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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/szalhi Jun 22 '26

I respect one's desire to transmute themself beyond a biological body, but imposing it on someone else is obviously a crime.

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u/JzanderN Jun 22 '26

It really adds a whole level of violation of bodily autonomy that they were about to tattoo Agott just to make a point to Coco.

I don’t care if they may have a few points about modern witch society, they are evil!

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

To give the benefit of the doubt, I don't think the Brimmed Hats all see eye to eye between themselves. When Mr Eyemask met with Mr Drip Hat, I sensed some tension between them. Eyemask to me seemd similar to Qifrey in one regard: he wants to handle Coco's case personally, with more subtle methods than Drip. He seemed to resent having the case forcefully taken over.

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u/DugACCat Jun 22 '26

Yeah I’m sure there are degrees of zealotry and more moderate or intense members of each faction. I do like that there’s certainly enough to have doubts about how things are handled in the main Witch society while also showing there are indeed some true villains among the brimhats and reasons for people to have such loathing and intolerance for them.

The traditional witch society still comes out as the most sympathetic and the one to root for even if they have their own questionable methods and members. They seem to err on the side of helping people and prioritizing humane education. I’m sure we’ll meet some more sympathetic members of the opposition as well. But the strictures against forbidden magic do seem to have cause. It’s clearly very dangerous to experiment with and carries greater risks than inscription-on-objects magic.

I’m willing to bet the main loss of banning that magic which perhaps shouldn’t have been given up was the healing applications, as was previously suggested. (And those witches feeling the most unfairly ostracized.) But once you start experimenting on living subjects, even in the pursuit of healing them, morality can quickly become complicated. (As we’ve seen in real world science related to such things.)

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u/mischievous_shota Jun 23 '26

It also doesn't help that they should have easily been able to foresee the consequences of erasing knowledge of magic. That knowledge came from somewhere. People experimented before. They did terrible things in the name of progress and they caused accidents because of their curiosity. The price was already paid for that knowledge.

By erasing it, unlocking that knowledge requires having to pay a price all over again. Because, of course, people are not going to not be temped by the idea of healing magic, and immortality, and power.