{"id":362236,"date":"2026-05-28T13:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/som2nynetwork.com\/?p=362236"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:10:39","slug":"witch-hat-atelier-episode-9-angryanimebitches-anime-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/som2nynetwork.com\/?p=362236","title":{"rendered":"Witch Hat Atelier Episode 9 \u2013 AngryAnimeBitches Anime Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"


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AHHHHH DARN IT! WE HAVE TO WAIT TILL THE NEXT ONE!<\/p>\n

And ohhhh booooyyyyy!<\/em> As suspected, there was a fail-safe mechanism when it came to identifying the Brimmed Bottle spell. Makes sense, especially since they don\u2019t want to be traced down. It also sure felt like it was almost<\/em>\u00a0 as though it was specifically designed with Qifrey in mind (especially since he hates water).<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Through that, we did learn something rather critical and worth thinking about. Qifrey couldn\u2019t save himself in that situation because not only was there a lightning spell serving as a firewall, but water followed and he was unable to cast any magic while submerged. Makes sense given ink smudges and disappears when it gets wet. So unless you have the spell engraved into solid surface, like rings, swords and the coins we saw today, you\u2019re kinda screwed\u2013 as Qifrey was today. That said, it did show the lack of foresight for the potential nature of the fail-safe spell,<\/p>\n

But lightning and<\/em> water? Way to almost kill someone if it wasn\u2019t enough to kill them as it is. Qifrey was in a terrible state after that. He had to eat some herbs to recover of the severity of the numbness.<\/p>\n

\"\"And that wasn\u2019t the end of it.\u00a0 To add insult to injury, the Brimmed Cap guy actually showed up right in front of Quifrey to ensure he destroyed the Twinned Bottles and successfully retrieved the most critical lead Qifrey had gotten his hands on to date, the coin. However if there\u2019s one thing to take away from this, \u2018Eyeball\u2019 certainly did not anticipate them to find out his shrewd trick this quickly.<\/p>\n

\"\"Thanks to the failure to acquire the coin, we did get a little bit of crumbs in terms of why Qifrey is so dead-set on tracking the one he referred to as \u201cThe Eyeball\u201d. He appears they took something from him, and he wants back. I kind of wonder if it\u2019s something related to healing, knowledge or perhaps even his eye (seriously wouldn\u2019t put it past them on that, especially with the particular mask choice too). Nevertheless, it stings a lot that the one he was looking for was just momentarily within reach.<\/p>\n

At the time we also learned a bit more of \u2018The Eyeballs\u2019 magic. We\u2019ve seen it here and there, but not with true clarity to so speak. In this episode though, it certainly seems to suggest that this fellow may also be a Water Master as well given how they appear to have the ability to travel from to one place to another through this manner.<\/p>\n

\"\"Apart from that dramatic confrontation, it was great to see them address the rules around healing as soon as they did. Given what we\u2019ve seen last week with the way Knight of Moralis refused to heal the kid\u2019s legs, it was clear that they had to be rules to forbid them from healing the body. But while that\u2019s understandably a grey area, it is rather insane to see them apply a blanket ban on it altogether. Hell, I genuinely didn\u2019t think they would go as far to erase the knowledge from the Righteous Witches\u2019 memories, all because they had fought the Three Wise Ones\u2019 edict of forbidding spells cast on the body. That\u2019s why Qifrey finds the situation to be quite ironic, that of all people, it\u2019s the Brimmed Cap knows how to use the lost spell of Twinned Bottles, once practised among the witches who specialized in healing.<\/p>\n

Geez!<\/em> The more we learn about the Three Wise Ones, the more draconian it gets. It\u2019s really bad. So here\u2019s yet another perfectly justifiable reason why Qifrey probably doesn\u2019t want to have his disciples be taught in such a stuffy environment! As for the Brimmed Caps, while do absolutely terrible things, it makes you wonder more about who\u2019s in it,<\/em> and more about their extremism approach to their grand ambitions.<\/p>\n

Bearing all of that in mind, this also makes me wonder if there\u2019s other affiliations like say the Righteous Witches that also exists to continually fight this draconian approach to magic. Entirely possible that there are some who managed to avoid being subjected to losing their memories, which means they\u2019d have to constantly lay low to not draw attention to themselves.<\/p>\n

Brimmed Cap and the Draconian laws aside, we did learn more about Witches\u2019 disciple system as a whole, along with Tetia\u2019s, Richeh and Agott\u2019s dreams and mindsets.\u00a0In order to become a fully fledged Witch, they must undergo the Pentacle of Proving, which consists of four major exams, the fifth being an optional post-graduate bonus.<\/p>\n