#Witch Hat Atelier Vol. 4

[quirkycatsfatstacks]

Series Binge: Witch Hat Atelier Vol. 4

Series: Witch Hat AtelierWriter/Artist: Kamome ShirahamaPublisher: Kodansha ComicsReleased: November 12, 2019Received: Library Findit on Goodreads | Summary: Coco lives in a world where magic exists. Unfortunately, she’s no magician. That’s the one thing she’s desperately wanted to be ever since she was a little girl. However, she has also been told that magicians are born, not made. Until one…

[strange-ness-is-me]

Why the fuck are the Myrphons from WHA so FUCKING ADORABLE

AUGGHGGGGG IM GOING TO IMPLODE

Richeh’s ideology to casting spells is so me fr. RRRRRGRGRGGRGRGRGEGRGRGRGRRGRGGVR

[levbolton]

They can’t escape the allegations this volume either

[frostwork]

Yes im gay and i went crazy

[kodanshamanga]

NEW Kodansha Print+Digital:

🔮 Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen, Vol 4🔮 By @satohiromi2010 and @shirahamakamome

🍎The atelier’s four apprentices come home in triumph from the Great Hall after passing the second test in the Pentacle of Proving.

[aroaessidhe]

Read in May

audio favourites

And What Can We Offer You Tonight - 3.5

All The Dead Lie Down - 4

In The Roses of Pieria - 4.25

You Are Now Entering Suddence - 3.75

Here We Go Again - 3.75

Flooded Secrets - 4

The Memory Theater - 4

Where Sleeping Girls Lie - 4.25

The Summer Love Strategy - 3.5

The Brides of High Hill - 4.25

Ocean’s Godori - 3.75

The Sword of Kaigen - 4.25

The Reanimator’s Heart - 3.75

This Is Me Trying - 3.5

Behind You Is The Sea - 4

A Dark and Drowning Tide (arc) - 4.5

Song of the Six Realms - 3.5

Hearts Still Beating - 4

graphic novels

Delicious in Dungeon vols 1-14 - 5

The Night Eaters book 1 & 2 - 3.5

Witch Hat Atelier vol 12 - 5

nonfiction

The Observologist

[arwainian]

Reading This Week 2024 #27

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Finished:

Counting Out Stitches by chinuplargepup (chinuplilpup) on ao3 ough... Dick and Joey....what an excellent point in time to set this too

The King is Dead, Long Live the King by Havendance on ao3 an excellent fic about what if Batman actually for real died and stayed dead. sad, interesting, very well written, I'd been meaning to finish it for ages and just this past week finally read the third and final chapter

a conversation at 4:30am by xscintillate on ao3

the rest of the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast's fiction backlog:

"Cardinal's Gambit" by Catherine Lundoof, narrated by Onerae Clark "Your Fingers Like Pen and Ink" by Jeannelle M. Ferreira, narrated by Violet Dixon "Give Us This Day" by Jennifer Nestojko "A Soldier in the Army of Love" by Diane Morrison, narrated by Laura Pinson "The Adventuress" by Catherine Lundoff, narrated by Heather Rose Jones "Margaret" by Eleanor Musgrove, narrated by Heather Rose Jones "Moon River" by Mandy Mongkolyuth, narrated by Heather Rose Jones "Abstract" by Kat Sinor, narrated by Jasmine Arch "Palio" by Gwen C. Katz, narrated by Violet Dixon "The Spirit of Cabassus" by Ursula Whitcher, narrated by Heather Rose Jones "A Farce to Suit the New Girl" by Rebecca Fraimow, narrated by Violet Dixon "The Wolf that Sings on the Mountain" by Miyuki Jane Pinckard "From the Bird's Nest" by Jennifer Nestojko, narrated by Emma Ross "The Pirate in the Mirror" by Catherine Lundoof, narrated by Heather Rose Jones "To the Fair Muse who, Loving Me, Imagin'd More" by Annemarie KD, narrated by Heather Rose Jones "The Salt Price" by B. Pladek, narrated by Jasmine Arch "Battling Poll" by Rose Cullen, narrated by Heather Rose Jones "Daughters of Derbyshire" by Daniel Stride, narrated by Heather Rose Jones

my favorites were "A farce to suit the new girl" and "Battling Poll"! check them out, and check out the whole podcast

