#olruggio the world…

[nono-uwu]

Hello i just caught up with witch hat atelier and i love it so much especially this stupid bug

[schneckenfilk]

You're in for a bitter treat!! Have fun 😇😇

[yomudkipo]

Orufrey Week Day 1: Modern AU 🧡

The most important aspect of this modern AU is that they have a Polaroid camera

Full image without the Polaroid effects teehee

[splitshard]

my dog and his cat

[pentragonart]

That really cool lion-goat beast that was lounging with Olruggio on this official drawing?

Yeah, time to give it some attention!

[im-all-out-of-ideas]

finally caught up to witch hat atelier

it remains in its peakness

[meringuejellyfish]

leaving ponytown on while doing other stuff is awesome. olruggio appear

[lokh]

i want qifrey to suffer <- actually likes him as a character

[proselles]

the start of witch hat atelier before u realize how fucked the whole thing is is funny because you'll be reading and coco and agathe and tetia and riche are so cute and the world is so beautiful with so much lore and symbolism and they'll be going on adventures and learning and making new spells and having fun and making magic and smiling and playing pretend and all. They deal with some big issues, but ultimately, friendship prevails, they cook they clean olruggio's there yes there's a big conspiracy but coco's gonna figure it out! everything's gonna be okay!!!

And then you glance out of the corner of your eye. And qifrey is over there and he's like. Having a manic episode

[fractal--cat]

let's start to take beldaruit seriously!

wha fandom pls share this post, my blog is finally not shadowbanned and i really want more people to see this. thank you

(also no beta read but who cares. feel free to correct me)

this is a beldaruit analysis written after ch.81. spoilers: he's absolutely not just a silly old man on a chair, but actually one of the most well-written characters in wha i think

1. IS HE ACTUALLY THAT OLD?

yeah im really meticulous, but i want to start from this and want you to read it. being old is not bad at all, but i think y'all guys exaggerate beldaruit's actual age.

please just go search some pics of real people in their sixties, seventies. go compare his face with other actually old char's faces. he's not that old :)

beldaruit's smoke figures of himself look younger than his real body, that's true. but here's the comparison of his true appearance to others' who are really about 60-70 i guess

+ beldaruit's lifestyle is not healthy at all. his physical state is bad, he has not many ways to do physical activities, he spends most of his time being in his room. all the more so, he smokes. knowing this, i think he looks even older than he actually is and he's mostly like 45-48.

to be short, he's mostly like your dad, not your grandpa :DD

2. IS HE ACTUALLY THAT SILLY?

yeah he's the silliest. but it's a bit more complicated.

observing, i've came to the conclusion that beldaruit acts silly, too energetic and entertaining only with kids or with ones he remembers since they were kids (e.g. qifrey, olruggio)

there's a simple obvious reason for it, beldaruit says it himself:

yes, he genuinely loves magic and to teach magic. his emotions are true, but a bit overplayed to affect on younger witches and to make them as in love with magic as he is.

one more remark. beldaruit's behavior with riliphin is not as with most kids. i think it's because beldaruit creates a unique approach to each of little witches. beldaruit is able to control and tune his emotional bombing depending on the situation. he is also able to feel well what's going on in others's hearts and minds and he builds his own behavior based on this.

the silver eve arc lets us know more obviously that beldaruit can be serious, responsible, communicating calmly and constructively when it's required. he obviously can modulate his overplaying and emotions when he must do so, there's no problem for him! he is also abnormally loyal to witches' world laws and values, literally more loyal than the most of witches (but we'll talk about it a bit later)

beldaruit is broad-minded, he often manages his own personality qualities to match others', he can entertain others while at the same time taking a huge responsibility (he's the one of three sages after all)

3. IS HIS DISABILITY ADDED JUST FOR REPRESENTATION?

thoughts below are just my hypotheses and personal opinion, keep it in mind

beldaruit's disability is a really important part of him that affects the plot and i think it can help us to understand his outlook and values better.

