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    • vilobionV
      vilobion Premium Member
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      I wanted to see Angelica go all guard knight on Wilfried's ass but maybe I'm thinking of

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        wanderer_1204 Premium Member @vilobion
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        @vilobion yes.

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          Drenok Premium Member
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          As expected, today's episode was the "Taking Wilfried Down A Peg" episode where they fused both the Wilfried's side story and the 3 or so chapters.

          Unfortunately, Myne pointing out that Wilfried is indeed inferior to even the orphans and the reason why was left out. As was Florentia's usage of Sylvester's escapades in Lower City to drive in the point. Overall, not a bad episode.
          (A pity we did not see Rosina destroying Wilfried in Music but we can't have everything can we?)

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          • vilobionV
            vilobion Premium Member
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            Loved watching Rihyarda dress down Wilfried's attendants.

            Rozemyne's brief evil expression when saying "unfair" to Wilfried while offering him to swap for another three days was perfect.

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            • wanderer_1204W
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              I loved how the Post-Credit chibi wonderfully captured a Manga SS

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              . I guess it will be translated with the manga currently in pre-pub.

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                rsog412 Premium Member
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                I loved the blink-and-you-miss it glimpse of Sylvester's reaction to Rozemyne's suggestions at (About 18:25 in).

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                • Libri LiberorumL
                  Libri Liberorum Premium Member
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                  So "archduke candidate" has been translated as "succession candidate". This works for me.

                  If it came to a choice between incompetent Wilfried as Archduke, or Ferdinand leading a coup to replace him, he'd choose the coup, wouldn't he? He did promise his father to protect Ehrenfest. (I expect he'd try to get someone other than himself to be archduke, however.)

                  And my inevitable architecture criticism: The wall between the noble's district and the temple grounds has crenellations. But there is no walkway behind the merlons, so it is quite pointless. Similarly, there is no pedestrian access to the gatehouse roof, although I suppose one could fly a highbeast to get there. The gatehouse roof is flat, which works badly in a snowy climate.

                  Both Karstedt's estate and the temple have so many stairs you have to climb to reach the main entrance.

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                  • wanderer_1204W
                    wanderer_1204 Premium Member @Libri Liberorum
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                    @Libri-Liberorum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

                    If it came to a choice between incompetent Wilfried as Archduke, or Ferdinand leading a coup to replace him, he'd choose the coup, wouldn't he? He did promise his father to protect Ehrenfest. (I expect he'd try to get someone other than himself to be archduke, however.)

                    He would choose to train florencia's other children and still can keep the promise to his father. That's what he says in the LN

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                    • sorvaniS
                      sorvani Premium Member @Libri Liberorum
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                      @Libri-Liberorum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

                      So "archduke candidate" has been translated as "succession candidate". This works for me.

                      Not really a good choice IMO. I mean once she goes to the academy, they will all be in succession candidate class?

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                      • Libri LiberorumL
                        Libri Liberorum Premium Member
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                        Sweet ending chibi Rozemyne: You do not choose whether to seek ditter. Ditter seeks you.

                        Justus/Eustarchius calls her Rozemyne-hime-sama. I didn't know you could stack honorifics like this. Also, when he does this, the subtitles are inconsistent on whether this gets translated as "princess".

                        Finally we start collecting ingedients.

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                          Drenok Premium Member
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                          Well, it took 10 episodes, but we finally got the flashback to the medical exam that kickstarted Myne's need to get an highbeast and gather ingredients..

                          They cut out the Mayor offering wine (not that important since it's only point was to drive home further that Bezenwants was corrupt), the discussion with Kinta about the orphans and the fact that Rickt was freaking out after Fran told him about reality where Bezenwants is...

                          The Ruelle gathering happened as expected afterwards and we ended on a clifthanger where Myne is struggling to keep the feybeast in a cage. Next week, we will see if we get Justus talking about the Royal Academy Library to help Myne or not...

                          PS: "I will stay clear of ditter", unfortunately Roz, you will play a game of ditter EVERY YEAR in the academy, mostly because of Ditterland (Year 1-3), Traitors to the crown (Just after Year 4) or because of divine shenanigans (Year 5, she is fighting a war to keep Ferdie alive :p).

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                          • wanderer_1204W
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                            I quite enjoyed the speed run of the flashback medical exam and jumping right into the material collection for the juerve. The animation of the ruelle collection was also pretty cool. The ruelle tree looks as beautiful as I imagined while reading.
                            Rozemyne's Ferdinand impression to push the mayor into a valley of despair was cute though why she does it has been cut off.. (fran insists on continuing to use noble euphemisms even if it goes above their heads). But we don't lose much context in it.
                            The end chibi is so funny when we know how ditter follows Rozemyne in Royal academy everywhere and she even has loads of admirers in Ditterland.

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                              zeji13 Premium Member @Libri Liberorum
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                              @Libri-Liberorum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

                              Justus/Eustarchius calls her Rozemyne-hime-sama. I didn't know you could stack honorifics like this. Also, when he does this, the subtitles are inconsistent on whether this gets translated as "princess".

                              Rihyarda does too, she only addresses her as Rozemyne-sama when she offers the blessing upon their first meeting. Subtitles for Rihyarda are more consistent though.

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                              • Libri LiberorumL
                                Libri Liberorum Premium Member
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                                We are now 10 episodes in, and the anime release schedule has skipped one week. We are a tiny bit short of the end of part 3 volume 2. (Because they chose to have a cliff hanger episode ending rather than ending aligned with a chapter of the LN.)

                                So we currently doing five episodes per volume, and so we can finish part 3 in another 15 episodes. We've skipped one week already, so we can't skip anything more if we're going to get a full 15 episodes before the end of the Japan summer season.

                                Do we have any word on how many episodes we will be getting? I have a vague memory of seeing 20 mentioned somewhere, which would be quite disappointing.

                                In any case, it is looking unlikely that this series will stop short of the end of part 3.

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                                  Drenok Premium Member @Libri Liberorum
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                                  @Libri-Liberorum
                                  I do watch the trailers for "Next Week Episode" so here's what I think the next 2 episodes will concern.

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                                  We will likeley start seeing a bit more cut content. I suspect most of the side stories from P3V5 will be cut.

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                                    Drenok Premium Member
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                                    Speaking of trailers... the one for the second cour just came out...

                                    We hear the new OP and we see:

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                                      Drenok Premium Member
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                                      And... Episode 11 was as expected.

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                                      • vilobionV
                                        vilobion Premium Member
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                                        If Ferdinand nuking the goltze looked that good, that makes me sad that we didn't get to see the attack during spring prayer during P2 animated to the same quality.

                                        Ingo didn't come across as gruff as I pictured him in the novels, but I still very much liked how his VA voiced him. I'm sure he appeared in an earlier season but I don't remember his appearance in those earlier seasons very well, I blame the time gap.

                                        I got a little excited seeing some of the plot breadcrumbs where you're almost screaming at the screen "No! You fool! Ferdinand is THE MOST interested in the love letters!"

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                                          rsog412 Premium Member @vilobion
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                                          @vilobion said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

                                          Ingo didn't come across as gruff as I pictured him in the novels

                                          He did to me, but I know a little bit of Japanese and can tell what gruff Japanese sounds like compared to posh Japanese. Maybe it didn't come across well in the subtitles, but Ingo was definitely speaking in a way that would get him fired if he spoke that way to his boss in a Japanese company (or so goes the stereotype).

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                                            I was more bothered by his lack of respect for Rozemyne's personal space. Damuel's slacking off.

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