とんがり帽子のアトリエ

This anime season hitting it outta the park with strong starts. Right from the jump the concept of the world and the issues it'll dive into are fascinating, the divide on the spread of knowledge and power and how it should be used. Makes sense to keep that much dangerous power away from just anyone but I wonder if the series will explore the other side of it too wherein a select and elite few calling all the shots has its dark side that can potentially abuse that knowledge monopoly.

There really is something so bittersweet about Coco finally achieving her dreams, but for the price of her mother.  And she didn't even wish on a monkey's paw. Though, I don't think she could've gotten this opportunity otherwise considering how exclusive their club is. So uh... thanks Coco's mom for your sacrifice. But thankfully, they can save her. At least I hope so. Qifrey seems like a nice guy, but it's clear he prioritizes the greater good. Cause he would've left Coco motherless and memoryless if not for the vital info she had. Though at least he seems good to his students. Plus, his place seems like just the cosiest, with pleasant company to boot. Or 3 out of four of them at least; Agott's looking like a pain in the ass for now. And I do just love the whole vibe and aesthetic of this world in general.

I feel like the first episode focused more on higlighting the animation and art style, the second focused more on the exposition of the world, and where we are introduced the other students. I like that they did the 2 episode premiere to fully hook you into the story. I don't usually spoil myself and I'd rather go into episodes without knowing what will happen, but after these 2 episodes I am very tempted to read the manga to get ahead.

Thought Qifrey would be the hardass type of teacher from how he yelled at Coco in the previous episode, but turned out he's quite the friendly and understanding man. Didn't blame her for the incident at all, despite news of it spreading quickly. Hmm, so that's how magic in this world worked, huh. I get why strict limitations were in place but even healing spells were forbidden. That's quite the overkill. Will the reason be explored some time along the series? Ouch, she's paired with the aloof and blunt Agott. She didn't seem to be a bad person, but she's quite the challenge to win over. Will she be the tsundere of the group? It's pretty amusing to see us being lulled into the usual fantasy atmosphere only for someone to whip out a sort of mobile phone. Who was Qifrey talking to? I'm guessing it's a fellow master. PS: Qifrey's a master witch, master mechanic, and now master chef. Is there any limit to his talents?

Friend suggested this one to me. Didn't know about the 2-episode premier tho. Pretty sweet. Edit: W suggestion by my friend. Loving this show so far. Even though Qifrey has an ulterior motive in not deleting Coco's memories, I'm glad he seems to really be taking care of her, even going so far as to put a barrier around Coco's house and taking her in as his student. I thought she would be ostracized by the other apprentices due to her use of forbidden magic. Thank god that it's just a 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 friction with Agott right now. Understandable since in her eyes, Coco bypassed a lot in order to be an apprentice. Hopefully, Coco will thrive in her studies and prove that she deserves to be there.

I'm really happy it was a two-episode premier. Love the OP and ED, the ED especially. I'm most curious about the witches erasing everyone's memory of in the past. From one perspective, I understand the urge to control such destructive power, but from another, getting to choose who is allowed to have this power is dangerous too. We can already see the rift it creates in how the other atelier students treat Coco, which I'm sure is a reflection of wider witch-world. It doesn't seem too bad yet, but I'm sure Coco far from finished with the other students wanting her to prove herself. I also wonder about the 'no using magic on anyone except to erase their memories' rule. It strikes me as odd that it's even banned to use magic for healing. I can see why healing might have to be regulated somehow (my mind goes to BSD, when Yosano worked under Mori), but I don't know, something feels odd to me I guess. I love that in just the little information Qifrey gave about magic society in this episode, all these questions have already come up. I'm dying for more.

