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EP. REVIEW: Witch Hat Atelier

I've come out of every episode thinking that WHA is a step above anything I've seen in years. The studio has obviously lavished its remarkable creative abilities and have clearly shown its loving attention to detail. I'm going to have to look up their past work.

She snap at Coco for running a magic seal, but it was really simple one, so simple that the other girl drew like 10 in the same amount of time it took Argott to do half of one. Her tantrum took longer than just starting over again. Plus, girl, just use a ruler, they're clearly traveling with pen/ink and writing pad, why not a ruler?

I feel like the absurd animation and music quality should get more than a short passing mention in the review, especially considering it really looks like Bug Films is staking it all on this show. Good character analysis though.

I feel like the absurd animation and music quality should get more than a short passing mention in the review, especially considering it really looks like Bug Films is staking it all on this show. Good character analysis though.

Doesn't really work because tools are not complicated to make at all. Like making a circle and just tracing it over and over again to make perfect circle is neither hard to make nor difficult to imagine. And using a ruler to draw a straight line is even more obvious, caveman probably figured that one out before they even really had a concept of what a tool is. And various form of tool to assist in drawing have been known to humanity since antiquity. I guess you could say making stamp could be a bit harder (it took awhile for human to figure out the printing press), but once the cat is out of the bag, there's no going back.

You'd end up in a situation where the "main" society would be restricting itself (for good and ill), while rogue actor would easily be able to make all the tool they'd want.

It would be like if nuke were naturally occurring in a way that was self obvious and the great world power would forbid having them or even mentioning them, while all the north korea of the world and even small criminal outfit were making giant stockpile.

BeanBeanKingdom wrote:

I feel like the absurd animation and music quality should get more than a short passing mention in the review, especially considering it really looks like Bug Films is staking it all on this show. Good character analysis though.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this. Like interesting analysis but nothing similar on like that entire second half of the episode for its animation?

I feel compelled to point out Agott would have died pushing Coco out of danger if Qifrey hadn't arrived to catch her.

So does Qifrey always have that giant water dragon spell (great visual btw) ready to go, or did he prep it real quick before jumping in?

MagicianMan wrote:

I feel compelled to point out Agott would have died pushing Coco out of danger if Qifrey hadn't arrived to catch her.

Agott pushing Coco to safety is something added by the anime, as is Coco trying to reach out to her. In the manga Agott just loses her balance while everyone is running down the stairs and falls very suddenly before Qifrey catches her.

The earlier scene where Coco talks about her plan to peacefully subdue the dragon is also framed differently. Agott is non-plussed in the manga and attempts to tell her it won't work before Coco and Tetia pressure and convince her to help, while in the anime she looks on stunned and agrees on her own.

Perhaps, but we're taking about the anime, so the anime's version of events is what we should judge things by.