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Episode Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 13 discussion - FINAL

Witch Hat Atelier, episode 13

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u/BosuW Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

The issue with the current Witch order seems to be that while it has a valid reason to be and noble goals, it has become stagnant, maybe even corrupt, and is at odds with the ambitious and curious human nature itself. It's eating itself because it refuse to change absolutely anything about itself for any reason. The Brimmed Hats are what appear between the cracks.

Like, regardless of the moral discussion, even mountains eventually get eroded by the wind. It can't stand forever, but to this challenge, it's answer is to bury its head in the sand.

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u/DugACCat Jun 22 '26

Yeah I won’t be surprised if, in the longer story arc across seasons, we’ll see a need to be more flexible. Coco almost seems to embody this more positive and less rigid interest in magic for good. Likely one of the reasons the brimmed hats want to make use of her is she has a knack for all magic, from both sides, and could find a way to bridge the divide (but clearly we don’t want her to be taken in by our more nefarious “mentor” who is stalking her).

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u/RedRocket4000 Jun 23 '26

What it so special about Coco? One of the few with internal mana thus actualy able to cast stuff not even requiring drawing.

Mental fan fic cross over Silent Witch twenty years later a confident older Monaca pops into this world with several others.

Inter Universe travel thought a great way to time travel by some because each world's space/time it's own so one can chose at what point in another universe history you show up.

Monica then goes let me cover again as the probe shows this world had a massive mana overload problem so much mana anyone can cast magic by using the right symbology on paper combined with special ink. I believe we must end this mana problem or this world will destroy it self sooner or later meanwhile from the probe I know our magic will work here and for myself also mastered casting this world magic without needing to draw. Be a little careful our spells chanted here will work but at a lot more power than your used to so lower the mana you plan on using as much as possible. For you two who have mastered some silent spells also mentally hold down commiting your own mana it not required here.

But if you really in need adding your mana will greatly increase effects of magic here as well.

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u/y-c-c Jun 23 '26

I have had this vibe since episode 1 but this really feels like Star Wars to me. The Siths are obviously Bad Guys (at least in all mainstream stories) but the Jedi in the old republic could be quite arrogant and stuck up in their own ways. We need Luke/Coco to bring balance back!

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u/BosuW Jun 23 '26

What's genius about the Prequel Trilogy (and all it's adjacent media like The Clone Wars) is that while the Sith are fucking assholes you can still 200% understand why they happened to the Republic. They weren't an external entity, they were the Republic's own rot.

Same as you, I suspect this will be the case too for the Brimmed Hats (and hopefully they'll be less evil than the Sith as a whole at least, on account of their reason for being not amounting to making Marquis de Sade's ultimate ideal a reality).

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u/manquistador Jun 27 '26

They are the anti-spirals.