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Shirahama does so many good things with WHA but one of the things I deeply appreciate from WHA, and something I've never seen within manga/anime, is how strongly Shirahama calls out sexual harassment and sexual abuse. Lulucy's backstory, and the instance where she pursues the man with the goggles that lets you see through clothes, and strongly makes a case on why that is illegal, and completely rebuffing the man's attempts to say that it's actually not a big thing, all men given the chance would take it, that it's something actually 'freeing' and good about it. And it gets entirely shut down, and Esteath, a man, who is in power, instead of shutting down Lulucy, supports her and agrees with her on the severity, completely shattering the man's arguments (and later you see other men in the story also respond similarly!).
And it's like... to see this in anime and manga? Which frequently has main characters be voyeurs and sexual harassers and it's just 'normal', and/or played off as gags? Where female characters are often so heavily sexualized and objectified? Like, Naruto, One piece, even more recently, boku no hero academia, (and yeah these are shounen but it's also shows that are fairly ubiquitous) have characters that are considered positive, part of the main cast (or important to the main cast) that are actively voyeurs, sexual harassers; let alone characters that verbally sexualize and objectify women and girls. And the list of anime/manga goes on, where you see that type of behavior. And it's normalized, it's considered exactly like what the guy when caught says; oh it's not a big deal, it's actually even a good thing, freeing, this is normal and what every guy wants. And Shirahama just smashes that argument, calls out that this objectification of women and girls isn't normal, and that normalizing this sexual harassment creates a culture that is dismissive of cases of sexual harassment and abuse, allowing harassment and abuse to continue unchecked.
And like... as a story that is mostly geared towards girls? Having a story like this that says this is not okay, in cultures that are rife with the messages that these behaviors are normal, aren't an issue and you should just take it? It's needed, god, it's needed, and I hope this can help young girls (and even reminding us older folks) in drawing boundaries and calling out behaviours in real life that aren't okay.
A Friend's Lie, The Greatest Sin (Witch Hat Atelier Spoilers Ch93)
The butterfly effect of the sins between Qifrey and Olruggio is far worse than you may expect.
The darkest reveal in the flashback arc is that Qifrey has been memory wiped over and over in the brimhat experiments.
It's the reason that Qifrey floats around like a ghost in ch89 before meeting Olly. Forbidden magic that can manipulate someone's memories and feelings at will. Olly's solution, ironically, uses magic of the same caliber. Even Coco in earlier chapters argues that the memory wiping magic the pointed hats use is no different from any other forbidden magic; it's a necessary evil to uphold the Pact. He'd rather they both plunge into the darkness instead of letting Qifrey die.
Olly's greatest sin is making Qifrey a sinner. Ch93 explicitly shows that over time, this pact between them fundamentally alters Qifrey as a person.
At first, Qifrey did the same thing he did in ch92. He actually told Olly the truth, allowing his roots to grow. It was Olly that decided to restart the loop instead of freeing himself from it.
Over time, Qifrey had to get better and better at lying.
Over time, he got better at repeating their sin.
And at some point, he got a little too comfortable with altering memories for his goals.
Nolnoa caught a stray in the sin between them. Thus begins Tartah's suspicions of Qifrey. When questioning him, he's thrown off by Qifrey's lying smile—another thing he only learned from Olly.
Over time, Tartah's mistrust with the pointed hats grew. What is more, he felt the burden of lies himself when he had to lie to Custas about the truth of magic. He started believing that the lies are nothing but an obstacle leading to harm, that they aren't able to protect anyone. He reached a boiling point when he learned that there's a secret behind silverwoods—he couldn't handle the fact that Coco might be the one hiding from him urgent information for both Custas and his own grandfather.
Thus, in an impulsive move, he shatters all trust between them.
In the end, he was technically right about Qifrey hiding information. However, this cruel act was not a solution. Despite the row of falling dominoes leading up to this, it was unjust and something Tartah likely wishes he could undo if he could.
It's only human to leap at the opportunity to throw of the chains of lies. Qifrey does the same thing in the next chapter. He wishes to break the promise to Olly now that he feels he has the opportunity to end the lies.
