@Drenok said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

We are still on episode 4 and no information on the ingredient gathering -_-.

At this point, I'm expecting that there will be no medical examination, and the jureve plan will get revealed just prior to the autumn festival travel.

The magic practice arena looks like a 1950s school gymnasium. Really weird is the row of load bearing windows 2/3 of the way up. EDIT TO ADD: And they have mezzanine floors inside. That makes it rather a questionable place to have someone try flying a highbeast for the very first time.

Rozemyne and Ferdinand start their war of weaponizing Rihyarda against each other.

We see that when people exit a magic room, they un-fade from black, with no view into the room from outside. This is a nice little detail.

In the workshop, we see the wall is closely fitted stones. This doesn't make sense, as it is a wall made with entwicklen magic. It would only look like this if someone went to extra effort to intentionally design it to do so.

It’s to be expected since it’s anime, but wow is that art simplified.

I love the manga that JNC’s put out so far. I’ll likely give the anime a try.

Probably better as an anime than a LN at this point.

i was too in the manga, but i do wish they had held out until the day-of instead
though, i realize that early tease was to retain reader engagement -_-

manga-only still, but i'll probably try the anime eventually. just don't wanna mess up my perception of the characters by overriding it with the anime voices

I am really enjoying s2 so much. I love the chill story.

An original movie plot? Set (presumably) after book 6? Interesting...

CC season 2 of the animae has gone the path of rot. Most of each episode is now just characters squealing "Sugoy!" to each other as the camera pulls back and pivots to stretch out one animation cell for twelve.

The cooking "animation" is just a hands video of someone cooking a meal for two with an animation filter applied afterwards. Then it pulls back and magically the human sized portion is now 40 portions stacked in front of the characters.

And instead of the snap delivery of the light novel as it steps through the dialog of each of the quartet, it has to Full Stop. After. Each. Sentence.

Particularly grating is Sui. It already has a slow and halting delivery to indicate its a child, but then a repeating musical scale has to be inserted after each sentence delivery to indicate its a slime. And Dora-Chan has to have wing sounds inserted after each sentence to show he's a dragon.

What a decline.

Airing Winter/January 2026

I just saw the first episode of this anime. I think it did a pretty good job of following the LN. I thought Mei looked a bit like Hestia.

Willing to bet the series will be on catch-up by tomorrow night.

@Coelodonta said in Apothecary Diaries anime - airing 2023:

NHK World

The Apothecary Diaries Special

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/2099022/

Watchable and with English subtitles! Thx for the tip!!

@Ekun thanks for the update. Maybe I will give this anime another try.

@endoftheline
perhaps it is a personal "ick" for me. One that I find more often than I like in LNs. Young girl has a crush on caretaker, teacher, older brother and doesn't grow out of it - used as fetish fuel. I have not seen this to be the case in this series (as far as I have read) And I remind myself that IRL (especially in the scenario we encounter in this series) a decade of separation changes a person - they grow up - who you knew when they were 15 is not the same person when they are 25 (and conversely the instructor someone was crushing on a decade ago isn't entirely the same guy 10 years later)

Informed consent between adults w/o a power differential is fine.

Raising your mate? squick

@karasutengu
It was just announced so I don't know if there has been any deterimnation made on that yet. If I had to guess, it would be CR.

@myskaros I gotta start reading ANN more. I keep missing all these important announcements. Thanks for the heads up.

@myskaros Rats it's on TBS. (sigh)