these engendale's words is kind of synopsis of my take on it:

on the one hand ofc that's not true that beldaruit sees himself better and more important than others! but on the other hand these words are not just a misconception and i'll prove it

as i said, beldaruit is like abnormally and even compulsively loyal to witches' world laws and values. he is also strictly against the forbidden magic. yes he is kind of flexible in this question, but still strictly against the direct violation of the law. that's because he thinks that lack of devotion to the law and to the image of an ideal good witch is a sign of weakness and egoism.

but why does he connect these dots? i think that he cultivates his own fortitude in not using forbidden magic for healing himself, not getting magic and medicine together. beldaruit is the wise in teachings, "stands at the pinnacle of society", maybe the person who knows about magic more than anyone else, at least he's a really thoughtful and smart person. so he'd easily find a way to heal himself using magic with minimal losses of reputation and quality of his life. but he rigorously rejects this idea.

the fact of following this strict inner moral code is a kind of ego supply for beldaruit. despite of his own thoughts about altruism and global equality - how ironic - this is kind of self-affirmation for him, through overcoming himself and a bit demonstrative self sacrifice to the law and greater values.

⬆️ and that's why beldaruit is so aggressive with deanreldy, who wants to mix medicine with magic and talks too light-headedly about it. yes, beldaruit remembers the day of pact and that's really a strong reason already to act so, but i think there are more personal reasons too

⬆️ even more obvious reference on beldaruit's health state in his own thoughts on forbidden magic (it was out of topic, him and coco weren't talking especially about healing)

⬆️ there (and not only there.. like.. in general) is a hint on parallel/contrast between beldaruit and qifrey. qifrey is ready to consider the option of using forbidden magic to bring his eye back. beldaruit sees it as simply giving in to temptation. that's the thing that makes them different

in ch.81 beldaruit shows almost protruding humility and resignation to the fact that his hand is broken. and he has the same mindset about his disability in general. and that's not because he doesn't care about it. his behavior patterns are similar to self harm, that toxically much he is affected by ideas of altruism, self disregarding and not showing signs of weakness.

and he is attach so much to his own image of being disabled. not in a pitiful way, but in a way that makes him motivated to show and push his mental strength to others. i think beldaruit is kind of floating between self-devaluation (that makes him show that much humility) and self-exaltation above others who are "egoistic and weak" and break the law and/or use forbidden magic (of what engendale was saying about)

WHAT'S THE CONCLUSION?

beldaruit is so amazing ahahdhahagha😭

he is so complex and so versatile and so underrated. his personality has so many forms and shapes, you can find both wonderful and displeasing parts there and that's literally a sign of a well-written character. his lore is very subtle and implicit, but so interesting for trying to understand.

beldaruit needs a patpat .

[failedmyturingtest]

Kamome Shirahama Leipziger Buchmesse Interview and Live Drawing Session Summary

After being slated to attend in 2020 (and then not being able to for obvious reasons) Kamome Shirahama has finally come to the Leipziger Buchmesse as a guest of honour!

She did a number of signing sessions as well as a live-drawing/interview last weekend that I was lucky enough to attend :) here’s the promised protocol/summary from the notes I took!

Keep in mind that this is all translated from German and that the order of the last couple of questions may have gotten switched because I couldn’t take anymore notes. Sorry! Her drawing process is the same as for all her previous shikishi, so I’ll omit it here and only mention it if explicit questions were asked about it. (brackets include my own observations)

Interview under the cut!

29.03.2025 14:00

The crew of Egmont Manga, Witch Hat’s german publisher sets up the stage, a Brushbug is brought out and placed on the table! The crowd cheers. Little party hats printed with the apprentice's hat design were handed out and roughly 70% of the crowd is wearing them. Some of the cosplayers in attendance stacked them on top of the witch hat's they're already wearing.

Shirahama-Sensei arrives with a second Brushbug. She’s wearing her usual Iguin hat! She says the hat makes it difficult to see. It was made for her by a friend and she loves wearing it. Upon being asked if she also wears it at home she laughs and says that no, it would break the magic.

Why education as a theme? Does she have a background in Pedagogy? No, but she liked the idea of small atelier groups where teachers can cater individually to their students’ needs.

