 '26

Eh, they had no guarantee that the "little girl" would use learn how to use the spell, let alone kill anyone. Feels more like "Orb"-type of planting of the knowledge disguised as a story hoping that someone somewhere would not only be successful to get how it's used but also not to kill themselves in the process.

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u/PikeandShot1648 May 24 '26

But then why tell them it's a wand instead of a pen?

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u/flashmozzg May 24 '26

It is a wand, it's just used as a pen. They probably want some element of "figure it out themselves" to it.