Witch Hat Atelier (manga): Difference between revisions

''You never know what you're going to be until you grow up, right?''

''So...''

 

Coco is a young girl with a deep and profound interest in magic. Her pursuit to become a witch, however, is stopped by the fact that she knows witches are born, not trained nor taught. That view is shattered when the witch Qifrey arrives at her village in a flying Pegasus carriage. Coco watches Qifrey cast magic, and discovers how magic really works. A person doesn't have to be born with innate abilities to cast magic! Instead, they draw runes and symbols on paper, topped off with a ring to make the spell work.

Knowing this, Coco traces over a basic rune, casts a light spell, fire spell, figures out the basics of spellcasting... and casts forbidden [[Black Magic]] that turns her mum into stone which destroys her house. Well, Coco now has no choices ''but'' to become a witch's apprentice. Thus, she and Qifrey travels to his atelier and becomes his apprentice. The manga focuses on the (mis)adventures of Coco, her mentors, and the other apprentice girls at the atelier: the quiet and reclusive Richeh, the enthusiastic and outgoing Tetia, and the academic and focused Agott.

 

 

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* [[The Apprentice (trope)|The Apprentice]]: The witches living at Qifrey's atelier. In order to become an apprentice, they have to pass a magical trial. The manga series shows Coco improving at her magical abilities, slowing improving the quality of her glyphs.

* [[Black Magic]]: Coco accidentally casts one of these spells in the first chapter. Black Magic is outlawed, and no respectable witch use it, but it is used frequently by the Brimmed Caps, who gave Coco the book containing the black magic.

** The Romonons, who [[Taken for Granite|transform people into living statues of gold]].

* [[Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are]]: A member of the Brimmed Caps does this during the second magic trial. Richeh, Agott, and Euini are hiding from the member who has interrupted their second magical trial.

* [[Cute Witch]]: Almost everyone in Qifrey's atelier.

* [[The Dark Arts]]: The Brimmed Caps use this, using combat and transformation magic which they claim is far more powerful than what the permitted [[White Magic]] allows for. They wish to make Coco learn it them, slowly influencing her life, even going as far as to {{spoiler|transform Euini into a beast so Coco will be forced to learn the Dark Arts to turn him back}}.

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Agott, who slowly opens herself up to Coco. Initially, she forces Coco to take the first trial when Coco is barely qualified to do so, with little experience, and eventually starts helping Coco.

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: The series makes use of the illogical placement and timing variation.

* [[Easy Amnesia]]: The Knights Moralis are easilly able to wipe the memories of people who have seen magic. This almost happens at the end of volume two, {{spoiler|but Tetia quickly rushes in and stalls for time until Qifrey arrives to convince the Knights Moralis ''not'' to wipe the memories of Coco.}}

* [[Escort Mission]]: The second magical trial, whose objective is to escort a group of migrating Myphons through the dangerous remains of Romonon.

** Witches may occasionally choose to almost finish drawing their spell, leaving only a small uncompleted section of the ring, so they can cast the spell at a more convenient time.

** The effects of a spell can be reversed by reversing the signs.

* [[Good Feels Good]]: Tetia always thank the people who thank her. {{quote|'''Coco''': "Wow, that's incredible. Thank you!"

'''Tetia''': "I love when people tell me 'thank you'! So thank ''you'' for your thanks!"}}

** Coco accidentally transforms her own mother by tracing over a [[Black Magic]] glyph, setting up the events of the manga.

* [[Wild Magic]]: The magic system before the Knights Moralis and the The Witches' Assembly was like this, where everyone had access to magic, although this lead to the abuse of magic, involving acts such as the forced transformation of another person, and war crimes.

* [[World in the Sky]]: The first magic trial takes place in the Dadah range, where the objective is to pick the Diadem herb. The range is made up of many spherical slices of earth floating in the air, suspended seemingly by nothing.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Richeh's blue hair stands out the most, although Tetia's pink and Qifrey's silver are also notable.

 

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