We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian like I said last week when I started reading it, enjoyable but not super compelling! But i like the relationship dynamic that's set up between the leads, so it was sweet and I finished it

"Consent" by Emily A. Owens absolutely a must read in terms of thinking through what the place of consent is in discussions of sex and sexual violence

"Sexual Violation and the Question of Experience" by Linda Martín Alcoff

"On Not Being a Victim: Sex, Rape, and the trouble with following rules" by Mary Gaitskill an essay on date/acquaintance rape, and how we understand being and feeling violated. it takes a little digression into attitudes about PC moral purity in opinions about media. all of it written from a personal anecdotal perspective that I think is written deeply compassionately to one's past self and will be sticking with me. however I don't like how it picks up race as a topic at the beginning and then quickly drops it

"Convicted Rapists' Vocabulary of Motive: Excuses and Justifications" by Diana Scully and Joseph Marolla

"The Right (Way) to Represent: The Emotional Politics of Remembering Mass Rape in Germany After 1945" by Katherine Stone

Always the Almost by Edward Underhill recently released YA romance I read for the queer lit bookclub bc its a gay romance involving a newly out trans boy. I have many complaints but the group chat has already heard them

Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 12 by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler I finished reading this RIGHT before I saw the trailer for the anime. i am overjoyed! excellent art and storytelling as always

Uzumaki by Junji Ito finished reading this right after the new Shelved by Genre episode came out, bc its due back at the library soon! has the sort of dramatic denouement that I was missing in Tomie

"The Unwanted Guest" by Tamsyn Muir borrowed @quiriusblack's copy of Nona the Ninth to finally read this bonus story. i love palamedes he's so insufferable

What Did You Eat Yesterday? Vol. 11 by Fumi Yoshinaga, transalted by Jocelyn Allen cute as always

Started/Ongoing:

You Should be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian set in the same friend group as we could be so good, this one has marginally more plot and I'm liking in better! love the main couple, and I like that they have similar struggles to the first around like living authentically as gay people in the 1950s and 60s and also trying to live safely

The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 11 by Kousuke Oono thought I had already read this but I guess I had not! as always light silly fun

[redgoldsparks]

July Reading and Reviews by Maia Kobabe

I post my reviews throughout the month on Storygraph and Goodreads, and do roundups here and on patreon. Reviews below the cut.

How Far The Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

This collection of 10 essays weaves together memories and experiences of the author's real life with the rich and varied lives of sea creatures, from octopi, Chinese sturgeon, whales, sand strikers and immortal jellyfish to yeti crabs and more. My favorite part was learning about some deep sea creatures I had never heard of before, the kinds of beings that live in oases around thermal vents on the ocean floor and survive by chemo-synthesis. I loved a story about encountering a bloom of clear, gelatinous creatures known as salps flooding the water of Riis Beach, a historically queer hangout spot in New York. This book wrestles with heavy content- one essay deals with eating disorders and parental pressure to diet, another with sexual assault and blackout drinking. It's hard for me to judge the quality of these essays when my life has not been touched by these topics, but I appreciated the author's honesty and the thoughtful maritime metaphors.

Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M Valente read by Karis Campbell

I listened to this 2 hour novella all in one afternoon. It's another spooky little fairy tale from a master of the genre, but if I tell you which one it's a remix of that would spoil the surprise. This wasn't deep or as original as some of Valente's work, but her writing is so vivid with flavors, sensations, smells, colors, I was thoroughly engaged the whole time.

