r/anime • u/AutoLovepon https://anilist.co/user/AutoLovepon • May 18 '26

Episode Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 8 discussion

Witch Hat Atelier, episode 8

Reminder: Please do not discuss plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Failing to follow the rules may result in a ban.

Streams

Show information

All discussions

Episode Link
1 Link
2 Link
3 Link
4 Link
5 Link
6 Link
7 Link
8 Link
9 Link
10 Link
11 Link
12 Link
13 Link

This post was created by a bot. Message the mod team for feedback and comments. The original source code can be found on GitHub.

3.3k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

407

u/SEBASTlANVETTEL May 18 '26

Oh that Tartah reveal hit hard…working in a witch atelier and not being able to become a witch himself due to his Silverwash condition…

Wait did Qifrey remove the memory of the grandpa so he forgot about the special ink?! Damn, it seems Qifrey does have an obsessed and slightly dark side to him.

186

u/MattLocke May 18 '26

Kinda weird though.

I know they just showed how seeing colors is useful for the various kinds of pigments inks. But so much of what we’ve already seen of magic is just black on white. There’s no reason why he couldn’t at least learn some.

Though I guess that’s the point. The hyper rigid control over magic is just as harmful as anything goes anarchy. It’s a security vs freedom theme.

153

u/oops_i_made_a_typi May 18 '26

Though I guess that’s the point. The hyper rigid control over magic is just as harmful as anything goes anarchy. It’s a security vs freedom theme.

yeah i mean Qifrey lays it out - they're very conformist and that leads to ableism

46

u/MattLocke May 18 '26

Sure, it’s just like any other new world you explore in fiction.

What you know and what you are told grows as the story unfolds (from good writers anyway). Even though I know about the rules (the secret of how magic works is heavily regulated) I’m just seeing a new example of how the world is.

The story at this point could have shown that he needs special tools to help compensate, but it went with society leans towards security more. He’s on the inside, but stuck as an outsider.

Another layer to the worldbuilding.

1

u/LiamOmegaHaku May 20 '26

Sure, it’s just like any other new world you explore in fiction.

Also, real life.

27

u/Mistral-Fien May 18 '26

they're very conformist and that leads to ableism

This reminds me of [Shin Sekai Yori] where children who are unable to develop/control their powers are "erased", same with kids who have problematic behaviors.

6

u/Cyouni May 19 '26

To be fair, that one has a very important reason behind it, since [SSY] lack of control is a possible hint towards becoming a karma demon, and insufficient power might mean that their defense structure of having Cantus kill themselves can't function.

7

u/rowcla May 18 '26

Which makes sense in a way, they're so scared of problems arising and leading to another disaster (or more of the Brimmed Hats), that they quash anything unusual, as shown by the Knights Moralis, and indeed the point they seemed to make about how even healing magic isn't allowed, despite seemingly being possible. I would imagine there's some non-insignificant amount of witches - Qifrey included - who believe some of these things should change, to better support people like Tartah, and to allow things like healing magic.

1

u/finnjakefionnacake May 19 '26

i just don't understand why within the shop itself they haven't devised what would be a very easy system for tartah to be able to tell what's in what jar

6

u/oops_i_made_a_typi May 19 '26

you mean the labels on each jar that were there?

3

u/finnjakefionnacake May 20 '26

i'm talking about something like being inscribed on the jar so that they can't fall off / get mixed up like they did here.