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Comics Comints: Witch Hat Atelier

Welcome back to Comics Comints, the series where I comint on comics.

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Tonight, it’s time we did a manga! If you recall that post about paneling and time from a couple of weeks ago, you know it’s one I liked rather a lot...

Witch Hat Atelier (とんがり帽子のアトリエ Tongari Bōshi no Atorie)

(writing and art: Kamome Shirahama (白浜鴎), trans. Rasmus-kun, #dropout and Project Vinland scanlation groups. I’m going to be using the name romanisations decided on by #dropout since they’re generally a lot better than the official ones lmao)

Ahh, Witch Hat Atelier. A truly wonderful comic, such that it’s tough to know where to begin.

Sometimes I compare it to getting my hands on a whole new Berserk, because Shirahama’s drawings have that same sense of being exquisite: gorgeously flowing cloth and hair and perfectly placed hatching, overwhelming confidence and attention to detail, an old-school romantic fantasy world you could really fall into. (Also I think she draws faces kinda like Miura does.)

Witch Hat Atelier begins with a girl called Coco living in a fantasy world in which the population is divided into humans and witches. Not unlike a certain Akko, she idealises magic. But she ends up performing magic by accident, unleashing a spell that turns her mother to stone. After this, the kindly Professor Quifrey, who definitely harbours no ulterior motive, breaks the taboo and lets her into the secret: anyone could do magic with the right tools (a pen and special ink), and the witches are maintaining an elaborate masquerade for the sake of containing terrible magical superweapons.

Or at least, the dominant Pointed Hat Witches are. Their enemies, a conspiracy known as the Brimhats, want to break these artificial shackles... and for reasons we don’t yet know, they see this novice witch Coco as their key.

Anyway, the thing that got me to read Witch Hat Atelier was this video...

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...by manga youtuber Lines in Motion, which analyses Shirahama’s inventive panelling. It’s really nicely edited and a great primer on the principles of comic composition.

Anyway, per that video, Shirahama took inspiration from not just other manga, but old school European illustration like John Tenniel and Arthur Rackham - and good old Moebius of course. Unfortunately, this video doesn’t provide its sources, and I struggle to find some kind of interview where I can get the artist’s own words. Still, looking at her style, she’s not shy about gesturing to Art Nouveau, or the general tradition of European etching.

And when Shirahama uses colour - sadly only occasionally, though I can understand why! - she deploys beautiful watercolours that call to mind the same tradition (and perhaps certain recent manga like The Girl From The Other Side).

So, before we dive into talking about the comic itself, let me see what I can dig up about Kamome Shirahama herself and her inspirations. She studied art in Japan, at Tokyo University of the Arts, and starting publishing comics in the seinen magazine Fellows! in 2011; this led to a bizarre lucky break when her art was noticed at Comic-Con by someone at Marvel, which gave her a foothold into the Western comics industry, starting with this character Doctor Strange in 2015 (source):

Even seven years ago, you can see Shirahama could really fucking draw. This apparently continued with various other covers for DC and Marvel; meanwhile, having finished her two-year project Eniale & Dewiela (エニデヴィ, Enidevi) about an angel and devil brought together by a mutual enthusiasm for fashion, she embarked on Witch Hat Atelier in 2016 which continues to the present, with 64 issues available at the time of writing.

All this results in perhaps a perfectly optimised Art Build: both her parents are artists, she went to art school, she’s got a familiarity with both Japanese and Western illustration styles to fuel her. And that’s also perfect material for Witch Hat Atelier, which is about - among many other things - the struggles of learning art.

That word Atelier is interesting to me. In Japanese, it seems like アトリエ atorie is not an entirely uncommon word for an artist’s workshop even in the present. In English, its scope is generally much narrower: it refers to a particular tradition of art schools that began in the middle ages and lasted roughly until photography, whose primary function was to teach students how to draw in perspective using a variety of mechanical means like wire grids or sight-size techniques.

(a painting by Jefferson Chalfant of an atelier from the late 1800s - source Wikimedia Commons. I’m vaguely amused by the thought of this guy Chalfant showing up to the atelier and flexing on the students by painting not just the model but also all the other students, the room behind them, and thumbnails of all their paintings.)

Nowadays you’re most likely to hear the word ‘atelier’ in the context of the Atelier series of games, in which you play as a young witch and your atelier is essentially an alchemist’s workshop where you brew potions. I don’t have enough data to say how far the association between ateliers and magic goes - I’ve seen at least one more instance (Maria Umineko uses the word) - but in any case...

‘Magic systems’ in fantasy fiction are tricky things. Without some care, they can just be colour that carries very little thematic weight. Fortunately this is very much not true of Witch Hat Atelier. The basic premise of its system is that magic is created by drawing precise circles with certain symbolic elements whose size relationships combine to specify the magic effect. It’s explained in some detail, although there’s enough vague that Shirahama can have some real fun with the imagery.

