Same with their obsession with "ratios" they're desperate to manufacture consensus so they can "feel like" they're on the popular side. Literal herd animals.
I don't know the details of why the faggots on twitter are gushing over this, or why you idiots care, but I read 60 chapters of this at some point and I guess that means it falls on me at 6 am with no sleep to tell you what I know. Don't say I never did anything for you, cunts.
Witch Hat Atelier is the story of a young girl who admires Witches (capital w) and magic but was not born in to the Witch society. Magic is fairly commonplace and typically takes the form of magic circles drawn with a special ink or some shit that create magic because ????????.
Only Witches know how to draw the circles properly and create the ink, and they act like a special social class beholden to their own secret society as well as society at large. Witches aren't like a special breed of human with super powers or whatever, you just either got to be born or sworn in.
Anyway so the girl was once given a book and a "wand" by a Witch and she happens to see a Witch literally drawing magic. She puts two and two together and goes through her book and finds magic circles and finds her wand was actually a brush. Obviously she starts drawing magic circles and nerding out over the effects. Eventually she draws the wrong one and shit goes down. Everyone in her town gets turned into stone except her because she was saved by a visiting Witch. Whoops.
Turns out some Witches are cunts. They're called Brimhats and they do forbidden magic. They constantly try to fuck with basically everyone for no reason and Witch society hates them because "uhhhhhhh unrestrained magic could be used in war, bro!" or something. I dunno, the whole thing doesn't make a whole lot of sense when you scrutinise it very hard.
Anyway the Witch was going to wipe the main character's memory but instead decides to apprentice her because of his own reasons (wants to find the evil Witches or something) and so she can find a way to save her mum. Oh and the rest of her village. But mainly her mum. So she becomes a Witch.
Then there's a bunch of slice of life chapters basically detailing her learning magic, making friends with her fellow apprentices and whatever. The characters are decently well written and the details of magic are interesting but it's pretty boring overall.
Anyway I hope this dogshit rushed summary has convinced you it's a boring slice of life manga with some interesting world building but nothing particularly egregious. It's fairly popular amongst manga circles in that most people who primarily read manga (as opposed to primarily watching anime) have probably at least heard of it. To put it into perspective about ~40k people follow it on the site where I read manga, as opposed to the ~90k of big titles and maybe like ~150k+ of FOTM titles like TenSura or KiseKoi.
Having said all that, there is one problem with the whole situation that I believe explains everything, but most importantly the content of the tweets.
The author is, and may Imp forgive me for uttering this word, a woman.
Of course, when other anime/manga win awards that doesn't matter when it doesn't fit the message, like Shield Hero, or the various mega ecchi/romcoms that come out yearly.
Also, it won 2 awards. The Eisner Award for Best US Edition of International Works, which to me sounds like a fucking award for localization. And a Harvey Award.
You know what other titles won a Harvey Award in its short lived category? Chainsaw Man for the last three straight years, My Hero Academia before it, and My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness which the category was created to give to. So its a completely meaningless award that only existed to jerkoff that overhyped book.
Th summary of the series also sounds painfully generic. A girl wants to be a wizard, but you need to be born to be a wizard. Then a mysterious mentor shows up and and shows her magic can be done in different ways! Its literally My Hero Academia but in fantasy instead of superheroes from that.
Is this Atelier stuff out-and-out woke garbage or are they just projecting their bullshit à la their usual 'Femboy implies MANGA SAYS TRANS RIGHTS' routine?
Without looking I very much doubt this is in any way related to the Atelier series.
For the non-weebs... In anime circles when one speaks of Atelier, they're generally referring to the LOOOONG running series of games by Gust (now part of Koei Tecmo) that began on the PS1 with Atelier Marie: Alchemist of Salburg, an RPG in the mold of early FF or SO but with a bit more crafting emphasis. Generally speaking, Atelier games are what you'd expect of JRPGs, although the original's premise was fun (the OG Marie being a magic school flunk out alcoholic on academic probation).
Never heard of this series
So that's all a publicity stunt, and the people talking are hired?
Same with their obsession with "ratios" they're desperate to manufacture consensus so they can "feel like" they're on the popular side. Literal herd animals.
