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wha-archive · 2 days

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Chapter 78 is now available in Japanese! This chapter comes with the publishing of this very sweet illustration of young Agott. An official colouring of her old robes! She has such a different attitude to the Agott we know today - how curious!

Following a hiatus, Chapter 52 of Kitchen of Witch Hat has also been published! I've not seen any indication that it'll return to monthly publishing, but any updates from Sato are good to see. Hopefully she takes her recovery at her own pace!

[ID: A coloured illustration of a younger Agott, still with long hair and her old robes. The robes have a pink and white colour scheme, with a fucshia outer robe and dusty pink robe over a long white dress. She appears sheepish or bashful with a small smile on her face, wide eyes, her fingers knitting together and her feet shifting. The background is a red board with a gold frame upon which are numerous pages of magic runes. They are not complete glyphs - they instead appear to be the magic used to represent animals in sculpture magic. END ID]

#witch hat atelier #tbna #wha agott #agott arkrome #tbna archive #archive update #described #the id for today is a little different than usual - let me know if this is a good style

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supikaa · 7 months

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singularity

#witch hat atelier #agott arkrome #coco wha #witch hat tetia #richeh #spica art #finished this set !!!

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gachahugs · 1 month

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library, I'll dream of it

#witch hat atelier #agott arkrome #did this for whalandscape zine

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alicenpai · 10 months

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my piece for the Hemisphere: a Witch Hat Atelier seasons themed zine! thank you for having me! they're having a leftovers sale until stock runs out 🖋🍀🌷🍁❄🌧 WIPs + inspiration board + symbolism under the cut! got some requests to put this on my inprnt! the site has sales very often & you can grab it as a small or big size print.

I had a pretty good idea of the composition from the get-go. I took inspiration from art nouveau (primarily Alphonse Mucha), German fairy tales, and some 1920s perfume ads. I wanted the girls to look like fairies, akin to The Root Children by Sibylle von Olfers.

Olly just didn't work out in this drawing due to time restraints. I do love him very much though.

I actually kinda stopped making illustrations like these (including the TGAA/DGS tarot card + TGAA/DGS zine pieces a while back) because they were starting to get very hard on my arm, as I had an RSI (repetitive strain injury) a few years back during school. (Not putting the onus on the zines at all ofc! I genuinely love working with zine projects! it's def a me thing WAHAHAHA. my style was getting too anime and too detailed for my liking and everything was just taking forever to finish ngl. but I didn't have time to experiment with a more simple style outside of all of my deadlines)

I think that realizing you need to stop is okay. It's something that Shirahama teaches us in her story and I want to learn to take it to heart.

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MILD SPOILERS AHEAD (for those who havent read the story I guess)

each character's symbolism:

- Coco - spring, clovers - Coco is the quintessential spring girl, and I wanted her to symbolize new beginnings, and oh boy did Coco bring a big one. The four leaf clover in particular symbolizes luck and good fortune - to some characters, Coco may have brought fortune, to others her presence brings misfortune, take that as you will.

- Tetia - summer, gladiolus - the name "gladiolus" comes from the Latin word "gladius", meaning "sword", based on the shape of the flower. you can interpret it as "you pierce my heart", perfect for a girl like Tetia, who has a contagious energy, with a romantic and grandiose nature.

- Agott - autumn, marigold - I read somewhere marigolds symbolize strength and power, perfect for our little magical powerhouse Agott. They can also symbolize jealousy (yellow flowers in particular have this association), which reflects on her rivalry with Coco in the beginning.

- Riche - winter, snowdrop - The white color of snowdrops has a strong connotation to innocence, which reflects on Riche's wish to stay a child forever. It can also symbolize rebirth and new beginnings (like Coco's clovers), as the snowdrop is the first flower to bloom in the spring, when the snow has not yet melted. I wanted the concept of "rebirth" to associate with Riche's friendship with Euini, and of his sort of "rebirth" into a new being.

- Qifrey - he does not have a flower per se, but as the caregiver and educator of the four girls, he represents the rainy season - precipitation being the one thing that binds all of these seasons together. (Note some areas of the world do not have a rainy season like where I live). I think somewhere along the line I wanted to put hydrangeas behind him, to really bring out the "rainy" theme, but the thought probably got lost somewhere in translation...

- bg flowers - honestly I just picked whatever. white lily, daffodil, hydrangea, zinnia, tulip