The important part, though, is that while it’s not exactly the same as representative illustration, it’s close enough to it to be analogous. In Quifrey’s atelier, Coco meets a group of young students who each have their own styles of magic. Riché, for example, was treated cruelly by an arrogant teacher who insisted on orthodoxy, and now stubbornly insists on practicing only her own specific magical techniques; an important turning point sees her learn how to lean on other people without sacrificing her personal style. Coco has some skills she can lean on as a tailor’s daughter, but still has to drill fundamentals like learning to draw in a single smooth confident stroke.

It’s not quite as ‘trials of an artist’ as something like Blue Period (no spoilers, I’ve only read a bit of that), but it is a deeply compelling element of the mix...

However, magic is only somewhat like illustration. It’s also useful. And this leads to a fascinating subtheme around disability. One of the rules the Pointed Hat witches operate under is that they can’t use magic on the human body. So when a boy Coustas’s legs are injured by haywire magic, witches can give him an adorable deer legs wheelchair...

...but he faces many of the same obstacles as a real wheelchair user in a world not built for access. Coco and her friend Tartar try to figure out a method to help him without breaking the rules, eventually coming on the solution of creating a flying cloak as a new accessibility device, seemingly to everyone’s satisfaction... but then (spoilers) Coustas runs into a Brimhat who’s like “actually we have no compunctions doing a transhumanism on you” and give him legs back (if weirder), turning him against the MCs. But that same power is one we just recently saw used to forcibly transform people against their will. It’s an interesting mirror of the common ‘disability in sci-fi’ question; Coustas’s struggle is not merely that he is disabled, but that the world does not accomodate him and this completely strips him of independence, despite very little ill will from anyone.

And to her credit, Shirahama doesn’t seem to be trying to be going for a didactic angle on this (Coustas should or shoudn’t want...), but treats it as a worthwhile and interesting conflict, and I’m genuinely excited to see how it will resolve. Nor is Coustas the only user of a ‘sealchair’ - one of the main leaders of the witches uses one due to some kind of unspecified fatigue condition, even transforming it in battle, something which largely passes without comment since that’s not really the main focus of the character.

Anyway, despite their separate social system, the witches in Witch Hat Atelier have to make a living, which they do primarily by selling magic items to the non-magical population - subject to various safety regulations which are pretty strict and have a curious attitude towards deception in keeping with the Pointed Hat witches’ MO (don’t make a heatless flame or children might get the wrong idea!). So despite the wonder conveyed so effectively in Shirahama’s vistas of floating islands and twisting paths and underwater cities, it’s a magic that’s very grounded, shaped by the needs of a feudal society. She’s incredibly good at tying in these kinds of ~worldbuilding~ tidbit to the evolving character arcs, so the setting as a whole feels warm and lived-in but also shot through with genuine intractable tensions.

(I tend to show the more elaborate compositions with borders and splash panels, but even the more standard rectangular-panel pages have a real elegance to them)

One of these tensions is that between adults and children. There are many terrible teachers in the pages of Witch Hat Atelier - ones who berate their charges and shatter their self-confidence, or even in one chapter we witness a teacher who will not defend her student who is sexually assaulted by a nobleman and fights back (the only time the subject is brought up in the comic, and handled with care). Even for Quifrey, the picture of a benevolent instructor or good dad lmao, we have the lurking question of whether he intends to use Coco as an opportunity to pursue revenge against the Brimhats.

The children are surrounded by a world that doesn’t seem to work the way it should, rules that don’t seem to make sense but they have to follow, in a way that feels very genuine. And they have reason to fear: the standard punishment of the Pointed Hat witches is to wipe someone’s entire memories of magic and start them in a new life as a civilian. The fear of an extreme, draconian punishment leads the kids to end up keeping their own secrets.

But the adults are far from all bad. If, perhaps, the good relationships are a tragedy waiting to happen...

Then there are the witches and the secular authorities - monarchs of various kingdoms who are itching to get their hands on the secrets of magic. As the cast expands - and believe me it expands a lot - we start getting more and more points of view, and Shirahama is very deft at sketching a character’s motivation and vibe in just a few pages.

When it comes to comics about students at a school for magic, inevitably comparisons will be drawn to the elephant in the room, A Wizard of Earths- what’s that? - oh, yeah, that one.

So, yeah, according to Wikipedia, Shirahama took inspiration from both Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. Frankly I think she writes wrings around both of them, but then she’s writing a much more modern style of fantasy for an audience literate in the genre, with modern concerns, so perhaps it’s not a surprise I’d like it more than Tolkien. (Rowling is a thoroughly mean-spirited fascist who represents the worst of this country, and if I were to go through the comparison, it would just be a list of things that I think Shirahama does a whole lot better, so I won’t do that.)