What was her Inspiration? She has a lot of Mangaka friends whom she exchanges ideas and shares issues with. Many of her ideas come from these exchanges. Many of them, like Olruggio have issues with deadlines (the crowd laughs)

Does she have issues with deadlines? Sometimes it feels like the deadlines are rivals to be battled!

Biggest inspiration for her art? Her travels! For example to Germany. This is her second time here. The first time she was in Germany to attend the Kaltenberger Ritterturnier (world’s largest renfaire) during 2018, which was around the beginning of WHA! She gave the photos she took there to the anime team for inspiration and reference of what she wanted certain things to look like. (I’ve attached a trailer of the 2018 event to the bottom of this post)

Can she reveal anything about the anime? (She makes a “shush” motion and shakes her head. The crowd goes “aww”.) She can’t reveal anything about the anime but she can say that she cried while watching the first impressions.

The spells are so complex! Do they ever give her difficulty? She has to check previous volumes for reference. Sometimes she feels exactly like coco learning sigils for the first time.

What Marker is she using? Marker of the Japanese Brand Mar—(I couldn’t hear this part properly, It’s the same thick, black marker she always uses!) “It can do everything! ;)”

Upon being asked if her ink is magical As long as you don’t draw sigils, nothing happens- so who knows, maybe it is ;) (of course you couldn't see her wink, but it was very heavily implied, haha)

Favourite character to draw and write? Brushbug!!! (She picks up Brushbug to shake him around under the camera) Coco and qifrey take longer, and she loves drawing them, but she thinks she can draw Brushbug blind at this point.

What does she do in her spare time? She reads books, manga, and watches anime and movies! If not that then she’s spending time with her Dogs! If they want her attention the older will subtly drape his toys around her and the younger will nudge her drawing arm.

Favourite outfits she’s designed? she likes all the Long cloaks

What are her dogs called? (Sneeze) porter and Bellman! (“Not Gesundheit”)

Her favourite thing to draw? The details! Sometimes they’re easier to draw once she’s had a beer so she’ll save them for when she’s had some alcohol. When she’s done with most of the drawing and it’s time for the details she gets really happy that it’s almost complete and might even start singing and dancing (she demonstrates a cute little shimmy after being asked if it isn’t difficult to draw while dancing)

Does she hoard stationery? She loves buying stationery on vacation and has a lot of it. She really appreciates German cosmetics and stationery so she already had a connection to Germany. (The MC (employee of witch hat’s German publisher) says that they went to a stationery store with her earlier and she already bought a bunch of faber Castel and Steadtler supplies)

How long does it take her to finish a chapter? 7-10 days for the drawing (this one rightfully gets a lot of “whoas” from the crowd). Plotting takes the most time.

Does she ever forget the details of her own character designs? Yes, sometimes she makes mistakes (Olruggio cosplayers will know the Tassel Dilemma lol)

Does she have everything planned out already? She knows how the story will end, but getting there sometimes feels like a video game where you have to make a choice between path A and B. The ending is fixed, but the path there might diverge a little.

Describe Qifrey and Olruggio's relationship in one word? Impossible. It’s very difficult because they’re best friends, but Qifrey also has these secrets. So something might happen between them later on (ominous) (Upon the MC saying that it sounds like it would take many volumes to explore this) Yes it would take many more volumes to explore their relationship

What inspired her to depict so many disabled characters? She doesn’t set out specifically to write a character that has x disability or "diverse trait" (the translator struggled a bit here). She thinks that diversity should be part of every day life and considered normal, so she weaves characters that happen to be and disabled into her story so that this may one day be the case. (This got a lot of applause and cheering :))

How does she decide what to draw for Shikishi? She gets a lot of chances to draw shikishi, so she has a bunch of ideas ready to go that she can choose from on a whim. She says she decided to draw two characters today because so many German fans showed up.

Favourite manga? She has a lot of manga she loves. Currently, she is really enjoying Medalist.

And that was the End of the Interview! Shirahama-Sensei drew Coco and Qifrey with Brushbug with an elaborate frame. I haven't been able to find a photo of the finished piece, but if I do, I'll reblog it with this post!

The official trailer for the 2018 Kaltenberger Ritterturnier:

[oioopo]

AU where Jason actually dies from the batarang to the neck and is isekaid in some fantasy world.