I really like the way they are going about the whole magic in this universe. At first, having magic circles seems to be rather standard. One specific circle for a specific type of magic. But they are showing that they try to be creative with the whole idea. And that doesn't just include the fact that you need to properly draw them so nothing unpredictable happens. The whole basis of the core is already quite obvious, but there are a few other instances that funnily enough remind me a bit of Death Note. For example, as shown, the magic doesn't trigger if the circle isn't closed. So what you can do is, you can draw everything needed, but you leave a small spot open in the circle. And then when you actually need the magic to activate, all you have to do is close it. This makes it way more usable in a reactive scenario. And I assume the whole shoes with two half circles operate on a similar manner. Press them together and you get a circle. Though, I do wonder if that can be used infinitely. Because Coco mentioned magic is activated for longer if the circle is better drawn. Meaning that there is a limit to it. So I guess, you need to redraw these circles on the shoes every now and then. Either that or there is a rule that hasn't been explained yet. Similarly, there was a moment when Qifrey was drawing a circle and put it into a lamp. And it only activated after being put into the lamp. Which begs the question if there is another potential way to delay the activation. For example, if you draw certain "arrows" then it only activates (or emit light in this context) once you put it into an enclosed space. But there can be another reason for this as well depending on how that light functions. For example, I can imagine the water magic works in a way that there is a circle on both parts, both pulling the water towards themselves, making sure that it stays in that sphere (because the pulling force is smaller the further away you are). But since the magic uses water in the air, when you close them together, it can't pull any water from around it anymore because it is closed. So something like that could be the reason for the light magic as well (like needing a certain element that is present inside the lamp). Still, I can already see a few creative use-case for it and it also makes you notice a few things. Like how Qifrey is wearing accessory that is a half circle, which probably means, it can be used in a similar manner.

I avoided the OP previously so I'd experience it in show. WOW. This may be a no-skip song+animation. I was wondering when Coco would talk about breaking her promise. Guess we're getting that moment right away, oof. And thankfully Qifrey understands she could never understand what she was getting into. Was it stupid? Yes. But the other spells she tried were clearly not that horrific. Remember kids, do not trust witches with freaky hats. Strange witches sitting in alleys distributing pictures books is no basis for a system of learning magic! This pink haired girl is adorable. Her and Coco together might lead to diabetes if I was not inoculated from watching Angel Next Door. Oh man knowledge about Coco is already spreading. I'm curious how apprentices at Qifrey's atelier heard about it when they seem isolated. Is there some Witch communication network? Something I'm curious about, Qifrey makes the point you cannot cast magic directly on a person, only indirectly by casting it on an implement (see: teleportation magic). I'm curious if there's a way to implement such a tool for healing, since direct healing magic is forbidden. And now we have the first major goalpost for our girl on her way to saving her mother. To earn entrance to the library. Her roommate's English VA sounds a bit older unlike the other girls, interesting. Watching Coco eat the bread is making her climb the "must protect" tier list quickly, girl is adorable. Holy shit that transition into the ED. This anime is going HARD on the style front. Made me think of a wood cut though I'm not sure if that's the right style. ED is really chill and I could see myself randomly listening to it as well as the OP even when not watching episodes. Glad I'm using my good headphones to watch this. Every sign of these first two episodes point to it being as special as the source fans indicated. God I'm excited for more. Edit: I didn't even clock it was Eve doing the OP, even though I fell in love with his voice from his Blue Box OP. Yeah clearly everyone involved with this anime cares about the source material.

Definitely a very interesting magic system, I like it! Meanwhile, the reason magic is unavailable to ordinary people reminded me of Metaphor: ReFantazio. Anyone who's played that knows what I'm talking about. Overall, this second episode was fun! Coco's reactions were hilarious, and Tetia, Richeh, and Agott appeared, and they seem like interesting characters. The fact that everyone seems to know what Coco did sucks, although it's a plus that they don't know all the details. I wonder who Qifrey was talking to. Probably someone important, since they were the ones who allowed Coco to be his apprentice. Here my screenshot albums from: EPISODE 02 * Coco * Group scenes * Qifrey * Tetia, Richeh & Agott * Lore & Backgrounds EPISODE 01 * Coco * Group scenes * Qifrey * Backgrounds & Others *EDIT. I added my screenshot albums.*