What is a little interesting is seeing how, after Potter’s international proliferation, some of the imagery of the robe and wizard hat and school for magic starts to grow into a standard setting in Japanese fiction. Obviously Trigger’s Little Witch Academia is the big one - and I’m fond of it, but it shares little with it beyond the main character’s enchantment (ha) with the idea of magic. NieR Reincarnation is much less likely to ping on anyone’s radar, being a fairly obscure mobile gacha game, but it also took a magic school as the setting for some of its brief tragedies. No idea if that’s going to continue, or if it’s just a passing thing, but brain see pattern...

Anyway, it wouldn’t be Comics Comints without a detailed art breakdown, would it? There’s so much going on in Shirahama’s pages that it will be hard to capture everything, nor is this series really supposed to be comprehensive. Since I’ve talked a bunch about paneling already, let’s take a closer look at the characters...

Let’s start with kids, since most of the characters are kids. Here’s a handful of panels from chapter 42, page 13, trans. #Dropout (the work done primarily by Hypomanix and Botanyrobot in this issue). I think it’s a decently neutral example of a drawing of Coco.

There’s a lot that goes into a drawing of a face, to make it look delicate. But to my mind (c.f. the human head, a series I still intend to finish) the key elements are...

the profile of the face - this shape determines a lot

the size, shape, and style of the eyes

the balance of features

the way you draw hair

I said previously that Shirahama’s style reminded me of Kentaro Miura’s, but that’s mostly when she’s drawing kids. Shirahama’s designs are definitely within the broader ‘anime’ milieu, but there’s an old-school quality. Let’s break it down...

face profile - very rounded shapes. ubiquitous ‘cheek bump’ (pink), which helps the characters appear young.

as a standard ‘anime mannequin’ head, the overall aspect ratio is quite square, the neck is thin and relatively central, and the eyeline stays low.

eyes - this is where Shirahama puts most of the visual information (density of lines), with multiple rings of hatched shadows and highlights. In the picture above I’ve outlined the main shapes that go into drawing Coco’s eyes. Some of them can be identified as anatomical features, others highlights and shadows indicating form, some (the blue crescent shaped shadow for example) are perhaps just pure visual elements? Importantly, the outer outline of the eye is broken at the sides. All this complex shading gives a kind of shiny, watery feeling that suggests emotion bubbling under the surface even if the rest of the expression is very simple.

Coco’s eyes are very wide, representing her innocence. More adult characters tend to have narrower eyes, as we’ll see.

balance of the features

'Big eyes, small mouth’ as the name of the old roleplaying game goes. Note that Coco’s face is wider than it is tall. Just the end of the nose is drawn, but its placement suggests the 3D form of the face so it doesn’t appear flat overall. The suggest is there’s more nose but the bridge of the nose is so smooth that it doesn’t really get a line - if you’ve ever seen a plastic anime figurine you get the idea.

The emphasis is very much on the eyes.

hair

Hair is something that Shirahama really excels at, and honestly I want to absorb her secrets, so lets have a look at the way she does things. The way you can look at it is basically by dividing the hair into primary and secondary forms.

Coco here has very straight hair where the principle is particularly clear. First, you divide the hairstyle as a whole into large groups or blocks where the hair is flowing a particular way. For Coco, she has a part on her left (our right); her fringe forms one block of hair, which may go over or under the block of hair coming down from the top of her head depending on the picture.

Within each block, the hair is constructed out of smaller crescent-shaped elements which overlap each other (indicated by T-intersections between lines), and follow the overall flow. These merge towards the root of the hair block (the lines dividing them disappear)...

Then, additional lines can be drawn inside each block to add additional texture.

Judging by videos I’ve seen, Shirahama seems to be able to do these kinds of line straight away in ink, which is why they look so clean and confident.

For characters with darker hair, similar design principles apply, but instead of indicating the flow of the hair through outlines, Shirahama uses white lines within the form to indicate specular highlights. (Contrast Coustas’s eyes here to Coco’s incidentally: their emotional states are communicated by the different shading styles).

Now, let’s take a look at Quifrey and Orugio, two of the main adult characters in the comic...

Quifrey (right) has to carry a lot of the comic, and if you look at Shirahama’s design notes, he’s also one whose design evolved the most towards the fairly bishie one he got in the end. He has to be goofy, kindly, and sometimes sinister. He’s certainly not a villain, but he is willing to do some pretty shady shit - but he’s also good at presenting a generally sort of bemused affect, which is indicated by simplifying his design a lot.

The Gandalf/Dumbledore sort of archetype, but less magisterial - Quifrey is not an especially powerful witch. There’s a very overt indication of his divided nature in his glasses - there’s a plot reason why they’re different colours but the combination of dark lens and fringe hiding his eye screams “he’s hiding something”.

Quifrey’s friend Orugio (left) meanwhile is a more straightforward character, hard working, down to earth and straight-laced but out of a genuine sense of caring. Honestly, the fact he has facial hair is something that’s very rare in manga! One thing I notice just now while searching for suitably illustrative panels is that his face is often seen angled down, while Quifrey is more often seen from below.