Cry Wolf by Charlie Adhara read by Erik Bloomquist 

Human Cooper Dayton and his werewolf boyfriend Oliver Park are engaged and beginning to plan their wedding, which is stressing Cooper out- not least because his family, who he didn't talk to much for a couple years, are being very supportive and it's weirding him out. Also, the chaotic scientist who threatened to expose the werewolf community and then turned herself in to werewolf government asking for a deal is making vague threats about enemies Cooper doesn't even know about. Then a body is discovered at the DC zoo, a werewolf killed and frozen in a half transformed state- nothing that the werewolves have ever seen before. I am still very entertained by this series as a whole and glad I listened to all of them, but I did want a little more than this book delivered on mysterious enemy front. There was a conspiracy, but it wasn't as far reaching as I was lead to believe by the cliffhanger ending of book 4. However, if you are reading these books more for the spicy scenes and romantic plot line, you won't be disappointed.

Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman 

What an ambitious and satisfying follow up to Seraphina! This book is much longer than the first one, and adds a ton of new elements and so many twists and turns. It opens with Seraphina, court musician of Goredd, setting out on a journey to find and recruit her fellow half-dragons to the war effort. The dragon society is being torn part by civil war, and some of the dragons will be coming to south to attack human settlements soon. Seraphina finds many new friends, but also encounters her oldest enemy- a half dragon who invaded her mind and attempted to control her as a girl. I really loved the way this book expanded the world and the various societies who live in it. It did a wonderful job of maintaining the pace and rising stakes over more than 600 pages; it also has a hinted at queer/poly relationship in the ending that really delighted me. I will definitely be reading more!

Eniale & Dewiela vol 1 by Kamome Shirahama

This series was pitched to me as "Good Omens with lesbians" but sadly I wouldn't say it lives up to that claim. It's by the same author as "Witch Hat Atelier" and it is just a beautifully drawn, but it's missing an emotional core to really hold the plot together. Each chapter is essentially a standalone story about a demon and angel who have been in petty conflict for millennia; the theft of a tube of lipstick or pair of earring will set of a battle that destroys half a city. One fun element is that the leads can both magically change their outfits, as well as grow and shrink their wings, at will; the looks are all so fun.

Eniale & Dewiela vol 2 by Kamome Shirahama

This comic is more visually beautiful than it is actually interesting to read. Eniale and Dewiela fight with each other over the soul of a child with a sick mother, then over a priest who feel in love with a criminal. One chapter is set in Japan and shows a conflict in which Japanese gods and spirits prove more powerful than Christian ones. I don't really have any emotional investment in any character or any story line but I'll probably read the last book in the series anyway.

The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa read by Vico Ortiz 

Mar is transmasc nonbinary, a pirate, and a magic user who can control fire and ice. On their 16th birthday, disaster strikes the ship they live and work on with their father and a crew as close as family-a storm takes the crew, and El Diablo comes for Mar's father's soul. Somehow, Mar is spared and wakes up on a different ship, also crewed by pirates who steal from the Spanish and give food, weapons, and other supplies to those in the Caribbean islands fighting Spanish control. Mar strikes up a somewhat reluctant friendship with a boy their age on the ship, and refuses to the negotiate with a demonio who says they can help Mar free their father's soul. This story has a lot of fun elements, and the audiobook is expertly read by Vico Ortiz. But I didn't love this book as much as I wanted to. I found the first half quite slow, and overall felt like not quite enough happened to justify the length. I loved the nonbinary rep and the Spanish phrases in the dialogue, but wanted faster pacing and quicker reveals, especially of the demonio's motivations.

The Joy Luck Club (abridged) written and read by Amy Tan

I listened to the abridged version of the audiobook, which is read by the author, and only runs for 2.5 hours (the full book is 9 hours). This turns the full length novel into a much more concise novella of interlocking short stories, each one quite poetic and moving. I love reading books set in and around San Francisco, as are the scenes from this book which aren't set in China. The stories focus on four women, friends and mahjong partners, who met after immigrating to the Bay Area, and their daughters. The daughters are mostly in their mid-30s, at various stages of their careers and marriages, and at varying levels of close with their families and Chinese heritage. The mothers recount stories from their childhoods and their flight from war in the 1940s. I know I watched part of the movie adaption once, and maybe also read part of the full length novel in high school, because a few scenes felt so familiar while others sounded unfamiliar and new. I would like to pick up the full novel at some point, but I also really enjoyed hearing the dialogue in the author's own voice.

[food4dogs]

It's Time for More WITCH HAT ATELIER!