Witch Hat 2: If this level of quality is gonna be the average for the rest of the show then we have nothing to worry about. Of course it's weaker than episode 1. It for example lacks that level character acting sakuga that episode 1 had. Still it was quite strong overall. Story wise I'm not sure how many agrees with me, but I find the character Qifrey a bit creepy and strange. Also it seems that the author of this really wanted to tell us the feelings of Coco rather than showing. We really didn't need to be told by her that she is scared of magic she doesn't understand due to what happened in episode 1, we know. It is however interesting to learn about this magic system and it seems to have a nice level of depth and complexity and could be quite interesting to see how it develops from here. I would like to see some limitations and how you become a better witch. What stops a novice from drawing a incredibly strong spell? And what is the difference between a strong witch and a newbie? Overall though a nice episode and I will keep watching!

The world and lore are so interesting. About what Qifrey said about the story of magic. I can't help but wonder if the current system and Witches are the real villains with how they're gatekeeping and stealing people's memories of magic. What if the ones who're spreading those forbidden books just a rebellious group who believe magic should be free and open to the world? The way some of Qifrey's other students see Coco like an outsider sort of reminds me of how they looked at Harry at the beginning.

###Stitches! * Apprentice Coco * Agott & Coco Oh, so now Coco's scared of touching? Where was this attitude when she was scribbling tracing spells with an ominous-looking dragon on the illustration? I really shouldn't be too hard on her tho. It was her dream come true, and she didn't know that magic could be harmful. So the history of magic is basically like this: All humans benefited from it as a useful tool, but humans being humans, they ended up using this tool to harm others. Thankfully, a bunch of people who still had their conscience intact decided to erase people's memories of magic and limit its use. Yeah, that checks out. I'm not even surprised by that history lesson. If magic existed in our world, this is probably what would happen, too, except for the part where powerful people with a conscience band together to solve the crisis. It would probably be waaaay worse for us. So far, I'm liking Coco's housemates. And to no one's surprise, there's going to be at least one who's going to be antagonistic towards her. What I like about Agott is that she's not an ass, she's just not very tactful. I also like that she gave Coco some pointers at the end. I'm excited to see what kind of test Agott has in store for Coco. Edit: a word

Finally it's here. I have a bit of a story with WHA. I read the first few chapters in early 2019, and then decided to put it on hold until it gets an adaptation - which I was sure it would get given how good it was. I was not wrong...although with the minor caveat of waiting just a bit less than those who started reading it when it came out (which is going to be 10 years ago in July). Either way it was definitely worth the wait in every aspect, I don't know if WHA has Frieren-level hype moments but so far it isn't losing for me in the slice of life department at least. And the ED absolutely slaps, reminds me of Minami songs.

I was so captivated by the first episode, I didn't even notice that we didn't get an OP or ED. We get both in this second episode and they're both great! I'm loving this show so far. Truly looks magical and the magic feels real. I love how each episode ends with a scene frozen like the page of a picture book. The last scene of this with the two girls looks absolutely stunning. I'm liking all the apprentices at the atelier though Agott seems a bit harsh at the moment. I suspect she'll turn out to be one of those blunt outside but heart of gold characters. She's definitely hardworking and smart. I did wonder about one thing though. Agott says she and the others had to work all their lives and pass tests before becoming apprentices. How were they chosen for the tests in the first place? What separates outsiders from the chosen ones? Are the chosen just the children of the previous generation's witches? Are they chosen at random? If the general population is kept in the dark, how can someone who is not born to a witch even know that working hard and becoming one is a possibility? Curious to learn more about this.

