とんがり帽子のアトリエ

I honestly wasn’t expecting Qifrey to take a turn like that, I love when characters are morally ambiguous. The more they seem like real life, the better. It’s boring when characters only deal with situations in absolute good, if that makes sense. Real life is messy, and people do risk or fold on their principles or really the lack thereof for their own purposes. To others looking on, it could be a terrible thing, but you’ve already justified it in your head. Everyone has a degree of flexibility in their morals to do what needs to be done for what’s best for them.

Can I just say that I really love the added detail of the two bottles Coco picking up to show Tartah being the same primary color but different shades? I could go into detail about the fact that the two bottles are her and Tartah's colors, representing how the two are the same yet different, >!but what I really wanted to get to is that my grandmother has black-white color blindness (she sees the world much like Tartah does, in shades of gray, whereas most colorblind conditions involve browns and sepia with some primary colors still visible) and has learned to tell primary colors apart by subtle differences in shade and how they reflect light. If Coco had brough up two bottles with a yellow and blue hue, or a red and yellow hue of similar shades- Tartah would have likely been able to tell them apart. But now she picked two green ones.!< >!Also want to add how dear it is to me that WHA has colorblind representation. I wish my grandmother was still healthy enough to see these episodes (or learn English haha) since her condition has been a source of hurt for her all the way into her late 80s. She grew up in a similar environment to Tartah where "otherness" was considered shameful, there was little accomodation for her condition and people kept insisting on informing her of all the things she wanted to be that she could never become (her side of the family were artisans and botanists). So seeing this scene adapted in color really made me more attached to Tartah than I ever was reading the manga. It's often people forget how debilitating "invisible" conditions such as eye diseases can be.!<

Thankfully, Coco was saved just in time and didn't have her memories erased but we did have someone elses memories erased...poor gramps. His shit got knocked down so he has to clean up and his memories got fucking erased. Also did Qifrey just rob him of an extra bag too for Coco or something? At least he took the ink and any evidence I guess. Honestly this really shows that memory wiping should be forbidden as well ngl. I get needed to keep magic a secret and stuff man like memory wiping is dangerous af I doubt this the first time Qifrey has used it. Also yeah memory wiping is bad af like memories make up a person so if you get rid of it you change the fucking person. Fr though those knights, rather immediately erase a girls memories instead of idk help the situation first and then properly investigate. I get no expectations, but like I said previous there's gotta be an order also no wonder they never catch any brim hats cuz they don't investigate just erase memories so of course they can't catch them. So while magic all you need is to be able to draw and have some special ink so in theory the only difference in power between witches is skill/what spells you have learned/drawn right but it seems there's many different things you can do to change the ink. To make it invisible or make it last longer etc but it seems the secret ingredient is some blood? if you add it to the magic ink it'll greatly increase its power? Like way too much? no wonder how the situation of the world so bad in the past if using this ink even a little ordinary spell could destroy an entire river like that. So some areas like the Dadah Range are the result of forbidden magic and can never be fixed huh damn? Anyways importantly now Qifrey has a link to the brim hats now and he has that overpowered ink. Like imagine what if he drew that same water dragon now with this ink...probably going to easily destroy a whole city.

Damn maybe qifrey isn't the perfect angel we thought he was?? I wonder what reason he would have for erasing the old mand memories though, maybe one of the brimmed caps is actually somebody close to him and if the knights Moralis learn of the location of the brimmed caps they'll just kill them all but qifrey doesn't want that? Or maybe qifrey secretly sympathizes with the brimmed caps? But then why wouldn't he already be in contact with them? All we know for sure though, is that the story is starting to get *serious*

The scene where Qifrey picks Coco up onto his shoulder is probably one of my favorite scenes in the whole manga despite what it succeeds 😅 I'm completely in love with Qifrey voice as I've been since the start of the show, but one of the things I want to note here that I really enjoy is how Qifrey says Coco's name like he's calling out to a dog, quite often. You know like the short way it's said to get her attention? It's just silly and cute.

Oh well, this anime is gonna get darker and darker. The world building and plot points are getting better. So we, the anime only, now know about the ink-type power dimension, very interesting. Different types of ink can provide different effects, and there is a world destroying type of ink. Also a question, if the spell requrired make circle. How about connecting the circle within a sphere shape? or more like, is 3D spell a thing?

This man Qifrey can be so scary at times. It looks like he'd go to any lengths to keep things hidden, even going as far as to remove Nolnoa's memories. Poor old pal was just trying to be true to his duty. Guess it's one of those situations where you know too much for your own good. As what's 'silverwash' you ask? Well, it went without saying it would be color blindness, or at least a variant of it. Must have been quite devastating for Tartah.

Well, things got cleared with the Knights, and man the scene with Coco shrouded in darkness only to cut to a flustered ball of cuteness, they really are on a generational aura debt for suspecting her, still everyone got saved, and Agott got to do her test. Meanwhile Iguin just casually aura farming and philosophise somewhere, guess it comes naturally to a dripped hat. Man poor Tartah and Nornoa, one is screwed with turbo color blindness, the other has a friend so sketchy it's unreal. Qifrey my guy, what are you trying to do, really? In the same episode you say that memories are a integral part of someone's life, you clear a friend's memory.

QIFREY IS EVIL !!!!!!!!! it was cool that Richeh saved them and then --- it got predictable that of course the COPS hates Qifrey they are like.....OH OF COURSE ITS UUUUR STUDENTS ! I freaking called it, she did tamper with her INK AND I also called it that INK they use special no way it was only gonna be 1 kind of ink \- kid is color blind I saw it a mile away, especially as Men are much more likely be color blind (X chromosome for colorblindness) but yeah here it seems like some strange magic curse basically, so who is gonna have GOLD eyes Reaction/review

I have a theory! (As an anime only watcher, I don’t want spoilers please 😭) >! I was thinking about this eye disease Qifrey mentioned. He was so empathetic about it, it makes me wonder if that’s why he has one eye completely covered. His glasses are circular, which cannot be an accident— this show loves its circles. So maybe he made some adaptive glasses for himself, and that’s why one lens is dark? Or maybe it’s just a cool character design and I’m thinking too hard. !<

My theory for a potential Silvewash eyes subplot: Someone research's a way to "correct" Tartah's silverwash eyes with some sort of enchanted glasses, similar to how real life "colour blind glasses" work (or at least how I think they work) just with Sigils on the lens. We heard Tartah mention that one of the powders can make magic sigils invisible once cast, so in theory if someone managed to engineer a sigil or sigils that could somehow help people with silverwash eyes see colour and use that powder in their ink could make the "Silverwash corrective glasses" and lead to Tartah getting to learn magic in some form. Copium cause I feel bad for the kid? Most likely but I still think it could be a cool exploration of the magic system for everyday utility items. Thoughts? I'm anime only rn so please no spoilers if something happens in the manga that throws this theory out the window please and thanks 😊

I'm literally gnawing on my fingers to try and not pick up the manga (bc I want to be fully immersed in the anime), but the reveal of the brimmed caps blood in the ink is seriously bothering me, and what does that have to do with the silverwood tree ????? Silverwood tree in relation to silverwash eyes ???? Lmao I'm definitely grasping at straws, but again a knockout episode this week. Now to do my weekly rewatch from episode 1!