The basic construction is similar to the kids’ heads, but a few differences to notice. As is the rule, adults’ eyes are proportionally a lot smaller than kids’ eyes. The construction of the face is slightly more angular, and they actually have noses.

Quifrey’s hair is a lot messier than Coco’s, but it’s essentially constructed out of the same overlapping crescents, which don’t especially respect gravity for Quifrey. Orugio’s hair is a solid dark mass, with a lot of loose strands around the edges, but you can still kind of see the locks of hair providing structure to the shape.

Shirahama’s lines are usually very even and thin, but she’ll often use a thicker line in a face closeup to emphasise the jawline, and in general a very subtly thicker line to outline forms than to hatch inside them. She uses screentones as you can see, but also extensively uses very neat hatching to create blocks of shadow or blend lines into larger shadow shapes. Her lines have an incredible amount of confidence and precision.

That’s faces, but what about the figure as a whole? One of Shirahama’s real gifts is her ability to draw flowing cloth with an incredible sense of motion. Here’s a classic Shirahama splash panel...

The contrast of organic shapes of cloth against the large circular element is something Shirahama loves doing - as is the use of negative space.

Breaking down the cloth: you have the solid lines representing the outer edge of folds, and then hatching within the body of the cloak to indicate shadows. In some places the hatching runs along the direction of the folds, in other cases perpendicular with it, all blending together. You can basically see how it breaks down into conical pipe folds that overlap each other, coming to a sinuous line at the bottom. Then this biiiig shape is contrasted against Quifrey’s thin neck, always upright, and the area of detail in his face. It’s just like. Really expert drawing by someone who knows the craft up and down.

There aren’t a lot of opportunities to see how Shirahama goes about designing one of these figures, but there are a couple of roughs she’s put out, so let me take a brief look at that to wrap up the drawing section.

this is a rejected draft for one of the first pages in the story. it looks like Shirahama roughs things out in quite a thick pencil, then uses a blue pencil(?) to refine, before inking. I suspect there may be more steps between, which she rubs out before inking...

These early designs seem to have been drawn into a thicker pen, with less care taken over the linework. What’s most interesting to me is how much Quifrey’s head shape changed as Shirahama’s concept of the character evolved.

Finally here’s a timelapse video of Shirahama inking a drawing of Coco.

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You can see she starts with a pencil sketch that has the major shapes nailed down but not yet the line quality. She outlines all the main shapes, erases the pencils, then fills in the details at a slightly lower line weight. She’s got a ridiculously confident hand considering how much detail is going straight to ink in a way that makes my digital artist brain flinch.

The way Shirahama uses hatching reminds me a bit of Kimihiko Fujisaka, artist for Voice of Cards. I think I gotta practice more in ink lol, digital just doesn’t seem to give the same feel. Something about the mechanics of the way the pen flicks across the paper, maybe?

And that’s I think everything I have to say. Read this comic, it’s good! ...oh wait, there’s an anime coming! As yet, the studio and staff are to be determined. Shirahama’s style seems very difficult to capture in animation, so I’ll be curious to see how they handle it.

Next up: The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal I think.

#comics #witch hat atelier #manga #comics comints

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cafemagie · 2 years

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so .....in tata universe of diana being a fashion icon akko is a panther ?

Since you bring it up I made up a little something for you 👀🐆 :

Metamorphisis spell !

Hope no one saw what I was drawing at lunch break lol, put some medical books in front of ipad to fake a studying session

Thanks for asking ^^

* Also wanted to try mimicking the official art style for fun, and I actually like to draw them like that too!

#ask solace #diakko #dianakko #little witch academia #LWA fashion AU ?#the collar thing brought a lot of reactions lol

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clash-of-the-wizards · 1 year

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WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL START OF THE CLASH OF THE WIZARDS

ROUND ONE BEGINS ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, AT 7 AM EST

Your contestants are:

The Witches - Macbeth

Alex Russo - Wizards of Waverly Place

Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmanuel Ambroise Diggs/The Wizard of Oz - Oz novel series

Maleficent - Sleeping Beauty

Eda Clawthorne - The Owl House

Rincewind - Discworld

Adaine Abernant - Fantasy High

John Constantine - DC Comics

Natsu Dragneel - Fairy Tail

Schmendrick - The Last Unicorn

Telemain - The Enchanted Forest Chronicles

Akko Kagari - Little Witch Academia

Probabilitor the Annoying - Gravity Falls

Harrowhawk Nonagesimus - The Locked Tomb

M. Rasmodius/The Wizard - Stardew Valley

Anders - Dragon Age

Howl Jenkins Pendragon - Howl's Moving Castle

Fairy Godmother - Shrek 2

The Young Wizard - Wizard101

Elluka Clockworker - Evillious Chronicles

Merasmus - Team Fortress 2

Virtruvius - The Lego Movie

Ged - Wizard of Earthsea

Twilight Sparkle - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Gandalf the Grey - Lord of the Rings

Kiki - Kiki's Delivery Service

Caleb Widogast - Critical Role

Taako Taaco - The Adventure Zone

Oscar Pine - RWBY

Wizard animal - wizardisananimal on Tumblr

Magica de Spell - Ducktales

Doctor Strange - Marvel

Make your propaganda, endorse your faves, be sure to ask me if you have questions, and may the best wizard win!

