Manga Notes: Witch Hat Atelier 3
Sep. 12th, 2019 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerBeing able to read the first two volumes of the Witch Hat Atelier manga in rapid succession had a good impact on me, but waiting for the third volume to resolve the second’s cliffhanger did stretch out a bit. Once I did have a copy of that third volume, though, it was easy to get caught up again in Kamome Shirahama’s gorgeous artwork. As for the story, the cliffhanger did get resolved pretty fast after the young apprentice Coco’s spell getting away on her put her once more at risk of her memories being erased; trying to sort out just what happened keeps her mentor Qifrey in various complications over the volume, though.
Qifrey is on the front cover this time, but the back cover shows Coco and Tartah, the boy assistant of a magical inkmaker briefly introduced in the first volume. I’ll admit to remembering when the Little Witch Academia anime series introduced a male character and some people got very indignant at the thought of this interfering with slashing that series’s main character Akko with her rivals and/or roommates; still, I’ll also admit to not dwelling too much on “possibilities” in general and found the friendship in this volume pleasant. Tartah does turn out to have his own built-in complication, a sort of colourblindness that seems to leave him aware of the great secret of magic but struggling to use it himself. (There’s no easy magical solution for this; part of keeping magic under control is rules to not cast spells on people themselves.) There’s less of a cliffhanger with this volume than with the first two, but the larger story keeps ticking along unbeknownst to Coco; hopefully, the wait for the next volume will go easier.
Qifrey is on the front cover this time, but the back cover shows Coco and Tartah, the boy assistant of a magical inkmaker briefly introduced in the first volume. I’ll admit to remembering when the Little Witch Academia anime series introduced a male character and some people got very indignant at the thought of this interfering with slashing that series’s main character Akko with her rivals and/or roommates; still, I’ll also admit to not dwelling too much on “possibilities” in general and found the friendship in this volume pleasant. Tartah does turn out to have his own built-in complication, a sort of colourblindness that seems to leave him aware of the great secret of magic but struggling to use it himself. (There’s no easy magical solution for this; part of keeping magic under control is rules to not cast spells on people themselves.) There’s less of a cliffhanger with this volume than with the first two, but the larger story keeps ticking along unbeknownst to Coco; hopefully, the wait for the next volume will go easier.