It can be anything: universe with the same people that he knows but fantasy, a book he read, or even better — manga/anime.

Shove his ass into Dungeon Meshi or Witch Hat Atelier!!

What will he do? The possibilities are endless. An assassin? He certainly possesses enough skills and more to make it far. ALSO!! The All-Blades. Does it make him some sort of a magician?? I mean, he probably learnt more than just blades. Will he go on an adventure? Will it be solo or will he meet companions?

He can meet any of your favourite characters this way lmao. (I didn't actually read Dungeon Meshi but from what I've seen I have a feeling he would like Laios or Senshi. AND HE WOULD LOVE THE GIRLS FROM WHA OMG, give him to Olruggio for shits and giggles (he will cry at some point)).

Will he try to get into some academy, because here he doesn't have to worry about someone discovering his identity, since no one even knows who he is? Maybe he will get picked up by some old guy who sees potential in him (and oh, wouldn't that hit him hard).

Or actually maybe his ass will just find an inn and work there for a living, cooking mysterious dishes and writing books (he will still occasionally go out on missions from the board in the eating area tho, that's not something he can stop easily).

But most importantly, would he try to go back? Will going back be worth it? For a father, who killed him (no matter if he meant it). For the world, that turned him into a cautionary tale. For the city, where his murderer does what he pleases. To the place, that is his by all rights, where he's just so. isolated.

[badass-queer-couples-battle]

Propaganda:

For Orufrey: "They're tragic wlw who have devoted their lives to each other since they were kids. They live together, they cook together, they're raising four girls together and they're doing the best they can. Olruggio would do anything for Qifrey if Qifrey would just Let Him 😭 but Qifrey is dead-set on protecting Olruggio and keeping him safe and in the dark no matter what it costs... i cant 😭..."

"Man I don't know they just have the vibes. They have toxic yuri energy but they are two grown men. They've known each other since their apprentice days and have stuck together ever since. Qifrey's main magic type was something he took up because Olruggio proposed that he learned to control the water he feared. They live together away from most of society with Qifrey's four apprentices, living the sapphic cottagecore (ateliercore???) dream. Qifrey, due to the fact that his eyesight is very much failing, something which is very problematic when it comes to witches, who need their eyesight more than most, is getting very desperate to get all he lost to the Brimhats, the witches who took one of his eyes and his memories, and Olruggio ends up noticing this pursuit and is implied to have done this more than once. Qifrey does not want Olruggio to know about both his failing eyesight and his goals, so he ends up completely wiping Olruggio's memory of those things, and laments that Olruggio is a kind person, and one who would most likely forgive him again, but also one who would try to save him, even when he didn't want to be saved. He also apologized right up until the moment Olruggio's memories of his secret were gone. In general I think chapter 40 is the somewhat toxic guy yuri chapter ever. I'm very tired so I do not know how to explain any of this, I just thought "wow Orufrey reminds me of this one poll I saw on Tumblr" and then spent three days straight hunting for your blog before completely forgetting my reasoning for Orufrey being yuri right before I submitted this."

For Joongdok: "Well first of all Yoo Joonghyuk has a whole arc that is transfem coded as hell (has a power/technique that can technically only be used by women but somehow he can also use it, for a time he even turns into a woman to wield it and it's. Actually just let me get the quote "The ines of the face had changed but it was clearly Yoo Joonghyuk. No, it was even more than before.") that just kinda happens,, and doesn't get brought up again but anyway. Second of all just look at them. You see the vision. Also a bonus observation is that these two often get shipped in a poly ship with Han Sooyoung and whenever I see people make a "regular couple, yaoi couple, yuri couple, I see no difference love is love" meme with them the combination of which pair among these three is which of the categories is always different"

Note: This submission also mentions Han Sooyoung, but I decided to count this polyship submission as guy yuri as well.