I don't know the details of why the faggots on twitter are gushing over this, or why you idiots care, but I read 60 chapters of this at some point and I guess that means it falls on me at 6 am with no sleep to tell you what I know. Don't say I never did anything for you, cunts.
Witch Hat Atelier is the story of a young girl who admires Witches (capital w) and magic but was not born in to the Witch society. Magic is fairly commonplace and typically takes the form of magic circles drawn with a special ink or some shit that create magic because ????????.
Only Witches know how to draw the circles properly and create the ink, and they act like a special social class beholden to their own secret society as well as society at large. Witches aren't like a special breed of human with super powers or whatever, you just either got to be born or sworn in.
Anyway so the girl was once given a book and a "wand" by a Witch and she happens to see a Witch literally drawing magic. She puts two and two together and goes through her book and finds magic circles and finds her wand was actually a brush. Obviously she starts drawing magic circles and nerding out over the effects. Eventually she draws the wrong one and shit goes down. Everyone in her town gets turned into stone except her because she was saved by a visiting Witch. Whoops.
Turns out some Witches are cunts. They're called Brimhats and they do forbidden magic. They constantly try to fuck with basically everyone for no reason and Witch society hates them because "uhhhhhhh unrestrained magic could be used in war, bro!" or something. I dunno, the whole thing doesn't make a whole lot of sense when you scrutinise it very hard.
Anyway the Witch was going to wipe the main character's memory but instead decides to apprentice her because of his own reasons (wants to find the evil Witches or something) and so she can find a way to save her mum. Oh and the rest of her village. But mainly her mum. So she becomes a Witch.
Then there's a bunch of slice of life chapters basically detailing her learning magic, making friends with her fellow apprentices and whatever. The characters are decently well written and the details of magic are interesting but it's pretty boring overall.
Anyway I hope this dogshit rushed summary has convinced you it's a boring slice of life manga with some interesting world building but nothing particularly egregious. It's fairly popular amongst manga circles in that most people who primarily read manga (as opposed to primarily watching anime) have probably at least heard of it. To put it into perspective about ~40k people follow it on the site where I read manga, as opposed to the ~90k of big titles and maybe like ~150k+ of FOTM titles like TenSura or KiseKoi.
Having said all that, there is one problem with the whole situation that I believe explains everything, but most importantly the content of the tweets.
The author is, and may Imp forgive me for uttering this word, a woman.
tl;dr author is a wahmen, news at eleven
Man I'm so sick of japanese slice of life stuff.
Of course, when other anime/manga win awards that doesn't matter when it doesn't fit the message, like Shield Hero, or the various mega ecchi/romcoms that come out yearly.
Also, it won 2 awards. The Eisner Award for Best US Edition of International Works, which to me sounds like a fucking award for localization. And a Harvey Award.
You know what other titles won a Harvey Award in its short lived category? Chainsaw Man for the last three straight years, My Hero Academia before it, and My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness which the category was created to give to. So its a completely meaningless award that only existed to jerkoff that overhyped book.
Th summary of the series also sounds painfully generic. A girl wants to be a wizard, but you need to be born to be a wizard. Then a mysterious mentor shows up and and shows her magic can be done in different ways! Its literally My Hero Academia but in fantasy instead of superheroes from that.
Can someone provide a summary?
Is this Atelier stuff out-and-out woke garbage or are they just projecting their bullshit à la their usual 'Femboy implies MANGA SAYS TRANS RIGHTS' routine?
Without looking I very much doubt this is in any way related to the Atelier series.
For the non-weebs... In anime circles when one speaks of Atelier, they're generally referring to the LOOOONG running series of games by Gust (now part of Koei Tecmo) that began on the PS1 with Atelier Marie: Alchemist of Salburg, an RPG in the mold of early FF or SO but with a bit more crafting emphasis. Generally speaking, Atelier games are what you'd expect of JRPGs, although the original's premise was fun (the OG Marie being a magic school flunk out alcoholic on academic probation).
Looks like it's being used in its modern context where it refers specifically to fashion designers. Thus the hats.
Regardless, it's the pronouns in bio and race shit, not her work, they're talking about.
Anyone who thinks Japan is "based" needs a harsh dose of reality. https://landofthesettingsun.com
its literally a fact that Japan has been infected by the West though..... https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17rT26YBDK/the-american-government-website-/c/