Very cute bonus chapter 🤗

From WHA vol. 4

[aceinabook]

Witch Hat Atelier Vol. 11 by Kamome Shirahama

Character 4| Setting 5| Plot 3.5| Art 5| Enjoyability 5

Rating: 4.5

This volume focuses a lot on Coco and Agott, I really appreciated the moments between the girls. And just how important their relationship is to both of them and not just one of them. These girls are just too adorable.

There were some really amazing panels in this volume just looking from it from an art perspective, it was just absolutely beautiful.

I can not wait to see how the events unfold in Vol. 12

[foervraengd]

I know i can just read manga online but im kinda… idk i just can’t enjoy reading manga or comics on any type of screen. I gotta smell the paper you know?

In any case, it is gonna take me forever to finish reading dungeon meshi because i only got the first two volumes, i’ve asked the comic store in uppsala if they could order vol 3 and 4 and they told me it is like, so hard to find printed volumes of that manga atm. They still made an order and will contact me once they got them but man it has been months. And considering that ppl told me the manga gets really good after the second volume, i feel like i might not be able to like finish reading most of that series due to how hard it seems to be to get hands on the volumes.

I’ve read up to vol 9 of witch hat atelier. Still really really love and enjoy the manga, it definitely deserved that Eisner Award. I love that it still hasnt strayed from it’s main premise of “what if drawing was actually magic” and covers the topic of skill vs talent vs expectations in various different perspectives. And tbh this manga has maybe the most amazing and clever use of paneling ever. There are so many things in manga in general that is rarely translated well in its anime format. And i know the amazing paneling in WHA wouldnt even be a thing in the anime.

[cyphyree]

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Open to be yelled at about:

Revolutionary Girl Utena broke me fellas

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure 1-5

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Kill La Kill

Cybersix (animated)

Over the Garden Wall

(More stuff and watchlist after "Keep Reading")

Other stuff I love and caught up on, feel free to yell at me about it -

Promare

Bee and Puppycat

Edgerunners

Arcane

Centaurworld

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Deltarune

Over the Garden Wall

Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro

Studio Ghibli (most of em)

Coraline

The Adventure Zone Balance, Dust, Amnesty

Cartoon Saloon films

Kaiba

Gundam Witch From Mercury

Kageku Shojo Curtain Rises (manga)

To-watch list (and where I'm at):

Princess Tutu

Glass Onion

Cat Soup

The Wind Rises

Del Toro's Pinocchio

Super Mario Movie

Angel's Egg

Glass Labyrinth

Pastoral

Throw Away Your Books

Charlie Chapman stuff

Buster Keaton stuff

Alfred Hitchcock stuff

Aftersun

QSMP, but like, only Jaiden's streams, sporadically

Spiderverse 2 Electric Boogaloo

Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust

Cowboy Bebop (ep 3)

Space Dandy

Trigun (ep 1)

Trigun Stampede

Paranoia Agent

Night is Short Walk on Girl

Mob Psycho 100 (ep 4)

Perfect Blue

Paprika

Neon Genesis Evangelion

The Woman Called Fujiko Mine

Penguindrum

Kino's Journey

To-read list (and where I'm at) :

Witch Hat Atelier

Nausicaa Valley of the Wind, manga

Cybersix, comics?

The Girl From The Other Side

House of Leaves

Revolutionary Girl Utena Manga (vol 5)

Land of the Lustrous

To-play list:

Night in the Woods

Omori

Yuppie Psycho

Sayonara Wild Heart

Used to be cypher6er until I decided I wanted a better username ajajdjdk

[sevicia]

I think I forgor to post about what I actually got at the bookstore on thursday but basically Witch Hat Atelier vol. 3 & Bloom Into You vol. 4 yay

AND. I really really REALLY wish I had more money cause they had Boy Meets Maria LIKE ARE YOU KIDDING.......... I've been putting off reading it cause somehow doing it digitally feels wrong ?! But I do really wanna read it. WAH

[accidentalspaceexplorer]

October Monthly Recap:

Ok listen October was a hell month. Not a good time. And yet, I read 22 books??? For the first half of the month I was reading one book a day?? I do not understand my own coping mechanisms either. I read exactly two 5-star books, A Half-Built Garden and Book Lovers. The former deserves more than 5 stars though!! One of my new favorite books. Seriously, it was really fascinating, thought-provoking, and meaningful. Go read A Half-Built Garden!