"They love each other, they pretend they don't care for each other but all their actions prove they care too much, if you remove someone from the trio then the resulting duo is extremely dysfunctional, as evidenced by more than a million words of canon. Is it technically guy yuri? Well, Han Sooyoung is a woman, but in a way she's one of the guys. Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk are men, but the text heavily hints that Yoo Joonghyuk is a trans woman who's just too busy and stressed out to transition yet, and Kim Dokja has just never thought about his own gender a single day in his life. They made the world for each other, they went back in time countless times and waged countless wars for each other, they wrote and read and lived a story, their story, for each other and that's what saved them all. The way Han Sooyoung writes Yoo Joonghyuk's story to save Kim Dokja and loses herself in the process, the way Yoo Joonghyuk voluntarily lives the story to the point of losing himself too and even forgetting why he originally decided to do it, the way Kim Dokja read Han Sooyoung's story which was Yoo Joonghyuk's life and that's how he found himself, they all took so much from each other and gave so much of themselves to each other, this is all very yuri."

"they're so yuri you have no idea. they have every staple of a yuri ship. unwavering devotion. waiting dozens or thousands of years for each other. dooming themselves and the world for each other. so much yearning. i also see them genderbent a lot (including inn canon in the case of yjh) and they're right both of these people are women. i genuinely can't even see them strictly as men at this point they're just yjh and kdj and they are yuri do you understand."

"they're so yuri. the abscense of yuri is the presence of yuri etc etc. these two guys are all ABOUT abscenses. also one of them is a part time woman. the other guy is a guy but like in the same way a square is a rectangle. anyway they're so guyyuri to me. bonus points also because they have a mutual girlfriend and when she's present they're girlyaoi but that's not relevant to this specifically"

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 4, Wave 2, Poll 8

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave and round here.

Qifrey-Witch Hat Atelier

Qualifications:

Witch Hat Atelier has many cool characters who are physically disabled or neurodivergent, but I feel like Qifrey fits the prompt the best. Qifrey is blind in one eye and progressively losing vision in his other eye. He is not explicitly gay in the manga, but I would say most readers view him as being in a marriage-like relationship with Olruggio (they are close friends, live together, take care of kids together, and each wears a tassel from the other one’s witch hat wherever they go).

Propaganda:

He’s a gay foster dad who is blind in one eye and progressively losing vision in the other, from a series that does a lot of cool stuff with disability and how disabled and neirodivergent characters would live in a world with magic.

Hua Cheng-Heaven Official’s Blessing / Tian Guan Ci Fu

Qualifications:

Hua Cheng is the main love interest in Heaven Official's Blessing, a ghost who has been in love with the hero Xie Lian for over 800 years. As if being dead isn't enough, he once clawed out his own eye in order to save a group of humans from marauding ghosts shortly before his ascension to Ghost King.

Propaganda:

Sexy pirate ghost king swag. Gay for His Highness.

Note from the mods: gay for his highness feels like a bit of an understatement lol.

[jackiemoonshine]

*~I am a multishipping merchant and rarepairs are my merchandise~*

Listen, we all love Olrufrey right? And it's definitely got the most canon support behind it. But sometimes you just want something with a a different flavor and Utowin/Olruggio has SO much potential!

Shared childhood

Opposites attract (witch wunderkind & the one who can't draw)

Unrequited pining (Utowin watching Olruggio, Olruggio not knowing he exists)

Enemies/rivals to lovers??? (Member of the Knights Moralis vs Qifrey & gang)

Imagine being Olruggio and starting to fall for this cute enforcer who says he knows you, who then rescues you in the nick of time from the leech by throwing you over his shoulders and chucking you to safety but then you're stuck in the middle, torn between genuinely wanting to follow the rules & do the right thing while also protecting your childhood friend and the students...not to mention the whole world order falling into chaos 😁 I'd eat that fic UP

Also Utowin wanting to comfort him??? And realizing he could never??? But then getting to RESCUE him??? PLEASE

Ok not Utowin sneaking and following Olruggio around 🤭 and recognizing that Olruggio would never have spared him a second glance??? 🥺 PLEASE

The angst!! The heartbreak!

And these two pages!! The look on Utowin's face at the bottom right. Kill me now.

[starsofcassiopeia]

"It's important that you let the beauty of the expanding world burn into your eyes."

Kicking off Qifrey Week with "Magic!" Olruggio = @hynoxolus Qifrey = Me Photo = @ fxdandy (IG/Twt)