Earlier today on X/Twitter Papo Digital showed their latest render for a garage kit Nendoroid Rozemyne with a shumil and books as seen in P4 of the series. As this is a garage kit it will require painting and assembly (see this from May 2023) and it looks great.

According to their posts, they have permission from TO Books and Goodsmile for this project.

No price listed at this time but will available in-person at Tonamo’s となりのモケイフェスティバル４ on November 23, 2023 in Japan and BOOTH on November 24, 2023. I hope that I can acquire this during the limited time it will be purchasable on BOOTH.

@NekoInu said in Does anyone else have an Ascendance of a Bookworm Playlist?:

Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries”? or perhaps Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture”?

Both seem suitable for the Dunkelfelger knights, their attitude, and that of their archducal family.

Great suggestion on Flight of the Valkaries! That is totally Clarissa's theme. Adding to playlist.

So, he didn't figure out that she took the foundation to reach him.
But he was surprised at her growth - so much so that he didn't recognise her and tried to strangle her.

4 PM Central.

@Alexander-Evans said in Wishes I had for the Ascendance of a Bookworm anime.:

It’ll be a shame if none of the stuff from parts 4 and 5 ever gets animated, even by fans. The magic Rozemyne uses or gets involved with often has such a beautiful image in my mind, going off the few illustrations and descriptions from third parties, and there’s some great conversations that would be amazing if acted out well. I can only hope a good audiobook comes eventually, at least.

iirc I've mentioned Strike the Blood in previous discussions as an example of an anime series that started as TV and shifted to OVA.
TV: 24 episodes.
OVA: 2+8+10+1+12+4=37 episodes.
Strike the Blood is now complete.
It was the same studio all the way through; Connect, a component of Silver Link.

I've no knowledge of how they funded the OVA production, and that's the crucial aspect; getting production underwritten.
The Honzuki anime has been with one studio, Ajia-do.

So that's a potential route, given solid enough funding to justify it from a financial perspective.
...it might not do us any good in regard to access to a legal subbed or dubbed version, as the Strike the Blood OVA series was never licensed nor does the Japanese media contain English subs; fansubs only, although you could at least purchase the OVAs via Japanese sources (which I've done for Strike the Blood II.)

@crowdcontrol I understand that you want to argue about this not being a spoiler, but the admins have already said otherwise, so stop digging a hole before they decide to shut you up.

@kuali I went back and checked the manga P3 V1, and you are correct. In chapter 106 (In the Hidden Room) and 107 (The Starbind Ceremony) there are several drawing panels clearly showing RM's left hand from her knuckle to her wrist with no scar. Thanks for the info.

@Riaren did you mean Interduchy tournament instead of archduke conference?

"The manga shows 'devouring systems' instead of 'devouring symptoms"

@Kier This is still present in the published book, so I sent an e-mail to support. But everything else was corrected, so thank you :)

There must be a god of reincarnation as evidenced by Myne’s existence. Otherwise, there must be a way to unlock access to pass life memories likely by Mestionora as it is under her purview. Since the memory is detailed enough that Myne can recall it, then I suspect all Urano memories will be passed on to Mestionora’s datamanabase. Unless Urano’s knowledge is an exception, I don’t see why it should excluded from MestiManaBase.

Part 1 Vol. 6 Chapter 25 Page 33 Panel 3

an official marriage would likely lead to undo strife.
an official marriage would likely lead to undue strife.

Um, y'all really want to be discussing current speculation/brainstorming in the discussion topic two books back?

@LeavesCat said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 7 Discussion!:

@kingpendragon Yeah, I'd say they don't love each other that way currently. Rozemyne was physically incapable of it due to her youth, and Ferdinand keeps a tight lid over his feelings. At the moment, I'd say their relationship has moved to treating each other as equals. It's a situation that could very easily turn romantic, due to their casual familiarity with each other and willingness to put each other first, but neither of them are currently thinking along those lines. I doubt it'll even cross their minds until they actually meet face to face and have their mana sense kick in full force for the first time ever.

I think it’s worth noting that even if Urano-Myne has experienced puberty before, she hasn’t experienced this magical puberty, and it’s implied to be a bit different, seeing as attraction differs. Urano never cared about dealing with others enough to seemingly ever fall for someone or have someone show interest in her, so really she might be unprepared for what mana sensing will make her feel when paired with her existing concern for Ferdinand (which is the more important aspect anyway). That kind of love is a weird thing…

@15Redstones Thank you. Now i just need Immanuel to teleport to Ehrenfest or to do something (very) stupid in the Epilogue.

@Best_Boy_Bonifatius said in Ferdinand Tech Tips:

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Ferdinand Tech Tips:

US Household wiring (125v, 15amp): Black is "Hot", Green is "Ground", White is "Neutral", and if present Red is a secondary "Hot". 125v 15amp polarized plugs White is the larger prong (something I have to keep looking up...)
PC ATX internal wiring: Black is "Ground", Yellow is +12v, Blue is -12v, Red is +5v, White is -5v, Orange is +3.3v

If you fiddle with both household wiring and modding inside PCs...it's a pain keeping such things straight since they don't match up.

...and I just made a file of the above so I don't have to keep looking these things up in different sources...

When I was 11 or so, i would sometimes hold my finger on a live cable i found in our house. It was a 3 wire cable which was cut off. My finger would vibrate which was funny. I always assumed it was a cable with "not much electricity" until i one day decided to hold a piece of metal against it.
To this day, i still try to make sense of why i never got electrocuted. My current theory is that i always touched hot and ground at the same time with my finger so the electricity would immediately exit my body. Maybe the shoes i was wearing were isolating, i don't know.

When I was ten or so our second floor was remodeled, resulting in my having a much larger room.
...not all the cover plates got installed, in specific the one for the duplex outlet mounted partway up the wall where my bed was located; it was a nice location in that you could plug something in without needing to move the bed. But there were times when my fingers slipped into the gap between the outlet itself and the box housing it, resulting in that tingling sensation.

The light switch by the door was mounted upside down...eventually I grabbed a screwdriver, unfastened it, flipped it around, shoved it back in and refastened it; this being my first venture into live wiring.

Why I never brought up with my parents that not all the work was complete...I was young.

@marcus_atticus My personal theory: job interview preparation. Urano might have had many flaws that didn't let her engage that well in society, but she was able to complete college and get her dream job. Seeing how good she is at learning as Myne, I suspect that Urano did quite a bit of preparation for job interviews in the hopes of securing her dream job on the first try. In P1V1, her understanding of the underlying pitfalls and challenges in the Benno/Otto job interview, combined with her negotiation to maintain her strategic assets, seem to link back to this. My theory is that she utilizes this base of knowledge to start learning how to barter like a merchant.

For the longest time, G-book was the go-to shorthand. However, I would like to advocate for switching to M-book from this point forward. We now know that "Grutrissheit" is actually the spell for summoning the book of Mestinoria. It also appears that this book is blank until filled with knowledge from Mestinoria's book. Hence why it should be called the M-book.

@jcochran said in [CORRECTIONS] - Bookworm Part 5 Vol 6:

would allow me to move to the Sovereignty

The Japanese is 成人して中央へ出る許可を得られないでしょう, so no, she doesn't think she can get permission after she comes of age.