#clash of the wizards #clash of the wizards announcements

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tuliptheoshawott · 4 months

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@lwasanta

IT'S HERE! THE LWA SECERET SANTA!!!!!

At just over 1,000 words, this has officially surpassed the longest single section of a fanfiction I have EVER written!

This is a gift for @randompope, so I hope you like it!!!

Luna Nova, and witchcraft as a whole, has been around since the origination of Christmas itself.

Back to the earliest records in Rome in 336, Or some of the earliest English celebrations in 1038.

2018, 1,682 Christmases later, Luna Nova and the art of witchcraft were still going strong, mostly thanks to the work of one… less than bright girl.

Her friends weren't the sharpest either. And an anonymous gift giving tradition gave a whole new level of challenges…

“Hey, Diana, who'd you get?” Amanda asked.

Diana looked at her letter hesitantly. “Chloe…”

“Oh, the one who hates you?”

Of course. The one who hated her. How was she supposed to get a gift from someone who hated her?

That fact didn't really matter. Her mother taught her the virtues of kindness and respect before she left the earth, and she intends to keep those promises in her gifts, no matter who they are going to.

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“What on Earth are those boxes?” Diana asked.

Barbara put down a giant, heavy box in the middle of the Blue Team dorm room.

“It’s decorations. Christmas decorations.” Barbara replied.

“Yeah, we decided it’d be a nice change of pace to decorate, like all the other teams!” Hannah excitedly said.

“Why, though? We’ll just have to tear them down, after all.” Diana asked.

“It’s fun! Come on, you can put your concerns aside for a little bit, can’t you?” Barbara responded.

“Alright, fine. Just not too much.” Diana begrudgingly agreed.

They grabbed some decorations out of the big box. First a bunch of string lights, which they wrapped around the roof.

“We have to turn those off before we go to bed. I can’t sleep with those on.” Diana said.

They ended off by wrapping their door with a drape, a red one with some linear designs and snowflakes on it.

Diana, despite her concerns, thought the decorations looked pretty nice.

That was not the thought process of another onlooker.

“Hey, Diana.” Said Chloe, standing on the other wall.

“What’s up with your door?” She asked.

“Uh… these are just some decorations that me and my roommates put up.” Diana replied.

“They look kinda stupid.” Chloe said.

“Well I just think you need better tastes.” Diana said in response.

“‘Better tastes’, get over yourself!” Chloe argued.

Diana didn't want to start this, and left.

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“Thanks for taking me with you, Diana!” Akko said.

Diana had Akko tag along for her holiday shopping session. She was looking for a suitable gift for Chloe.

“What are you gonna get?”

“Nothing for you, Akko.” Diana replied.

Akko had a look of disappointment for a little bit, then went back to her old, joyful demeanor.

“Chloe’s gonna be a hard nut to crack! Ya see how much she hates you?” Akko asked.

“Yes. Yes, Akko, she makes that very obvious. In fact, she hates me so much, she makes it a clear statement every time she sees me.” Diana replied.

One look down the aisle, and Diana sees a familiar face.

It was Amanda, trying to pick something out. After seeing Diana, she fumbled and put what she was holding down, pretending to look in the other direction.

Diana pretended not to see her and proceeded down the following isles.

She went to a clothing aisle. If she didn’t have any ideas for interesting gifts, some clothes will probably do. After all, they're a pretty common Christmas gift, right?

“Awww, Diana, why here?” Akko asked.

“Well, simply put, I’m out of ideas.” Diana replied.

“Did you have any ideas in the first place?” Akko teased.

“No. I never did. We’ve barely talked enough to understand each other…”

At that moment, Diana had a thought.

Was this intentional?

Did Luna Nova do this as a way to make us… get along?

Well, whatever they try to do, it’s not going to work. Chloe will never budge from her position.

“Uh… Diana? You look pretty lost in thought there…” Akko said.

“Yes… very lost…” Diana replied.

“Oh, Diana, look over there!” Akko shouted.

Although Diana was not too impressed with Akko’s “inside voice”, she looked where Akko was pointing.

It was a Santa Claus costume.

Of course, this was a very generic gift, but the exchange was coming in close, and the ideas were running thin.

“Alright, I’ll get it.” Diana said.

“Really? I originally suggested it as a sort of joke, but if you actually want to go through, that’s alright!” Akko replied.

“I don’t really have a choice, at this point.” Diana said. “Plus, It’d look nice on her anyway.”

