Did Qifrey just wipe Nolnoa’s memories? How much of them did he wipe? This cannot be good.
Witch Hat Atelier was much anticipated, and I have been watching each episode as it’s getting released. Little pre-teen girl casts a spell that kills/traps her mother, gets adopted into an atelier, and begins her journey into the precarious world of witchcraft. The artwork and animation are great. The over the top expressions often are too annoying. The character-work is excellent.
Although some themes are heavy, it is hard to see how the anime gets a ‘seinen’ tag. Shonen too have dark themes often.
But 1x8 showed us glimpses of why the show will turn increasingly seinen. We just had a character we love cast a curse on an innocent old man who was helping him.
Beautiful setup by the way. We dealt with memory deletion thrice in the episode: first, right at the outset when the knight started the process on Coco; then in the admonishment to Coco and Agott from Qifery; and finally at the end, off-screen.
Nolnoa did Qifrey a favor and got attacked. Will Olruggio face something similar in the future?
Qifrey is setting up too many enemies around him. All is fine now, but they will collapse all at once.
Seeing such a jovial, kind, and friendly being capable of attacking the old man was shocking. I was expecting it to go in the direction of Nolnoa discussing the matter with the Knights Moralis and Qifrey getting in trouble but somehow managing to convince the knights of his fair intentions. But now with the attack he has really done something wrong.
Trying to advocate for Qifrey here. We don’t know enough about him at this point. Despite the similarities in the character designs, Qifrey is not Satoru Gojo, openly going against the higher ups because of his unquestionable superiority. We don’t know how strong Qifrey is and whether he is putting himself in mortal danger.
Is there a way to justify his deed? Maybe he does not trust the Knights Moralis with the power. Perhaps he views them as corrupt/corruptible/or somehow linked with the enemies. Or perhaps he has realized that the ways of the Knights Moralis would not stand against the brimmed caps.
Also now Qifrey has told a major lie to Coco. She is being led to believe that Nolnoa accidentally gave her a potent ink, resulting in the mishap. Qifrey is hiding the enemy’s interference. Coco has no idea this is something to guard against.
This lie has to backfire in a big way.