When learning that the cycle of despair is happening to others, he desperately wants to give his promise up to give other hosts a better chance. However, Coco tells him that this won't work. She needs him if she is going to become a great witch—all of his doting apprentices do. Coco has seen that rashly forcing out the truth will only lead to more despair, so she chooses to cling on the lie of witches. She knows that she's repeating the same mistakes, but if they just stick together, they can one day find a better way.
So, let's take a recap of the events from Qifrey's past to Tartah's betrayal. A horrible act of magic leaves a person in a terrible state. To put a band-aid over the problem, witches formed a pact with each other to preserve a lie. A pact that will protect them from forbidden magic, but doom them to an existence filled with lies and lacking in true comfort. The lies and mistrust escalate until the truth is forced out, an act against the Pact but causing even more harm. Following this, the decision is made to hold onto the lie, ever so fragile.
Starting to sound familiar, isn't it? History is destined to be repeated, whether considering all of society or an act between two witches.
And this circle of hope plummeting into despair will continue over, and over, and over again—like a forbidden spell's outer circle being closed by Olruggio, then Qifrey, then the next generation of people who will bear the weight of sin.
It will be nothing short of a miracle to break the loop. But after all, a miracle is exactly the feat of a great witch.
So like… Does Custas know about Tartah’s silverwash?
I’ve seen a lot of people across different platforms make the assumption that he does, seeing as the two canonically spent a lot of time together back in Kalhan studying apothecary, but after rereading a lot of their scenes together across the Silver Eve arc, I don’t think Custas knows about Tartah’s condition, or at the very least he doesn’t know how it’s impacted Tartah’s life and his place in witch society.
For most of the time we know him, Custas has the “witches can have/do anything because they have magic” mentality that most outsiders seem to possess, which shapes his relationships with both Coco and Tartah from as early as chapter 43. He believes that their lives must be easy because they have magic, and that they don’t need to struggle to have a place in society like he does. Ironically, the two witches he displays this sentiment towards are probably the two who fit this idea the least within the current story.
For Coco, we know she wasn’t born with the privileged life of a witch like Custas assumes. We can see her struggle with this throughout the early Silve Eve arc. She cannot tell him the truth about her being born an outsider without exposing the secret of magic, but she cannot keep her past a secret without feeling hypocritical.
With Tartah, this juxtaposition between how he’s perceived as a witch by Custas and his actual relationship with witch society is perhaps a bit more subtle, as these moments rarely cut to Tartah looking horrified the same way Coco does. Unlike Coco, Tartah was born into the privileged life of a witch as Custas says, yet he’s also someone who distinctly sits outside of both witch society at large and the outsiders. His silverwash means that most adult witches will never view him as a “real” witch due to his inabilities, but his status of being from a witch family means he’ll never be an outsider to the world of magic. He’s in a limbo, too much of a witch to be an outsider, not enough of a witch to be “normal”
You’d think, if Custas was aware of this distinction between Tartah and “normal” witches to some degree, it would have some up at some point between his claim in chapter 43 and his apology in chapter 45—but it doesn’t. Custas remains as unaware of Tartah’s social outsiderness as he does Coco’s literal outsiderness.
While this could all just be interpreted as Custas knowing about Tartah’s disability but not the effects it has on a witch, I’d like to bring up his reunion with Tartah and Coco in chapter 51. After becoming a brimmed cap and realizing that there were solutions for fixing his legs with magic, Custas is angry at how his supposed friends were “keeping” the fact that they could have healed his legs from him. It stuck out to me even on my first reading of this scene that Custas never once mentioned that Tartah ALSO has a disability that could have potentially been fixed with magic, because this fact would contradict his argument.
If Custas were to acknowledge the fact that Tartah explicitly pushed the narrative that magic cannot heal people while also being disabled and having access to magic, his argument that Coco and Tartah were keeping this magic away from him solely because he’s an outsider would fall apart. If Tartah is both a witch and someone who suffers from a disability, why wouldn’t they use magic to fix it? Custas can’t maintain his argument without acknowledging Tartah’s silverwash, but since he doesn’t, it’s more likely that he just doesn’t know about it at all.