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The day of the great exchange had come, and Diana was the most nervous of all.

After all, she had no idea what this girl liked, because she had never liked her.

The exchange was held by, of course, Ms. Ursula Castillis, who loved to have these little communication shindigs to “strengthen the bonds of the witches of Luna Nova”.

“So, I can assume you’ve communicated with the one who you’re getting the present for?” Ursula said.

“That would kill the point of the surprise. You’re supposed to use what you know about the person, maybe gather information from other people, like I did.” Amanda said in response.

“Well- I-”

“You must expect us to know each other already, don’t you, because you value communication so much, don’t you?” Hannah asked, almost maniacally.

Ursula was flustered by all of the questions. “Alright, let’s stop with the questions, now.”

Diana couldn’t help but agree. She was getting tired of all of the questioning.

“Can we please start now? I’m getting bored with you already.” Chloe said

“Alright, let’s start with your gift, Chloe! Diana, shall you?” Ursula asked.

Diana gave her box to Chloe, and she hesitantly opened it. She looked inside and saw… a Santa Claus costume.

“Diana, what is this?” Chloe asked.

“It’s a Santa costume. Me and Akko thought you’d look great in it.”

Chloe gained a slightly frustrated face.

“...Merry Christmas?” Diana said.

Ursula saw what was coming and moved the session on. Why don’t we move on to Diana’s gift. Amanda?

So that’s why she was stumbling in the store…

Diana opened up the box, and inside was an ornament.

“Amanda, what is this?” Diana asked.

“It’s to help you gain better decoration tastes.” Amanda replied.

Amanda and Chloe looked at each other.

Oh no they didn’t…

#little witch academia #lwa #secret santa #fanfiction

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belivinginyourselfistherealmagic · 17 days

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Some art studies I have done for art school ✨️

I was struggling so much to choose the lwa frames

#little witch academia #lwa #akko kagari #shiny chariot #lwa red team #lwa official art #my post #mg art

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the-broken-truth · 9 months

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Marked As Mine - Diana Cavendish x Akko Kagari [One-Shot]

Summary: Diana is sick of Akko giving her attention to everyone who isn't her and she aims to do something about it by marking the Japanese Girl as her own. First, she needed to catch her alone.

Inspired by this image: Image

[Luna Nova Magical Academy]

Diana Cavendish was fed up with the antics of Atsuko Kagari - known as Akko by the entire school. She wasn't mad at the Japanese girl for working on her magic control or learning how to fly her broom properly - no, she was angered by the girl's kind nature towards the other witches in the school. Diana recently asked to court Akko and the girl accepted - they were officially a couple and well known throughout the school; Diana due to her magical prowess and heritage status, and Akko due to her constant fuck ups in the classrooms, but ever since Akko started dating Diana, her skills with magic and potions have been improving slowly but surely. Diana was proud of having Atsuko as her girlfriend and there was nothing anyone could do to tell her otherwise but if there was anything she could change about Akko was her friendly nature to other people who weren't her. Diana wanted Akko's smile to herself and herself alone but it was in the younger witch's nature to be kind to the people around her and that's one thing Diana couldn't stand; Akko belonged to her, as did her smile and kindness, no one else would know that either were like.

Diana was currently in her dorm with a cup of tea in her hands - her roommates were gone for the evening and she was all alone, or she would have been if she hadn't invited Akko for a study session. However, the girl hadn't arrived yet and Diana was getting impatient. Akko knows she didn't like to be kept waiting and she should have been here by now - it didn't take that long to get from her dorm to here. Something must have happened to hold the younger witch up. Suddenly, a knock on the door rang throughout the room and Diana exhaled in relief - Akko was here at last.

"Come in, Akko. We need to have a serious conversation about..." Diana stopped her sentence when the door opened and the person who entered the room wasn't Akko but her roommate - Lotte. "What are you doing here? Where is Akko?" Diana asked with narrowed eyes.

"I-I'm sorry, Diana, but Akko can't come to the study session today." Lotte explained this caused Diana to grind her teeth, showing off her perfect canines.

"Why?" She hissed at the orange-haired girl.

"Well, you see - Sucy needed help with a potion and used Akko as a lab rat, again. Akko had a transformation and now she's waiting for the transformation to wear off." Lotte said as she looked at the clearly pissed-off Cavendish.

"Take me to Akko, now." Diana demanded as she rose from her seat, collecting her wand off her table before walking over to Lotte, who walked out of the room and down the hall. Diana had reached her limit - no one was going to come in between her and Akko again after this.

Akko glared at Sucy, who stood before her shrooms with a smirk on her face. Akko's transformation caused her to grow a blue flower on top of her head where her ponytail once was and it didn't seem to wanna go away anytime soon. Akko folded her arms and glared at her bed when the door opened and Lotte walked into the room, she smiled at her friend but gulped when the other person walked into the room with a glare in her baby blue eyes.

