Witch Hat Atelier

[pariston_hill]

https://mangadex.org/manga/20723/ton...shi-no-atelier
A super sweet series, with some gorgeous art and a very creative take on magic.
There's no reason you shouldn't be reading know, so let's start.

[Sakonosolo]

Yeah it's great. Of all the series that get immediate translations when a chapter comes out this should be one of them.

Spoiler:

I hope some of the characters start questioning the "nobody should be able to do magic but us" mentality that the witches in the series have. The brimhats seem to maybe want to recruit Coco to their side so it'll probably happen at some point.

[pariston_hill]

Spoiler:

I hope some of the characters start questioning the "nobody should be able to do magic but us" mentality that the witches in the series have. The brimhats seem to maybe want to recruit Coco to their side so it'll probably happen at some point.

Spoiler:

I guess is more of a with great power, great responsibility kind of deal. Here we this magical ink you can cast an explosion as big as a city have fun not trying to conquer the whole continent with it. But it seems to be a shady connotation in Qifrey's mistrust of the Witch Auditorium.

[Sakonosolo]

Spoiler:

I guess is more of a with great power, great responsibility kind of deal. Here we this magical ink you can cast an explosion as big as a city have fun not trying to conquer the whole continent with it. But it seems to be a shady connotation in Qifrey's mistrust of the Witch Auditorium.

Spoiler:

Well the people in charge of dealing with uses of forbidden magic seem to be really strict about erasing memories but Qifrey wants to know more about the book Coco had and probably thinks it would get them closer to dealing with the Brimhats than erasing her memory would. I think it's strange that he hasn't asked her much more about it up through chapter 10, and seemingly beyond too. I was looking through earlier chapters recently too and (in chapter 2) he talks to someone over some quasi-radio thing and I don't think we've met that character yet. I don't think it's the girl he meets later at the tower since she doesn't seem like someone that would be giving him permission to do something like he talks about. So he has his own agenda along with at least one other character.

[fdsfgfs]

It's cute, it's interesting, I don't feel any real connection to the characters but it's got enough going on to give it some time. Good find, thanks for posting :)

[pariston_hill]

https://mangadex.org/chapter/260767/1
Nice bonding between Coco and Agate and then things took a turn for the worse.

[Sakonosolo]

So the Brimhat stalking Coco did do something to her that's affecting her magic.

Edit: Chapter 20 is out in Japan and it's got a three page spread in it. They're not that rare but it's still cool to see them. Don't know how they work since I've never seen one in an actual book but I imagine you'd need a foldout page or something for them to work there.

[Sakonosolo]

New chapter translated.

Spoiler:

That brimhat guy messed with Coco's ink. At the end he's pouring his blood into a bottle of ink so I guess that does something somehow. Looks like Qifrey's going to go check it out. And Coco's not off the hook with the magic investigator people yet. Agete's signed up for a new magic test too.

[pariston_hill]

Spoiler:

So here is our first stance of blood magic, hum? A bit too soon i weight, but would this mean that the special ink is not so special and anyone can use magic? Question, questions...
. And man the magic high commission or whatever is sure trigger happy.

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[Sakonosolo]

Spoiler:

If blood by itself could be used to draw magic I would think the Brimhats wouldn't bother with whatever they're doing and just go around teaching people to draw stuff with blood, causing chaos with it.

[Sakonosolo]

Chapter 13's out. Glad they managed to get it out so quickly after chapter 12. Haven't read it yet but I know it goes into more stuff about the ink given to Coco by the Brimhat guy.

[pariston_hill]

oh boy

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He did what I think he did?Man I wonder what's Qifrey's motivation against the brimhats and why he is so reluctant to get the magical high commission on the case.

[Sakonosolo]

Spoiler:

I imagine he has something personal against them. In one of the earlier chapters he talks on some walkie-talkie like device to a character we probably haven't met yet too so he's working with someone else to some extent.

[Sakonosolo]

New translated chapter is out. This is kind of the start of a new arc.

[KaizokuJinbei]

His hat is very pointy

[MDLatqp]

I'm really enjoying this series, and almost certainly would not have stumbled across it if not for the thread - thanks!

[pariston_hill]

What a tease way to end the chapter...


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[Satsuki]

This is a fabulous little series!

The art makes me think of Berserk or Attack on Titan but without the blood and guts.

[Sakonosolo]

The manga's been licensed in English but the first volume won't be out until next year. The person that's been translating it is dropping it because of that unfortunately. Someone else might pick it up but we'll have to see. The translator put up one more chapter (chapter 15) and translations for chapter 16 and 17 (in image files for some reason, I got some dirty image to text transliteration and I'm reading through the chapters and fixing any formatting stuff or things that I think are unnecessary or translated strangely for small things that do know of Japanese). I'll post my text here once I'm done. At least they finished volume 3 with these chapters.

[pariston_hill]

Man what bad luck of mine, if another scanlator don't pick it up I might as well be screwed.
It's just me or...

Spoiler:

The Brimhats may have started as a society of healers and evolved into something more sinister over the time.