I also don’t think that silverwash in general is common among outsiders, or at least not to the level it is in witch societies. Coco needed Qifrey to explain it to her, and Tartah’s first mention of it towards the end of chapter 13 is very offhanded, like he assumed that Coco already knew what it was. This would line up with him not realizing she was originally an outsider until later in chapter 16.
TLDR; I don’t think Custas knows about Tartah having silverwash based on his interactions and dialogue from chapters 43 & 51, and I don’t think silverwash in general is a common or known condition among non-witches.
I would like to mention a few things from novel. I said this but i think i wrote longer than i planned. Its a little small analysis of things going on in novel. So be aware of novel spoilers.
1st story aka glassfox's escape:
First story starts with Qifreys disapperance and Ollugrio worries about him. (Besides the caring part, you cant blame him because Qifrey disappear like a ghost. Boy leave trace behind, you johan liebert wannabe).
Anyway, it seems that Qifrey just happenned to help people in village. Olly finds him in snowy mountain and they later decide to help a girl who has colour blind-like Tartah and they help her to get out of abusive step-father and find job at jewelry because she is very good with details. Its cute. And one of a few things i would like to focus on is that Qifrey lead this 'we will help you' situation.
We always focus on Ollugrio's kindness which he is but so is Qifrey. He doesnt help people for favor. He help anyone he could. This is why Dagda went his house to ask for help because he heard 'theres a witch who help people'. Qifrey has a reputation regarding helping people. He is also very gentle with the child as he was always. He always takes the lead to helping people and of course, Ollugrio supports him. Another example would be when they helped Richeh. Qifrey, again takes the lead to help the child. Ollugrio looks at Qifrey with a proud face, maybe impressed by how far he came.
And the other stuff would be orufrey moments in first story. Ollugrio looks for the only person he considered him friend. I think its very interesting detail, that Ollugrio doesnt really consider other people close, despite the fact that he is very very popular. And maybe thats the reason. From all the child Olly scenes, we know he is 'genius, golden child' and some idolized him for it and some resent him for it. And Ollugrio doesnt seem to enjoy that kind of attention, 'high expectations, pressure' probably exhaust him. His childhood trauma of unable to save others. That 'he is witch so he has to save everyone'. This also shows how the secret of magic put pressure on witches while making outsiders defendless.
Anyway, why Qifrey? One would be Qifreys resemblance with snow (Ollys home), mysterious aura and glassfox beauty. We have official art of glassfox and Qifrey side by side. Its really similar and glassfoxes are also good at erasing their traces, like certain person. And very sacrifical creatures when it comes to protecting their young ones. And very beautiful, as also confirmed by Ollugrio himself. Second reason would be that Qifrey doesnt really treat Olly the way 'most' treats him. That kind of 'normal treatment' mustve been very refreshing for Ollugrio. And of course, Qifrey's victimhood makes him wanna project "his savoury complex' on him. He cares and worries about Qifrey so much and cant blame him, considering how Qifrey left like that.
And the line 'i would go to snow mountain for important person'. I am not sure that this is Qifrey or Ollugrio is talking but it was very sweet.
And if anyone wondering when this all happenned, it seems that they graduated and live together because Olly looked for Qifreys bedroom and wait at his home like a week. And this is before Qifrey took 5th test. The last one that makes you qualified enough to take students.
2nd story:
Second story was focusing on more current time. Qifrey and Ollugrio were busy and kids were home alone.
It was so cute that Tetia and Richeh missed Qifrey. And this story was about children taking care of dragon. Qifrey decided that it would be fun for them. (Agott was against at first but girls sabotaged her to shut her down lol.)
And four of them one by one taking care of little dragon in their own unique way was so cute. Its sake their personality. Coco cooking, Richeh giving rubbons, Agott educating, Tetia bathing. And all of them sleeping together at the end.
I am not sure that this will be foreshadowing for the future but Coco talked about dragon story, what she heard from her mom. Its about lonely dragon in village. This reminded me of current dragon arc when Tetia thought about loneliness in dragon death. Maybe its related to her story, or in general. It reminded of me so i wanted to share.