What a lovely OP. The frames are gorgeous, very much like Shirahama's. The storybook vibes really come through. A more subdued second episode but with important setup for Coco's new living situation and the dynamics she might have with the atelier's residents. Agott's intro was so dramatic. She and Qifrey seem opposites in personality but based on this episode alone, they both like striking dramatic poses lol. Tetia is adorable. Probably the perfect student for Coco to meet first as she's so warm and welcoming. The two of them ending up in a thank you loop was hilarious. Who would have stopped it first if Richeh hadn't been there? This episode's animation is probably what most of the show is going to look like (with moments of insane sakuga in more important scenes). Which is still gorgeous but much more sustainable and achievable for a whole season than the first episode's movie quality. Having seen the wonderful quality of these first two episodes and the news that the whole first season is apparently finished makes me hopeful that this adaptation will (mostly) live up to the manga.

Visual/art direction is superb so far—the storybook aesthetic hits and they've delivered excellently with the cuteness. The sakuga seems to be very dynamic as well. Given that it's slated to only be 13 episodes, it gives me more confidence to believe that the quality will stay consistent for the whole run. One thing I'm wondering though, why is it that they call mahoutsukai, witches? Is it just creative liberty?

I'm glad Richeh and Tetia are sweet, it's unfortunate how Agott is treating her knowing what happened to Coco and her mother. Though I shouldn't expect these kids to empathize with the guilt Coco feels. Unless I'm judging Agott too soon, and she's trying to help Coco since she's been a similar position.  I'm surprised Qifrey couldn't tell they were going to get splashed soon enough to get out of the way of the window lol.

Oh man, I'm immediately so into this show. Between this and Frieren I'm finding myself swept away by magical worlds in a way I haven't felt for what feels like forever (for someone who started watching a bunch of stuff again relatively recently). The art is stunning, I forget to look at the subs while I'm just taking every scene in. The picture-book look works so well. I don't tend to read the manga of most of the shows I watch just due to lack of time but some of the frames make me really wanna check it out. There hasn't been anything by eve and suis I haven't loved since hearing Heikousen, and this OP gives me such joyful magic vibes. I love the contrast with the raw sound and imagery of the ED. DAMN I picked a good time to start watching anime again

The production values continue to be crazy. The OP was great too. Not really sold on the ED though. I liked how Coco immediately wanted to learn about forbidden magic. If she wants to save her mom she knows she can't afraid of the unknown or taboo. She's going to need to use forbidden magic safely. Good introduction to more characters and the history of magic and what seems like end goal for the season (the Tower of Tomes). It was basically just an exposition dump, but I was still so engaged with it and how it built the world and its issues. Magic should be commonly known to improve the lives of everyone, but unfortunately there's those that would abuse magic so instead it must be a ruthlessly protected secret. However that's also exactly why Coco even arrived at the Atelier. It's *because* of that secret keeping that she didn't know it was a forbidden. I have a feeling this is going to be one *those* anime if you know what I mean. I'm glad I picked this up.

Tetia is such a positive vibe. I love her! The OP is like a colorful and magical storybook brought to life! Featuring Coco, Qifrey, and their fellow Witches as they practice magic and see all kinds of wonders together! Coco lost one home but she's found a new home with Qifrey and his atelier, where she will pursue magic and a means of freeing her mother. Even if now she knows the true dangers of magic. But Coco is not the only young girl at this atelier! There's also Tetia, a bubbly and energetic pink-haired girl who will thank you for thanking her! And Richeh a stoic blue-haired girl who is every bit Tetia's opposite! Though Coco doesn't make the best first impression when the other girls realize she was the one who caused the incident with the forbidden spell. Coco will also have a roomate! Agott! A black-haired girl who doesn't mine words and doesn't socialize much, but takes magic EXTREMELY seriously. Which is why she doesn't take well to someone totally divorced from the world of magic and who doesn't have any experience with it being placed in the same atelier as her. Though immediately telling her "your mother will never be human again" was a little harsh. These girls are lucky! Not only do they have Qifrey as a magic teacher, but he's also an excellent cook. Magic was limited to a select few because in the age of magic freedom there were wars and deaths in multitudes, and as such now magic is extremely regulated/restricted. Which means that if Coco is going to make it to the Tower of Tomes, she must complete the trials and become a fully-fledged witch. But while she's definitely skilled at drawing, it'll take a bit before she can make spells consistently well and isn't blasting water at her fellow apprentices. At least Agott is willing to properly correct her on where she errored! Dang, Qifrey only teaches Coco for one lesson and he's already leaving...which means Coco is alone with Agott, and Agott isn't going to treat her with kid gloves. The ED is very melancholic and serene, featuring Coco ascending a staircase, with a glass filled with all sorts of forbidden, harmful, spells...but where she seemingly despairs, she finds the resolve and the wonder to keep pressing forward with magic as a true witch.