Witch Hat Atelier Vol. 4 by Kamome Shirahami: 4.5/5

Witch Hat Atelier Vol. 5 by Kamome Shirahami: 4.5/5

The Missing Page by Cat Sebastian: 4.5/5

Book Lovers by Emily Henry: 5/5

The Dragon’s Bride by Katee Robert: 4.25/5

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton: 3/5

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna: 4.75/5

Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee: 3.75/5

Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites by Joy Demorra: 4.75/5

Conjuring Moonlight by Jasmine Silvera: 2/5, dnf

Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre: 4.5/5

Witch Hat Atelier Vol. 6 by Kamome Shirahami: 4.5/5

Witch Hat Atelier Vol. 7 by Kamome Shirahami: 4.5/5

Ben and Beatriz by Katalina Gamarra: 4.25/5

Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron: 4/5

In the Vanisher’s Palace by Aliette de Bodard: 4/5

The Blacksmith Queen by G. A. Aiken: 1.5/5, dnf

A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys: 8/5, new favorite

Capture the Crown by Jennifer Estep: 3/5

Braking Day by Adam Oyebanji: 4/5

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey: 4/5

A Duke in Disguise by Cat Sebastian: 3.75/5

And my goal progress below the cut:

22 in 2022: 12

Read 100 books: 162

Read 40% AOC: 35.4% (Finally going in the right direction!)

Completing Series: 27 caught up/completed vs. 24 started

Translated Works: 9

Books in Spanish: 0

Numbered TBR: 13

Discworld: 2

Books by an Indigenous Author: 2

Physical TBR: 13

Storygraph Recs: 4

[embossross]

2023 in manga

ranked

completed / caught up manga

pluto – cinematic and i just love the way urasawa draws children

firefly wedding – a hot romp

fire punch – reread the 1st half and then finished and it didn’t hit like it did the first time ☹ but still gotta respect that it’s such a crazy swing in the first place

gangsta – 2/10 do not get the hype

in progress manga

nana (vol 6-11)

yona of the dawn (vol 1-15)

vagabond (vol 1-9)

elusive samurai (vol 4-9)

don’t call it mystery (vol 1-4)

dandadan (vol 2-5)

soul eater (vol 11-12)

akane-banashi (vol 1-2)

kaiju no. 8 (vol 1-8)

the fable (vol 1-9)

honey lemon soda (vol 1-4)

the rose of versailles (vol 1-2)

happiness (vol 1-2)

yakuza fiancé (vol 1-2)

choujin x (vol 1-2)

nina the starry bride (vol 1-2)

mars (vol 1)

witch hat atelier (vol 1-2)

undead unluck (vol 8)

something’s wrong with us (vol 1-2)

snow white with the red hair (vol 7-9) - dropped

blood lad (vol 1-4) – dropped

boruto (vol 14-15) – dropped

necromance (vol 1) – dropped

bobobo-bo bo-bobo – dropped

[chadsuke]

Comics Read in 2023:

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 7 by Koyoharu Gotouge (2017)

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 8 by Koyoharu Gotouge (2017)

So I'm a Spider, So What? Vol. 4 by Asahiro Kakashi & Okina Baba (2018)

I Was Reincarnated, and Now I'm a Maid! Vol. 1 by Natumse Tamayura & Tetete Tanaka (2019)

Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina Vol. 1 by Jougi Shiraishi & Itsuki Nanao (2019)

Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina Vol. 2 by Jougi Shiraishi & Itsuki Nanao (2020)

Witch Hat Atelier Vol. 1 by Kamome Shirahama (2018)

Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts Vol. 4 by Yu Tomofuji (2017)

Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts Vol. 5 by Yu Tomofuji (2017)

[ID: Covers of the aforementioned books. End ID.]