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I hate what happened to Euini. I hate that he was starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel & he was turned into a beast. I hope they can find a way to turn him back, really.
And yet the panel where we see him transformed, was stunning, all dark and menacing.
Catching up on Volume 4! We're gonna be caught up with the anime after this volume.
Here's some observations and quick thoughts. This post has slight spoilers for Volume 5, putting it under a readmore:
I find it really fascinating how the drawing quality of the spell circles affect the duration and power of a spell - the wha magic system follows some very consistent rules, it's cool to imagine refining a spell through trial and error
Alaira my beloved <3 I wonder what she was gonna ask about Qifrey here. I've seen someone observe that Qifrey is probably at somewhat of a low point (both morally and mentally) in these early chapters - and both Olruggio and Alaira notice that something is up with him.
And Qifrey immediately providing an example of my previous point by being kind of distracted by chasing after the brimhats. The way Coco snaps him out of it by reminding him of the students in the cave is reminiscent of the scene in Volume 5 where Olruggio snaps him out of chasing the brimhats too
The fact that Agott is able to replicate and modify Alaira's ice spell on the fly is very impressive! Moments like these really make me doubt that she "wasn't talented enough" for her mother's standards, i bet there's something else going on there
I feel like these scenes set up the central themes of the second test arc well:
Both Euini and Richeh run into a similar issue of knowing limited spells in this chapter.
But while Agott recognizes their limitations and adopts a "I have to do this alone mindset" (she somewhat has a point in that scene tho), the actual "solution" in the end is much closer to what richeh and euini are doing: sharing knowledge and helping and accepting help
I just want to say that this panel is awesome. I love how the gold people are depicted as ominous glowing eyes in the background
Vash and his ghosts. This panel is from volume 12. Not sure if the crowd of people are actually supposed to not really be there but that was the vibe I was getting.
I can’t believe there’s only 2 more volumes left. I predict they will mostly be fighting and suffering.
Also if you decide to reblog this, please add your favorite song that reminds you of Vash, I’m collecting them.
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I hope we'll see these locations at some point in the manga, i want to see more surreal altered landscapes. i wonder how far you can push terraforming magic
nawww the myrphon remind me of young cats on these panels. it's cool that they have to figure out a way to communicate with them; richeh and the others may look like other myrphon's but they don't know their sounds or body language. must be a strange experience for these little creatures :D
while i love this panel; these ribbon's sort of create a brim silhouette on her here? if they were a little higher it would make a brim to her hat. I wonder if this symbolizes that Richeh's individuality would be seen as a threat by some pointed caps.
huh, i never noticed how you can actually spot something in the distance on the upper panel! akagamie pointed out too that Coco has sharp eyes. an earlier example is how she also spotted the seal in the dragon labyrinth. cool to see this character trait so consistently!
I've seen an artbook translation somewhere where Shirahama writes that she uses black page backgrounds to indicate things that happened in the past. I haven't been able to un-see this, she's really consistent with that detail! I really like how there's a gradient here as Richeh starts to wake up in the present
The german translation uses the idiom "I slept like a stone" when agott says she slept well thanks to the snugstone. Got a smile out of me, solid pun!
i love their strange little handshake(?). As close to a hug as we see Qifrey get, you can tell that these two are close friends
i really like the ecological theme here. i feel like this is the pointed cap witches at their best: they take responsibility for the destruction their people have caused in the past and actively try to mitigate some of the damage.
This panel looks like an eye!
Slight Spoiler for the next volume below the cut:
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This could foreshadow the presence of iguin in the cave, since they and the brimcaps in general are closely associated with eye imagery
It's really beautiful to me that, even though Qifrey doesn't really seem to fully buy this, he's raised witches who absolutely do. Like my guy clearly suffers from some shit, but he's made a point to not drag down the next generation with it. He's giving them hope instead
The cover is just so so cool. Is the pegasus on the shield a ref' to Bélorophon myth ? (honestly.... probably not).
I genuinly wonder if the pot connecst to the same place and who made it and all that kind of stuff.
SHE IS SO. ADORABLE.
More adorableness with the girl sleeping. Coco and Agott.....
The fact that the micebirds are eating some seeds/bread. Qifrey as really decided to make the world magical and vibrant for the girls by turning himself and living the dream of a Disney Princess, uh ? (we all made the same joke, but come on, he didn,'t have to do this like that).
(credit for the box generator here)
One pannel i wish this guy bedbugs.
Someone somwhere as made a commentary on the apprentice fashion that was quite interesting. Like how the Qiflings have a quite different uniform than their master (the uniform is more relatable to Beldaruit) and how it let the girls be children, to play, to be free of movement, easy to wash. Tell me you don't need to clean dry the cape of the bitc Kukrow and Euni. Euni is just presented as a lesser Kukrow, it's infuriating.
Coco, living the dream.
I know everybody as react to it with the anime, so i'm adding my brick to the wall: WTF is this kind of salutation's gesture ?