Great second episode. The lore about magic and how magic works was interesting, I like that it’s drawn it makes it more unique and I like it. I liked meeting and learning about the main characters (I’m assuming). The opening is great, I haven’t watched an anime with an opening done by Eve in a while. As for the ending I don’t know why but it made me tear up and get so emotional, I guess the singer just has that natural ability and I really like it. This was a fun double premiere, excited for episode 3 next week!!

When people say WHA has the most unique magic system this is what they mean. It's an entire magiccraft sigil language. Every seal can be "read" to know exactly what it's supposed to do. Some people on the main WHA sub have made their own spells and have fun with it that way. Some person just made a website to make them (I haven't visited it yet, but they posted the link yesterday I think). It's such a cool component to the series and fits perfectly with the whole "atelier" thing. It's basically the art and science of magic. Every line, circle, shape in a seal means something.

* An Eve Opening being a banger? Water must be wet then. * Why doesn’t the dub translate the Episode Title? Not this shit again, CR 🫩 * Oh my gods, is Tetia *Scottish?!* * I love the animation for the comedic segments. *** I didn’t peg Tetia to be Scottish. At least, some of her words sounded kinda Scottish-accented to me in the EN dub, but I could very well be mixing up all the lovely accents of the UK. I love the world building. I’m a sigil slut and it always gives me immense **pain** when some fantasy series handwave them away (or drop the entirely from the adaptation after X amount of episodes). So it will always be an immediate “place on the higher shelf” for me when sigils are in the world, have important, and have all this logic that *needs* to be followed. I hope all my sigil-loving fantasy friends tune in for this. Sigils are fucking cool. I still keep swinging back to Tetia. I dunno if her accent is supposed to be Scottish—maybe it’s Irish and I’m bad at catching accents—but I’d love to know the direction on her EN voice. Glory to the double drop.

Oh *really?* Now that’s interesting to me. I’d like to know the directing notes because I would’ve thought we were in Fantasy-Not-UK. Could absolutely go for some more non-Anglo accents though (though I know Ireland and Scotland have their native languages too)! I feel like we don’t get too many of those in EN dubs outside of *maybe* vaguely Spanish or vaguely French-accented English if the mood calls for it.

So it's basically a programming language? You can encode effects through the shapes and then activate them when you close the circle. The window portal is very interesting since it shows that from one circle you can actually obtain many effects by performing transformations on it. I wonder if they implemented something akin a state machine, a magic circle capable of dynamically changing its own configurations based on input. Implementing a Turing machine from this looks fairly trivial.

The entire 2 episode premiere I was waiting for the creature to appear. A brief snippet of a brush bug in the opening? I'll take it. Qifrey's voice is a bit different from how I imagined him but he definitely grew on me the more he spoke. What a gorgeous gorgeous show. I'm hoping I connect with it a little more animated than I did reading it but I'm excited to tune in for the visual treat. Also i was entirely unaware eve was doing the opening until I heard him sing. This feels like a very eve series so I'm not surprised but I'm happy to hear him get to do a prettier song opening for a change.

