{"id":1096,"date":"2024-09-16T16:28:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T16:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2024-09-16T16:28:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T16:28:20","slug":"witch-hat-atelier-preview-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/16\/witch-hat-atelier-preview-for-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch Hat Atelier &#8211; Preview for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<style>\n.myDiv {\n  border: 5px outset red;\n  background-color: lightblue;\n  text-align: center;\n}\n<\/style>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"myDiv\">\n\n<p style=\"color:blue\">&#8220;Witch Hat Atelier &#8211; Preview for 2025&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Witch Hat Atelier | OFFICIAL TRAILER\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hMmBSCQs1H4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Click on Red Arrow Above<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:red\">&#8220;Click on Red Arrow to play video&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"myDiv\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Witch_Hat_Atelier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/c\/ca\/Witch_Hat_Atelier_vol1.jpg\" alt=\"Link to wiki\" title=\"Witch Hat Atelier\" width=\"265\" height=\"377\"><\/a>\n\n<p style=\"color:blue\">&#8220;Click picture above to go to wikipedia page&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>       <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"myDiv\" style=\"color:blue;text-align:left;\">\n\n<p>       <\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color:red\">\nSpoiler Alert &#8211; many spoilers follow\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"color:blue\">\nI have read &#8220;Witch Hat Atelier&#8221; VOL 1 to 4, but am currently halted at\nthe end of VOL 4 because VOL 5 is not available except from specialty \nbook houses at a premium price. Yes, there are many blogs and websites\nwith fan translated versions, but I want the officially released English\ntranslation so I will not skip ahead.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color:blue\">\nIn any case, this is not a work which one can skip ahead. The world of\n&#8220;Witch Hat Atelier&#8221; is excruciatingly detailed, and highly plot driven. \nSkipping ahead in this work is like skipping ahead in Calculus. \nThe material that you skip will come back to haunt you!\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color:blue\">\nAnything said here is based solely on the material in VOL 1 to 4, and \nbe aware, that this review is highly spoilerific. Proceed at your own\nrisk based upon what you like in a story.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color:blue\">\nThe drawn art of &#8220;Witch Hat Atelier&#8221; is fantastic, and beautiful. The \nworld is wonderfully created, and as mentioned, highly detailed.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color:blue\">\nOur protagonist is Coco, a young girl in love with magic, but because\nshe is not of a magic family, it is said that she cannot become\na witch. In this world one must be born into a witch family.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color:blue\">\nBut this of course is all a lie because magic in &#8220;Witch Hat Atelier\nis not cast by words, but is drawn on paper with pen and ink. There\nis no special ability needed other than being an artist, and knowing\nwhat to draw. The picture if properly drawn, will activate the spell.\nAnd anyone can cast this magic. But there are forbidden spells\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color:blue\">\nAnd there is an Antagonist group called the &#8220;The Brimmed Caps&#8221; who\nbelieve in casting The Forbidden Spells. When Coco was very little,\nshe was given pen, ink, and paper by a Brimmed Cap, and eventually\nshe unknowingly casts a Forbidden Spell which turns her mother into\nstone.\n\n<p style=\"color:blue\">\nAs the MC Witch, Qifrey says in VOL 1, CH 2, Page 80-81, &#8220;All it took\nwas knowledge of prescribed designs&#8230;.and specially crafted ink.\nAnyone from any place, could cast&#8230;.and magic was familiar to all.\nHowever because of that&#8230;.the world was constantly embroiled in war.\nFor when man has the power to do anything, then anything he will do.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color:blue\">\nThis view contrasts sharply with &#8220;Frieren: Beyond Journey&#8217;s End&#8221; where\nFrieren looks forward to a time of peace in which magic is used by\neveryone. Frieren&#8217;s hopes and dreams do violence to the Krell Solution\nof the Fermi Paradox which supports the Qifrey view of magic and it&#8217;s uses. \nThat a magical society must be built on a lie and strictly controlled by an actual\ndictatorship, even to the point of erasing memories of those who \nlearn the truth.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color:blue\">\nNo greater conflict in Fantasy literature could be imagined, than\nthis existential conflict between two excellent stories. And the\nfinal answer is obscure.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color:blue\">\nIf the production values as shown in the Preview above bear out,\nthen &#8220;Witch Hat Atelier&#8221; may debut in 2025 with enormous potential\nto equal &#8220;Frieren&#8221; or even surpass it.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color:blue\">\nBut as many fantasy fans are saying with &#8220;Frieren: Beyond Journey&#8217;s End&#8221;,\n&#8220;Dungeon Meshi&#8221;, and now &#8220;Witch Hat Atelier&#8221;, we be eating good!\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Witch Hat Atelier &#8211; Preview for 2025&#8221; &#8220;Click on Red Arrow to play video&#8221; &#8220;Click picture above to go to wikipedia page&#8221; Spoiler Alert &#8211; many spoilers follow I have read &#8220;Witch Hat Atelier&#8221; VOL 1 to 4, but am currently halted at the end of VOL 4 because VOL 5 is not available except &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/16\/witch-hat-atelier-preview-for-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Witch Hat Atelier &#8211; Preview for 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-witch-hat-atelier","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}