The fact that Alaira didn't know Qifrey was bringing all the girls.... Why did she take so much of the cloack ? I can imagine some replacement and stuff but... like, why :')
I like the ecologique message here. Aaaand where Easties seems to care for the world for his beauty, Alaira (or maybe consensus of the witch discours to endoctrinate to teach to children) is more earth to earth, caring for the living thing. Eathies never mention the casualities of the animals death during the River Rescue Arc.
I kinda wonder what Richeh sees in Coco at that moment. Yes Coco trust Qifrey but she doesn,'t really have a choice. Does she sees her progress ? Her admiration for her magic ?
Yyyyyes Qifrey, EAT HIM ALIVE
Qifrey is so tall.
Adding more brick to the wall, it's sad this wasn't keep in the anime.
I think the first pannel is from Coco's point of vue. It quite worrie some.
There is probably a lot to analyses here, between the ornament that look like the light sigil, the Dada's range, the flowers (wich seems to be the end of the ornament we see on some unofficial art telling the stoies of the old ? The book in itself wich can maaaaybe be Qifrey's diary ? (I was gonna talk about the fact the girl are at the end the book before remembering that for a japanese person, they would in the front.....), etc
THE LORE! Was king of Dadah a witch ? I think it's more a figure of speech, like some pharaohs has built the pyramides, especially with the lack of hat. As for Thristas, the depiction is weird. Why so many eyes ? Is it a child in their arm ? Also, he's not declared a brim hat ? We know the faction were not defined by their hat before... So many questions. I still think that Thristas is the healer who's action has lead the pact.
Also, it might be VERY obvious for the readers who has the physiques volume, but the first and second pages correspond ? It's a cool transition if this is the case!
Qifrey the hunter. Kind of mess up the continuity because WHO is telling the girls the stories if he's away, fishing ?
The panneling is so so good here.
The more it is say, the less i fight the impression that Magic is here to make people happy is kind of endoctrination. Probably a good one when we see what Magic can do, but still. Or, if we follow the recents theories about (i adhere to it a lot actually.... not just because of my crack theory of the silver tree being an alien being and panspermia, i swear!) wich are very litteral with this. It's kind of the two faces of the same coin.
What a way to answer without answering.
Happy to see that Qifrey shares some of my doubts :')
Very very sweet that Euni's first reflex is to save Richeh. If he wasn't under such a master, HE WOULD BE A GOOD WITCH
Tiens tiens, tiens, Agoot talking about failure and how it can be... acceptable.
Coco and her sharp eyes. I probably talk about it in the chapter 40, but since the story make a LOT of parallele between Coco and Qifrey, it's interesting to me that they are at the both end of the vision spectrum
This one is very short because lot of actions and dialogues that are straight forward/ been discussed at lenght.
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I'm not gonna lie, i find less cool than Richeh's BUT i like how they respond to each other. Richeh in the white, Euni in the black. Richeh as a knight, Euni as a prisoner. Richeh with the serpent that ornate her in the background, the lone scalewolf surronding Euni, etc...
Cool pannel here, i love how the water is affected by the gravity magic and chaotic it is.
I like when the pictures in WHA are close to our reprentation of witches.
I also like how once again, the pictures answer each other .
The body langage of the bird. It really sees one of his flock giving up and it FEELS it.
Love the interaction here.
I kinda of disagree with you, Agott. She seems to be close with Tetia, she gift one of her ribbon spell to Coco, she cares for Qifrey and Olruggio...
I hope she want gossips about im and Olruggio, but probably not....
Another screamer.
THE CLIFFANGER (AND GIGA COOL PANNELING WITHE CAPE MOVEMENT
I hope i'll have time to finish the volume tomorrow, i'll be at the anime revolution in Vancouver for the week-end, and with work and all, i'm not sure i'll have the time :/
I love this panel, this is exactly what it feels like when you start to understand the depth of a new skill or subject you're learning about
This scalewolf metaphor has layers!
We get Agott at the start of the chapter contemplating the scalewolves and Coco (very subtle. also reminds me of the famous hedgehog metaphor)
Then Richeh, who is reluctant to lower her shields
And then, right while they're talking about people that can be difficult to approach, Olly drops the snugstone into Qifrey's lap. "People aren't as straightforward as spells" -> Olly's magic reveals what he really wants to express; his spells are kind and warm. Again, Very Subtle :)
more agott musings...but i do think this is a very important thing to note about her character. she may have been underhanded in sending coco on her first test in an attempt to get rid of her, but she wouldn't resort to extremes like this. of course, memory erasure is Much different from being unable to apprentice under qifrey—although, i think, she may not have considered the fact that coco likely would have had her memory erased in this hypothetical—the chance was right there. she had an easy way to get rid of coco. it does speak to the growth she's already had and how much she really cares about her, as much as she'd hate to admit
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The fact that every girl so far seems to have some estrangement from their family for whatever reason, typically a traumatic one, makes me so scared for Tetia. I think about this every day. Pls don't hurt me too much Shirahama
Everything keeps going to shit, but I do appreciate that each of the tests so far really are mostly kid-friendly. Use any magical tools to pick a flower (that isn't supposed to be as high as it was for Coco), keep an animal safe for a day, it's kinda cute