Okay so witches can't atk other ppl. What stopping kings with army from enslaving witches and use them as they wish or just simply wiping them out? Qifrey said they can use magic on tools. What stopping ppl from using it to enchant swords/armour and still use magic as tool of war? Also healing magic exists yet you can't use it. that means countless lives were lost bcs witches just kept their secret. Rly strange prohibition imo. Hope future episodes explain it more.

OP and ED are so good. The magic system is really cool where everyone can use it but yeah human nature can't maintain peace if they can do anything. I already like the side characters and that interesting librarian's trial. I also love how the lighting changes with the mood, it really elevates the scene. Coco is fun and her trying hard to dry Agott made me laugh. This season is stacked with peak after peak!

It's an excellent bit of voice casting to have Coco speak with an American accent while the other witches (so far) all speak with accents from some part of the UK. Brilliant bit of subtle storytelling that sets Coco even further apart from the rest. It's very possible JP's acting mirrors that idea but of course I can't really tell Japanese regional accents apart. That said, something about Tetia's line delivery makes her harder to understand than the others, and the effect is making me concentrate more on understanding what she said. Think I'll stick with JP dub for this one.

it is a great start, i was blown away by animation and the story seem like it will have more things to come. the explanation of magic system is great, they explained 4 basic elements, but i think there will be more in the future. i watched ep 1 again and when Coco copied the book, middle sigils of fireworks or some paper on grounds or the great frozen spell is different than 4 elements in her 1st lesson, i expected more complicated things in next eps.

I love love *love* fantasy stories where a clear, understandable, in-world power/magical system is introduced so simply and concisely to the audience. Lines, circles, symmetry and direction are clearly important in this world and that info is made very easily digestible to the audience. Qifrey's students already look like good kids. Agott's initial strenuous relationship with Coco is going to be interesting, I can tell. Coco basically took quite the grim shortcut into becoming a Witch's apprentice. It's also clear some higher powers are fishing her for info on that forbidden book and having her under Qifrey's wing is good surveillance. I really like the end scenes being a fairy-tale book type of pop up page. Also my god, the OP and ED are so goooood. This season is stacked with good shows.

The magic system of this anime is really so fresh to see. It's in my opinion, like the HxH nen power system of the fantasy world. Well done, well explained, easy to understand, and interesting to see. I think among the "Big 3" of fantasy, Witch Hat Atelier definitely has my favorite powersystem/way of magic. Like every scene really shows the wonders of magic, making me feel as excited as Coco. Very nice start. We got introduced to the magic system and the other characters. We don't get too much screen time of the student just enough to understand what kind of personality they each have. The only concern I had about this anime when Bugs Film picked this up was production issues, hell, this was already delayed once, but I've heard the production is actually complete for this season now, and seeing how they could release 2 eps at once, I think I can be relieved of those worries. With this season of Witch Hat Atelier, I think Bugs Films can redeem themselves for what happened with Zom 100.

Honestly, I didn't except the other characters to be introduced already. Thought there will be an episode or two with just Coco and Qifrey. There was a lot of exposition about the world and magic, and tbh this world seems pretty fascinating so far. Also, wonder if they are gonna touch on why healing magic is banned. I've seen this character multiple times before on twitter out of context from manga readers and uhh... I didn't know she was a girl until now. lmao Overall, pretty good premiere episodes... tbh, I knew absolutely nothing about this outside of the name before this, so I had 0 expectations, but I might actually read the manga once the anime is done.

The magic system is so creative. It's a hard system but with room to maneuver in so many different ways. I like how small errors could affect a spell, Coco drew a line longer and it led to water being shot. My question is do the lines need to be of the same size to balance out the effect? All the arrow/lines were smaller vs the one which Coco drew it larger. I'm so fascinated by the system. As for the story I'm curious if Coco's inclusion has set cat amongst the pigeon in the Witch universe or not? Qifrey describing the reasons behind the exclusivity also reveals that not many people are included like coco so her inclusion has to have an effect. I'm curious to know how the story proceeds.