At the end, dragon owner came to take her. Apperantly, they had to stay for the night so they got Ollugrios room so Olly has no choice but to borrow Qifreys bedroom lol.
And i found last scene with Qifrey very emotional. He looked at them and thought they will leave one day but he wants them to feel that they are at home until then--pain. I hope, those four even when they became grown-up, they never leave Qifrey's side.
3rd story:
Last story focused on Knights of Moralis. I am not really sure about the timeline here.
It was mainly about them covering themselves for the operation. A few cute details. Easthies and Luluci were so pretty. They were pretending to be couple. In one scene, Luluci was sorry for one animal and Easthies immediately tried to buy that animal for its safety. (I think its worth to mention Luluci and Easthies's connection. They seem to pay attention and care for each others worries).
And the other scene was some random woman's flirting with Easthies and him freaking out and assuming that 'they must be brimhats', lol.
Anyway, they later learnt that this operation was unrelated to forbidden magic. It were 'non-magic crime' so they stopped involving. Because apperantly, outsiders and witches cant get involve??? Fortunately, Easthies gave hints to other 'outsider' knights so that they could arrest them. And at the end, we found out that knights of moralis didnt get Credit for their hardwork and that they apperantly dont mind because 'protecting order is their job'.
All these outsider-witch stuff was far more extreme than we thought. Eoleo wasnt assuming when he said to Tetia, that 'outsider and witch cant be friends'. They officialy arent allowed to be involved romantically. I get it but this is insane.
I found interesting detail about Utowin. He looked like he was more empathic towards the criminal who was treated as useless by his big brother. He probably saw himself in him. Maybe because he felt similar ways when his father compared him with Ollugrio as child. Or maybe more.
And another scene is found interesting with Easthies. I found this scene a little too specific and personal. The way Easthies viewed that white Wolf as if it is something he wasnt supposed to exist. I Wonder what did he see in it. Magic or himself or maybe someone he cared for. His idea of gentleness is also very tragic and cruel in a way because that wolf deserved to live.
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The reason why Witch Hat Atelier’s social commentary on disability is so efficacious is its nuanced approach; rather than simply presenting a disabled character as a token, the narrative explores how progress—symbolized through magic—can be limited by the narrow perspective of those who are directly responsible for it.
In raising the question of whether magic is inherently good or bad, the story offers multiple analogies—a knife, a fire, medicinal herbs—all of which underscore the dual potential for harm and healing. Magic, as depicted in the series, functions as a neutral tool that reflects the intentions of its users. When progress is shaped by the dominant majority, it often fails to account for, or even marginalize, those who exist outside normative structures.
Take Coustas here: as the boy born into poverty and left to navigate life with a disability, he is the culmination of the series’ most poignant thematic concerns. Everything about his narrative arc is treated with a notable degree of care and complexity, serving as critique of how systemic neglect and social bias shape one’s individual experience.
Magic in WHA is not only captivating in its visual appeal but is also deeply woven into the fabric of the narrative. It’s at once a source of wonder and a tool through which power and oppression can be exercised. Coco functions as both the main character and as a narrative foil to Coustas precisely because they share the common experience of the outsider.
I need people to understand that I don't think the adult witches at Noz was actually dependent on baby Olruggio to save and protect them. I full-heartedly believe that if they knew Noz was going to be a dangerous place, that they wouldn't have brought him.
"You helped save two lives. You should be proud." and "Exactly. And you made it back alive. You've done more than anyone could ask of you."
They really don't mean to have Olruggio be responsible for the safety of the group, nor would they have faulted him if he couldn't save anyone at all because they understand that this small child that you can still carry and hold with relative ease is not supposed to be responsible for all that.
The problem is, Olruggio believed he was. He was probably told that "One day, you will do great things and protect people" or something of the sorts, and took that shit to HEART.
He's been called a little witch prodigy since his younger (which is fucked up to say cause he already is so young) days. They've called him the hope, the star, the light that will lead ghodrey to somewhere better. And it 100000% messed him up. He is going to be the witch that helps them all because he's got such a good grasp on magic. His talents must not be wasted.
He was instilled with the idea that a witch is meant to be able to protect everyone. Cause that's what a witch is meant to do right?
