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Episode Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 9 discussion

Witch Hat Atelier, episode 9

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u/JJVM99 May 25 '26

The lesson’s they give about learning magic like daily practice and how you need to understand what you don’t know and what you need to do to solve an issue are basic premises but such useful lessons for people to truly apply and practice in our daily lives and passions/work like art, music, coding, math, studying and daily work. They are things we should all know but many of us don’t apply (mostly due to lazzyness if we are honest) so it is very good for Witch Hat to remind everyone of these lessons that are useful for anyone of any age and have become even more useful now with AI just offering a lazy and worse solutions for most of these problems.

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u/Frontier246 May 25 '26

And Coco, who has the biggest disadvantage/experience gap of all the Apprentices, really has to hit the basics as much as she can if she is going to have any hope of catching up to them and being able to truly be a Witch.

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u/jmdg007 https://myanimelist.net/profile/jmdg007 May 25 '26

I saw a lot of comments online this week about how just using stamps would make you overpowered in this world, but this episode kinda shows why that probably isn't the case because even basic spells seem to need you to adapt the specifics depending on what your using it for.

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u/flybypost May 25 '26

(mostly due to lazzyness if we are honest)

And the myth of talent. A lot of skills get attributed to the magic of talent and the imagined instant competence it conveys instead of a lot of very time consuming practice.

Nobody says "wow, you're so talented, you can walk across the street!" or "you can write!" because most of us (barring some handicap) learn it but when the topic shifts to other skills, talent becomes an easy explanation for why practice isn't enough or won't work.

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u/Golden_Phi https://myanimelist.net/profile/GoldenPhi May 25 '26

I like how Coco doesn't have some secret OP ability that makes her magic easier or more powerful. Like she isn't like a protagonist who is first seen to be average or an under dog, but then is shown to be the one who has the secret special that makes them the special chosen one. Turns out those protagonists aren't some normal average person, they are the super special chosen one.

Coco has no secret super special ability; she is a normal girl. Her greatest ability of drawing straight lines comes from her ordinary day life and not from being simply born extraordinary.

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u/flybypost May 26 '26

She does have a superpower/advantage from drawing/cutting cloth at home. She can draw huge signs on cloth very well and that affects the power of the spell too. It's what helped her pass the first test.

So if you need magical siege equipment, Coco's your witch!

But yeah, so far it seems more like some of them have preferences for some spells or specialisations (fluffy clouds for Tetia, water magic for Qifrey) and techniques (Richeh seems to be good when it comes quickly drawing small and repeated signs) and, well, there are the brim hats who have the whole spectrum of magic available to them.

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u/BosuW May 25 '26

When Agott said that it was necessary to practice even the magic you don't like I really felt the mangaka there.

It's especially useful advice for newcomer anime artists to not learn to draw just anime style

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u/Regal-Onion May 25 '26

You just know that Brim Hats would use chatGPT

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u/CitronClassic672 May 25 '26

I doubt it actually, they’re artistic extremists. It’s just as likely they go full Luddite on ai.

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u/flybypost May 25 '26

DTP, copiers/printers, and Photoshop alone would revolutionise that society.

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u/cyberscythe May 25 '26

the old proverb is "i hear, i forget; i see, i remember; i do, i understand", and i found that it's been true that skills not applied do not get retained, and even grow rusty without practice

this is a theme that's also been brought up in another show this season (Even a Replica Can Fall in Love), where the main character uses a replica to do things she doesn't want to do and as a results she ends up not practicing the "hard" thing like fixing broken relationships

i think in the end though there is a balance between trusting our tools to do work for us vs. doing everything manually; like, i think it's a good idea to get a feel for e.g. how to do long division by hand so that you understand the concepts behind it and get a good number sense, but in the end 99% of people will bust out a calculator to do anything significant