"Atsuko Kagari. Come here now." Diana demanded as she looked at the Japanese girl with her finger gesturing Akko to come to her but the girl didn't move - she was shaking in her clothes at Diana's angered expression.

"I'm good over here. Thanks." Akko squeaked with a smile but Diana's eyes narrowed causing her to gulp again.

"Have it your way then. Sucy. Lotte. Please leave the room, I need some alone time with Akko." Diana said in a dangerously calm voice, causing Lotte to hurry out of the room with Sucy slinking behind her. Once the girls were gone, Diana waved her wand and slammed the door behind them, locking it with magic. Akko knew she was in trouble.

"You have been ignoring me for others. Doing favors for others that cut into my time with you. And now, you've become a lab rat for someone else's experiments when you are mine and mine alone. I have had enough of your antics, Akko; you need to be taught a lesson." Diana said as she looked over to Akko's desk, her eyes falling upon a permanent marker with a smirk, "And I know the best possible way to remind you of who you belong to." Diana walked over to the desk, collected the marker, and strutted over to Akko, before taking the girl's face in her left hand by grabbing her cheeks and chin to keep it still before opening the marker with her teeth, spitting out the top to the ground, and lifted it with her right hand to the center of Akko's forehead.

"Diana?! What are you doing?!" Akko asked as she grabbed Diana's right wrist with her left hand, trying to push the girl's hand away from her forehead but Diana was stronger than Akko.

"Be still, Akko. I'm going to mark you as mine and mine alone so that no one will ever think of approaching you again." Diana said as the tip of the marker touched Akko's forehead and she started writing upon her pale skin: PROPERTY OF DIANA CAVENDISH

#little witch academia #diakko #diankko #diana cavendish #akko kagari

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animenostalgia · 7 months

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Some sad news to share - Long time shoujo mangaka Yoshiko Tsuchida passed away Sept 15th, 2023. Probably best known for her series Tsuruhime-ja! that got an anime adaptation in 1990, she first worked as an assistant to Fujio Akatsuka (mangaka of Himitsu no Akko-chan, Osomatsu-kun, ect) before debuting her own work in 1968. Rest in Peace to a talented mangaka.

#news #death #Yoshiko Tsuchida #Tsuruhime-ja!#70s shoujo #shoujo manga #links out

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achoirnevercomplete · 7 months

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andrew, akko, and amanda brotp hcs because i love this silly group

andrew is the voice of reason, however he is salty as hell and will never pass on an opportunity to get back at someone who fucked him over

amanda breaks into their dorms when she needs to talk to them

"hey, andr-" "amanda i have 2 essays due tonight we are NOT doing this right now"

akko and amanda are in andrew's friend groups groupchat and andrew has indeed kicked everyone out at least 7 times for being rambunctious

theyre pretty much always calling at least one of the other two. andrew and amanda more specifically because akko spends most of her time practicing her broom or hanging with diana (which they cant argue with because the two of them have been subjected to countless hours of lovesick rambling from them)

amanda and louis frequently fist fight

andrew is like an older brother to both of them and is chariox's unofficially officially adopted son

theyre constantly making fun of eachother

andrew has 2 pet cats that akko always immediately goes to see. sometimes she goes to andrews house only to see them and then leave.

hopeless romantics gang 💪💪

seriously they are all so hopeless

#little witch academia #andrew hanbridge #little witch academia #atsuko kagari #lwa #amanda oniell #diakko #this trio has my soul in a chokehold

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super-shapeshifter-showdown · 1 year

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Two preliminary polls will go up April 26th, at 5pm EST!

(This is for characters of the same fandoms that got multiple but the same amount of submissions)

Below is a list of characters that only got ONE submission, I currently have 56/64 slots filled in.

If you would like to get any of these characters/fandoms into the tournament, send in a submission for them in asks if you didn’t get to in the first place!

(Note: There are 119 in total on this list. I haven’t done research into every single one listed below due to large amount but am listing for additional submissions.)

