Bells

Please do not perceive me :)

[storiesconsumemysoul]

WHA Ep. 8 Spoilers‼‼‼ (no manga spoilers beyond ep.)

There were a few changes/cuts from ch. 12 and 13 for ep. that are clearly time saving choices but the ones I resent deeply are:

Hey man, Agott really needed that bit of praise actually. It matters that Qifrey gives it so freely too. Even amidst trying to impress upon both her and Coco how dangerous the whole thing was and how they could've easily really messed up here. That's like ... really vital to Agott specifically man. Arguably even more so than agreeing to arrange for her second test.

And cutting down his response to Olly when he questions him about the test from this:

To just "Yes. But. That's not what she's doing here. I think she's earned herself some trust." is ... also not great. There is something of the specific history and relationship between Qifrey and Agott that gets lost in cutting out his reasoning and fears even if you can intuit it from the visuals (the shot of the four girls huddled together from his pov is also in the manga).

I know these are not some earth shattering changes but just as each of the girls are very distinct from one another with an equally distinct dynamic with each of the other girls, they also have individually distinct relationships with Qifrey. These small moments are what characterizes each one of their unique dynamic with Qifrey. Where you start to get a feel for how he tries to provide care tailored to each apprentice and what needs of each of them is fulfilled by being in his care.

And Agott really deserved to be praised for her beautiful bird in this moment specifically okay T_T

[sunchild3]

tiny baby mei kinosaki 🤏

he is but two apples tall... 🤏🍎🍎

[sunchild3]

Have we met before? Sorry, it's just... You look similar to my first love.

waiter!! waiter!! 17 more pounds of delusion please!!

[szyszkasosnowa]

reading Witch Hat Atelier experience

[foreoqque]

so i've noticed something about orufrey's body language

and i have been going insane about it ever since! kamome shirahama your attention to details will be the death of me /pos

hands are the most expressive non-verbal tool humans have, and since it's also quite literally the tool that gives the witches their magic, watching hands in witch hat atelier is beyond important. implied spoilers up to ch93 under cut! [don't mind the language of half the screenshots, that's beside the point]

qifrey so very often tends to clasp his hands together, rubbing them against each other or simply clinging to his long robes. a gesture so telling of just how uncomfortable due to silverwood he constantly is, always slightly nervous, always tip-toeing around the edge of a cliff.

and he's been doing so since childhood! his emotions are so closed-off when it comes to casual body language, which is both an indicator of his character and the ways in which he deals with his curse. unable to trust even his closest friend, he chooses the only vaguely soothing thing: to curl into himself, to detach, to distance.

meanwhile olruggio, despite his scruffiness, generally comes off as a more open, "simple" man, hands flying all over the place when he's agitated. he expresses his emotions freely, without restrain.

qifrey curls into a ball for comfort, meanwhile olly splays like a star, comfortable in his skin an in qifrey's presence

and what happens when they start to interact?

olly keeps reaching for qifrey, talking some sense into him with his hands, with spontaneous and emotional physical touch.

he does so even upon first meeting

he keeps and keeps reaching out to qifrey, both literally and symbolically. no matter how hard qifrey tries to run away, to hide deeper into himself, olruggio will always be there to offer him a friendly hand or otherwise

this particular parallel is especially dear to me:

they changed so much, but they also haven't changed at all

and the culmination of this dynamic in a single image for me is this:

qifrey, gaze averted, hands uncomfortably clasped together, fake smile on his face and olruggio, calm and confident, leaning into qifrey's personal space with familiar ease, resting an arm on his shoulder in a friendly gesture. everything that shirahama consistently portrays as the manga goes on and the history unravels, neatly and wordlessly shown in a single static image. the art of showing, but not telling, thus nurturing a deeper understanding of these characters. absolutely brilliant

[foreoqque]

some more qifreys bc at some point i genuinely started saving all the times i noticed him clasping his hands tightly together or around his clothes

i just feel like shirahama-sensei is so deliberate in her poses and smaller details. she always Knows what to do with the characters' hands. it's so very amazing and important to me. do you get what i mean??????

[rainie-glades-anime]

I’m coming back to this having just read chapter 96

which could straight up be titled ‘Man Viscerally Uncomfortable with Current Situation™ (unexpected social call from a near stranger)’

like my god.

clenching hand at abdomen to awkwardly massaging the bad shoulder to self-consciously rubbing at face. all in the course of a 60 second conversation.

Qifrey you could not be more anxious-looking if you tried 😬

It's so funny too because you get tricked into thinking qifrey is very suave and charming!

And he is!

…When he has a script. Or is in control of the situation. Or he’s interacting with people he's close to. He's perfectly comfortable making his request of coco's mother in their shop. he has no trouble offering assistance to the ladies of the pegasus carriage.

But he also gets steamrolled by the tavern owner during the fire. He gets bullied by medical professionals. He reverts to a preteen in the presence of his old master.

When in his element—teaching children—he is confident and engaging and elegant. But put him in front of a stranger without his family to act as a buffer? ...well

Suddenly he's back to being that little outsider boy who never fit in at the great hall

[sappystrawberries]

Qifrey is living a tragic Romantic romance/horror. He thinks he’s dragging a star—not just any star, mind you, but “the sky’s kindest, most radiant star”, in fact—down from the heavens to rot beneath his boughs and roots alongside him. The only companion he’s ever held dearer is his grief, or perhaps his rage. He thinks he’s destined only to drown in the cold, waterlogged grave they never truly did dig him fully out of, and that he’ll cling to micro-doses of Olruggio of The Torch’s warmth until he extinguishes the very last vestiges of his fire, his potential, his destinies, too.

Olruggio is living in a slice-of-life cooking show and worries his Very Good Friend (who surely must know Olruggio holds the biggest torch ever made for by now, right?), who takes such good care of Olruggio and their 4 children, is Not Doing So Well™️ again

[itaveli]

brug collection

[l-0puko]

[a responsible task]

[ine-thisu]

this should have been in the main series 😔 i get the tone needed to be serious but this was too adorable

Rimuru poking at the ground is too cute 🥹

[doublxpresso]

Hiraeth

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🌼 Master post 🌼

[pauwuk]

dear orufrey I was not aware of your doomed yaoi game

[doublxpresso]

Flesh and bones

[cyclic-abelian]

The anime is wonderful.. I am so inspired! i needed to finish this right away!!

[crimson-chains]

Another fine art thing ^^ "Girl with a pearl earring" by Johannes Vermeer Had a lot of fun as Qifrey is just so pretty~

[mafuyuh]

let's fly with mama

[jayevrd]

witch kitty pile :]

[jsdhwdmax56]

And if I say that Lin is Banba's weakness?

Because what do you mean THE Niwaka Samurai, the guy who KNOWS there's a sniper aiming at him, the strongest killer of killers, got shot because he saw Lin?. He let down his guard.