I've been reading the manga in French since 2020 and I never had the first volume (It was *constantly* sold out. Also, pandemic so limited imports of manga to Canada). So I started on volume 2, and had read the then-partial upload of the first chapter by Morning Two during the pandemic! It stopped before the petrification and Kieffrey/Qifrey's first appearance. It's been absolutely mindblowing to see how this series started and see it all animated. The opening is absolutely *beautiful* and there's just so much care being put into this adaptation. It just so beautiful...!

>Forbidden spells... healing others Healing magic is forbidden and the magic illuminati controls the technological and social advancements of their world by wiping people's memories I'm loving the show so far but to be perfectly honest this system was destined to be abused... Really loving the art and I always enjoy a good system of magic that makes sense Sort of reminds me of how Constantine will sometimes have magic circle tattoos (depending on depiction) Can't wait to see more and learn more about the world and the various applications of magic in it

My comment is a combined reaction to both episodes 1 and 2. It seems like the rumors that this show has already finished production before airing is true, because both episodes look consistently good. Is this perhaps Bug Films' redemption arc after Zom 100? I quite like their approach to magic. It feels like a formula. Sort of like math. Like how altering the length of one of the signs caused the pressure on the water to be stronger in one direction. This approach feels like it will be pretty easy to expand on as the show progresses. As for the forbidden magic, I do wonder why even stuff like healing is part of it. Healing feels like a good thing no matter how you slice it so i hope they expound on that later. The acting was pretty good too. Especially for Coco. When she was screaming for her mother... that shit was heart-wrenching. All in all, pretty solid start. I look forward to the next episodes.

This episode was frustrating for me. After an almost perfect FMAB-like opening, the MC completely screws up her only kin, and instead of urgently trying to do everything to save her ASAP, the episode felt like a normal first day at school of making small talks; having sparkly eyes when shown magic that coulda just killed her only kin; eating well; and not beginning studies; with only occasional scenes of her remembering that she needs to save her mom. Any normal human being in this circumstance should have been on max cortisol mode, barely eating, doing everything to try to gather intel on how to save their mother as quickly as possible. This could have been easily prevented if the author had just shown the MC gathering enough intel to know that time isn't important in saving her mom, but this was never shown. This is a very big disconnect for me that brought my overall expectation for this anime from an 8 from first episode to like a 6.5.

It doesn't seem like Witches control the world, but live separately, like how the Wizard and Muggle worlds are separated in Harry Potter, except the muggles here know about magic and benefit from its effects. As for healing, the only rule is direct skin contact, If I understood it correctly. In theory, they could take a jar of ointment and inscribe a rune on the container or lid to make the contents more potent. Since forbidden magic is from the time of war, I'm guessing that using magic to revive the dead on a battlefield to keep fighting each other is the reason it's forbidden. Something along the line of FO:E's Mega Spells.

You're forgetting that the magic we've seen has been to the benefit of ordinary people, like the spring that cleans itself, or the cobblestones that light up dark areas. While the witches keep the art of magic to themselves, they don't use it just for themselves. From the history of magic we saw, I can see why they might look down on regular humans. "They're the ones that use magic to destroy. They need to watched , etc." I suppose a comparison might be the option to give modern rifles to a tribe of natives. This would make hunting more efficient for them, and they'd have access to more meat, pelts, and bones because of it. They may not use it **just** for hunting though. In the past, tribes have waged wars against each other when given access to better hunting tools, so is it worth the risk now. Alternatively, you could just help them with hunting yourself. We haven't seen all the ways that magic is being used in this world, but Qifrey seems to be in the camp of using it to benefit all of humanity, rather than hoard the benefits. EDIT: Also going to add that we haven't seen cases where the humans *need* magic. It's just there to make life more convenient, but they don't suffer without it, or at the very least are capable of solving problems without it.