1. D&D- Changelings (1

2. D&D- Mimics (1

3. Dungeons and Daddies- Hermies the Unworthy (1

4. Dungeons and Daddies- Scam Likely (1

5. Dungeons and Daddies- Mark Likely

6. Fruits Basket- Kyo Sohma (1

7. Mystery Skulls Animated- Mystery (1

8. Just Roll With It- Ob’nockshai (apparently people hate him) (1

9. Just Roll With It- Rumi (1

10. Inuyasha- Shippo (1

11. Ena- Ena (1

12. Barbapapa- Barbapapa (1

13. Barbapapa- Barbalib (1

14. Barbapapa- Barbalala (1

15. Barbapapa- Barbabeau (1

16. Barbapapa- Barbazoo (1

17. Barbapapa- Barbabright (1

18. Overlord- Pandora’s Actor (1

19. Creature Court- Velody of the Vittorine (1

20. New Danganronpa V3- Tsumugi Shirogane (1

21. Deltarune- Jevil (1

22. Mirrorworld series- Fox/Celeste Auger

23. Switchers Trilogy- Tess (1

24. Hellsing- Alucard (1

25. Reflets d’Acide- The Doppelganger (1

26. Kirby- Void (1

27. Kirby- Morpho Knight (1

28. Kirby- Kirby (1

29. Invader Zim- Invader Zim (1

30. Ace Attorney- Maya Fey (1

31. Infinity Train- Alan Dracula (1

32. Bungou Stray Dogs- Natsume Souseki (1

33. Soul Eater- Tsubaki Nakatsukasa (1

34. Soul Eater- Blair (1

35. Soul Eater- Ragnarok (1

36. What We Do In The Shadows (film)- Vladislav the Poker (1

37. Little Witch Academia- Akko! (1

38. Genshin Impact- Rex Lapis/Zhongli (1

39. Genshin Impact- Venti (1

40. WarioWare- Orbulon (1

41. Hello From the Hallowoods- Yaretzi (1

42. League of Legends- Neeko (1

43. Kemono Jihen- Kon (1

44. CatGhost- Elon Doyle (1

45. The Magnus Archive- Not Them (1

46. The Hex, and Inscryption breifly- Dark clown sado (1

47. Your Imaginary Friend- Mimi (1

48. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Netflix 2016)- Mona Wilder (1

49. Hugtto Precure- Hariham Harry (1

50. Natsume's Book of Friends- Nyanko-Sensei (1

51. Kingdom Hearts- Donald Duck (1

52. Uchouten Kazoku- Yasaburou Shimogamo (1

53. Lorien legacies- Eight (1

54. Parahumans- Genisis/Jess (1

55. Parahumans- Oliver (1

56. Homestuck- Kanaya's chainsaw (1

57. Blue Öyster Cult- Imaginos/Desdinova (1

58. Spirited Away- Howl pendragon (1

59. Spirited Away- Yubaba (1

60. Fairy Tale- Mirajane Strauss (1

61. Fairy Odd Parents- Wanda and Cosmo (1

62. Celtic Mythology- Selkies (1

63. Treasure Planet- Marco (1

64. ROTTMNT- Sunita (1

65. Space Dandy- the Chameleonian (1

66. Naruto- Naruto (1

67. Suite Precure- Siren (1

68. Undertale- Mettaton (1

69. Paranatural- Dimitri Danger (1

70. Ranma 1/2- Ranma (1

71. Ranma 1/2- Ryoga (1

72. Tokyo Mew Mew- Ichigo (1

73. Princess Tutu- Duck (1

74. Yume Nikki- Madotsuki(1

75. BIONICLE- Krahka (1

76. Greek Mythology- Zeus (1

77. This is how you lose the time war- Blue (1

78. Magia Record- Rena Minami (1

79. Divinity: Original Sin II- Fane (1

80. My Hero Academia- Tamaki Amajiki (1

81. My Hero Academia- Himiko Toga (1

82. Elden Ring- Mimic Tear (1

83. Lumine- Lumine (1

84. BNA- Michiru Kagemori (1

85. Wow- Ysera (1

86. Good Omens- Aziraphale (1

87. Final Fantasy XIV- Omega (1

88. The Earthsea Cycle- Tehanu (1

89. The Earthsea Cycle- Ged (1

90. Animal Crossing- Blanca (1

91. True Blood- Sam Merlotte (1

92. Heaven Official's Blessing (or, Tian Guan Ci Fu) by MXTX- Hua Cheng (1

93. Guardian (2018 web drama)- Da Qing aka Damn Cat (1

94. Attack on Titan- Lara Tybur/Warhammer titan (1

95. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth- Delirium (1

96. Throne of Glass- Lysandra (1

97. Throne of Glass- Rowan Whitethorn (1

98. Touhou- Mamizou Futatsuiwa (1

99. The Last Dragonlord- Linden Rathan (1

100. Batman- Clayface (1

101. Generator Rex- Rex Salazar (1

102. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime- Rimuru Tempest (1

103. Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion- Specimen 7 (1

104. Chaotic- Iparu (1

105. Dragon Ball- Puar (1

106. American Dragon Jake Long- Jake Long (1

107. Vampire The Masquerade- The Eldest (1

108. Legion of Super Heroes- Chameleon boy (1

109. Mistborn- TenSoon (1

110. The dresden files- Goodman Grey (1

111. Smallville- Tina Greer (1

112. Lobotomy Corporation / projectmoon- Nobody Is (1

113. Terminator 2: Judgement Day- T-1000 (1

114. Casey and Andy- Satan (1

115. xkcd- Beret Guy (1

116. One Piece- Bentham (Bon Clay) (1

117. Devil May Cry- Trish (1

118. Real Life- Trans person reading this (1

119. Wings of Fire- Chameleon (1

#not a poll #sss submissions #announcement

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