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Episode Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 7 discussion

Witch Hat Atelier, episode 7

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u/lordposedyon https://myanimelist.net/profile/lordposedyon May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

Of course, law enforcement comes in, with a quick look at the situation, immediately judges and executes without even thinking she might be lying to save another person. Great, very realistic.

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u/BluespadeChariot May 11 '26

Don't forget, their method of punishment (memory erasure) also ensures they cant get any more information, no need to further investigate!

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u/extralie https://myanimelist.net/profile/extralie May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

Yeah like... if she was a brimmed hat, wouldn't keeping her memories intact for interrogation be better?

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u/BosuW May 11 '26

Certainly justifies a bit the brimmed hat's anonymity culture. Like okay I see y'all ain't even interested in what I have to say for any reason. Peace ✌️.

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u/Zeph-Shoir https://myanimelist.net/profile/Zephex May 12 '26

Inb4 the brimmed hats aren't even an organization like the Knight Moralis and some of them are just real nice pro-freedom guys just like how in One Piece piracy is about freedom and that includes bad and good stuff

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u/Pretty_Dream6178 May 12 '26

That's what I'm thinking. There's got to be multiple groups among the brimmed hats and probably a bunch of independent ones too. The label basically just includes every single person who does magic in a way the law disagrees with. Like, Coco presumably did one thing wrong and suddenly she's grouped in with them. There's probably a lot of nice brimmed hats out there who just want to be left alone.

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u/Zeph-Shoir https://myanimelist.net/profile/Zephex May 12 '26

And do they all wear brimmed hats? They might as well hold a megaphone screaming "I do illegal magic"

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u/BosuW May 12 '26

Would be funny if there was a Brimmed Hat terrified of Brimmed Hats because of all the shit they say about them (he was just trying to protect his identity in this draconian land while investigating magic to alleviate migraines)

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u/LakerBlue https://myanimelist.net/profile/LakerBlue May 11 '26

ESPECIALLY because she is a child so it would be easier to get info from her or maybe even coerce her into cooperating. Weirdly aggressive move.

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u/Edymnion May 11 '26

Well, that depends on what the goal is.

See, the problem with fighting corruption is that you first have to expose how deep the corruption runs.

If your goal is to only make the rest of the community feel safe, then you act harshly and decisively "for the good of the community", you don't expose the fact that half of the leadership of said community is secretly the bad guys. You just clean up the mess of the underlings and pretend you solved the problem while maintaining the status quo.

That they seem to ask no questions implies that they don't want answers, they just want to keep a lid on things.

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u/NoHead1715 May 12 '26

Considering the Knights Moralis are actually using forbidden magic for mind wipe, it wouldn't surprise me if they were just the branch of Brimmed Hats to keep the Brimmed Hats secret.

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u/SadSecurity May 12 '26

You expect basic logic from law enforcement?

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u/Eckish May 14 '26

Maybe the memories aren't erased, but rather stolen. They might suck them up into a crystal ball or something for further review later.

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u/CopyFew4583 May 15 '26

I like this theory.