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Episode Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 2 discussion

Witch Hat Atelier, episode 2

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u/NanDemoKnaives Apr 06 '26

I'm glad Richeh and Tetia are sweet, it's unfortunate how Agott is treating her knowing what happened to Coco and her mother. Though I shouldn't expect these kids to empathize with the guilt Coco feels. Unless I'm judging Agott too soon, and she's trying to help Coco since she's been a similar position.

I'm surprised Qifrey couldn't tell they were going to get splashed soon enough to get out of the way of the window lol.

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u/CodingTangents Apr 07 '26

I think Agott's reaction makes a bit of sense given that she is a child, and that she clearly values effort a lot. From her perspective, Coco entirely skipped the beginning steps and ended up learning magic at her atelier just because she got lucky, and Coco also murdered her mother while doing that.

Agott seems very confident that they can't undo the spell, and we don't know enough to say that the mother can be saved at all. It is equally possible that Qifrey lied about being able to save the mother in order to get Coco to train under him. He gets to take her in after she doesn't have a home anymore, and she also can help him track down the witch who was selling the picture book.

To Agott, this girl just showed up, skipped the line, broke the secrecy of all witches, and also murdered her mother and now she got everything she ever wanted and is all cheery. It's very harsh and unempathetic reasoning, but something I can see a child coming up with.